I just grabbed the new update to Xbox Live, which adds considerable functionality - booting up the system without a game in logs you in to Xbox Live automatically, and places you in a new UI where you can manage your Friends list, voice chat, and receive invites. This is part of an upgrade that extends a bit beyond the console, as you'll be able to access leaderboards, tournament information, and your Friends information from your computer as well.
I was looking around at EB's site to find out the ship date for D&D Heroes - that's on the 23rd, by the by - when I saw something I didn't recognize.
White Wolf just put up a press release announcing that though the court did not grant their injunction, it did other things that were encouraging to them. Go check it out, if this story interests you.
I had no idea that the McDonald's Concpiracy field had been so well plowed. There is already much ink spilled in service to it.
I just wanted to talk for a second about the Gamefly ads you guys are seeing over there on the right. Where as IGN is riding Ronalds bone pony all the way to the McBank we take a little bit different approach to advertising. We have selected a service that I think you guys will actually like. We’re innovators, I know.
I am wondering if you know which people are Programming Language Inventors and which ones like to kill people. This is a useful skill, for reasons which I think are obvious.
Re: McGriddle
If you have been inexorably drawn to unique new McDonald's breakfast items, it may be because you have recently visited IGN. We looked at it a lot yesterday, an hour or so while we ferreted out the hidden meaning of the McDonald's Pantheon, and I want a McGriddle so Goddamn bad now it hurts. I'm going to get one of each kind and eat them right there in the fucking parking lot. I keep making a fist, reflexively.
Just wanted to clarify a few things about the next event since I got a few questions.
I'm not sure if there is a slipperier slope than trying to determine creative primacy, and the slope in question is further lubricated by the fact that we're talking about not only popular culture but also literary heritage and folklore. Everyone borrows. Some borrow more than others, and we have laws to govern that sort of double-dipping. But it remains to be seen whether the court will find in White Wolf's favor where the movie Underworld is concerned.
If you could take a second and help us out with a little survey in the forum that would be swell.
I thought I would share some new CTS artwork with you all. Click on the thumbnail below to see the full image.
There are lots of good questions in the forum and since only ten of them will get picked for the interview I figured I’d answer a few here.
Guy's Night Out for us is essentially the same as Guy's Night In. I don't think they like it very much, but we take the Cube over to Lanwerx a couple nights a week with the GBAs and play Crystal Chronicles. It's just some neutral Switzerland everybody can get to.. We don't, um... pay them anything, we just go over to the couch and plug in our own console. I doubt that's regulation. They haven't said anything yet, though I really try to emphasize it when I purchase a Jolt Cola from the vending machine, as if to say "These Quarters Weigh A Thousand Of Your Earth Pounds."