We're not sure if it was just a slow news day or if it was the office-wide FarmVille assignment* but today felt like a total crawl. The Breach thief that kicked up a lot of headlines about a month ago made the news again and some smaller games got announced or re-announced on new platforms. Here's the stuff we didn't post:
05/19 - Welcome to FarmVille Anonymous
Tae: Oh man, that reminds me of these two awesome Pacman glasses i got at a thrift store once. Tall glasses with a pacman maze printed on the sides. They were both dropped and broken by random house guests.
AJ: OK, I'm back from my two days in Austin. What'd I miss?
Tae: I harvested strawberries. It's all your fault.
AJ: Hey, FarmVille was your idea for this week's Culture Club podcast. Don't try to pin this on me just because I like Harvest Moon.
Tae: Yeah, but you're doing the podcast. So it is your fault.
AJ: I just bought a house. Level 10. Take that, Tae.
Tae: $#@%&. Don't you dare try to expense that.
George A. Romero's App of the Dead Website, Facebook and Twitter Now Live
AJ: So that's what he's up to these days.
Blizzard to levy extra $3 subscription fee for buying and selling items through Web browser or Mobile Armory iPhone app.
AJ: Speaking of obsessions you can spend money on. Show of hands -- how many people in this chat are playing FarmVille right now besides me.
Tae: ...
Will: God help us all.
AJ: I'm trying to figure out what the moral of this woman-hating story is.
Tae: It's got terrific use of WonderBoy style visuals.
Square announcement will 'change Japanese history'
Dave: They've learned the science of time travel!
Tae: Are you sure they don't mean last Friday? Because I think I found a video of the announcement.
AJ: Just hit level 13. And my pig is 4% Ready, whatever that means.
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Wednesday, May 19, 2010