To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Eye of the Storm
Mrs. Bashcraft took the kid to see this summer’s Pokémon movie, Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Sheimi. Every summer, a new one is churned out like clockwork. Last year, we all went to go see Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai, which actually made Mini-Bash cry. While watching a particularly moving scene in Sheimi, my wife said she started to hand Mini-Bash a tissue. To which he replied: “This is really sad, but I’m not crying”.
Check out the loot he got for going to the movie: Stickers, a card and a puck for the Pokémon kiddy arcade game.
What you missed last night You Will Never, Ever Game On A Rig This Expensive Soulcalibur IV, Over 2 Million Copies Sold Worldwide Loads Of New Square Enix Screens (FFXIII, Kingdom Hearts, etc) Microsoft Clarifies Final Fantasy XIII Asia Version “Announcement” Braid Priced High To Prevent “The Space Giraffe Problem” Konami Pulls In $US 655 Million In Q1 With A Little Help From Snake Kratos, Nariko Come To LittleBigPlanet Pre-orderers
Yeah, E3 doesn’t technically start until later on today, but there was enough news yesterday to cause us to re-evaluate our numbering policies. Microsoft’s keynote address contained a few things we’d expected, but also a few things we did not expect, and one thing in particular we did not in any way oh my god expect. If you missed it all or were somehow otherwise engaged, you’ll find the important stuff below.
The New Xbox Experience: Just The Facts (And Maybe Some Conjecture) Interview: Catching Up On Microsoft’s Big Announcements Microsoft Releasing LE Red, Green 360 Controllers Final Fantasy XIII: The E3 Trailer Final Fantasy XIII Coming To Xbox 360 Liveblogging Microsoft e3 2008 Press Conference
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Don’t Leave Us Hanging
Tonight’s Night Note is kinda long, so I put it after the jump.
What you missed last night What Are The Top Selling Games Of 2008 So Far? Fallout 3 Refused Classification In Australia Patapon 2 Announced, Let’s Look At It Mega Man 9: Cheap As $US 10 Chips Cliff Bleszinski Wants Fewer Buttons This Wii Hard Drive Is So Damn Phony (And Funny) Does This Banjo Kazooie Video Confirm An Xbox 360 Motion Controller?
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft
Man, it’s Monday! And a pretty quiet Monday, post holiday. Went to my kid’s soccer practice, where another little kid crapped in his pants and had to be taken off the field by the coach. Ah, yes, youth.
Been listening to a lot of Bowie recently, a lot — well, up to Scary Monsters, after which he seemed to lose the plot for a while (warm fuzzy Labyrinth soundtrack memories aside). Heroes just might be in my top five albums of all time…
I always seem to go in phases where I begin listening to one artist or genre, listen to that to death and then move on……….
What’s on your playlist? Gonna need some Tunes to listen to on the plane.
What you missed last night 2.40 Fix Coming “Midweek” David Hayter Begged Konami To Change MGS4 Stuff Let’s Watch The First Mega Man 9 Footage New Prince Of Persia Screens Japan Presents Foreign Dignitaries With…A DS Lite
To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Happy Third!
Actually, kinda miss the 4th. Well, the way it’s done in America. People pretty much set off fireworks all summer here — like you can buy them at your local 7-11. So, they’re more of a summer thing, which is nice. Not sure about the laws regarding them, but people tend to go down by a river and shoot ‘em off at all hours of the night with no problems from the police.
We planned on shooting off fireworks tonight, but ran out of him. The afternoon was spent at the doctors. Going into this, Mini-Bash wanted a girl, but after a ding-dong popped up on the ultrasound, it looks like we’ll be adding yet another young lad to the Ashcraft clan. Afterwards, he remarked: When the baby boy is a baby, it’ll be cute. But when it grows up, it won’t be cute anymore. Valid point.
Now, we just have to think of a name……. And a name that “works” in both English and Japanese and has Japanese kanji. Tricky!
What you missed last night: Five Games That Matter In Kojima’s Life New Halo Game For E3 (Master Chief Not Included) Dyack vs. NeoGAF, Part II 360 Rock Band Guitars Work With GH: Aerosmith [Update] DualShock 3 And Xbox 360 Frankencontrollers 64 Percent of Those Polled Gave Up Wii Fit Led Zeppelin Uncomfortable With Licensing Songs To Rock Band, Guitar Hero
To: Crecente From: Ashcraft RE: Vacation: Cuff Links, Readers and A Swamped Pool
Sounds like you had a nice vacation! And I dig the cufflinks. (And the brilliant reader Photoshops in the comments.)
Earlier this evening we went up to Mini Bash’s school for the Star Festival. Next week is the Tanabata, which you can read about it here if yer interested. Anyhoo, Mini Bash and all the other kids in his class told the teacher want they wanted to be when they grew up. The teacher then wrote these wishes on slips on paper which we attached to bamboo leaves. Mini-Bash’s read:
When I grow up, I want to be Squirtle from Pokémon.
Yep, we’re pretty proud. o_0
What you missed last night Yakuza 3 Announced (No, Not Again, A New Yakuza 3) Is This Official Chrono Trigger DS Confirmation? Is Chrono Trigger DS Coming To America? Minority Report Designer Behind New, Motion-Controlled 360 GUI? An Elegant Stylus For A More Civilised AgeNamco Bandai Says Soulcalibur IV Install Size “Significantly Overblown” Rock Band 2 Preview Shows Journey, Foo Fighters, Motorhead And More
