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Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 9.7.07

Monday, September 10th, 2007 by jay

Molyneux takes a shocking stand - his company is more influential than its competitor
In a recent interview, designer Peter Molyneux said that Microsoft’s Live will be more impactful than the Wii remote. Molyneux was clearly kidding - would anyone use the non-word “impactful” in a serious statement?

Pretend he was serious. Is Live more …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 8.31.07

Friday, August 31st, 2007 by jay

Nintendo stops whoring out Metroid, or at least Retro stops
Please, let Retro make a game it wants to make. I know you own them and want to assign them to a franchise because franchises make all the bling, but it’s really not in your (my) best interest. You have no “mature” themed franchises …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 7.27.07

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 by jay

Microsoft sort of wants you to buy an HD DVD add on
$20 off is not a good deal for something that costs $200, but that’s the amazing deal Microsoft is giving us on their 360 HD DVD add on. The move feels like a last ditch effort to make it appear that they …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 6.29.07

Monday, July 2nd, 2007 by jay

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 6.18.07

Friday, June 22nd, 2007 by jay

Sony announces 9,648,319 games by March 08
Unfortunately, they counted each individual household a game would end up in as a unique game. If you don’t count your copy of God of War 3 as a different game from my copy, then 145 or more PS3 titles are coming.

Sonic RPG on DS …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 5.14.07

Saturday, May 19th, 2007 by jay

Starcraft 2 is coming
Golden Jew was wrong. He is hereby stripped of one hundredth of his massive pile of gold coins, crowns, and swords. I’ll give it back when the Starcraft MMO comes out in two years.

Rare to broaden 360s audience with all age friendly games
But also don’t rule out …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 5.4.07

Sunday, May 6th, 2007 by jay

Sony markets to teens
Sony decided this was a smart business move after analyzing the figures:
Selling games to 10 year olds = totally lame (Nintendo sux LOL)
Selling games to 14 year olds = awesome to the max (we rulz)

The All I want for Christmas is a PSP, Sony’s first attempt to market to teens, …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 4.27.07

Friday, April 27th, 2007 by jay

Ken Kuraragi finally falls on his sword
I have called for Ken’s resignation many times, but like a president bombarded by calls to fire a cronie, end a war, step down, or learn to read Kutaragi has ignored me entirely. That is until yesterday. Ken has finally listened to my sharp criticism and based …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 4.13.07

Monday, April 16th, 2007 by jay

Bethesda buys Fallout IP
Anyone who thinks a series can change developers and still be the same series is encouraged to pay me to write the fourth Lord of the Rings book.

Cheap PS3 discontinued
No more 20 gig harddrive PS3. This makes some sort of sense because Sony loses more on each of the 20 …

Weekly News We Care About Wrap Up - 4.8.07

Sunday, April 8th, 2007 by jay

Resident Evil games coming to Wii
Capcom loves to remake and rerelease Resident Evils. Resident Evil 1 was released first on the PS1, then the Saturn, and PC, then the director’s cut came out on the PS1. This was followed by the remake for Gamecube and the slightly modified Deadly Silence version for the DS. …