Intelligent Artifice

Beyond Good and Evil 2: The Horror May 29, 2008

Behold the teaser trailer for Beyond Good and Evil 2:

On the one hand, I loved BGE and I am glad to hear there will be a sequel. On the other hand, Uncle Pey’j looks disturbing, like on of those creepy pictures where Mario looks like a real human being. And the way he lasciviously rolls his eyes while snorting a living fly up his nose… I feel dirty.

How much goodwill did Ubisoft create back in 2003 by making BGE and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time? Both games contained so many little things that please developers.

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Suzumiya Haruhi + Super Mario = win May 26, 2008

After weeks of inaction… what has he been concocting in his lair? What nugget of wisdom has he been cooking up in his kitchen of doom? The tension mounts.

A video of a Super Mario level where the sound effects match the opening track of cult anime series ‘The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi’. Clearly my mental faculties are leaving me.

Update: It’s actually a medley of anime music, ‘Hare Hare Yukai’ was just the only one I could recognize (or care about - Suzumiya Haruhi ftw).

Update: OK, found out a bit more about this. 1 - Kotaku posted this early May. But I am not going to read Kotaku, so meh. At least I blogged it before Boing Boing. 2 - This is the ‘Nico Nico Medley’ (or ‘Nico Nico Douga’), a medley created on or for Japanese YouTube-ish site Nicovideo.jp. As far as I can tell it is a medley of anime themes by hard-core anime fans. The medley appears to be quite popular in the otaku underground, there is even a blog about its various manifestations… More about Nicovideo.jp and related subcultures here (although their instructions for registering sadly do not seem to be up to date).

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The Rock Band pricing fiasco May 3, 2008

Add 170 to 70, then google “240 euros in dollars” - first hit: ZOMG is EA / Harmonix nuts asking for 370 frickin’ dollars for Rockband? For comparison: the same bundle costs $150 in the U.S. - 97 Euros. So that’s over twice as expensive.

You know? With most games, I wait a year or so till the price drops. Rock Band I was actually kind of excited about, to the point I asked Amazon to email me when I could order it. But maybe I will wait.

Note all the single star reviews on Amazon.

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