2011年2月17日星期四

I must have missed McWhertor's story on Peter David taking up writing duties for Shadow Complex

I must have missed McWhertor's story on Peter David taking up writing duties for Shadow Complex, which is strange, considering David is one of my all-time favorite comic book writers, and not too shabby as a novelist as well.His stint on X-Factor still stands as my favorite comic book run, developing Guido ""Strong Guy"" Carosella into the replica Omega 2918.50.38 watch role model for guys with torsos way out of proportion to their legs.Yes, guys like me.""Here's a YouTube comment on PlayStation 3 EyePet that caught my eye last week: ""Both are useless this and milo both stupid."" Hints of a 21st century version of Sonic Vs.

Mario, starring a Microsoft boy and a Sony pet? I was charmed by my brief interaction last week with Sony's PS3 camera-enabled EyePet.The fall-scheduled game pet-simulator displays a video feed of the real world that's in front of your TV, but with a furry pet scampering through the world.I left my demo of EyePet impressed.But it wasn't until I replica Omega 2531.80 watch read the comments to the posts we ran — and those that appeared below the videos I hosted of the game on YouTube — that I realized that gamers would see EyePet as some sort of Sonic The Hedgehog smack back at the Mario that is Peter Molyneux's (pun intended) pet project at Microsoft's Lionhead Studios: Milo & Kate.

That's when I realized we may have come upon the Mario and Sonic for this generation.More than a decade ago, Nintendo and Sega waged a console war with Mario and Sonic as the figures around which fans rallied.Neither was an expression of what a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis was technologically capable of.But they served as shorthand for their companies and their fans.Mario embodied a certain all-ages replica watches gift joyfulness and quality of game.Sonic represented attitude and a verve that his company would want you to think Nintendo didn't have.

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