Randomly Timed Links Round Up

Posted by oddbob on September 17, 2008 · Lovingly Filed Under Link Round Ups 
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Time for a quick look at some stuff that’s interested me and in some cases just plain irritated the gubbins out of my backside. I’ve long given up on making this regular as clockwork as I’m rapidly discovering that running RR and dealing with a small muppet takes up an awful lot of your time…

Let’s roll anyway whilst I idle the time away waiting for Mr UPS Man to return my 360 to me.

RROD Whistleblower gets the sack. As much as it’s not entirely surprising that this happened, I’m utterly befuddled by the news article here. It’s all in the last segment. I don’t know, it just seems like a complete cunt attitude to take. Sucking the corporate cock doesn’t begin to cover it - we all know that breaking an NDA is not a good thing to do if you want to keep your job, but fuck me, presenting the guy as an idiot for not towing the corporate bullshit line and standing up for something he clearly believed was the right thing to do seems well off the cuntery scale.

The TIGS Demake Competition - All the entries over a couple of pages. A couple of pages made up of pure awesomeness. Sterling stuff. I’ve already posted on RR frontpages about my love for Macarena Of The Missing but it bears repeating. It’s fantabulous and scarily has better voice acting than most of the mainstream games I’ve played in the past couple of years.

Space Giraffe - finally gets a long overdue guide over at Chez Llamasoft. Everything you wanted to know and more. Including the fact it’s not Tempest. Just in case you hadn’t had someone point that out to you yet. Bonus points for the Gridrunner+++ instructions on the announcement page: “move with this stick, aim with that stick, and collect the sheepies”

RPS on Mighty Jill Off - fab read for a fab game and it’s always ace to see RPS cover indie games (even when they’re not mine!). One step closer to the revolution, brothers.

WAH! Last night at Erics. - Peel Session wonderousness from the lovely Pete Wylie, rock star, treasure and genius that he is. One of my favourite moments of last year involved a conversation with Mrs Bob over the telephone which consisted mainly of her saying “you’re standing outside talking to the Pete Wylie and you’re ringing me?”. Bless her.

Club Penguin GDC Stuff - courtesy of GameSetWatch. Linked to mainly because a friend of mine has hell with his sisters daughter being obsessed with the place. Interesting stuff anyway and if Disney would like to buy MR for a rather whopping sum, feel free!

Part 3 of The Gruniad Peter Moore interview - “we were trying all kinds of classic Rare stuff and unfortunately I think the industry had past Rare by”. Dude, I’m sure that happened around 1985 and no-one actually noticed that since then, they’ve just been sticking big eyes on things and hoping it’d sell. Incidentally, I miss Uncle Clive.

Colours - Dear fucking god, it looks like we got off light from the Gizmondo charade. Lord knows who writes this shit (the game, not the review), but they must have been pissing themselves surely? Please don’t tell me it’s serious…

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2 Responses to “Randomly Timed Links Round Up”

  1. SofS on September 18th, 2008 11:31 pm

    The forum thread on that article about the whistleblower is arguably even funnier than the article itself. In the space of 17 posts, the guy was called a “traitor” and a “retard”, compared to a Mafia rat, and generally assumed to have spoken only to get 15 minutes of fame. You have to love an age and an industry where public accountability is publicly derided. Is keeping one’s job actually considered a virtue nowadays? Do the people attacking this guy secretly believe that they will somehow get a position at Microsoft out of this or something? Is it Stockholm syndrome?

  2. oddbob on September 19th, 2008 6:22 am

    Man, I’d avoided the forum.

    “Good, that traitor deserved to be canned.”

    I’m truly lost for words.

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