Every week, Paul, Graham, Kathleen and I get together to write ENN. Over the week, each of us actually writes stories separately, then we get together on Fridays to choose what to use, what to revise, etc. Sometimes the stories we throw out aren’t very good; other times, they are too obscure for a wider audience. Even so, sometimes very good stories have to be thrown out because there is just not enough space for them in the episode. Here are two of those stories for this week’s episode:
Nintendon’t (two stories on same topic)
Joystiq is reporting that an Australian software pirate who uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the internet a week prior to its release, has been found guilty and fined $1.5 million dollars. Nintendo obviously felt such piracy was a concern, considering the game has only sold 10-and-a-half million copies in the 90 days since its release. Shigeru Miyamoto, in his role as Father of Modern Gaming, said he wasn’t angry, just disappointed.
The Revolution Will Not be Digitized (too obscure)
SquareEnix has registered a trademark for Deus Ex: Human Revolution–a curious choice given that the Deus Ex IP is owned by competitor Ubisoft. Square Enix Alphomega Imperial Hot clarified to ENN that the trademark doesnt refer to a game, so much as his plans to create a gigantic, robotic Robspierre to set loose on the French publisher, insighting the Deus Ex team to revolt, and join his company. The robot is scheduled for release in 2015, alongside Final Fantasy XV.
How was the second one too obscure? I would have loved to have seen that.
Comment by MasterGunner — February 18, 2010 @ 5:18 pm
i agree love that second one 😀
Comment by randomer — February 18, 2010 @ 7:17 pm
Seriously, it has Robespierre and Deus Ex, what is not to like?
Comment by Karmic Knight — February 18, 2010 @ 8:46 pm
It’s not that it’s too obscure, it’s that, as the most recent AskLRR would indicate, the crew has a serious bias against PC games.
Comment by Cybren — February 18, 2010 @ 10:35 pm
viva la robolution!!
Comment by D_K_Head — February 18, 2010 @ 11:10 pm
like the song reference in the 2nd story’s name. 🙂
Comment by gnomebard — February 19, 2010 @ 1:20 am
Deus Ex was a fantastic game that nobody played. I can see why some would consider it obscure, but it damn well shouldn’t be. Even discounting the intricate, layered story and extremely diverse gameplay options, it had a lot of those little touches thrown in by the programmers so you know they enjoyed making it.
“Tra-la-la, I think I’ll fire the b*tch.”
Comment by King Rocky IV — February 19, 2010 @ 3:14 am
Lol I just finished listening to “Revolution” like 5 minutes before I came on the site and that title made me lol. Nice reference.
Comment by Richard Nixon — February 19, 2010 @ 11:21 am
It would have been a good news segment, except Deus Ex is owned by Eidos, which is now owned by Square Enix.
However, it would have been fun to see a photoshop of a robotic Robespierre fighting against the french in the backgrownd.
Comment by unacomn — February 19, 2010 @ 11:33 am
“Alphomega”. That’s brilliant.
Comment by F. H. Leghorn — February 20, 2010 @ 11:40 am