Posts in category meta-about-joystiq
by Mike Schramm Jul 8th 2008 8:30PM
Filed under: Online, Meta (about Joystiq), MMO
Aw, look how cute!
Diablo 3 fans might be a little surprised to see that
as powerful as Tyrael is in the world of Sanctuary, he's just a little noncombat pet in the
World of Warcraft. Look at his cute little hood! Fortunately for you, Joystiq's sister site WoW Insider is rolling like a raid boss in Azeroth -- we've got every little bit of
WoW news you need, from
Wrath of the Lich King rumors to biting commentary about the biggest online game in the world. Here's our best from the last week.
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by Christopher Grant Jul 8th 2008 8:00PM
Filed under: Culture, Meta (about Joystiq), E3
Wanna know what's in those five boxes up there? We'll tell you: over 200 lbs of swag! And we're bringing it all to E3 for our Second Annual Joystiq E3 Afterparty!
And that's just part of what we've got in store. Ask any of
the 160 plus people who showed up last year and they'll spin tales of mountains of swag gathered from just three days of E3. This year we'll be doing that again, of course, as well as giving away three years worth of accumulated stuff, including hundreds of free games (over 50 lbs worth!), tons of t-shirts (including the very last of the Joystiq tees), faceplates, baseball caps, controllers, headsets, and more. Giving it away.
Gratis.
We'll also be providing free food and drinks, along with a bunch of video games to play on the projectors, so all you've got to bring is yourself. Just like last year, we'd like to give a shout-out to the folks over at
Mahalo.com for hosting the event. If you're planning on coming, be sure to let us know in the comments so we can scientifically deduce how many to expect or, even better, hit up the Facebook event page.
When: 6pm - 10pm PT on Thursday, July 17th
Where: Mahalo HQ, 902 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica 90401 (
map)
Who: Yes, this event is all ages!
RSVP:
Facebook by Justin McElroy Jul 7th 2008 11:30AM
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
So, we're going to E3 in about a week, but we want you know who we're going for, dear reader: You. It's all for you. Even after doing so many lines of complimentary coke off of Peter Moore's tattooed bicep that we start agreeing that it's probably best if no other companies make sports games, we've still got your best interest at heart. Sort of.
It's to that end that we want to take a moment to ask you what publishers you want to hear about at E3, where you rank your interest. Let us know who you're the most pumped about and we promise to keep it in mind when we're scheduling our coverage, no matter how many Lamborghinis made from foie gras Microsoft tries to give us. (Spoiler alert: It will be seven ... at least.)
[
Update: Well, the people have spoken, and it seems like you want to hear anything we can get our hands on about a return of Aero the Acrobat and Bubsy. We'll keep an ear out.;
Update 2: Alright, we've tried another poll option here, to give the four of you
not interested in a new Crash Bandicoot a place to be heard.]
by Ross Miller Jul 6th 2008 11:59PM
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
Over the weekend, we bought ourselves some fancy new
Octo-Camo suits. Unfortunately, the suit failed about one minute after this picture taken, as it became so effective that we got sat on by a trio of
quite rude individuals. Check out the highlights for this weekend:
Joystiquery
The Best of Big Download; June 29-July 5, 2008DS Fanboy Lite: June 28 - July 4Japanese hardware sales, June 23 - June 29: Nineteen hundred and ninety-five editionJoystiq Podcast 056 - Womb of Freedom editionJoyswag: C&C 3: Kane's Wrath (Xbox 360) giveaway, Day FourJoyswag: C&C 3: Kane's Wrath (Xbox 360) giveaway, Day FivePS Fanboy Week in Review: 6/30 - 7/6This Week in Review is evolution, babyWRUP: American EditionWeekly Webcomic Wrapup, now with more YahtzeeNews
Peter Moore explains EA Sports' PC snubRaven Squad to marry RTS, FPS this fallEA sorry over Irish anthem gaffe in UEFA Euro 2008Capcom.co.jp lists Devil May Cry for PSPSee a hot anime clip from Street Fighter IVWario Land Shake intro and gameplay videosWrath of the Lich King beta registration now open in USHudson explodes onto the iPhone with Bomberman Touch video"On the Seven7th Day" Bungie shows you Cold StorageSiren: Blood Curse priced, dated for Europe - £19.99, July 24thDiablo 3 to emphasize cooperation, PvP to be includedProfessor Noel Gallagher gives lecture on game violenceVideo: PSP app uses GPS to remix tunes as you walkLeaked box art shows maraca attachments for Samba de AmigoNew MGS4 camo DLC hits with LOLs aplentyWall-E becomes first Arabic-language game for current-gen consolesZeppelin's Jimmy Page uncomfortable lending master recordings to rhythm gamesMercenaries 2 developer walkthrough previews different 'approaches'New Mortal Kombat vs. DC screenshots are fairly brutalBurnout Paradise 'Cagney' update for Xbox 360 delayed until July 14Confront the SOCOM: Confrontation trailerAtlus bringing Persona 4 to North America on December 9Chrono Trigger DS countdown ends, 'reveals' Chrono TriggerHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the debut trailerRumors & Speculaiton
Diablo 3 'theoretically possible' for console port Rumor: Rock Band 2 setlist reportedly discovered by two sourcesCulture & Community
Condi, other foreign ministers receive custom DSHandheld NES ... in an NES cartridgeBrawl on the go with homebrew Super Smash Bros. Rumble by Ross Miller Jul 4th 2008 4:00PM
Filed under: Culture, Meta (about Joystiq)
You might not recognize him, but that's Captain America saving the world from what looks like cast of WALL-E. With Commodore 64 graphics, you have to use your imagination to fill in quite a few missing pieces.
A happy 4th of July to all our readers (even if you're not American, just have a happy day, k?). Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time!
- Alexander Sliwinski: Metal. Gear. Solid 4. And Ticket to Ride, which is strangely addictive.
- Andrew Yoon: Ludwig's coming over! YAY!
- Chris Grant: Having finished Metal Gear Solid 4 (finally!), I've taken up arms with Battlefield: Bad Company. I find the destructive elements vaguely cathartic and, though I'm not very far yet, the storytelling well done. How's multiplayer? I totally skipped the beta.
- Griffin McElroy: (See: Justin's answer)
- Kevin Kelly: I'm out of town, and it's all board game action for me: Ticket to Ride, Zombies!!!, and the new Risk: Revised Edition.
- Kyle Orland: Finally going to dive into Metal Gear Solid 4 in the serious way it deserves.
- James Ransom-Wiley: In lieu of playing I'll be watching another friend take his walk down the aisle. And then I'll try out that game McElroy suggested a few weeks back: drinking.
- Jason Dobson: I've recently had an itch to play games of the tabletop variety, and with family all gathering to set off small explosives in celebration of our nation's birthday, we'll all be dabbling with the dark arts (and stabing each other in the back) playing Betrayal at House on the Hill.
- Justin McElroy: (See: Griffin's answer)
- Ludwig Kietzmann: I'll be on a plane for most of my Friday, so I'm stuck with playing portable games. Which is just as well, since I have gems like The World Ends with You, Contra 4, Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles and Mega Man: Powered Up to keep me busy.
- Randy Nelson: Since my PS3 still works, I figured I'd take the opportunity to unlock all of the Trophies in Super Stardust HD. Then I think I'll go back and find all the secrets (and get all gold stars) for the first three episodes of American McGee's Grimm. I just can't resist a game that implores me to "make it nasty!"
- Ross Miller: Drums – real drums, that is. And some guitar, piano and mandolin at a 4th of July concert tonight in downtown Athens (woo-hoo!). Otherwise, I'm planning to go crazy on Diablo 2 and FIFA 08.
by Mike Schramm Jul 1st 2008 7:25PM
Filed under: Online, Meta (about Joystiq), MMO
Where can the world's biggest
World of Warcraft fans go to talk with Blizzard devs, hear news about upcoming games, and dress up like Murlocs? Paris'
Worldwide Invitational 2008, of course -- that's where WoW Insider was last weekend, and we've got a ton of news about everything
WoW from the event, including Death Knight exclusives, new talents for
Wrath of the Lich King, and coverage of all the panels and ceremonies. If you've ever played
World of Warcraft, now's the time to go check
WoW Insider -- odds are there's something new that'll remind you why you liked the game in the first place.
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by Ross Miller Jun 20th 2008 6:00PM
Filed under: Culture, Meta (about Joystiq)
If controllers were measured by the number of buttons, the 32-bit Atari Jaguar had one of the best controllers ever. It is rivaled only by the Xbox 360 controller (with chat pad) and the
Steel Battalion controller. (Tangent: Does anyone remember playing the Jaguar when it toured shopping malls? Maybe we're making that up, our memory's a bit hazy.)
Here's what we'll be playing this weekend. Be sure to let us know what games will be occupying your time!
- Alexander Sliwinski: I will be getting in some Sins of a Solar Empire and messing around some more with the Spore Creature Creator. I've also had a Rock Band hankering again.
- Andrew Yoon: Doing some traveling this weekend, so it's all about the PSP. I'm going to keep on playing Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, and I have to finish Secret Agent Clank so I can review it. I'll also be playing a hotly anticipated PS3 game.
- Chris Grant: As soon as this pre-E3 week is over and I'm back in the comfort of my home (not to mention my Coast) I'll thrust myself back into the waiting and capable arms of Old Snake and Metal Gear Solid 4.
- Griffin McElroy: I'm actually playing through BioShock for the second time. I know it's a little early to break that one out again, but with the proverbial well being dry until next Tuesday (Final Fantasy Tactics A2, which should keep me entertained until about this time next year), my weekend gaming options are somewhat limited.
- Jason Dobson While most of my time this weekend will be looking for a roof to put over my head in the Beaver State, I'll also be trying to discover who framed Ratchet for theft in Secret Agent Clank. Bizarrely, the PSP has been getting the lion's share of my portable love of late, but I just can't resist a robot in a bow tie.
- Justin McElroy: I finally broke down and got Metal Gear Solid 4, so I'll be playing that. Also, I'll be playing my favorite drinking game: Drinking.
- Kevin Kelly: I'm finally revving up some GRID action, and I'm playing some board games I've been finding at thrift stores lately: Lost Treasure, Arch Rival, and Zombies!!! (the !!! is part of the name, not just me being a geeky fanboy).
- Ludwig Kietzmann: My plan is to continue inching my way through Condemned 2, but I'm certain I'll just end up playing Metal Gear Solid 4 again. No alerts this time!
- Randy Nelson: I have this problem, you see. I want to finish MGS4 ... but I don't want it to end. I think my only choice is to just bite the bullet and beat it over the weekend, then play through it again. And again. Then it's back to my considerable backlog until Alone in the Dark hits next week.
- Ross Miller: I beat Metal Gear Solid 4 last week, but I feel the urge to go no-kill this time. Instead, I'll be giving my PC some love. Free Team Fortress 2 via Steam this weekend (I regret buying Orange Box for consoles now), and time to revisit some classics: Deus Ex, Thief and Grim Fandango.
- Scott Jon Siegel: Hopefully Key Largo, and also crossing my fingers to get a little Risk: Black Ops going on. I WOULD be playing Space Invaders Extreme, if any retailers were actually carrying the game within a week of its release. Grumble grumble.
by Kevin Kelly Jun 17th 2008 7:00PM
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
In the world of professional game blogging, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the bloggers who investigate the stories and readers who make silly comments. These are the first group's stories.
- Name: Kevin Kelly
- Job Position: Contributing Editor, Los Angeles Area Monkey For Hire
- Past Experience/Education: I studied radio, television and film production and writing at The University of Texas in Austin, and although I never planned on moving to Los Angeles, I've now been here for umpteen years. To think, it all started with one simple internship.
- Life Outside of the 'Stiq: There's life outside the 'Stiq? What the?! In the spare time I'm able to muster up, I also write about movies, television, and other pop culture things for various sites around the web. I also hike a lot in the Los Angeles area, hit the beach (literally, with my fists) and try to be a well rounded dude. And no, I haven't tried surfing out here yet.
- Why I'm Blogging: I still don't know the answer to this, because it happened by accident. I worked in the movie industry for ten years, and a good deal of those were at The Jim Henson Company. When Disney bought the Muppets, I went into limbo. Somehow I emerged into the realm of blogging, as if from a wormhole.
- First game experience: Pong. The original version, so very long ago. I still remember bouncing between friend's houses because one had a ColecoVision, an Odyssey, an IntelliVision, and we had the Atari 2600. Ah, the heady days of practically no-bit gaming. A few years later, and I had a subscription to Coin-Op Monthly. It was a good day when you'd come home from school and that was in the mail.
- Favorite games: Literally anything from Infocom (interactive fiction, ftw!), Full Throttle, King's Quest, The Last Express, Myst, Alternate Reality, The Bard's Tale, Ultima III, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, Day of the Tentacle, Elevator Action, Cliffhanger, Dragon's Lair, Halo (1, 2, and 3), Catan, Um Jammer Lammy, LocoRoco, Super Mario Galaxy, and tons and tons of board games. I have a closet full of 'em, almost like that scene in The Royal Tenenbaums.
- What the hell kind of clown are you?!: The crying on the inside kind, I guess.
There's
more to come every Tuesday and Thursday.
by Christopher Grant Jun 16th 2008 11:20PM
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
Frequent readers may have noticed a few things in their last four years of reading Joystiq. First, and most unfortunate: you've all gotten older and grown hair in uncomfortable places. Second, you've seen our humble gaming blog grow from a scrappy publication (
a "blawg") to one of the top gaming destinations on the web.
In that four year period, we've amassed over 27K posts and nearly a million of your comments. Doing the math, that breaks down to almost 20 posts a day on our side and over 600 comments a day on your side ... for
four straight years. Clearly you're working a lot harder than we are and that's why the collective "
we" wants to thank the collective "you" for reading along at home and making Joystiq not only a huge success, but something we're all very proud to be a part of. Here's to you, Joystiq!
Love,
–Chris, James, Ludwig, Ross, Alexander, Justin, Kyle, Jason, Scott, Griffin, Randy, and Kevin
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