This is a tragic story about a boy in France who watched Shrek before and while killing his family.
Terrible. Now, I want to see an uproar against the immoral tripe today’s youth is watching, I want an investigation into Dreamworks, and I want Hilary Clinton Nicolas Sarkozy proposing a law against this kind of dreck that is corrupting the young.
In other words: for once, it’s not video games, and it’s not GTA or Manhunt. Yay.
(Thanks Mike.)
Well, that took surprisingly long. Read about it over at Wonderland, then indulge your secret gnome fantasies.
Last night I went to the Xbox Experience in the MAK here in Vienna with Tobe and other friends.
I must admit to having been caught up a little in the excitement around the imminent launch of the 360 here in Europe. (It was, in fact, that same excitement that made a WoW addict. I hadn’t been terribly impressed with the beta but bought the game anyway.)
But in that respect the Experience was excellent. It gave me the chance to look at and play all of the Xbox 360 launch titles, and I can now sleep safely knowing I won’t be buying one.
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Rockstar To Open New London Development Studio. First time I ever heard of this.
(Via Wonderland.)
And speaking of Stéphane*, guess who is the only person representing the games industry on the programme committee for the Narrative AI and Games conference? That’s right.
The conference sounds pretty cool:
Papers sought in the following areas, but are not limited to:
- Interactive narrative and virtual storytelling
- Applied AI in games
- Believable synthetic agents for games or narrative
- Agent strategy planning in a games or interactive narrative context
- The application of narrative based games in education
- The use of games as test-beds for research
Go Stéphane! Make this something useful!
*) If only he had a website I could link to…
43 Folders is a blog that takes scary deep looks at productivity and how to improve it. Productivity, and its cousin effectiveness, are topics that interest me deeply, but somehow I never find the time to read more about it.
But I did somehow find the time to read this article on procrastination, written by Mark Taw, which I found via 43 Folders. It contains some interesting theories on why we procrastinate and how we can stop it. Perhaps I’ll try it soon.
Reading the article reminded me that I should read the copy of Getting Things Done which my friend Stéphane so kindly gave me (and that I should send him a copy of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).
Yeah, I must remember to do that.
Last night I went to the Roboëxotica, the annual festival for cocktail-robotics organized by Monochrom, to meet the lovely Alice Taylor of Wonderland fame.
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BoingBoing has a nice roundup of the various steps and developments in the Sony DRM PR catastrophe.
The PS3 rumor is particularly awful - let’s hope it’s just an unwarranted conclusion.
How many other record companies but sleazy malware on their audio CDs?
Update: So according to Sony the bit about the PS3 is false speculation. It really was too awful to be true. I buy a lot of games, but often they’re second hand, or I buy em, play em a bit, then sell em to friends. Not being able to do that would seriously affect my buying / playing habits. (If only I could rent games here… but as far as I know that only exists in the U.S. I recently read the history of game rentals somewhere, but forgot where.)
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