A smattering of pre-Comic-Con newsbits and gaming culture interest stories took up our mid-week news day, but a few other industry goings-on still managed to capture our collective attention. Everything else on our radar made a safe landing here, in our daily stale bread.
7/21--Comic-almost-on
Practical, Visual, Three-Dimensional Pedagogy for Internet Protocol Packet Header Control Fields
AJ: Not game related, but really cute.
Dave: Ever wish you could be fluent in a language you don't know a single word of? Yes. Me That.
Exclusive: Upcoming Mass Effect novel from author William C Dietz revealed
AJ: Mass Effect novel information incoming.
Dave: Is it uncouth of me to ask for the "deets" about Dietz?
First-Person Shooters Losing Appeal, finds Survey
AJ: Interesting study on FPS games.
Tae: Was it, "study finds it's still fun to shoot things?"
AJ: Actually, it's more like more like "it's slightly less popular to shoot things."
Triple threat: The same Miu Miu dress lands on three magazine covers
AJ: To all the people dissing on our NFS cover being similar to the Edge UK's. Suck it -- beauty magazines have worse problems.
Tae: I can't...those are really the same dress? They're all equally ugly.
AJ: Hmph. Once again, proving few men can appreciate ladies fashion. Unless you can't breathe and your feet are bleeding, you ain't wearing it right.
Dave: In their defense... girls look nice wearing pretty dress.
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Thursday, July 22, 2010