Cuz, you know, when I get instagibbed, set on fire, plain stabbed with bullets in a game, I want to pay hundreds of dollars to know what that feels like.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Gamer Vest Simulates Bullet Wounds
Cuz, you know, when I get instagibbed, set on fire, plain stabbed with bullets in a game, I want to pay hundreds of dollars to know what that feels like.
Square Enix in Tecmo Takeover
Final Fantasy Extreme Beach Volleyball
Square's made an offer to absorb Tecmo. This acquisition is being compared to the Blizzard/Activision, which I think, quite frankly, is apples and oranges. All about it here.
I'm particularly interested in how this is going to impact the respective group's IP. It's clear that Square is wearing the pants in this relationship, and has done so for all its prior acquisitions, but Tecmo nevertheless has a decent repertoire of titles that are more than capable of standing on their own. Course, chances are this will be just another boring shift of which profits go where, and the games themselves are left alone. That might be optimal.
Even more fun, though less likely, a name change?
"Square Enix Tecmo?" bleah.
How about "Square Emo" or "Squeemo?"
Square's made an offer to absorb Tecmo. This acquisition is being compared to the Blizzard/Activision, which I think, quite frankly, is apples and oranges. All about it here.
I'm particularly interested in how this is going to impact the respective group's IP. It's clear that Square is wearing the pants in this relationship, and has done so for all its prior acquisitions, but Tecmo nevertheless has a decent repertoire of titles that are more than capable of standing on their own. Course, chances are this will be just another boring shift of which profits go where, and the games themselves are left alone. That might be optimal.
Even more fun, though less likely, a name change?
"Square Enix Tecmo?" bleah.
How about "Square Emo" or "Squeemo?"
Large Hadron Collider Collides Soon
Sept. 10th, less than two weeks to go before this bad boy does its first full run.There's been much talk about how this might conceivably create Earth-sucking extra-dimensional micro-black holes, large Chernobyl type explosions, the experiment going awry because of interference from time traveling future particles, and whatnot. The consensus is none of this will occur, but the fact that any of this stuff is even entering into remotely serious scientific discussion really gives some perspective on how far and how fast we've hurtling along.
At any rate, I'm keeping a crowbar handy in case on Sept. 11, we all wake up to a Combine invasion signaled by a goddamn resonance cascade.
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