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309 days ago
I’m fortunate to have a very good friend – no not imaginary… At 15 he introduced to me to a great sport called basketball which along with the culture, the writers of the sport, the music and of course the players became a major influence in my life – I still follow it now, but after last season, I had to question my faith… not in the sport but in the team that I follow(ed?) – the Phoenix Suns. They’re exciting, they’re great to watch and have a great run and gun mentality. But… I can’t help thinking that there’s some muppets in the organisation. This isn’t a new thing – back in the day when KJ and Barkley were in the team they were good, very good, but then KJ retired, Barkley went and things changed. Even at this early age, something felt not right. Fast forward a few years and things seemed to be improving there were some good trades and new players came into the team but they always seem to trade off players – make them good, give them the experience and get rid of them – ...
321 days ago
Yesterday was a crappy day in the world of games news journalism – 1Up was sold by Ziff Davis Media to the Hearst Corporation and will be merged with UGO Entertainment. This 1UP News Story painted a pretty positive situation whereby it seemed that ZD were relinquishing their hold on this valuable IP to a group where money and other resources would be more freely available. This seemed a good thing as the News Story also states that 1Up IS the people: “"The acquisition of 1UP, with its authentic voice, tenured editorial personalities and bustling user community …” This is what drew me (as I’m sure many others would agree) to the site and to it’s written, audio and video content. Unfortunately UGO entertainment didn’t… Joystiq reported here about the number of staff members being laid off – including Shane, Philip, Nick and Anthony as well as many other. UGO takes a different approach to it’s games “journalism” as Shawn Elliott twittered: ...
324 days ago
It’s a well known phenomenon (do, dooo, do, do) that Sports Stars (primarily North American sports) have a very bad year after they appear as box art for Video Games. This has been given the name the ‘Madden Curse’ for the Madden Sports franchise – the Gamezone site also has a list of unfortunate stars here. Well, I’m wondering if this predominantly NFL issue is jumping sports. I bring to the table Top Spin 3 – the cover of which is below… So you will notice there’s a few people on the front cover, the main one being Mr. Federer the number 1 ranked player in the world. The game was released in June… he lost Wimbledon, the next open and major tennis tournament, his rank dropped from #1 in the world to #2 (still not career ending, but all the same)… All of this may, of course, be a total coincidence, but you can’t help wondering why bad things happen when sports stars appear on game covers…
342 days ago
342 days ago
(NOTE: the intention was to complete this before posting, but it’s taking a little longer than planned ;-) ) Channel 4’s slightly hit and miss comedy IT Crowd has been going for 2 series with the third one in progress at the moment. I’ve watched the the series (not being a fan of football and a geek) as i do enjoy and feel that there’s a sense of loyalty! One thing you can always guarantee that Roy wears some top notch Tee. So, because I’m a geek, (or this may be straying into nerd territory) here’s a list of the T-Shirts and where you can get them from… ( Update: Looks like someone has already done some of this already – glad it’s just not me!!!) Series 1: 1 – RTFM Tee – here 2 – Space Invaders 10 Points Tee: www.space-invaders.com – at the time of writing the store is temporarily closed – hopefully it will be open again soon. 3 – Lightning Bolt T-Shirt: here 4 – The PacMan Tee: here 5 – Crossed Electric Guitars: 6 – Number 42 T-shirt: here Series ...
