Marek

Happy birthday dude! I wish I was there with you guys in the Idle Thumbs House. I'll drop by soon!

Oh man, awesome. It's nice to know there's other Dutch editors/webmasters working on international English game websites. Seems like a rare thing. It's hard not to feel inferior to a guy with gold in his last name though. Like, bronze-string? Gold? GET IT? LOLZROFL.

Thanks. I think one or two of our US staffers might apply. I like ShackNews but I'm glad they're planning to expand beyond link-and-quote news (and the occasional hard to spot article). I look forward to seeing what they have in store. Regarding the final bonus bullet point, is Maarten Goldstein Dutch?

I think some of the Thumbs staffers still use that as it's a very accurate rendition of Dan Gershman of Mixnmojo.

We could just cut out this guy.

Dopefish Lives!™ Though we could downsize him a little so that it fits with the heads and doesn't look as huge, even though he's huge in Commander Keen. I don't often use the Dopefish because it's so enormous.

Awesome! I changed the width to 50px and put it in.

Ed Fries is totally a nice guy and a real straight talker. He's highly respected amongst developers, though he's also often criticised over some of the seemingly random project approvals / dev acquisitions that were made in the early days of Xbox. Still, it's too bad we'll never know how Psychonauts, Phantom Dust, Oddworld Stranger and a bunch of other projects had done if they'd been kept at MS. P.S. Those smileys should totally be added.

Woo!

Videos here: http://touch-ds.jp/mfs/ouendan/movie.html

Would make an excellent poster.

Welcome! We should have some articles about the NFT thing soon.

Got any recommended URLs? I'm just looking for a site that covers news on upcoming movies and maybe does some reviews, but without any of that stuck-up "I'm a film critic" attitude OR the kind of retardedness you generally find on Aintitcool. Does anyone know?

I just noticed it was ajax on that site. I love ajax.

Whoah I really like how you can add films to your personal page by clicking a JavaScript/DHTML thingie that doesn't refresh the page. I might actually use that site now, thanks. (Jake: we should steal this for Idle Thumbs).

I am indeed Dutch. (What gave it away?!?) Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

GameSpy has the first preview. Looks nice.

It's sad how TeleFragged managed to piss over so many young webmasters' dreams. I'm glad they're sort of small-time now. It makes the internet a slightly less wretched place.

I'll have a look.

(endgame spoiler)

To be honest I don't know what caused me to say "looks nice". It doesn't look nice at all in terms of artistic direction, and the story seems very boring. But I liked TA a lot despite some flaws, and I'm hoping this game will have good gameplay too.

It's rather hilarious that you worked with Spaff way back on Converted2 and found Idle Thumbs through UK Resistance. Well done! And welcome.

Apparently it's being made by the Vib Ribbon / Paparappa the Rapper people. It looks really insane and involves dentistry.

Anyone hurt? Spaff, Ben and Nick alive?

Check this out. Basically they lured a bunch of people to the studio saying they'd discuss a whole range of games related topics, but it turned out to be a sensationalist program just about video game violence. One game journalist from Ziff Davis / 1up did the right thing and walked off the set.