Sunday, July 19, 2009
Dammit, Luigi, I’m A Plumber, Not A Fireman …
11:30AM Owen Good | As seen at NintendoCU. (Thanks, Anonymous Turkish Final Fantasy Fan/tipster) More » 
Giving Voice To The Old Republic
11:00AM Owen Good | We’ve already heard the script for Star Wars: The Old Republic is more than 40 novels long. In this developer discussion, BioWare talks about the effort and why this is a game changer. More »
Mario Teaches Typing Warcraft
10:30AM Owen Good | Since I just got promoted, I can finally reveal that I lack any experience with one rather common game. I haven’t played a minute of Warcraft – except for the original RTS. On a Mac. More »
Bethesda: Extending Fallout Level Cap ‘Could Unbalance The Game’
10:00AM Owen Good | The level, stat and skill caps you have in Fallout 3 – 30, 10 and 100, respectively – seem to be hard numbers that Bethesda Softworks isn’t inclined to raise further. More »
Game Characters Looking For Love In All The Creepy Places
9:30AM Owen Good | Game characters putting ads on Craigslist personals? Why, that idea sounds familiar. Asylum wrote ads from Solid Snake, GLaDOS and others, trolling for replies. Wait til you see what someone wrote to the Little Sister. More »
Sunday Supplement: “a fierceness which would daunt a nursing lioness”
9:00AM David Wildgoose | Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain.
Gamasutra: Ken Levine on Studio Culture: From Looking Glass to 2K Boston
Christian Nutt chats with one of the industry’s most passionate and creative thinkers.
Versus Clu Clu Land: So Close!
Iroquois Pliskin offers this superb analysis of the failings of Mirror’s Edge.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Some Stuff About Open World Games
Jim Rossignol muses on the heightened demands players place on games that opt for the open world.
Critical Distance: Critical Compilation: Fallout 3
Comprehensive essay on what the blogosphere (including me!) discovered while exploring the wasteland.
Offworld: One More Go: Final Fantasy XII, Wasting your time the scientific way
Margaret Robertson reflects on her persistent obsession with Square’s flawed RPG.
Scribblenauts Gets A UK Release Date
9:00AM Owen Good | Scribblenauts hits the U.S. on Sept. 15 – we’ll cut to the chase, it’s releasing 10 days later in the U.K., which is Sept. 25 or 25/09/09 for those with whom we have special relations. More »
Microsoft Actually Responds To Obama’s Xbox Line In Speech
8:30AM Owen Good | Getting huffy about President Obama using video games as a rhetorical punching bag in speeches on personal responsibility is pointlessly argumentative. But Microsoft has responded to POTUS’ latest call-out, this time of the Xbox. More »
Today’s Punishment: Soldier Performing Britney Spears On SingStar
8:00AM Owen Good | If, to feel safe and secure, you depend upon the image of the U.S. fighting man as 200 pounds of rompin’ stompin’ shitkickin’ dynamite, this might not be the video for you to watch. More »
