- So the other day, I got an email from some woman representing “clients searching for a reputable source for adult games.” I would have to assume that I was contacted due to this little gem from the past, so who knows? I guess I might be making another “sexy” game in the near future. Perhaps JizzMoppa 2: Cum To Vegas may happen after-all?
Either that or this is just some form of spam as Jason suggested (the latter half of the email did sound a bit weird, like a form letter). But junk mail asking someone to create an adult game? Are other people getting this? Though spammers are getting fairly elaborate these days, and smart too, enough to know that I have a website and therefore offer “services” such as placement in search engines and graphic design assistance (and aware enough to know that I ain’t interested in home mortgages or Windows XP at a “really great price”).
- In gaming news, the Hot Coffee headlines just won’t die. Now some grandma is suing Rockstar because she’s upset that she bought San Andreas for her grandson without know it has hidden, sexually explicit scenes. Her grandson btw is 14 years old. Jesus Christ people are so dumb. First off, that Mature label on the front of the box is pretty hard to miss, but even without that, the cover still clearly features street thugs with guns (and engaged in a drive-by), some sexy street chick licking her lips seductively, and gambling. Once again, in American, VIOLENCE GOOD. BOOBIES BAD.
- In other news, Mugen type game/program has just popped up on the PSP. Called SmashGPSP, because its based up a homebrew version of Smash Bros for the GP32 (the Korean open-source handheld), its a fighting game that allows additional characters to be added to the game. Right now there’s just a few, mostly just Mario and Sonic, but if this gets support, it could be big.
Here’s a some webcam shots from a guy who’s already downloaded it from the GAF:
- So the G4 video game awards (G-Phoria) ceremony was taped last night, and since they don’t deserve anymore ratings that they do, though I have to assume that they don’t have shit viewership-wise in the first place, as well as to save people two hours of their lives, here are the winners:
Alt Sports Award–NBA Street V3
Best Adaptation–LEGO Star Wars
Best Action Game–God of War
Best Boss–Halo 2 – Scarab Battle
Best Cinematic–God of War
Best Graphics–Half-Life 2
Best Handheld Game–The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Best Innovation–Katamari Damacy
Best Licensed Soundtrack–Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Best Multiplayer Game–Halo 2
Best Original Game–God of War
Best Original Soundtrack–Halo 2
Best Racing Game–Burnout 3: Takedown
Best RPG–Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Best Shooter–Halo 2
Best Sound Design–Halo 2
Best Traditional Sports Game–Madden NFL 2005
Best Voice Performance – Female–Half-Life 2 – Merle Dandridge
Best Voice Performance – Male–Halo 2 – David Cross
EB Gamers’ Choice Award–World of Warcraft
Favorite Character–God of War – Kratos
Game of the Year–Halo 2
Legend Award–Ralph Baer
Wow… practically a full sweep for Halo 2. Perhaps I shouldn’t criticize since I’m not a huge FPS fan, but I’m confident in saying that it certainly isn’t game of the year, at least not when you have Resident Evil 4 out as well, and especially when there’s also Half-Life 2, which almost every single FPS aficionado seems to agree is much better (its perhaps the best ever in the genre to many, and I can easily see why). And how the fuck did Resident Evil 4 not win anything?!?! And no sign of Snake Eater is also pretty disappointing; come on, not even the best boss battle award?
Also, while I knew that Katamari wouldn’t really get anything, and that it’s inclusion on the list of nominees was a transparent effort to add some “street cred” to the affair, its still a crime that it somehow lost the best original soundtrack category. Again, Halo 2? I guess folks just love their generic wanna-be sci-fi scores. Cue all the “But Katamari is generic j-pop crap!” bitching. But how did it not win the best original game category? Don’t get me wrong, God of War does rock, it’s just not as original (though it still certainly is). Plus it would have been awesome for Lumines to win best licensed soundtrack, but I knew San Andreas had that one locked up. Cuz you know, besides sex and violence, nostalgia also makes tons of cash as well.
Plus, David Cross won best male voice performance for Halo 2? He’s in that game? Maybe its a mistake since I know he’s in San Andreas… hey at least Lego Star Wars won something (can’t wait for the sequel based on the original trilogy).
On a side note, during dinner last night with Dave, I found it funny how he mentioned that he finally saw G4 while in California while staying with his family, and it took just five minutes to hate it. It was a bit ricky trying to figure out exactly which smarmy, overly annoying, seemingly ADD-affliclted, and not very funny person he was talking about exactly.
- The sequel to Feel the Magic has just been announced in Japan. The first game was originally called I Would Die For You. The sequel? Where Do Babies Come From. Simply awesome.
In other DS news, people just won’t stop with the Ouendan love, so I might have to get a DS sooner than I expected…
Plus here’s footage from a series of GBA games called Digitylish that Nintendo of Europe, not America, announced at E3 (hence why I missed it back then). Most seem to scoff at it since its just a collection of mini-games. So what? They all look fun and… admittedly very stylish. Check out the vid for yourself.
BTW, little bit of trivia: one of the games is by Q Games (not to be confused with Mizuguchi’s own Q Entertainment), which was founded by Dylan Cuthbert, who worked on the original Starfoz game at Argonaut, and Kenkichi Shimook, a designer on Ape Escpae 2001 (a game that gets way too much hate). Thanks to brandonnn for that bit of info.
- Oh, and while I’m at it, thanks to dark steve at the IC forums for pointed me towards the way to Cave Story for the Mac! Now I can finally say that the game really does is as awesome as everyone has been saying.
- Meanwhile in other stuff from the web, again I’ve been too busy to really scour, but I did catch the article about the Japanese scientist who has finally created the first real-deal replicant. Pretty freaky huh?
Though truth be told, I was disappointed to discover that they guy went through the trouble of creating a hyper life-like robot but not one that’s a “hot chick” (a la Ghost in the Shell), especially since he’s Japanese. Then someone pointed out that its modeled after this late-wfie, in which I then admitted was VERY Japanese. Until I began to wonder why he made a straight-up duplicate of this wife, and not a 14 year old version of her, so I took it back. Anyway, how long do you think it?ll be till it (or she) kills him?
- And Michele passed along an awesome article from the New York Times about the rise in Bolivian wrestling.
Then that got me thinking about an idea Jason and I have had kicking around for a while now, which is to start our own wrestling promotion. I wanted to base it in Coney Island and call it… what else?…. CIW or Coney Island Wrestling. It would have all the personalities found at the freak show and boardwalk all facing off in the squared circle, like KoKo the Killer Clown vs. the guy who dressed up in the monkey suit for the Shoot The Freak attraction.
Jason wanted to go the extra step and call the promotion the IGWF or Inter-Galactic Wrestling Federation, with an emphasis on sci-fi and fantastic elements, with the Trans-Dimensional Championship, clones forming tag teams, time traveling…that sort of thing. When talking about this recently, Michele’s boyfriend Rob even reminded me of the idea of having Mr. Perfect from the past coming to today in the future and wrestle for us, played by the current Mr. Perfect of course (suspension of disbelief and all).
- BTW, Michele just launched a killer new site featuring her doodles. You have to check it out, her stuff if pretty damn good(and super cute)!
- Lastly, and back to her brother, Dave passed along a gift that he got for me while at the Comic Con. What else can I say? The guy knows my tastes all to well; check out this insanely brilliant and awesome shirt:
And its by Brandon Bird, the guy who’s art I showed from before. I swear, that Chrisopher Walken piece never gets old.
Gee, can anyone guess what I’ll be wearing tomorrow at the Transformers con?