Tart yourself up in the style of your favourite anime or video game character, ladies, and the lonely Tokyo Game Show hordes will eat you alive. Photographically, that is. When a largely bare-assed Cammy strutted her way out to Cosplay Alley, she instantly broke a dozen hearts, perhaps twice that number of zippers. Security was forced to insert itself into the situation, politely asking this top-shelf Cammy clone to move along, step to the side, attempting to stem the flow of bodily fluids from becoming a knee deep pool. It was gruesome.
Clearly, the full version of this photo could be considered not safe for work — and at TGS, safe for wank — so it will have to reside after the jump.
Look kids, it’s the cast of the hit internet series The Guild! In case you’ve not heard of The Guild, it’s a hysterically funny look at a group of MMO players and how they react when things get a bit too real. The lovely red-haired woman there is Felicia Day, who Buffy fans may remember as someone only Buffy fans would remember. She plays the guild’s healer, Codex, who one day gets a surprise visit from Sandeep Parikh, the warlock who assumes the two have hit it off and decides to move in with her. If you’ve ever been in an MMO guild you know these people, from the inattentive mother Clara (far left) to the young, “spirited” player Bladezz, played by Vincent Caso there on the far right. Vincent…I am so sorry I called you a dick today. I really meant your character, I swear. You’re a lovely man. Anyway, check out the show’s website and find out what happens when a guild stops being real and starts getting…really real.
Remember that excited feeling you got when you first killed a monster in the original Diablo? How you knew that this was going to be a game that ate a great deal of your life? And then Diablo II came out, and it was pretty much the same feeling as Diablo I, only updated for the computer systesm of the day, somehow maintaining the same level of excitement and fun as the original? Well I’ve just gotten a chance to play through a half hour of Diablo III, and damn if I don’t have that same giddy feeling all over again.
I’d have to say that the very best cosplay I’ve seen at BlizzCon 2008 I’ve sadly seen without a camera. Like the two girls dressed up as a demon and a Draenei, kissing each other as I rushed to an interview with the lead designer on StarCraft II. Priorities won out in the end, but I will forever carry the image etched in my mind. Here’s a selection of some of the costumes I did manage to catch on film. Oddly enough, the pirate is a girl I’ve known for nearly 10 years now and hadn’t seen in nearly six of them. Smallish world after all, isn’t it?
Oh, you thought we were done with the Sarah Palin shit? Well think again, my friends. After last Sunday’s post about Palin in video games, reader Marion D. sent me three screens showing his band’s lead singer in Rock Band 2. Oh gosh, can she rock it or what? You betcha. Just make sure she doesn’t sing any of Heart’s greatest hits, should they ever become available.
Two more pics on the jump.
Man, Capcom are pulling out all the stops with their booths this year. We’ve already shown you the Gyakuten Kenji setup, but equally amazing is the company’s Street Fighter IV booth, which is a replica of Chun-Li’s stage. It’s even got a chicken. Great stuff. galleryPost('sfbooth', 3, 'Street Fighter IV Booth');
Reader Alex B. sent in this — Fantastic Contraption — a physics flash game where you string together wheels and joints in order to carry an object toward a goal on the screen. It’s nice nonviolent trial-and-error fun, indulging both the competitive urge to be as efficient as possible, and the creative impulse to be as outlandish as you can get away with.
Well, here we go again. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, talking to slightly-interested party Major Nelson, says he’s never seen such a “tremendous shift” in developer loyalty, and he means from Sony and to Microsoft. Guess we couldn’t expect him to keep from smack talking after the Tekken 6 news earlier this week.
There’s an interesting article over at The Escapist on the rights of players in virtual worlds — covering a myriad of issues (recourse for theft, ownership of items, DRM, etc) on a global scale, Erin Hoffman has a nice look at some of the issues that have been rearing their ugly heads and what players, companies, and even governments are doing about it. Whatever the resolution ends up being, ‘virtual’ rights are an increasing problem for parties on all sides of the issue(s) at stake:
By far the most popular item available for purchase at BlizzCon 2008, the plush talking murloc doll from the lovely folks at Jinx completely sold out yesterday at the convention, and today’s allotment is going quickly as well, with lines stretch across the convention floor. I managed to beg, plead, cry, and pay $US40 for one of the little bastards, which I quickly brought up to the press room to unbox. Things were going great, until the little fish creature took a liking to my hand. The possibly NSFW results, after the jump.
