"Don't Look Down!" - NOTE: CONCEPT ART NOT A SCREENSHOT
Probably the best kept video game secret so far this year is Mirror’s Edge. A new IP, something rare in the industry these days that looks extremely promising. As promising as it looks, we still don’t know all that much about it, thanks to the talented minds at Sweden’s DICE studio keeping their mouth shut. (more…)
So tonight was the first of the three scheduled Presidential debates for 2008 and I thought that it was a solid, if uneventful showing that was for the most part devoid of “Youtube Moments.” The format was perfect with Jim Lehrer tossing out topics and then letting the two of them actually debate between themselves before he would come back in to get a new topic on the docket. Looking back at the debate I could sit here and go line by line but that’d be just a waste of time really. Both candidates are going to smudge, smear, and sneak throughout the debate so I’m going to focus on some of the things I noticed as I sat here watching the exchange instead. (more…)
McCain has already won a debate that won't happen for another 4 hours and 43 minutes.
I couldn’t help but get a good laugh out of this one. Conjuring images of the “Dewey Defeats Truman!” newspaper in 1948, John McCain’s campaign has released internet ads that proclaim “McCain Wins Debate” while another has campaign manager Rick Davis saying “McCain won the debate-hands down.” There’s nothing inherently wrong with spinning something your way, every campaign does it (some more than others). But there is a problem when you spin a debate performance your way…that hasn’t even happened yet. So in an odd and somewhat confusing turn of events, this has become an issue and non-issue at the same time. Let me explain… (more…)
Beginning her crash course in politics outside of Wasilla and Anchorage, Alaska, Sarah Palin met with Afghani President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and Fmr. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But before these meetings she created a little bit of a hoopla when reporters learned that they would be kept out of the room but the still photographers and cameras would be allowed in. Rightly so, the reporters pushed back and demanded that they be allowed in (which is par for the course), with CNN going so far as to pull the only television coverage of the meeting. Palin seemed to have relented as her staff agreed to let the CNN producer into the meeting, eventually bringing in reporters for a whopping 40 seconds as she and Karzai spoke about his son. (more…)
*Right off the bat, I want to say that there isn’t a clear cut answer to what is happening with these registration forms. It’s possible that all of this is a large mistake on the part of the McCain campaign but it could also be a concerted effort to nullify the votes of many Democrats in the Great Lakes area.
But onto the issue at hand. Over at the Racine Post they have an article up that is examining the mailing of McCain literature to residents of Wisconsin towns, many of whom are strong Democrat activists, to assist these people in registering for absentee ballots. The problem with this is that the return addresses for the registration forms are for the wrong counties. According to the election officials, the forms would’ve been rerouted to the proper locations but with the workers swamped with new registration forms and the deadlines stacked closely it could be very likely that these voters might not recieve their ballots in time for the election. (more…)
During E3, Bungie got in a little kerfluffle with Microsoft after their next project announcement was scrapped because of “an embarrasment of riches.” It’s been a few months now and Bungie is back with the cryptic line in their WWU yesterday “It’s always darkest before the dawn, and the dawn is about to break” which was followed on Friday by the posting of a scrambled image of the Superintendent. On the page there is what appears to be a log of some sort that has clear references to Halo. I would expect an announcement sometime next week.
The Force Unleashed originally looked like it would be nothing more than a glorified tech demo with Lucasarts tossing all of these great technologies into the game to show them off but not really do much with them. Lately, the Star Wars brand has been in a rut so I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one who had this fear. Thankfully, The Force Unleashed is a great game with an awesome story. (more…)
September 16, 2008 <—– Today’s Date ————-
Obama: 247 McCain: 257 Ties: 34
Now the purpose isn’t to endorse one candidate over another, or to brag or boost confidence or anything like that. The purpose of this post is to show very unusual, unprecedented polling trends in this election cycle. (more…)
In an announcement earlier this week Shane Kim announced that Microsoft will be closing Ensemble Studios after finishing up their current title Halo Wars. Read the rest of the article here, via Kotaku.
