Katamari Damacy sequel in development November 29, 2004
According to Eurogamer, a Katamari Damacy sequel is in development. Yay! If only I could play my Japanese import at home. Or the US version. Or any version.
Plagiarism November 28, 2004
This is not about interactive entertainment, but about art in general: an excellent article from The New Yorker about the ethics of plagiarism and intellectual property.
(Via Neil Gaiman’s journal.)
I Heart Nintendo November 24, 2004
So I’ve been buying and playing way more games lately - more than the year before, and that was already a record year compared to 2002. And now I find myself playing Paper Mario 2 on the Gamecube at home, Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap on GBA on the way to and from work, and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords on Gamecube and GBA with Tobe during our lunch break. Before I was playing Minish Cap, I played Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga.
Each of these games is insanely great in many different ways. I’d write more, but I’m at home and therefore I must play Paper Mario 2.
Meanwhile, Halo 2 and GTA: San Andreas are gathering dust. And Metroid Prime 2 is shipping soon. And so, hopefully, is my Nintendo DS…
Update: *sound of screeching tires* Tobe and I may have discovered a deadlock in Zelda: Four Swords. Our investigation continues. My order of Mario Golf, Mario Tennis and Donkey Conga is pending.
Update update: We’ve found the solution, although it looks like there’s still a potential deadlock. (Curse all those single-player walkthroughs.)
Nintendogs November 23, 2004
Remember Dogz, Catz, and all the other games in the Petz series? Grand Text Auto’s Andrew Stern worked on this back when it was developed by PF Magic. Now it’s made by Ubisoft.
Nintendo is making a game that seems very similar for the Nintendo DS called Nintendogs, aka Puppy Times. Check out the in-game video footage . Kawai!
(Thanks, Oliver.)
Failed cocktail robots November 22, 2004
Happening now: Roböxotica 2004 // Festival for Cocktail-Robotics, organized by Viennese cyber-art thang Monochrom.
What?
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Ubisoft’s Sprung for the Nintendo DS
I just noticed that one of Ubisoft’s three Nintendo DS titles is Sprung, “the game where everyone scores”, the game with “double the love”. Yes, it’s a dating sim.
Bad stress, part two November 20, 2004
In May and June of this year I stopped posting regularly to this weblog, apart from the occasional indicator that I was still alive. Finally, in June, I wrote a post about bad stress that explained what had been going on.
Somewhere around mid-August, my posting frequency dropped again, and it hasn’t picked up much since. (My foolish attempt to distract my dear readers with a second blog has only resulted in doubling the questions about why I haven’t been updating.)
So now it’s time to revisit that bad stress post.
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The Final Hours of Half-Life 2 November 14, 2004
Gamespot published an article on the Final Hours of Half-Life 2. Reading now, commentary later.
Rockstar Games exposure November 13, 2004
Rockstar Games is everywhere :) Satan’s Laundromat is one of my favorite photoblogs.
The Incredibles, Polar Express, the Uncanny Valley, Pixar
I’ve stumbled across a little cluster of blog posts and news items about The Incredibles, the latest Pixar movie and Polar Express, the latest Warner Bros movie, starring Tom Hanks in something like five roles. Both of them have come out at pretty much the same time, both of them are fully animated using computer graphics, but one of them is photo-realistic, and one isn’t. Also, one of them is a major hit, and one isn’t.
