Sundays are for… Sundays are… for. Okay, try this again.
Sundays are for crashing into bed after serious drunken Stafford Wedding dancing, having a scant few hours sleep, be up before 8 to get a train which somehow finds a route from the Midlands to Euston which takes three hours, going to a big hall full of thousands of people dressed as Death Note characters, limping to the pub for a couple of desperate hairs of dogs, crawl into a train, get dragged home and then pushed in front of your computer to try and compile a list of interesting reading from across the week for the RPS readers, while trying to avoid posting a piece of early nineties pophouse that was dropped at the wedding and warning the audience that if anyone says anything about the grammar, spelling or anything else in this formed-through-denial-of-physical-pain-post then next week will be the first skip-week for the Sunday Papers ever, you bastards.
- Brad at Stardock has had an interesting week of blogging. Firstly, a big long post about what the hell happened with DemiGod. Secondly, he canvases opinion on a design choice in their forthcoming Elemental. As in, which of two economic systems would the gamer prefer. Following the debate, it’s clearly neither going to be option 1 or 2 – but rather an option 9 or 45 – but I’d be interested in hearing which way the RPS readers lean.
- Everyone loves Plants Versus Zombies. Ever on the ball, Gamasutra do piece where they interview PopCap about how on Earth you make a game which appeals to everyone. Because developers would totally love to do that. Fun stuff.
- While we’re talking Gamasutra, here’s a really great Bioshock 2 interview with Producer Alyssa Finley and Lead Designer Zak McClendon talking about the plans for Bioshock 2. While complete with some great quotes and a general sense of intelligence and enthusiasm, it is worth noting that there’s little concrete explanations of how they’re going to achieve these aims. I suspect it’ll do little to assuage the suspicions of the anti-Bioshock lobby.
- Clint Hocking writes about the latest Naruto game. Always good to see people actually take apart games which are often pretty much ignored.
- I’ve been asked about getting into games journalism a fair bit this week, so in the spirit of advice, here’s old comrade in arms Lee Hall writing about what not to say when being interviewed for a Newspaper job. The advice is entirely transferable to our little hole. And also in the journalism-journalism world, here’s a piece I chewed over about why journalists deserve shitty wages.
- Buttonbasher interviews Chris Sevensson from Capcom about “Steam, Capcom’s upcoming PC titles (like Resident Evil 5), MT Framework 2.0, and more.” I LOVE MORE!
- Oceanic – Insanity. They still play this in Stafford? Man!
Failed.
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Yeah, I do need to check out garlic more. So far I tend to just cover all lanes, which is often expensive (although if you use the tree’s stellar advice of using two rows of sunflowers, it’s not so much of a problem. If you use double-sunflowers, especially in survival mode where you can expand quite a bit, then it becomes quite difficult to click fast enough to collect all the glorious sunshine.
Stu has won my eternal respect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPxPyEr1q6k
I like the funny codes the tree gives you. And there’s something compulsive about growing it.
Capcom’s stance on crossplatform play is disappointing to say the least. Though I wonder how much of that is Microsoft wanting to totally abandon that and never allow it to happen again. Good to hear new stuff will be coming out on Steam at least…
I wonder if the Professor who wrote in regards to “Journalists deserve low pay” appreciates the irony that he (no doubt on some stupidly high salary) makes most of his money from writing in a similar fashion to journalists.
Well, using salary.com, it informs me that an American assistant economics professor earns $66k (£40k equivalent). That’s not to be sneezed at, but when you consider what people with equivalent skills in industry would be earning…
And yeah, it is a separate issue that bad bankers earn more than good nurses, say. I suspect that it’s more to do with the proximity to the flow of money (possibly to avoid corruption, or maybe just because banks can afford to pay high salaries and hospital trusts can’t).
Academics tend not to have stupidly high salaries – outside of professorships, which aren’t exactly growing on trees, they don’t have high salaries in any sense. And they do a completely different job from journalists.
From that Capcom interview:
That’s pretty damn confusing, seeing as they’re reselling RE1, 2, and 3 all the goddamn time on console releases. They just released RE: Director’s Cut AGAIN, this time on the PSN store for $10.