Dis my girlfrend. Not urs.

BBC defends games

Over on the BBC's website, Paul Rubens weighs in on the supposed threat of gaming to our society with this article, saying that it ain't so bad as some people would have us believe.

As far as I am concerned, the article could have focussed more on the world of games outside of Halo 3 and could have been longer, but hey, we need all the advocacy we can get. Good show.

Time marches on

Sometimes whole months can pass by without the realization sinking in that yes, another part of your life is gone and there have been many things that you wanted to do, but actually didn’t. I won’t go into the realm of the totally unbelievable by claiming that I didn’t have the time, rather, I was just too stinking lazy to update this blog. So there.

So yeah, uhm, stuff happened.

First of all, something that I knew a while back already, but haven’t deigned to write about (for fear of evil spirits jinxing the whole affair, I’m sure): I am going to be a daddy. Yes that’s right. Mr. Irresponsible is going to get a little diaper-worm of his own. A boy no less (so you all know he’s going to get weaned on an Xbox360 and a Wii of his own).

That’s not to say that I wouldn’t have liked to have a girl. Actually, I might have preferred it because little girls are infinitely cuter than little boys, but let’s just say (in a very politically incorrect way) that I presume a boy means that I’ll have to worry less when he gets older.

I suspect I am going to regret that statement sooner or later.

Check out the shirt I bought for him at Jinx.com: it's totally awesome!

Next, Obscure 2 was released on PC and Playstation in Europe on the 7th of September. People seem to like it, even though the review scores sometimes are a little bit luke-warm, but I’ve heard that it sells well. It was also a nominee at a french game design festival for best game, and the original designer and creator of Alone in the Dark, Frédérick Raynal, who was also a juror on the panel judging the french entries (can you believe that G.R.A.W.2 won the award? In what way is that game french? Never mind, let's not go into that--I know it is made by Ubisoft, yes.) said that "the game has it's flaws but is strangely compelling and forced me to play it to the end". How cool is that? The boys and girls at hydravision were understandably very proud. Frédérick Raynal is something of a hero to them.

I am currently working on the Wii version of Obscure 2, and brainstorming on what we could for for the DS. Nothing specific to mention though.

The release of the Wii version will coincide with the North American release in Q1 2008. I can already tell you that it will have a lot of extra goodies, and I can definitely say that it is the most extensive and complete version of the game.