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A Look Back at the Year in Games
The excellent Stephen Totilo runs down memorable moments from this year in games, from the perspective of MTV Multiplayer. (Flash site, make sure and stop the ad quickly to avoid brainburn.) From the article: "On a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon we drove south from Austin to Buda and got a look at the Rooster Teeth digs. One of the guys, the heavily tattooed Geoff Fink, sat Sway down at a bank of Xbox 360s and recording equipment to explain how the 'Halo' machinima gets made. Sway got the details, but we couldn't wrap the interview without asking Fink about a detail we highlighted in our old Rooster Teeth story -- the foot thing. Sway noticed that Fink had nine Xbox 360 controllers at the recording station and enough systems to allow them to be used at the same time -- but Rooster Teeth doesn't have nine gamer/actors to wield them. They solve this problem by wielding multiple controllers at once, some with their hands and some with their feet. We needed a demonstration and got one, captured on film."
A link to an MTV site? That is geek cryptonite!
My eyes, my eyes! I feel so hip and cool. I no longer care about the difference between ed, vi, and emacs! Good God what have you done?
For the other two or three of us old-timers who have no idea what this post is about, I took the liberty to look up the terminology.
Buda: a town in central Texas
Rooster Teeth: a company who puts video-game-related cartoons on the net
Machinima: "We just write scripts and then use videogames to act them out. It's a new style of animation that some people call machinima. It allows to make weekly pieces of animation with a small group of people." --Rooster Teeth website
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I am bored and avoiding my inlaws on Christmas eve.
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
In Soviet Russia, the links are never broken, you are.
As someone stated, working as intended.
I work for Best Buy, we move tons of 360s, but we have probably 2-300 on hand. Every single day we get more in. I'm told Microsoft has guaranteed we'll be in stock throughout the holiday.