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Game/Show Predicts the Future Of Gaming

Jamin makes some interesting predictions about the future of gaming I wanted to share. He seems to think that at some point the idea of watching and playing video games will cross together more to create a kind of game/spectator hybrid experience. He cites Twitch Plays Pokemon as a recent example.

He makes a few other interesting predictions too. What do you think, where will gaming be in five to ten years?

Legend confirmed: E.T. Cartridges found in New Mexico

Larry Hyrb (better known to gamers as Major Nelson) tweeted this pic of the E.T. cartridges being excavated.

https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/460129185277968385

It was first reported a year ago that plans were underway to dig up the burial site where thousands of copies of the Atari "classic" E.T. were buried.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/31/187606960/atari-dump-will-be-excavated-after-nearly-30-years

In the past months, Microsoft announced plans to make a documentary of the whole process. Today, the long-standing rumors have been confirmed.

The Angry Video Game Nerd movie deals with the legendary landfill. Interestingly enough, both the movie and the... Read All

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 04/26/2014 at 10:03pm

Interesting. Why were they buried, I wonder.

Travis Admin Post Author wrote on 04/26/2014 at 10:13pm

Basically, they had thousands of unsold copies and needed to clear them out. That game was atrocious and didn't sell nearly as well as they'd hoped.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 04/26/2014 at 11:08pm

I guess if I read some of those articles, I would have found that answer. LOL That sucks, though. I thought ET was really popular, in fact it's only one of a few Atari games I'm aware of (Rampage being another).

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/27/2014 at 04:54pm

Cool to hear they hit paydirt. Since this is the basic premise of the AVGN movie, curious how the movie will seem now.

jdodson Admin wrote on 04/27/2014 at 04:55pm

ET is popular for being so universally seen as bad. I had it (when I had an Atari) and I like it fine, but I was young and I didn't have lots of games to play. That said, my fav. Atari games were Spider Fighter, Missile Command, Pitfall and Pacman.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/28/2014 at 03:36pm

I remember playing ET at a friends house and thinking it was cool to find the phone pieces. 2600 games were pretty limited to begin with, and it's hard to go back and play most of them without thinking "Hey, Zeus, I'm glad that time is over." Reading up on ET now, I had no idea it was deemed partly responsible for an industry crash at the time.

CoreyEMTP wrote on 05/03/2014 at 09:17pm

It sucked. I had the 2600 when it came out (Dad had connections), and ET held my attention for about 1 hour. You'd randomly fall into pits, and the whole damn game made no sense. Plenty of other options. Amazing how Adventure kept my interest for hours, when your character was literally a square. Gameplay over graphics FTW.

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UNGAMED: The Star Wars Expanded Universe Will Be Retold

"For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure beyond what is seen on the screen. When he created Star Wars, George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination, and inspired others to create. He opened up that universe to be a creative space for other people to tell their own tales. This became the Expanded Universe, or EU, of comics, novels, videogames, and more.

While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the... Read All "For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure beyond what is seen on the screen. When he created Star Wars, George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination, and inspired others to create. He opened up that universe to be a creative space for other people to tell their own tales. This became the Expanded Universe, or EU, of comics, novels, videogames, and more.

While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align.

Now, with an exciting future filled with new cinematic installments of Star Wars, all aspects of Star Wars storytelling moving forward will be connected. Under Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy’s direction, the company for the first time ever has formed a story group to oversee and coordinate all Star Wars creative development.

“We have an unprecedented slate of new Star Wars entertainment on the horizon,” said Kennedy. “We’re set to bring Star Wars back to the big screen, and continue the adventure through games, books, comics, and new formats that are just emerging. This future of interconnected storytelling will allow fans to explore this galaxy in deeper ways than ever before.”"

So basically we are learning what seemed real enough since the new Star Wars films were announced, they are taking an entirely new direction. All told this doesn't bother me and I look forward to the new stories the new films will tell.

That said, not all fans are happy about this news at all. I'll admit, I grew up considering the Timothy Zhan's Heir to the Empire books to be cannon. Now that they are not, I am a bit sad but it's not like Lucasfilm is taking them away.

What do you think, is Lucasfilm doing right by the new direction Disney is taking the franchise or is this something else?

http://starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page.html

Travis Admin wrote on 04/26/2014 at 03:51am

I came here to post this. It kinda sucks that Kyle Katarn is no longer canon. He was my favorite character in any Star Wars lore.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/26/2014 at 09:26pm

Yeah, but the character is still around it's just not official cannon. Kind of like we have the original films regardless of any new direction or whatever.

Travis Admin wrote on 04/26/2014 at 09:54pm

Well, I was personally hoping for Kyle to show up in the new movies. :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/27/2014 at 04:52pm

Sure. I bet lots of Star Wars "Extended Universe" fans wanted stuff like that too. Personally i'd love for the Star Wars Bounty Hunters book to be a movie, it was freaking amazing.

That said, when I heard Lawrence Kasdan was writing the scripts for EP VII all my fears about the story part being good kind of evaporated. Kind of excited to see what new stuff he brings to the table.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/29/2014 at 08:41pm

Aaaaaand this.

http://starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-7-cast-announced.html

CoreyEMTP wrote on 05/03/2014 at 09:14pm

It's like anything else. Enjoy the extended universe as much or as little as you want, but the main source of that universe will always have precedent. Do you really want a rehashing of these stories told in a different format, or do you want to see something entirely new? I vote for the latter.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/03/2014 at 09:36pm

I agree and I sort of think they will pull elements from the EE but mostly do new.

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Cheerful Ghost Fan Art From PDX Artist Hagen Deloss

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmHL8eWCUAAMHoT.jpg

Wanted to share some Cheerful Ghost fan art from one of my friends and local PDX artist Hagen Deloss. I love seeing this stuff, so if you have seen someone make something or have made something yourself please share it with me.

https://twitter.com/thedelossopher/status/459872880054923264/photo/1

Follow him on Twitter @thedelossopher

2K is saving some legacy titles from the GameSpy shutdown

Good news for people who like older games! With the GameSpy service shutting down soon, many games are on the multiplayer chopping block.

2K announced yesterday that many Civilizations games and the original Borderlands will move to Steamworks. The following games will be switching on May 31.

Borderlands
Civilization III
Civilization III: Conquests
Civilization III: Play the World
Civilization IV
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Civilization IV: Colonization
Civilization IV: Warlords

Unfortunately, Borderlands and Civilization: Revolution on PS3 used GameSpy, and will lose multiplayer support.

The full list of 2K games known to be affected by the shutdown are listed here:
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Previously Recorded: A New Game Show From Redletter Media

Redletter Media is a unique video production company out of Wisconsin. I learned about them a few years back when the Star Wars Phantom Menace review made it's round on the Internet. The Star Wars Phantom Menace review is not only an amazing tear down review of the film but it introduced me to Harry S. Plinkett, the main character reviewing the film. Come to find out, there were a ton of Plinkett reviews that Redletter Media made before that and many have come since. Redletter Media hasn't stopped at Plinkett reviews and went on to create such awesome web shows as Half in the Bag and Best of the Worst. All of the shows they have created are are great and I seriously... Read All

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/16/2014 at 08:31pm

First hearing of these guys. Good stuff!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/16/2014 at 10:09pm

Oh man, scrypt, you need to check out Half in the Bag and the Phantom Menace review! Both are brilliant! And hilarious. And pizza rolls.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/18/2014 at 10:36pm

Adym, I just watched all of the Phantom Menace and most of the Attack of the Clones review, and... hilarious! Maybe a little too overboard with the creepy sometimes, but the pizza rolls do have a magical way of balancing it out. Watching more...

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/18/2014 at 10:40pm

Welcome to the Red Letter Media. My wife loves Pizza Rolls and I think Plinkett for that.

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/19/2014 at 12:16am

It all makes sense now. Weren't there pizza rolls at the Halloween party last year? Is there anything in the crawlspace we should know about??

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/19/2014 at 01:06am

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/19/2014 at 06:10pm

Yeah, I typically have pizza rolls at my parties.

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Cheerful Ghost Gets Emotional With Emoji

Have you ever wanted to put some Emoji in a comment on Cheerful Ghost but couldn't? Well now, you can. Instead of rolling our own special Cheerful Ghost flavor of Emoji code we incorporate a standard dialect common on many popular websites such as Github, NodeBB, Trello, Campfire and Basecamp!

If you are curious what Emoji we support, checkout the site below and try it out in the comments on this post.

http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/

:godmode: Enjoy!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/16/2014 at 04:12am

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/16/2014 at 04:13am

I dig there are Doom Emoji.

:suspect:

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/16/2014 at 02:31pm

Ha! Rock on!

AdamPFarnsworth wrote on 04/16/2014 at 02:32pm

:squirrel:

scrypt Supporter wrote on 04/16/2014 at 03:28pm

Fantastic

Orionnoir wrote on 04/16/2014 at 09:15pm

Wha?!? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/16/2014 at 09:26pm

We've supported full UTF8 since launch, so all that should work too

Timogorgon Member wrote on 04/16/2014 at 10:27pm

Who flipped this table over? Lemme put it back.
┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
Wow, there is a -ton of emoji we can use on here. Crazy!

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Sometimes, A Glimmer Of Hope Is All That's Needed

As gamers, I'm sure most of us love to hear about new game announcements. Better still when the game actually sees the light of day (but, not always, especially if you're a Superman fan). Sometimes, the waiting between reveal and release can be excruciating, but the slightest sign of hope can be enough to hold you over. At about 2:02 in the above video, Michel Ansel, the mind behind Rayman Origins, literally flashes such a sign to all Beyond Good & Evil fans.

Sometimes...sometimes, this is all we need.

Is there a game like that for you (besides Half-Life 3)? What game(s) did you wait near eternity for, and, when they finally arrived, satiated your nerd-heart? Also,... Read All

Does Anyone Know More About This Game?

I watched this game video today that is both awesome and confusing. It's a bit confusing because I have no idea what the game is because the video is entirely in what I think is Japanese. That said, the game seems to be of a little girl with antlers in a style similar to Limbo. The art and music are pretty unique and I hope this eventually makes it's way to the states.

Does anyone know anything about this game or know someone that can read the text in the trailer?

Every Super NES Start Sequence

Seriously, cataloged in this YouTube video is every Super Nintendo game start sequence in alphabetical order. If there is no English translation of a game, they use the Japanese version. The video is only 9 hours and three minutes so start watching now!