With Wrath of the Lich King out, everyone’s forgotten Age of Conan ever existed. But Funcom’s level design gave its own title a head start to the trash can.
The folks at Sumo Lounge sent out some Omni beanbags recently for review. For the Gizmodo opinion you can check out what Nick had to say over there (he liked it). I thought I’d go for the gaming perspective and see just how versatile and comfortable a beanbag could be as an all purpose gaming seat.
When this thing arrived, I have to admit I was shocked. The pictures don’t quite convey how industrial the nylon skin really looks — this ain’t the old velour or corduroy style beanbag I remember from the ’80s. It’s also shaped more like a giant pillow than a traditional beanbag, which made it hard to grasp how it would work for anything other than lying down. So at first glance the question was “THAT is meant to be comfortable? No way.”
But it is! For best results, I found sitting it up square on its seam made comfortable seating work like a charm. But by flipping it around in a variety of ways, you could get comfortable for doing different things. More »
Hawty McBloggy is holding a vote, open until midnight Monday, to select the Fugliest NXE Avatar from these seven butt-fugly candidates. You’re well past the deadline to submit yours, but you can still be heard!
Not every pics post over at GamesRadar has the booby in it. Sometimes they haul off and do something thought-provoking, as in these comparisons of Fallout 3′s Capital Wasteland with the real Washington.
GameSetWatch has a nice essay up from Gregory Weir, who takes a look at why Puzzle Quest was so damn successful at creating a satisfying hybrid.
Of course, now it all makes perfect sense! Hardcasual’s Sam Ryan takes a swing at Konami’s head-scratching MGS tease and comes up with three slightly — and we mean slightly — plausible answers for it.
It’s been one hell of a week for Chinese company NetDragon, who announced (along with EA) the development of a Dungeon Keeper MMO. In addition, they’ve announced the development of Disney Fantasy Online.
The game is to be launched in China in Spring ’09; full release after the jump.
Some guy who ran a six-figure game-copying operation from his home pleaded guilty and will do about a year in the slammer, mostly because he was also popped for drugs and child endangerment.
There’s a wonderful interview at Gamasutra with Hiroyuki Kotani, creator of Patapon — a game that I still adore, having snuck in quite a lot of time with it on my PSP.
Phil Harrison, former Sony and current Atari exec, has heaped love on PlayStation Home, saying his former company “brilliantly realised” its goal. Then he smoochy-smoochied the NXE. Hey, it’s all bidness, right?
