The brothers McElroy, Justin and Griffin of Joystiq, don’t just write about video games — they also run the advice show My Brother, My Brother and Me along with their youngest brother Travis. On it, the three brothers answer questions posed to Yahoo! Answers and Forumspring by random internet users. It’s an unspeakably wonderful show — the advice they give ranges from “actually, quite useful!” to “What?” to “Oh my god I can’t stop laughing, why are we talking about how the bank is a ‘Lady Zoo.’” More »
Joystiq reports that, at the Wizard World convention in Philadelphia, Lester Speight — aka Gears of War’s “Cole Train” — gave a wink-nudge tip that Nov. 16 will be the release date for for Gears of War 2. Quoth Joystiq:
[Speight]who voiced Gears of War’s “Cole Train”, recently made an appearance at the TriForce panel at Wizard World to shoot the breeze about the company’s line of GoW-related replicas. When asked about the sequel’s release date, the TriForce crew remained tight lipped, though Rasta suggested asking him again on November 16.
Sounds specific enough to me. The tip came in via David Hinkle of DS and Wii Fanboy. They’re pursuing. We will too as soon as more is known.
Rumour: Voice of ‘Cole Train’ suggests November 16 release for Gears of War 2 [Joystiq]
I’ve had a pet project I’ve been working on for years, three of them if my memory is right. It started as a simple idea: You can judge a lot from a person’s desk. I bet you could judge just as much from their home entertainment system. So I decided it would be fun to try and track down some pictures from the work desks and home gaming set-ups of the people who work in and cover the video game industry. Simple right? Not so much.
Turns out that many of the people are either too busy or too private to want to participate in such a project. To make matters worse, there’s always fear that something sitting on someone’s desk, that ends up in a photo, could actually be news worthy. Like a secret project or the next big thing. But I didn’t give up and about once a year I’d harass a bunch of game developers for photos. Finally, this year, the harassment paid off.
What started as a trickle of photos turned quickly into the collection of galleries you’ll find on the jump: Fourty different photo galleries from 17 studios, seven publications, two industry movers and shakers and a couple of fun surprises.
You’ll get to see the desk of such greats as Sid Meier, Peter Molyneux and Tetsuya Mizuguchi along with plenty of others. Remember you can comment both on the next page and on each individual photo if you click on them.
If I find there is interest, I will try to periodically update this gallery of galleries with more developers, journalists and industry movers and shakers. Have fun.
