Yesterday Nintendo “announced”:http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/04/27/ap2704699.html that its new console, previously developed under the Revolution codename, will be called the “Wii”. I propose that the console’s followup be called the “Puu”, that Will Wright develop “this game”:http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27 for the console, and also that the person who made the final decision to approve the name be publicly humiliated by [...]
Thanks to “Joystiq”:http://www.joystiq.org, it’s just come to my attention that some of my favourite comedians from Melbourne, “Tripod”:http://www.3pod.com.au/podhome/, are videogamers! Tripod are, rather than stand-up comedians, a band that sings comic songs. In the past, I’ve been a fan of such gems as the “Xmas Song” and the “Ikea song”. I also had the great [...]
Today GameGal posted a “Hall of Shame” featuring E3 Booth babes in skimpy outfits, which prompted me to post the following comment on Joystiq: I just wish that people (men and women both) would stop spouting tired feminist rubbish and doing things like making “halls of shame” that make it seem like some terrible crime [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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