Not much new to report, or at least not much time to do so; I head out to Long Island tomorrow morning for ICON, which gives me virtually no breathing room to finish up a piece for Gamasutra that’s due the next day as well.
A small update on my weekend schedule: the panel on video game music on Sunday 4 pm has been cancelled, which I’m rather bummed about. And “The Perception of Gamers in the Media” on Saturday at 8 pm has also been cancelled, so I’ll be speaking instead at the “Flamewars and Trolls” topic, which should be… interesting. I have a feeling it’ll be one of those things where everyone will go over their “war stories” about fights they’ve had on internet message boards.
God, I really love ICON sometimes.
Also, Dave Goldstein, one of the men behind the scenes of ICON, told me last night that I’m going to be setting a new record for most topics spoken by a single speaker!
Meanwhile, MK is flying out to San Fran later to this afternoon for APE. I finally got around to adding her site to my links page earlier this week and asked her for a pic to use, and while you can check it out here, I also wanted to share the original that’s oh so cute 
Here’s hoping she gets me a bucket-load of cool comics and zines from the show. And of course, I’ll be looking for some weird knickknack from my show. I wonder if that guy who does airbrushed shirts of Star Trek: The Next Gen characters in “humorous”(!!!) situations will be there. That and scientologists who try hawking their religion while Battlefield Earth plays on a crappy little TV on their table.
Plus, John Green’s site just had its long awaited relaunch, and its pretty damn spiffy. You can check it out here.
Anyway, things have been so busy that I’ve barely had any time to keep tabs on the word of gaming, though there’s hasn’t been anything too earth shattering to report either. But it’s starting to look as if those rumors about Microsoft halting production on the Xbox are becoming fact, which is insanely dumb. They’ve done such a good job securing the number two spot, and it now looks as if they’re just going to throw it away. Xbox 2 had better be backwards compatible.
And then there’s new of Sony patenting the concept of transmitting data directly into the brain, a la “the Matrix”. Note, they didn’t patented some machine that allows people to “jack in”, but just the very idea. How the hell is this possible?
Oh well…. not that this is any surprise I suppose. And then again, it could be a good thing. In the words. To quote my friend Rob on the GAF:
“Dear Sega,
PS9 port of Rez please.
Thanks.”
