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On This Day: Nox According to IGN.com, the game RPG, Nox, was released on this day back in 2000.
2009/02/16
2009/02/15
On This Day- Star Wars: Dark Forces
On this day, fourteen years ago, Star Wars: Dark Forces was released. It is said to be one of the most innovative games of its time, having features that Doom and Doom II didn’t have, including being one of the earliest games, alongside Rise of The Triad, Marathon and Strife, to introduce secondary attacks with weapons.
This was also the first game that featured Kyle Katarn, a favourite Star Wars character who ended up being in the sequel, Star Wars: Dark Forces II, and Star Wars: Jedi Outcast (essentially Star Wars: Dark Forces III).
St. Skeletor’s Day
Today is Anti-Valentine's Day, or otherwise known as St. Skeletor's Day.
I've recently written an article about this on my profile.
The History of Valentine’s Day and Antivalentinism
A new site, devoted to Anti-Valentines, called Himote SNS, a Japanese site, has been started recently.
http://www.japanslate.com/himote-loners-unite-happy-folk-in-real-life-drop-dead/
2009/02/14
On This Day: Northern Illinois University shooting
A year ago today, The Northern Illinois University shooting was an incident that took place, during which a gunman, Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, killing six (including himself) and wounding eighteen.
He was apparently an outstanding student who reportedly stopped taking his medication at the time. He was twenty seven when this all occured
Valentine's Day
Today is Valentine's Day.I wrote an article recently on the subject of Valentine's Day and love, called What is Love, Actually?
2009/02/13
Friday the Thirteenth!
Games I want: A proper Terminator gameSince 1990, there have been 24 Terminator video games released for many different consoles, and strangely, I can only remember playing one of these, T2: The Arcade Game, developed by Midway in 1991, which I used to play down at the local arcade.
There is a 25th title in the works, set to be released this year to coincide with the latest Terminator: Salvation movie. This just smells of a cash-in though, and remember the last time, when Terminator 3: War of the Machines was rushed to be released in time for the movie project’s release. It was junk, according to reviews.
Terminator: Salvation, the movie, is going to come out on May 22nd this year, and the game around the same time, probably. The only thing is that The Halcyon Company, who now owns the rights to the Terminator series, is developing the game through their game studio, Halcyon Games, as well as overseeing the film production, so you just know it’s going to suck. This always happens when they try to balance more than one project at the same time instead of giving just one the attention it deserves.
They could have chosen to go with a reputable outside company, but they chose to develop it internally, just to add to the suck. And who knows? The film might suck too.
What happened to The Terminator? The first two were some of my favourite films of all time.
2009/02/12
On This Day: Trolley Square shooting
On February 12, 2007, Sulejman Talović killed five bystanders and wounded four others before being shot dead by police at Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
This massacre was mentioned recently in a research article published by Texas A&M International University assistant professor Christopher Ferguson, that states that scientific literature has found no significant relationship between violent video game exposure and school shooting incidents.
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