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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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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