D'après l'oracle de Google, Midam cherche des scénaristes amateurs pour écrire des gags en lien avec sa série Game Over. Le dessinateur, en grand seigneur, récompensera les meilleurs gags d'un chèque de 400 € (ceci entrainant, évidemment, une cession totale des droits).

• Game Over

Aimant beaucoup le travail de Midam, il ne s'agit pas - pour moi - de me "compromettre" bien que je consacrerai un article quant aux commandes et sur ce sentiment déplaisant qu'elles procurent.

...auch der stärkste Krieger in der besten und schönsten Rüstung, kann irgendwann nicht mehr... Wenn es nichts mehr gibt, für was es sich lohnt zu kämpfen...

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Logo volto com mais scans do pessoal da comunidade. Até mais!

His recently released short, "Western Spaghetti", is his best one yet and has to be seen to be appreciated:

In a recent profile in Paste Magazine, the brilliant Michel Gondry said of PES "Clicking on a PES film is to open a safe and see a million ideas glittering and exploding. The only reason you close the door is to re-open it just after and discover what will pop this time." Damn. High praise indeed.

A success at taking his own quirky style and integrating into commericals for big time clients like Nike, Sony, Orange, and Bacardi, he hasn't let his commerical work dampen his own creative exploration. And for that, I'm very thankful.

All of the shorts and commercials on his site are worth a thorough checkout (in fact, the more you watch them, the more you catch small details you missed before), but here are a few more of my absolute faves:

"Game Over"

"Roof Sex"

Via Motionographer

Farenheit se basa en el sistema “FMV” (Full Motion Video), este sistema intenta que el desarrollo del juego se asemeje en la medida de lo posible a una película , durante la década de los 90 este tipo de lanzamientos estuvieron muy de moda, con juegos como “Are you afraid of the darck”, “Phantasmagoria” o “Rebel Assaul”, pero sin llegar a ningún titulo con calidad digna de mención, estos se limitaban a ser una serie de imágenes de video, en las que de mala manera se desarrollaba una película, pero obligaban a una linealidad total, cosa que se rompe en Fahrenheit ya que el protagonista tiene voz y voto en todo momento.

En el juego no tendremos un protagonista definido, manejaremos a cuatro indistintamente, como son Lucas Kane, Markus Kane, Carla Valenti y Tyler Miles.

La historia empieza en NY en el año 2000, inicialmente manejamos a Lucas Kane, que se ve poseído por una fuerza extraña, que le obliga a cometer un sangriento asesinatos en los servicios de un restaurante, matando a un desconocido, este es el comienzo de nuestra historia. De esclarecer este asesinato se encargan Carla Valenti y Thyler Miles. Markus es el hermano de Lucas al que acude en busca de ayuda para encontrar explicación a los sucesos que le rodean, desenterrando extraños recuerdos de su infancia.

El título no tiene una acción trepidante, algunos lo verán lento, los mas emocionante serán unos minijuegos en los que tendremos que pulsar los botones en un orden concreto según se iluminen unos colores en la pantalla. (Muy parecido al juego “Simon”)

La jugabilidad del titulo es total, tendremos que realizar acciones tan cotidianas como beber una copa o un café, poner música, abrir una ventana, ver la tele, leer el periódico o acostarnos con nuestra novia y socializarnos con todo el mundo que nos rodea, todas estas acciones tendrán efectos sobre un medidor de estado de animo del protagonista, al que tendremos que intentar mantener centrado. Algunas de estas acciones se harán con solo pulsar un botón y en otras tendremos que jugar con el botón analógico, moviéndolo de una forma determinada.

Todas nuestras decisiones tendrán un efecto directo e inmediato en el desarrollo de la historia de los cuatro protagonistas, este es uno de los aspectos más destacables del juego.

Tendremos 3 finales distintos dependiendo de nuestras decisiones en la recta final del juego, pero a lo largo de la “película” veremos algunas escenas (o no las veremos) en función de nuestro comportamiento.

En el aspecto sonoro, un doblaje al castellano de lujo, digno del séptimo arte.

El juego se lanzo con el titulo “Indigo Prophecy” en el mercado americano.

En algún momento de la historia la pantalla se divide en varias partes (al igual que en la serie 24), dando dinamismo, mezclando a varios protagonistas en el mismo momento.

A día de hoy este tipo de juegos (de una tremenda calidad) están en el ostracismo por parte de todas las compañías, las aventuras graficas nunca han tenido calado en las videoconsolas (si en los PC´s). Es más sencilla la propuesta de un juego con un argumento plano, basado en un “mata mata”, y unos gráficos de infarto, (podemos decir que es más comercial) todo ello basado en la tremenda capacidad de esta generación de videoconsolas, y esto es una pena, por que los grandes aficionados agradecemos estos lanzamientos.

Como conclusión, este juego fue un tremendo soplo de aire fresco, un gran trabajo, a día de hoy único, pero no del todo bien recibido por el publico masivo. Una compra obligatoria para los auténticos aficionados a los videojuegos.

Puntuaciones:

Gráficos: 8

Duración: 8

Jugabilidad: 8

Sonido: 10

Originalidad: 10

Total: 9

Ficha:

Desarrollo: Quantic Dream

Distribuidor: Atari

Diseño: David Cage

Lanzamiento (Ps2): 16/9/05

Genero: Aventura Grafica

Jugadores: 1

::Fran Viejo::

::Mentes-Inquietas::

Crookers - Essential BBC Radio Mix via newmixes.com

Tracklist:

1. Betin Cocek - Intro Ca-Ca (PIC)
2. Erykah Badu - The Healer (Motown)
3. Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army (CDR)
4. Dabrye - This Is Where I Came In (Ghostly)
5. Dabrye - Game Over (Flyin Lotus mix) (CDR)
6. Mr.Oizo - Z - (Ed Banger)
7. Portishead - Machine gun (Island)
8. Ratatat - Bird Priest (XL)
9. CSS - Lost (Dj Mehdi rmx) (CDR)
10. Syl Johnson - Different Strokes (Twilight Records)
11. Benga - Pleasure (Tempa)
12. Rusko - Mr. Chips (CDR)
13. Alter ego - F**kingham palace (Modeselektor rmx) (Klang Elektonik)
14. Radioclit - Secousse (Mental groove)
15. Radioclit - Secousse (Crookers Spino mix) (Mental groove)
16. Crookers - Il Buono (Mad Decent)
17. Tommie Sunshine - Limit Of Your Mind (Nic Sarno Remake) (CDR)
18. Crookers -Il Cattivo (Mad decent)
19. AC/DC - Thunder (CRKRS 10 min re-fix) (CDR)
20. Plastikman - Spastik (CDR)
21. Jape - Floating (D.I.M. Rmx) (CDR)
22. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (D.I.M. Rmx)
23. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Crookers Rmx)
24. Boy 8 Bit - The Things That Freeks Are Made Of (CDR)
25. Kw Griff - The Force (CDR)
26. N.E.R.D. - Everyone nose - Phra re-fix
27. Outlander - Vamp (CDR)
28. Crookers - Il Brutto (Mad Decent)
29. Crookers - Il Brutto (Bloody Beetroots Il Bruttissimo rmx) (Mad decent)
30. Alan Braxe - Addicted (CDR)
31. AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack beats remix) (Palms Out Sounds)
32. Don Rimini - Let Me Back Up (Crookers Tetsujin mix) (Mental groove)
33. Crookers - Sveglia (Southern Fried)
34. Crookers - Knobbers (Southern Fried)
35. Duke Dumont - Hoy (Dubsided)
36. Math Head - Get Hype (Trouble and Bass)
37. Math Head - Turn the music up (Trouble and Bass)
38. Kid Cudi - Day’n’night (Crookers mix) (Fools Gold)
39. Busy P - To protect the entertain (Crookers mix) (Ed Banger)
40. Crookers - Big Money Comin’ (Southern Fried)
41. Yelle - Ce Jeux Acapella (CDR)
42. Foamo - Rockerman (CDR)
43. TJR - Sonic Chronic (Lee Mortimer mix) (CDR)
44. Bumblebees - Rio (Crookers mix) (Modular)
45. Crookers - Magic Bus (Southern Fried)
46. Crookers Ft Kid Cudi - Embrace the Martian (Southern Fried)

One such issue are save points. They've been around for quite some time now. RPGs on PC have typically been "save anywhere". I believe Final Fantasy 1 for the NES was the first game to incorporate save points, in that you could only save in inns, and if you had a tent that you could use in the overworld map. It wasn't until games like Tomb Raider that truly integrated save points into an action game as being part of a level. There have been countless debates now on whether save points are a good system.

Save points and save anywhere are both double-edged swords. If placed properly, save points can be an integral part of the game design, and change the experience for the player. When save points are littered everywhere every 5 minutes of play, or before and after every single difficult section in the game, then the purpose is defeated. But if they are far and few in between, the player is forced into a sense of unease. This sort of tension is good in video games. However, the downside of course is that if the player dies, they lose a lot of progress and only amounts to serious frustration when they have to replay a whole boring section just to die at that one difficult point. There is no proper solution to this. One way is to place checkpoints between the save points, where if the player dies, they restart from the checkpoint, but if they turn off their system, they start from the last point in which they saved. This isn't effective, as all it does is punish the player for not having enough time to play a designed level in a single sitting. But it does remedy the frustrating portion of losing 2 hours of game time because of player death.

For a game on the go, save points are that kind of punishment. Sure, portable game devices are blessed with sleep-mode, but this punishes the player for accidentally hitting the power button or for not charging their battery. A player desperately seeking a save point when his battery indicator is flashing red is not a type of game design you want to implement. Portable gaming is mostly meant for quick pickup and play to fill in the gaps of non-activity.

An example of such a poorly executed save point system would be Metroid Prime Hunters for DS. In fact, I refuse to even play that game, knowing that if I game-over, or if I accidentally power off my system, I lose A LOT of progress. The only available save point is back on your ship, so you end up spending a lot of pointless time backtracking to save instead of making forward progress.

As discussed before, depending on how saving progress works, it's a double-edged sword. The save-anywhere function can sometimes ruin gameplay, or worse, place the player in a situation where they are forced to start from the very beginning of the game. For example, if the only place you can save is at an inn, and it requires more money than the player can afford, and the player is low on health, then the player is screwed. Likewise, if you place a save point deep in the dungeon, and the player is close to death when he saves, he's stuck in there. There's no workaround to this other than an auto-save file that's separate - probably one that is just outside of the dungeon. But even that can suffer the same effect.

Another negative aspect of save-anywhere is that the player can "cheat", depending on how the designer looks at it, I suppose. It allows the player to "look into the future", restart from his last save point, and change his tactics accordingly. This is even worse when it comes to games that involve gambling. Essentially, the player never loses.

Because the player never loses, the tension associated to gameplay disappears. This is particularly bad in survival horror games, which is why most good survival horror games don't have save anywhere. Player gets into a potentially scary situation, and saves. Suddenly the player has no fear of getting defeated, because he can then just restart from where he left off, and already know how to deal with the situation. Some may argue "is that so bad though?" Understandable. Even without save anywhere, and the player dies, he will eventually get there again anyway. By saving anywhere, you are preventing the frustration of humongous backtracking.

Nowadays, with checkpoints and save anywhere, death is more of an inconvenience rather than a deterrent. How do you design a game in such a way that you retain the tension, while not punishing the player for needing to shut off his game to do something? Temporary saves. What essentially happens, is the game allows you to save at save points normally, but with the added feature of saving a separate temporary file that deletes itself when the player resumes. If the player dies, he restarts at his last save point (not the temporary save). This allows the player to stop playing whenever he wants without punishment, and also keeps the tension real, as well as prevent players from cheating and ruining the game balance. It's the best of both worlds. Non-saveable checkpoints can still be placed in if the game design chooses to, in order to help eliminate frustration of significant backtracking.

With that in mind, TWEWY chooses the Save Anywhere route. Since the player can get through a section without any encounters at all, the only thing the player loses from a game over are the points earned from combat to the point where he last saved. Usually, the player understands the risks involved for not saving often enough. In fact, the game could have used a completely behind the scenes auto-save after combat and it would have worked without a hitch. But it seems TWEWY likes to be on the side of flexibility for various reasons open to the player.

Flexibility in design is very important, but the sacrifices and changes in gameplay must be weighed out and countered properly in order to make the chosen save system work properly.

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Self-initiated stop-frame animation project. Initially it was thought for a client's brief, but as the job was cancelled, the guys decided to go ahead anyway just for the sake of having fun. 

Of course not as brilliant as the GAME OVER project (over 10 Million views in total inbetween) by Not So Noisy ...

"TETRIS is the 4th video performance of the GAME OVER Project (over 6 Million views). This stop-motion video was shot and played during the Urbaines Festival at the Palais de Rumine (Lausanne, Switzerland) on November 24th 2007."

... but worth looking.

Estamos en 1984, el oro blanco es el nuevo negocio, solo hay que ser un tipo emprendedor y Vice City es una ciudad que crece a pasos agigantados, la urbe se sostenta sobre un imperio criminal. Vic Vance es nuestro protagonista, es un buen tipo, tiene buen corazón, es un hombre serio, estricto y rígido, pero no puede salir de una espiral de delincuencia en la que se mete por hacerle un favor a su superior en el ejército. Este pequeño favor (relacionado con las drogas) le supone su expulsión del cuerpo. Para complicarse más su vida tiene que cargar con Lance, el tarambana de su hermano, es un amago de mafioso que no para de meterse en líos. Un hermano enfermo y una madre drogadicta.

Gráficamente GTA es un tanto poligonal, pero se le perdona, el juego es un calco de la versión para Ps2, parece imposible introducir en una portátil una ciudad tan amplia, detallada y completa como Vice City. En esta segunda incursión para PsP se soluciono el problema de “Ghost” del Liberty City, en este primer juego para PsP cuando nuestro protagonista se movía rápido dejaba tras de si una estela, pero este problema ya se ha solucionado.

Un detalle que se introduce en este GTA Vice City Stories es la posibilidad de montar un imperio criminal, manejando diversos negocios al margen de la ley, como son la protección y extorsión de locales, las drogas, la prostitución, contrabando o secuestros. Esto viene a sustituir a las luchas por el control del barrio en GTA San Andreas, aquí los enfrentamientos con otras bandas vienen por el control de los locales. Esta es una buena manera de ir haciendo dinero.

La selección musical (como siempre), no defrauda. La lista de artistas es casi interminable, en nuestras emisoras tendremos todos los estilos musicales con grandes grupos de los 80 como, Kiss, Scorpions, Toto, Run D.M.C., Genesis, Marvin Gaye, Depeche Mode, Blondie,Earth Wind and Fire, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Rick James, Barry White, The Cure, Judas Priest, New Order o Phil Collins (que protagoniza algunas de las misiones, su concierto en el juego es una pasada).

La jugabilidad de Vice City es total, tendremos motos, coches, lanchas, helicópteros, bicicletas. El armamento de Vic es el de todo un ejercito, como ya viene siendo habitual en la saga, podremos vestir a nuestro protagonista, tendremos un ropero (no muy amplio) para poder caracterizar a Vic.

Parece imposible que las misiones de todos los GTA sigan teniendo originalidad y picardía, después de varios lanzamientos lo normal sería pecar de repetitivas, pero esto no es así. De todos los GTA con los que me he encontrado, este puede que sea el que tiene las misiones más complicadas, algunas de ellas son realmente difíciles.

El sistema de puntería no se ha modificado, y puede que esto sea lo único que se le pueda achacar a este lanzamiento, no es que este sistema sea malo, pero aquí si que se ve un cierto estancamiento.

Acabarse el juego con el 100% de los objetivos es IMPOSIBLE, cuando terminemos el modo historia, llevaremos el 50% del lanzamiento, luego llegan las misiones secundarias.

Se que esto no des nada honrado, pero aquí os pongo algunos truquillos para haceros la vida más fácil por las calles de Vice City:

- Conseguir 250.000$: Arriba, Abajo, Izquierda, Derecha, x, x, L1, R1

- Salud: Arriba, Abajo, Izquierda, Derecha, Círculo, Círculo, L1, R1

- No búsqueda: Arriba, Derecha, Triánguno, Triángulo, Abajo, Izquierda, x, x

- Set de armas 1: Izquierda, Derecha, x, Arriba, Abajo, Cuadrado, Izquierda, Derecha.

- Set de armas 2: Izquierda, Derecha, Cuadrado, Arriba, Abajo, Triángulo, Izquierda, Dereha.

- Set de armas 3: Izquierda, Derecha, Triángulo, Arriba, Abajo, Círculo, Izquierda, Derecha.

He leido en algun medio que Rockstar se esta planteando el lanzamiento de GTA San Andreas Stories, seguramente sera otro bombazo, lo espero impaciente.

Como conclusión, de todo lo que he visto dentro del catalogo de PsP este es el único juego que se puede considerar como de “compra obligatoria”, con esto casi esta dicho todo, 100% GTA.

Puntuaciones:

Gráficos: 9

Duración: 10

Jugabilidad: 8

Sonido: 10

Originalidad: 10

Total: 10

Ficha:

Desarrollo: Rockstar Leeds en colaboración con Rockstar North

Distribuidor: Take2

Diseño: Rockstar Leeds

Lanzamiento (Ps2): Navidades 2004

Genero: Acción.

Jugadores: 1

::Fran Viejo::

::Mentes-Inquietas::

MUNDO GTA SAN ANDREAS

Muito bom, não? :D

Bem, zanzando por aí, achei outros dois trailers de filmes baseados em jogos. Jogos do mesmo tipo.

Um é o Campo Minado - The Movie, excelente também! E este está legendado. O outro é Tetris - The Movie, muito interessante. Os dois super criativos e geniais! Assistam os dois clicando no link abaixo, estão no resto do post. Não percam, são bacanas mesmo. :)

Campo Minado

Tetris

Imaginem se a idéia pega e vira filme mesmo, hein...

Ah, e esses vídeos ainda me fizeram lembrar de um antigo post aqui do GiiBlog, aliás, o primeiro. Ele noticia a produção de filmes baseados em jogos de tabuleiro, como Banco Imobiliário, Batalha Naval e Ouija, o jogo do copo. E esses são pra valer, de verdade mesmo. Clique aqui pra ler o post.

- postado por Isabela

Here in Lynchburg, and specifically the campus of Liberty, where I write these words, the idea that Christian belief should in some way be separate from politics does not bode well. It would seem to me that we need a balance, that "voting Christian" is not the answer, and that having a political machine is not the business of the Church. We have a force in the world, called the Holy Spirit. But I digress. I can't stand that fact that as Christians we are criticized for being politically active; yet it would also appear that success in politics brings power on some level. Does middle ground exist? We may find out soon enough, for several reasons.

1. James Dobson. He famously un-endorsed John McCain several months back, and he appears to be leading the charge of evangelical apathy in the 2008 presidential election. Should this be troubling? We have seen the fruits of an 'evangelical' president for the last 8 years, and all but the sold-out few have begun to turn away in shame from the debacle that has been unfolding for about the last 5 years. Between the economy, the war, the deficit, pork barrel spending, no real energy solutions other than to increase the problem with ethanol, and a general inability for the president to speak in public (I swear he has gotten worse in the last several years), it would seem that the religious inroads that created George W. Bush have all but been erased in the last 7 years. Then along comes Dobson, who effectively disengaged the evangelical vote from political discussion this election cycle. Like adding matchheads to a nuclear bomb, yes; but it still just doesn't help.

2. John Hagee. I have disliked this man since the first time I ever heard him speak. He has an old-timey tone and diction, along with a bonkers hermeneutic and a disposition toward the charasmatic. He is what has become known as a 'Christian Zionist.' One could imagine that support for the secular state of Israel that exists now in the middle east could be good in terms of politics, support of the West, etc. I would characterize my dislike of him during my undergraduate years when he would speak in convo as mostly ad hominem. Luckily however, Hagee has a few soleriological concerns, of which some would call troubling. I would call them heterodoxical. Hagee's support for Israel is somewhat counter to the evangelistic mandates given by persons such as Jesus in books such as the Gospel of Matthew. It also may run afoul of persons such as the Apostle Paul and books such as Romans and Hebrews. At any rate, The basic idea is that Jesus came to be the savior to the Gentiles but that the Jews will be justified by other means; OT covenants, or what-have-you. The motivation for this theological gymnastics can be found in Hagee's eschatology. This is because he takes the standard 'literal' dispensational approach to the book of Revelation and needs to match up the events found in Scripture with history. If this cannot be done, it will make his literal interpretation difficult to justify; it also gets him into all kinds of messes, including the statements about Hitler and the Jews that made John McCain disown his political endorsement.      

3. John McCain courts the Religious Right. I was in attendance at Liberty University's 2006 commencement exercises that featured Sen. John McCain giving the address. He spoke mostly of politics and little that could be construed as meaningful to the graduates; however this did not matter because he was running for President of the United States. I wrote about the inherent stupidity of turning commencement into a political patty-cake in a post in 2006. I still think that today, although I think now John McCain agrees with me. He did not seem very comfortable in the role as evangelical courter then, and now he won't have to do it anymore.

The conservative religious movement in general seems to operate much more efficiently when it is battling against something or someone. The Clinton years gave birth to talk radio and the desire for independent news and other sources (such as dubious Fox News). Perhaps President Obama will be the spark plug the religious right needs to regain some of the ground it has both lost and given away. The conservative movement is self-destructing and there is precious little that can be done about it. We don't have the candidate nor the motivation to beat the liberals in 2008. Perhaps this break in power will allow the conservative movement in general and the Christian right specifically to figure out the way out of this mess. Note: think long and hard about the last few years, and then do the exact opposite of what has been done previously.  

And to add insult to injury, we have to put up with Cal Thomas waxing poetic about Ted Kennedy.

Eran tiempos difíciles para el Spectrum. Habían entrado en escena serios competidores, el Amstrad, ordenador feo y malage donde los haya, el Commodore, que era un poco así como la máquina de los pijos de mi clase, o el MSX, ese trasto magnífico que apenas nadie poseía porque tenía menos juegos y muchos eran de la, por aquel entonces desconocida marca, Konami. Así pues, los del Amstrad se cagaban en el Commodore. Los del MSX odiaban a muerte a los del Amstrad, y todos coincidían en odiar al Spectrum que era, a pesar de que sus muñecos monocromáticos imponían su color al pasar por cualquier escenario, el que más juegos tenía. Y con diferencia. La guerra estaba declarada, y en clase los primeros privilegiados con doble pletina se dedicaban a chantajear a los pobres como yo, a cambio de la copia bastarda de un juego.

De pronto dos sucesos marcaron el final de la violencia y asentaron las bases de la paz.

El primero, la entrada del comunismo en los precios de los juegos. 875 pasó a ser el número estrella de cualquier frikazo con gafas de culo de botella.

El segundo, y el más importante, fue la aparición de la piba del Game Over.

El juego era una gran puta mierda, y prácticamente a nadie le gustaba. Sin embargo, las ventas se dispararon y pronto se colocó en el juego más vendido de la historia, y con la carátula más fotocopiada que jamás he visto. La razón: la aparición de un señor pezón en la portada del mismo. Con dos cojones. Aunque realmente no se veía en su completitud y sólo se intuía, qué mas daba. Puestos a recordar, yo hubiera reinventado la campaña publicitaria de tal modo que rezara:

Game Over. El juego que mató a pajas a una generación.

No conozco hetero spectrumero que no descendiera a los infiernos del onanismo ante la visión de esa pedazo de diosa con antifaz, cuyas lorzas producían erecciones descontroladas, manchas en el pantalón y salida espontánea de los globos oculares. Vaya pibón que había en la portada. Del tío feo que aparecía atrás nadie se acuerda ni por asomo. Era imposible mirar más allá de esos dos voluminosos regalos de la naturaleza. La portada no pasó en absoluto desapercibida a la repugnante moralina Thatcheriana y la portada estuvo censurada en UK con un oportuno logotipo colocado donde ustedes saben. Y no solo eso, sino que para deleite de los más pajilleros una famosa revista incluyó en sus páginas un poster a todo tamaño con soberana moza. Poster que años más tarde descubrí en casa de Sergio, y un cabrón que yo me se mancilló con un muñequito colgando del pezoncillo.

Esa mítica portada nos hizo conocer nada menos que a Luis Royo. Artista de Teruel, que con paciencia también convertía a píxeles los dibujos de las portadas, se especializó en la realización de carátulas de videojuegos de corte fantástico y scifi pero bajo el denominador común de incluir a un auténtico walter-pibón en primer plano. Las pibas de Luis Royo destacaban por sus curvas voluptuosas, por sus miradas desafiantes, por unos pechos difícilmente ocultables, y una ausencia de vello púbico que se adelantaba a su tiempo. Todo un visionario, teniendo en cuenta que por aquellos años se llevaba mucho eso del potorro a lo chimpancé.

Las empresas de videojuegos, y en especial Dinamic, lo tuvieron claro. "Unas pajillas, un juego vendido". A partir de entonces comenzaron a abundar las portadillas del maestro Royo. Con cada juego llegaban los comentarios y la polémica "¿has visto a la piba del Turbo Girl?", "la del Hundra está tó wena". Un sinfín de visitas al cuarto de baño a base de nuevos juegos. La revista de Micromanía se subió al carro y publicó al pibón del Turbo Girl en su primer número, tamaño DINA3, que mantuvo palote palote a toda la clase de octavo durante un mes. Curioso era el caso de los padres, que parecían no darse cuenta de que el mayor afán de sus hijos era ver la portadita de turno, y acabar el Samantha Fox Strip Poker. "Qué listo es mi niño, que está ahí trabajando con el ordenador" le rezaban a las vecinas por el patinillo, ignorantes de los perversos pensamientos de sus hijos. Y es que estaba más que claro. A ver, ¿quién coño se iba a comprar original el Camelot Warriors o el Freddy Hardest pudiendo adquirir juegos con portadas tan apabullantes como las de Luis Royo, o las que Azpiri realizaba?... Recordemos que la Hundra nos ponía tela del telón, pero la Phantis no se quedaba atrás, y la escapadiza tetilla del Nonamed también fue marco de humedades nocturnas.

En fin, desde entonces le he ido perdiendo la pista un poco, y de vez en cuando me encuentro por la FNAC libros de ilustraciones que, si bien son técnicamente perfectos, y tienen una clara tendencia al erotismo, pierden la frescura y la novelería de esas ilustraciones que aparecían en las cassettes de 875 pesetas. O eso, o que somos más viejos, y no nos ponemos ciporrones con esas cosas. Mentira. Seguimos igual de salidos.

Pues esto es todo por hoy. La próxima cita con la memoria onanista colectiva la tendremos con otro clásico donde los haya... la piba del Barbarian.

But now, on to the meat of the post. Today, I thought long and hard about my projects. I also took a good look through my comic folder to see all of the series that prematurely ended. And now, without further ado...this is my project list.

1. Game Over - The namesake series of the studio is going to be returning with improved sprites, writing, and a brand new team. But, while this series is my pride and joy, it will not fully return until Summer vacation. Luckily for you, my last day of school is May 5th.
2. The House of Sonic - The most popular series that the studio has to offer is going to fully return sooner than Game Over, and I am also planning on switching the sprites back to the 32-bit style, which will match the movie.
3. The House of Sonic: The Movie - The fist movie of the studio is still in the planning process, but the script will be started soon and a new trailer will be put out. Also, the sprites will be in the old 32-bit style, not Sonic 3 style.
4. Mega Man X: Maverick Hunter Unit 17 - My old Mega Man X series was somewhat popular, and I think that it deserves a second chance. Therefore, it will receive a site relaunch soon and I will put out issue 5 somewhere between the return of House of Sonic and the new version of Game Over.
5. Team Omni -  I haven't talked about Team Omni much, but I am still working on it quite a bit. When the first issue of this chapter-based, action-packed, comedic, hand-drawn effort is released, you will be impressed.
6. Shenanigans - The other hand-drawn comic I have planned, which will be purely comedic and focus on one-shot strips, is going well. The only problem is that I still haven't designed half of the characters and I don't know how to effectively introduce all three of the major characters while still being very funny. I also have so many ideas that I can't choose the best one easily.

To finish of this post, it is now YouTube time.

McAuliffe, the captain of the Titanic chairman of Hillary's doomsday campaign, provided lots of uncomfortably weird moments. At times, he appeared to be a Scientology cult member.

Part one of two is below. The video quality sucks but the interview is telling. I watched it live and the entire time I was wondering if he was going to jump on his chair a la Tom Cruise on Oprah and Shout: "I loooove her!"

Part two is HERE.

There's a shorter clip below that depicts a super weird moment between interviewer and interviewee. The clip is spreading all over the internet.

Good ol Terry tells the host that his dad (who he refers to as "Big Russ") is looking down on them. Russert clarifies to Terry that his dad isn't looking down on them because he's not dead. I know Tim Russert looks old, so you'd assume his parents are playing harps in heaven, but look at John McCain. He's over 70 and his mom is still baking him cookies.

The Clintons and their surrogates are living in la-la land. Poor Terry is making up reality just like his floundering candidate.

In addition to his work at Big Bang Theory, he has also written for "3rd ROCK from the SUN" and "GAME OVER." Tonight at 10pm ET (click to listen) he joins the geeks to discuss the lingering effects of the WGA strike and what its like to write about geeks on television. Get your geek on.

-- NBC Journalist Tim Russert in a live broadcast on sister network MSNBC after the Indiana & North Carolina primaries. Full article about pundit opinions HERE.