To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Best Dentist Evar
If Tristan has the best dentist evar, then I had the worst childhood dentist evar. Here’s the laundry list of things that happened: When I was five, I got my arm stuck in the chair and had to go to the hospital. The day after I got my wisdom teeth pulled out, the dentist gave me shots and then said to his assistant: “Oh. We pulled his wisdom teeth out yesterday.” He told me that I had cavities between every single one of my teeth. I went to another dentist, who said I had like three. Never went back to the evil dentist ever again! Though, when I was in high school, I saw him at the bookstore. In the adult section. Reading the adult books.
What you missed last night Aussie sells Halo 3 Katamari on PS3 and Wii Is Microsoft showing this off tomorrow? Eternal Sonata for PS3? More »
There can be only one. Budget peripheral/accessory makers Mad Catz and Joytech, once bitter rivals, are now brothers, courtesy of Take-Two’s financial woes. Mad Catz have bought Joytech from former owners Take-Two lock, stock and barrel, taking possession of Joytech’s assets, staff and executive parking spaces. Take-Two’s Ben Feder: The sale of the Joytech assets is consistent with one of the key goals we established in our 100 Day Plan: to develop strategic alternatives for any operations that we determined to be outside our core publishing business.
Joytech employees in the UK and US should be safe, with “substantially all” of them to be kept in a job. Take-Two are happy, Mad Catz are happy, everybody gets a happy ending. Take-Two sells Joytech to Mad Catz [Gamesindustry.biz] More »
For those still flailing wildly during Wii Sports, good news. Nintendo has released the fourth version of its Wii-mote strap and giving them away. For free! Remember, these have little lock thingy that keeps the strap from loosening. Nintendo’s packaging the updated straps with its products and is also giving out four per serial number to those who need them. How nice of them! Just provide the necessary info on the Nintendo site. I’m curious: Do people continue to swing their Wii-mote around all crazy like? Request one here [Nintendo via Infendo] More »
Latest British charts are in. That fascination with BioShock’s new, original IP was never going to last long. British consumers have retreated to the familiar, warm bosom of EA franchises, with the latest Medal of Honour and Tiger Woods games coming in at #1 & 2, knocking BioShock back to third place.
1) Medal of Honour Airborne 2) Tiger Woods 08 3) BioShock 4) Two Worlds 5) Brain Training 6) Stuntman: Ignition 7) More Brain Training 8) Sims 2: Bon Voyage 9) Transformers 10) Big Brain Academy Wii
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In case you forgot, Blizzard are working on three projects. Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft and…something “totally awesome”. That something now has a name, or at least a codename: Hydra. While at the Austin GDC last week, The Inquirer was stalking some Blizzard employees and overheard the following: Blizzard Employee 1: What are you working on? Blizzard Employee 2: Starcraft II, and you? Blizzard Employee 1: I am working on Hydra.
Doubt Hydra is the actual name. Which makes it a working name. So…a hydra is a sea creature with many heads. Diablo 3, then? Why not. It’d be a Norse god if it was another Lost Vikings. Blizzard has three projects on the go [Inquirer] More »
Oh SEGA. That’s a screenshot for its new Wii game Miburi-&Teburi-. It’s not just a crossword game, but a crossword game based on charades and cosplay. Meaning? People in funny outfits make funny gestures. From that you deduce a word. Sounds like non-stop shits and giggles. So, based on the picture above, what words or phrases leap to mind?
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In the leadup to Christmas, Sony will be distributing a quarter of a million glossy, expensive-looking advertising books to retailers across Britain. Sadly, it looks like SCEE didn’t get the memo: the book will be divided into four chapters. One for HD, online functionality and Blu-Ray movie releases. And one for upcoming games. One! Guys, Wada demands it, Kaz said it: get with the selling it as a games console. That’s its job. Might help you shift a few more! Sony teams up with Future Plus [MCV] More »
Those aren’t just regular folks in funny clothes, and this is one of those harder-than-it-actually-looks kind of things. Those are the stunt actors of Film Fighting LA swinging swords around, doing an Assassin’s Creed send-up. This was filmed in one day and with barely any rehearsal, and it kinda shows it. On a side note! Film Fighting LA’s Robert Goodwin (dude in the chain metal) trained Christian Bale in martial arts for Batman Begins, and that movie was pretty bad ass.
Oh, you might want to watch the clip on mute. Trust me. More »
Online community thingy Xfire is celebrating. It just chalked up its eight millionth subscriber. Which has led to hard partying at Xfire HQ, as well as the release of some hard numbers. And man do I love bullshit numbers. Those 8 million subscribers have logged 120,000 man-years of play (dog and fish years were unavailable at time of writing), and are racking up over 440,000 hours worth of WoW a day. At the other end of the spectrum, Diablo 2 is still being played, with 12,502 hours a day logged. That’s some dedication right there. Xfire hits 8 million users [Gamesindustry.biz] More »
