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I got the feeling from the 2001 trailer that the game had a lot of colorful stuff in Vegas but also included other dingier areas. The newer screens never showed the core Vegas stuff, but it seems like the plot for almost a decade was "the villain from Duke Nukem 1 and 2 is back, and is in Vegas, and you have to stop him," and at least based on Prey's decade in development, 3DR wasn't into revamping their stories once they got going. I don't really know anything about it at all, but DNF gave the impression of being reasonably large in scope, and one of the things I had always at least more or less been expecting was that, whatever else it had, the game would include a pretty wide variety of environments. Someone on Shacknews claims that the stadium in DNF was going to be the opening of the game, wherein it's revealed that you're just replaying the end of a slightly spruced up DN3D on an arcade cabinet, at which point the game would pull back and show you the full actual game. No way of verifying that, but the guy in the comments sounded at least reasonably authoritative, I guess.

"Color me excited," could basically be replaced with "In case you happened to be classifying me at this moment, I am excited." It's a fairly old expression at this point, if you consider the 1960s "fairly old" for a colloquial term like that. The best the internet seems to come up with is that it's a phrase borrowed from children's color by numbers books, which made its way into pop culture including folk and pop songs in the '60s. I could imagine something like "color me blue" from a children's book being turned into a song, except (spoiler) "being blue" would become an analogy for something!

"@twitter the @igndotcom profile is a squatter" - IGN.com I posted that support request because IGN Legal is apparently calling us out, and at least one of the accounts that they have named has already been suspended. ( see @ignlegal ) Hopefully just modifying the bio info will do the trick, as you said, but I'm concerned that all the people linking to us as the legitimate account (including Sony Pictures and IGN employees) will mark us as violating the "no impersonations" part of their use agreement.

I think we said on the show that maybe it was a joke but it didn't feel like it. As said on the show, if we were just taken by a really well pulled off ruse, then good on them, because if so it was on a different level than running around id with a flashlight taped to the gun.

www.d-9.com I have no idea if this movie will be good or total ass, but it appears to be the movie Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp made instead of the Halo movie which fell through. (Jackson is producing, Blomkamp is directing, effects by Weta) 6_I5ZkZ0h4Y Blomkamp made a number of short films and ads before being tapped by Jackson to direct Halo, but never a feature film, and I remember hearing that part of the reason that film fell apart was because people were wary this guy was going to be directing such a big project. Here's some of his earlier stuff on YouTube: snfc_wNWqSU iNReejO7Zu8 6xtWUbBlgRQ xkof-BxoLM0 I remember at the time thinking that maybe the Halo movie wouldn't be total ass when it was being headed up by a guy with this aesthetic, but I'm glad that instead of Halo, this guy is getting the opportunity to make a feature film about his own choice of subject (clearly based on some of his shorts), instead of a story licensed from a video game universe.

"This game gave six kids epilepsy, and killed their dads." - .com

ThumbBot the vBulletin bot which posted comments threads for all of the Idle News posts, turned five years old today. I guess that means that the site's backend is about five years old right now. We were gearing up for E3 2004. Hooray for us. That's all. Happy fifth birthday, Idle Thumbs' old no longer used CMS.

Oh yeah, PCAs.

Haha fine! Fine! Maybe we should stop talking about mods. The map vs mod thing is surely a fairly outdated definition, but I was trying to present some degree of contrast to Nick's claim that an LBP level was a mod, and may have accidentally slipped into a time warp to the '90s.

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Also the subsequent ones, especially the second Phoenix Wright game, are weaker than the first, in my opinion. Start from the beginning, get the first game online somewhere -- it's probably the cheapest one at this point anyway.

Was that ever an actual name? I (maybe incorrectly) thought it was born out of a gaming forum.

Yeah I completely forgot that happened, so that's cool. We I guess won... against ourselves.

The GAF Bioshock and Noby Noby covers are great, for instance. The Internet is generally bad at typography, which is understandable since it's 1) hard, and 2) expensive, so I don't get too judgemental about it in PS threads ( though, when someone does it well, it's a treat.) The ones linked by Offworld are all excellent, for instance.

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Same. The Guide animations were the one thing I wanted to see more of in that movie, instead of less. (Well, the other thing I wanted to see more of was jokes, character, and story, but those were in such short supply I wished they would just go away and be replaced with more excellent Guide animations and narrations.)

Asking "are we about to see a change in game covers" is like asking if we're about to see a change in DVD covers, by which I mean, "no, unfortunately." It might mean that "collector's editions" of games end up getting classier treatments, but that already happens often enough. DVD covers turn this into this And those are surely not the best movie posters or the worst DVD covers I wish that publishers (both of games and DVDs) saw their covers as serving a purpose more similar to movie posters or book covers*, but unfortunately they see them serving a purpose more closely tied to magazine and comic book advertisements than as eyecatching works which inform/entice you through their sheer design. The number of times I've wished that a DVD I bought in a store just had the same poster as the movie is so high it's depressing. * Note that many of these movies and books aren't small or indie or niche or collectors-only titles -- they're often for large, mainstream, popular releases. + Dunno why there are too Clooney movies there. I didn't notice, amusingly enough, until I saw the two DVD covers next to each other with giant Clooney heads on them.

Only had a few minutes to mess around with this at work yesterday, but it's great like all the other Vectorpark stuff. Can't wait to actually... get somewhere in it. (I also stopped on the shape plants.)

A million Thumbs guys on this episode! Crazy town. GDC! Idle Thumbs Conf Grenade 2: "Don't look at me, I'm Hideo" Partake in a virtual luncheon with a pantheon of gaming greats. Witness the changing of Will Wright's mind. Scream as you are wholly seared into the fourth dimension of experimental gaming. We're joined by guests Alex Ashby, Lawrence Bishop, and B. M. Bronstring. Things Discussed: Experimental Gameplay Sessions, Hideo Kojima, Dave Perry's Lunchstravaganza, Keita Takahashi

Wow that's depressing. I would have bought the Hammer and Tongs and Shynola discs in a heartbeat. Of course I am a shit who didn't buy the earlier discs, so yeah.

Yeah it appears the Justice enjoys having their songs eclipsed by their videos.

25th Anniversary! "Pause Theme from Battletoads" With the fight against Robo-Manus safely on hold, our co-hosts are free to discuss the love/hate battle with ruthless games, the slow decline of the mod community, and the science gone mad of achievements paired with grinding, all with a funky back beat you can dance to. Games Discussed: Six Days in Fallujah, bit.trip beat, Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, Flock, World of Warcraft, Battletoads

Oh shit. wTO3CKM2Yy0 You son of a bitch. The one I hotlinked to on page 1 isnt around anymore anyway, so there.

Haha they would probably do surprisingly well on the internet if they added zombie and dinosaur hunting.