New Spore Gameplay Video
We’ve been waiting for Spore since GDC last year. Kevin Burton just linked to a new gameplay video – I don’t know where it came from, but it’s 35 minutes long and Spore is looking pretty polished!!!
Full Auto
It’s getting terrible review scores, but Full Auto is a ton of fun. It’s exactly what I expected after reading the previews and playing the demo over and over again. I think Jonny Ram says it best: “It’s a bit like a modern day Roadblasters – lots of wanton destruction while trying to maintain a good racing line.” I never made the connection until reading that sentence. RoadBlasters is a GREAT game – one of my favorites.
Marble Blast Ultra (XBox Live Arcade) is also a lot of fun.
Opera Browser for the Nintendo DS
This is huge news! I saw all the links marked “Web Browser for the DS”, but I didn’t notice that Opera is building it! YES! LionMarine suggests that it might also require a gba cartridge for a RAM upgrade.
Nintendo’s Revolution – more details
Tomorrow, I’ll have Full Auto for the XBox 360 and that’s going to be incredible. I’ve been playing the demo several times a week and I’m really looking forward to the full game, especially multiplayer.
Still, Revolution is what I’m really craving. The DS really showed me that Nintendo can take technology that’s been around for ages (touchscreen + microphone is nothing new for PDAs, for instance) and inspire developers to build really innovative games (Elektroplankton, Nintendogs, Yoshi Touch N’ Go, Kirby’s Canvas Curse). I’ve never imported games before the DS, but this stuff was so compelling that I imported several great titles, despite the inconvenience. I think Revolution is going to knock our socks off. Inexpensively. More details on the Revolution are emerging.
Garry’s Mod used to create a Rube Goldberg Device
Long ago, Garry’s Mod appeared as a way to use the Half-Life 2 engine to create your own scenarios, complete with physics. Make linked to this one minute twenty second video of a Rube Goldberg Device created with Garry’s Mod. It’s beautiful.
John Tokash 