(Warning: May Contain Football-Like Substance)
Did you hear the report that Tampa police video taped Superbowl attendees and digitized their faces to look for terrorists and criminals? Wonder how Ray Lewis and Tony Siragusa (for what he did to Gannon) got through then.
Anyway, I got a lot of letters. Oh so many of you seem to enjoy when I'm wrong and once again I was wrong. I didn't pick a single playoff contender and then I picked the Giants to triumph in the big game. I figured the Giants had sold their souls to even get this far but I underestimated that, apparently, the Ravens had more soul to sell.
So, instead of chowing down on the Raven I was planning on eating, I've got to choke down some crow now.
Westwood Studios (“Single Handedly Keeping Full-Motion Video Alive for Nigh on 10 Years Now!”) single handedly keeps full-motion video alive for their upcoming Emperor: Battle for Dune. They hired Vincent Schiavelli (see the accompanying picture, you know him), Michael McShane (from Robin Hood: Kevin Costner Sucks) and Michael Dorn (Star Trek's Worf) to do voice acting and cutscene film work. Question: Where is Tim Curry and the ubiquitous John Rhys-Davis, were they busy that day? Also, would it have killed them to include Kari Wuher (C&C:RedAlert 2)?
Item!: Interplay announced that Bioware is working on an expansion pack for Baldur's Gate II, due out this summer, and that they are working on transforming massively multiplayer online gaming by adapting their fantasy role-playing oeuvre for broadband customers in what may be the vaguest press release ever written.
Announced: Scottish studio Red Lemon, who were responsible for the abomination known as Braveheart (and for unleashing a man in stilts wearing a kilt at E3 '99) are working on a game based on the Sci-Fi Channel's uber-geeky Farscape series (created by Jim Henson studios).
“I am Sci-Fi!”
Item!: Writer D.C. Fontana has been tapped to help with the script for Star Trek: Bridge Commander from Larry Holland's (like) Totally Games studio. Fontana has written a Trek novel, penned the best Trek games ever made (25th Anniversary and Judgment Rights) and written multiple episodes of Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Oh, she also wrote a few Classic Trek episodes as well. Back in the 60's. You know, with Gene Roddenberry. Does that impress you? If not, you're out of your Vulcan mind.
Item!: Little Johnny Carmack, programming guru responsible for games like Doom and Quake III, is to be enshrined in the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. It's quite an honor, past inductees include Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy series), Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario and Zelda) and Sid Meier (Civilization, Pirates, Gettysburg).
Announced: Interplay is returning to its Redneck roots with the just announced Off-Road Redneck racing, a wild and crazy (and likely offensive) off road racing game that promises to make you squeal like a pig.