Finally, a reason to buy Fable 2!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:04 am
This line is in EB/GameStop’s top slot copy for why you should buy Fable 2.
“You can even get married and have children or take Smokey Robinson’s advice and shop around.”
You know, it wasn’t until someone injected Smokey Robinson into the conversation that Fable 2 made any sense to me at all. THANKS for putting it all in such a clear and relevant perspective, EB!
Of course, all this is coming from a guy building a site where most headlines are even more obscure references than that one… hmm…
Speaking of said site, it’s awesome. It’s coming together so, so well. And quickly, too. It seems like there are like five or ten new things about it that blow me away every day. And everything I think of and worry about, the guys building the site have almost always thought of already. Like we said on the podcast this week, look for something to show up the week after E3.
A handful of you have been posting comments here asking about Points! videos. We are effectively building a site where the editorial tone makes the whole thing like one big installment of Points!. It’s freewheeling and from the heart, but respectfully so. I don’t really see me recording any videos at home in the near future, because anything I would say here, I can say on Giant Bomb instead.
Though I was thinking of maybe doing a live stream from my bedroom. That might be funny. And by funny I mean sad. Funny/sad is funnier than funny every single time.
Next week I’ll be in Los Angeles for E3, which is actually pretty thrilling. After covering this trade show in a very specific way for the past several years, it’s going to be fun to try something different.
Of course, there are games there, too. Maybe I’ll write up a list of games I desperately want to see more of at some point, but I can tell you that any such list starts with Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Apparently MKvDC will also be at Comic-Con. That was almost enough to make me go to San Diego, but this whole “putting a site on the Internet” thing is pretty important, too.
Oh, last thing. I got this via a Kane’s Wrath press release earlier today and thought it was pretty awesome.
- Game with Developers – Sign onto Xbox Live Friday night from 7 PM – 10 PM ET and show off your multiplayer skills against members of the EALA development team, including:
· KWDevJim: Jim Vessella, Lead Producer
· KWDevAlan: Alan Newton, Tester
· KWDevJason: Jason Savopolos, Tester
· KWDevJeremy: Jeremy Feasel, Designer
· KWDevKeith: Keith Schaefer, Producer
· KWDevWes: Wes Eckhart, Development Director
· KWDevNick: Nick Clifford, Lead Tester
· KWDevGreg: Greg Kasavin, Producer
· KWDevMario: Mario Grimani, Development Director
Now that’s a Game With Fame if I ever saw one.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Dude, no conversation without Smokey Robinson has any relevant perspective whatsoever.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Awesome! Greg Kasavin will be with the game with developers.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Greg? I’m there.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:31 am
You get changed in your room, right?
yeah. I don’ think i’d be happy watching a live feed with the risk of that cropping up.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:32 am
GRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!
July 10th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I’m reading this while watching Commando (which arrived from Amazon this morning). I just thought you’d want to know.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:08 am
I would love to hear Greg say “My Redeemer just owned you, bitch.” on live.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:20 am
yay, greg!
that IS pretty awesome.
also, i’ve done my part to promote the new site, as long as “doing my part” is the same as “writing giantbomb.com on every available surface on campus with a sharpie”.
can’t wait for the launch.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:24 am
My dis-interest in console RTS games > My love of Greg
I bet Greg will have twice as many invites than the other members.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I would probably watch a live stream of your room….a hour tops.
And if you did go to San Diego you would be able to swing by FATBURGER (if they dont already have one in your area)
July 10th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Awesome!!!
Can’t wait to see the site!
July 10th, 2008 at 8:02 am
I’m really looking forward to Giantbomb’s full release. Major game sites are becoming to stale in an editorial sense. Ign’s reviews are redundant, and long (read Hilary’s 7 page GTA IV review) 1up has great podcasts, but a lot of their reviews lack information. Which is a shame seeing as how all those guys have interesting opinions, so I never understood why their reviews never stick with me. And I don’t even know who’s at Gamespot besides Justin and Kevin, so their reviews don’t mean much to me.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Greg Kasavin who?
July 10th, 2008 at 9:53 am
COOL!!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Zomg, I wanna play with Greg Kasavin.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am
How is Unreal?
July 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Great to see Greg on that list. I don’t know about testing my skills though.
Anyway, it is good to hear that the site is coming along and that you’ll try a different approach to E3.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Can’t wait to hear what you have to say about E3.
Also, can you post some Greg Kasavin videos. I remember you and Rich very well at gamespot, but I think I arrived after Greg left. (I also left when you left) However, I hear so much about him that I would like to see some clips of him.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I’d totally be into a stream from your room, would the manservant Chris be doing some bass solos in the background? How about streaming a Midnight Brown jamming session?
July 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Bust open that beta!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I agree with Soy Bob. My love of Greg is not quite passionate enough to get me on a console RTS
July 10th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hopefully giant bomb will interview Greg at E3.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
You feel that, that’s electricity baby, hair standing up on the back of your neck, a buzz from your head to your tail, video games galore, always wanting more, reinvigorated, replanted and reborn. “Killer” That’s what I would say, back in the day, stay fresh and sometimes smelling clean can be a bad thing.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Why not put himself as Don Pachi? He seems so intent on keeping his name and job secret, yet everyone knows anyway.
I wonder if you will have any “uncomfortable” moments bumping into former colleagues. Nothing beats the photo of you and the Io team though.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am
So is the 21st when the beta is going to launch or the full site? Cascader at ComicVine said thay “they will launch in 2 weeks”. I thought that meant the full site. I hope I didn’t post worng information at Giant Bomb.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Fuck yeah Greg Kasavin.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:57 am
dang! are you launching the site now? “landing shortly” what is shortly? cant wait!!!
July 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Is gianbomb down for anyone else?
July 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hi hv- yep, Giant Bomb is down for me as well. I was thinking that maybe the entire interwebbing community was currently enjoying the new site whilst I was just sitting here moping, but I am glad that I am not the only one who is apparently Giant Bomb-less at the moment!
July 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hi. Do you know if they started giving out emails? Did the beta start? Thanks.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hey hey. No idea. I certainly sent them my e-mail address in the hope of accessing the beta, although I haven’t heard back from them (not that I was expecting to). I think the beta is supposed to begin on Monday 21st, so that would be tomorrow. It’s late here in the UK, but I’ll be checking back tomorrow to see if the goodness has begun!
Oh yeah, and Giant Bomb is still down.
July 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Oooh, beta invites went out about an hour ago. Hope to see many of you there.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
oooooo giantbomb going off like tonight
July 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am
maybe not
July 21st, 2008 at 1:01 am
OOOO GIANT BOMB HAS LANDED I REPEAT THE BOMG HAS LANDED!!!1
July 21st, 2008 at 2:28 am
o and dude maybe its the fact you guys are getting so much people this late but the site not working 4 me im trying to get back to my profile but to no luck
July 31st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
DAMNIT!!!!
Might have just been added to the list manually or it detected some new website tag or label.
Super lame. My iPhone doesn’t get reception in here either.
Teh $uX0rZ!
July 31st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Weird, one sentence was blocked… I had said that GiantBomb was blocked from work now.