Archive | September, 2009

Not So Random Links – 04/09/2009

4 Sep

Stupid People: Sony wants YOU.

“…the reality show will pit gamers’ skills to the test in order to win the grand prize: a job as a tester at SCEA’s Santa Monica facility.”

Honestly, whoever greenlit this idea wants a shooting square in the cock. “Become a cog in the machine” is a prize now? Man.

Hats! Mutiny! The end of the world as we know it!

So, right. There’s this set of virtual items that have no innate value other than “I have a hat, yay me”. They’re dropped randomly. Some people get hat lust. Use external application to gain hats. Get them taken away from them for using said external application and uproar ensues. Which part of “that’s pretty pathetic from start to finish” don’t these people grasp? They’re hats. Virtual hats. They’re not even real hats you can wear on your real head. Christ.

The Making Of Bandersnatch

The mega game that never was. Or sort of was. Eventually. Ish.

“The company was in the shit. Everybody knew that it was absolutely fucked, not to put too fine a point on it”

Probably those pesky playground pirates that did it.

Well, it made me laugh.

No, really. It did.

Chaos Edge

Every time you think “this can’t possibly get any more mental” it does. Edge. The gift that keeps on giving. Stay up to date with Chaos Edge and try to uncross those eyes…

Busking – A Guide For Indie Game Developers

Brilliant Denki piece.

“When it comes right down to it I don’t get paid for controlling studio costs, I get paid for turning scowls in to smiles.”

Wisdom in that thar philosophy.

HEX, lives and videogames

Chum of Mersey Remakes and t-wit-terer Graham Goring’s half hour show in October for the Manchester Comedy Fest. About a stunted manchild that relates more to Pac Man than ladybumps.

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