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Or whoever wrote that article happens to think of World of Goo primarily as a Wii game, so they linked to that. There seems to be less rhyme or reason than you'd think to how a multi-platform game gets linked to or covered or entered into a database on the big game sites.

That shouldn't stop you!

I suspect that for a game developed by fewer people than you can count on a hand, it did pretty well. That award has always bugged me. Especially (as noted at the start of the thread) its inclusion in "dubious honors."

Does it have cel shading, or some sort of painterly looking cel shading, or something?

Yeah that's true. I don't think the appendix is usually removed in the form of a baby in Santa's lap.

I googled for "appendix" and got this gross medical diagram, and then I zoomed out and it got weird...

Surely these people are waiting for all the Thumbs in-jokes to become amazing globally recognized memes, at which point they can sell these domains for hundreds of times their original value, and donate a portion of the proceeds back to Thumbs. These are investments in the future!

In the US, Steam almost always matches retail prices. Valve does this because 1) they can (it hasn't stopped Steam's success in the US so far), and 2) because despite their slow death, retailers still have a huge impact on the financial success of a game, so retailers still have a ton of power in the industry. Going up against them with brazen price cutting done deliberately to shit on them would simply result in your company's game library no longer being carried.* With the dollar and US economy shitting it up like they are right now, I'm sure Valve thought now would be a pretty good time to finally get their european prices in line with european retail like they are in the US. Maybe not the coolest thing ever (as games always seem to be overpriced by default in Europe for some reason), but I an see the many reasons why they'd do it (hint: none of them are to deliberately "screw the gamer," or whatever). * Valve does offer the discounts associated with digital goods while also not getting in retail's face by offering frequent huge sales, offering products retail would never offer (Valve Complete Collection, id Complete Collection) for prices retail would never offer. I bet the business they do during those sales is pretty sweet. Would they sustain that sort of business if their prices were always marked down, to the degree that they'd make more money than they do with the sales volume they see when matching retail pricing? I have no idea, but I bet Valve has enough data internally to make a good guess.

Presumably you've also not seen Donnie Darko? Either one of those two things (having previously known a lot about the game, or having seen Donnie Darko) would probably noticeably lessen the impact of that trailer.

Even using the patented Thumbs "gross splatter" as their visual ethic.

Hooray!

(site is now updated)

Apparently Peter McConnell liked the song and wanted it in the game, and Schafer said okay, even though he knew that it would give people the wrong idea about the setting. I think that's where the conversation started, with Marek's original email about it (Marek wrote Tim about it in some sort of fit of fanboyness, which is where the post apocalyptic info came from to begin with). Wish I could find that email, but I may have lost it.

Aye! "Dad named all the kids after sandwiches."

the countdown is probably retardedly set to your system clock

Yeah.. the EA Partners setup seems like a very different relationship structure to have with 3rd party developers than they had in the past.

Wikipedia made claims that Cluedo was in part derived from the Ludo boardgame, which is why the name was borrowed from it. Without that piece of info, I would go with the Latin. Also, yeah, "Clue" is a better name.

Derived from (and a pun off of) the board game Ludo.

Okay MP3s are now hosted via Amazon S3 / CloudFront, and hopefully will be from now on. Hooray.

Workin on it (see discussion in episode 9 thread). Thanks.

"I like your cards."

Haha, all those ultraboost entries were good for various reasons. I was pleased that we got so many entries.

Yeah, uploading stuff now. Next step is to test, and then to figure out how to switch the whole feed over without peoples clients going apeshit and re-downloading everything.

I suspect that's a closer analogy. I predict it will be meant to sort of "feel" like Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but the mechanic will be similar to the Ocarina of Time. Of course that might be a wholly insane "prediction" to make (in fact it reads like the sort of retarded off-base "predictions" that Homestar fans make on the Telltale forum), but what can I do?