Actually, mine is an elephant bank but it serves its purpose well.

After the E3 i browsed www.VGreleases.com and took notes about the release dates of some games. I’m going to spend 400€ or more within December 2009.

If you expected me to list all that I’ve seen at E3 (e.g. on other websites) You’ve come to the wrong place. That would be just a copy paste. Now, here are my impression:

Left 4 Dead 2: I hope the promised updates for L4D aren’t going into this one. I’d be greatly disappointed. The look is ok. I just can’t stand the daylight for a zombie game and the new characters. I love the L4D foursome because everyone has character but seeing the new survivors didn’t excite me at all, except for the white-dressed Nick the gambler.

Project Natal: Incredible! A device that can’t work if you change your pants while you play. Jokes aside, it’s a very interesting project. I’m just a little disappointed about the lack of buttons and physical feedback. This way it looks just like the power glove for 4 limbs.

Halo ODST and Halo Reach: Cool, more info and another chapter in the Halo saga. Too bad Bungie is stuck to dual stick controls in his FPSs.

Milo: Enough tamagotchi, thanks.

XBOX communities: Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm are coming to X360. Good, but often who spends time on these communities likes keyboards to write.

Assassin’s creed 2: Awesome job on the visuals. Though I don’t like the game and I’m never going to play it from what I’ve seen Ubisoft is doing an amazing job on the dubbing (side note: I’m Italian and Venice is in north-eastern Italy).

New Super Mario Bros Wii: a 4-player, 10-years old, dream that comes to life for me. I’ll play it alone from start to finish. Maybe it’s just me, but Instead of the yellow toad I’d like to see princess Peach as in Super Mario Bros 2.

WiiFit+: no comment. Why don’t you release WiiWeightLifting? I’d need that.

Super Mario Galaxy 2: The best title in videogame history is getting a sequel? I’ll need to borrow some drool from my friends.

Wii Vitality Sensor: Don’t ever think about WiiRelax. Release something like… WiiZombie that detects your heart beat and places the zombie horde accordingly. Oh, and with rumble support it could be great for WiiMasturbate too.

Metroid: Other M: I’d have to spend several rows on this. Let’s just say that I’m very afraid of the development team and the possible outcome. But since Itagaki isn’t around any more maybe Team Ninja will use their breast jiggle engine to animate some monster’s gelatinous tentacles (I’m not thinking about hentai).

PSP Go: Smooth move! Really worth the price in my opinion but they’re still missing a point: protect that damn screen!

The Last Guardian: Expect some more poetic puzzles from this one.

Sony’s motion controller: Good thing the use already-on-market hardware like the PS3 Camera. Bad thing they copied. Again. Apparently people likes to throw away dignity in the effort of making money.

Final Fantasy XIV: I haven’t been into MMORPGs for 4 years now and this won’t change my mind but I hope that it’ll be far more playable than FFXI.

Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil for PSP: Sometimes more of the same is good. Oh, and the 4-player co-op in MGS will have some granted hilarious implications.

New Castlevania and MGS arcade: Sometimes more of the same is good. Oh, and the 4-player co-op in MGS will have some granted hilarious implications. Yes, it’s a copy-paste of the above comment.

New Legend of Zelda in  the works: We’ve got only a pic of that but it’s enough to make us wonder why Link doesn’t have a sword and he’s accompanied by a queen-of-the-fairies-like blue creature.

Little Big Planet PSP: I don’t know how they’re going to coordinate graphic and physics processing but this is another interesting title for sure.

For my private life, after quitting my job I’m going to do the entrance examination to the academy of fine arts in October. I’ve got plenty of time to study and practice new stiles until then (as you can see it from the new cinematic shots in the latest story).

Also, after years of honoured duty, my SNES is going to have a long vacation. There’s no more space for him under my TVs (damn DTTs!). I’ll have to put him in a box an save it for the future generations. I think games like Super Mario Kart and Yoshi’s Island will be highly enjoyable even for my sons.

Uhm… The Sniper update is also a Spy update, that comes with the Meet the Spy video leaked somewhere…
I’ll burn all of this mess to order. Meanwhile, enjoy the leaked video.

This is not good at all. Check out this page at Chrono Compendium. The fan-game Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes has been thrown in the trash can after a cease & desist letter from Square-Enix. What a pretty infamous move! They waited ’till the release of the game to claim their copyright. Why? Seriously, why? First, If Square-Enix was against this project since its announcements it should have done this before. Only an asshole would wait this longer just to let any supporter lose his hope. Second: there’s plenty of copyright infringements out there, like cosplays, artworks and quotes. Is it going to mail all those too? Or just the funny ones? Oh, great. Now I fear I could get a letter for my next comic. Better re-draw everything from scratch. Comics about Torus Trooper maybe? Probably Cho would be pleased and that would cheer him up.

Time for some good news. The Sniper Update is ready and it’s already being teased of the official TF2 website. Keep an eye on it for the next 5 days!

Also, Here’s a good video. Maybe Valve and Nintendo should sue the authors… It’s copyright infringement!

I’ve been spending the last 2 weeks at home now, since my job has ended. I’m currently looking for a job in programming or, even better, graphic design, because for the last year I worked in photoshop, illustrator, bryce et similia for more time than in Delphi. Probably I’ll take some courses about advertising design and other illustration softwares or even get back to university but that’ll be on august. There’s time for that…

Time that will be spent to unlock the new weapons for The Sniper! Our fellow australian wanker is next on the… *polishes scope lens* list of Valve’s class updates. No hints have been given so far but many people speculated a Boomerang with “bonking” capability as a melee weapon and a coil-less sniper rifle. For me, it’d be good to give The Sniper the possibility to snipe faster and be more “active”. In every game I played (except Team Fortress 2, of course) I never camped because it was way more useful running around, grabbing power ups and shooting the head passing by (ask Catman about Time Splitters 2).

The development of my map for Team Fortress 2 is in progress. I’m fixing the skybox and changing some awful looking rocks. Unfortunately, looking at the center of the map produces a sever frame rate decrease. I put too much stuff in it, I think, but I can’t do anything since it’s a very wide map without corridors or closed rooms.

Too much Team Fortress 2. Let’s talk about Halo! Now that Master Chief is in the hands of Microsoft, the headmasters in Redmond are planning to make Halo cross-platform. Down your hands, Wii and PS3 owners. We’re talking about XBOX360, PC, Mobile and Web. Well, about time! But first, I want the port of Halo 3 and I’m pretty sure they’ll make it because it would be another shovelade of bucks and porting from XBOX to PC isn’t that hard, just look at Gears of War.

The last news is about Will Wright. After playing the god and creating countless combinations of creatures he decided to evolve (woha! What’s before god? Chuck Norris?) and left EA. He’s now working at the Stupid Fun Club (no, really. No jokes here) to create new and innovative intellectual properties. We can’t expect anything better from the man that could make a bureaucrat enjoy a couple of paper clips and a rubber band.

I’m playing various games lately. Mainly Left 4 Dead and Megaman oldies. I played Megaman 2 and X both with save states and I don’t have any doubt about people preferring Metroid over Megaman. Why sould I die and come back to kill a boss because I don’t have enough energy for special weapons? That’s a pretty shitty gameplay there! And why does Megaman has welt knees? Dammit! God bless Super Metroid and all of its detailed sprites!

End of rant…

Oh, yeah… Left 4 Dead, nice game, really. A bit laggy on public servers but very enjoyable. One of my favourite parts in Half Life 2 was the village of Ravenholm. How couldn’t I like L4D? It’s Ravenholm all along with hunters trying to get your gall bladder like fast zombies do and smokers trying to rape you like headcrabs do. Here you can have a little preview of the new campaign from the first L4D update (click for huge full-view).

Last thing, should we start a petition? We haven’t had a Wipeout game on PC in years, damn SCE. Vista can’t run Wipeout XL and I miss the mix of 400 km/h and electronic  beats. My senses are in grief since Psygnosis and The Designers Republic died. Isn’t there anything similar/freeware/open-source I can play?

Side-note: your reading these words on a page generated by Wordpress 2.7.1. I might have upgraded to Comicpress 2.7 as well but that’s not worth the trouble because I’d have to rewrite the css almost completely to get the same features I already have.

Yep, I turned 22 last week and now I’m here to show you what I got:

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, Left4Dead, a Yoshi action figure and a T-Shirt (not pictured because it’s already in the laundry), plus, I got 100€ from my grandparents, which I partially used to buy Unreal Tournament 3 for 12€ on steam. Hooray for the weekend deals!

On to the big news: GDC is finally ongoing and I got a couple of interesting videos. The new Legend of Zelda and the Cryengine 3 Demo!

While I appreciate the new Zelda they’re working on (but I wanted Metroid Dread, really), I’m also worried for the hardware needed to run the hypothetical Crysis 2 on my PC. Should I start saving for a couple of nVidia GeForce [insert random alphanumeric string here] to SLI them? I hope Crytek optimises this version of their engine for low-end computers too, because the performances were too different between pc with just a few hardware differences (example: 8800gt and dual core 3.0 GHz -> unplayable, 8800 gt and core2duo 3.0 GHz -> Holy Mother of Realistic Debris!). Also, saving Wii Channels on SD cards is now possible. Go update your Wii.

Another good news is the release of The Battle For Wesnoth version 1.6! A lot of time and a shovel of release candidates has passed since 1.4 but this time we’ve got many more animations, more fantastic portraits and a whole new campaign, so you may want to check out the homepage of the game. To be honest, there’s still a lot of work to do with translations, portraits and unit animations but for a free, open-source, game the amusement you can get from is incomparable.

Lately, I was wondering about Samus. I mean, we all know she’s female, right? But how did you know? I’m pretty sure everybody of you first saw her in her genderless-suit. I’m really curious to know how you discovered the truth so I opened a new poll. As for the previous poll, people thinks Lara’s breast are fine as they are now. Achievement Unlocked: Champagne glass!