Not a bad news cycle for a post Comic Con-Tuesday -- Disney made a second big buy of a smaller developer, and amazingly StarCraft II only occupied one slot in the news story feed. Here's the stuff we didn't post:
07/27 -- Who'd've thought the SCII crowd could be so well socialized?
AJ: Curt Schilling is moving his studio to Rhode Island, but I can't for the life of me work up the energy to care.
Dave: Any news story written about that will have to photoshop Curt Schilling's head onto Peter Griffin's body, or vice-versa.
Meet the President in Madden 11
Blizzard - merger with Activision hasn't changed anything
AJ: Is it just me, or is Blizzard kind of defensive about its relationship to Activision?
Linkin Park in Soundtrack for Medal of Honor
AJ: It'll be like sophomore year of high school all up in here.
Dave: Stop reminding us how old we all are, AJ -- it's not nice.
Tae: Eh? Whassat?
An Order of Seven Global Cyber-Guardians Now Hold Keys to the Internet
AJ: Not game-related, but cool, and ripe for a Lord of the Rings joke.
Will: Oop, too late.
AJ: Oh, as a final note on the PvZ thing -- Dan Amrich pointed this out to me. Highlight quote of the article? "If David Letterman can depict the NBC peacock wearing men's boxer shorts, then Delrina should be able to plug a flying toaster with hot lead."
Introducing the Whopper Bar: Burger King to sell beer at fast food joints
John: BK selling beer. I can't decide how I feel about this.
AJ: I can -- nauseated.
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Wednesday, July 28, 2010