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He was apparently an outstanding student who reportedly stopped taking his medication at the time. He was twenty seven when this all occured
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.
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.
What is it with all the post-apocalyptic themed games nowadays?
It seems that since the late 90s, we’ve been getting these post-apocalyptic themed games.Think Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and upcoming titles like the rumoured S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3: Apocalyptic and id’s Rage- and there are probably others I’m missing.
Don’t get me wrong, I like these games. They’re usually very immersive and they have great stories and settings, and most of them have an RPG type gameplay to them that works well.
But think of this, why do some games have goals of building an empire, and others of destroying it? Is it because it’s a popular issue nowadays what with war raging all over, especially between Palestine and Israel, or Darfur, and Iraq? Is it because so many rave about it being the ‘end times’ and that we’re all doomed to a future of nothingness?
Perhaps this is the only possible outcome for us, humankind destroying itself, wasting away into nothing after all the pain and misery it has wreaked upon this earth that some say it was bound to protect, but we were cursed, and damned right from the beginning.
2009/02/11
Games I want (this year): Aliens: Colonial Marines
I watched the excellent 1979 classic, Aliens, last night.It's funny how with all the raving about modern technology and CGI effects, along with promises to stay true to the series and the 'feel', the latest films, like AvP and AvP 2, always seem to suck.
There are two new Aliens games due out this year. One is Aliens: Colonial Marines under development by Gearbox Software, and the other is an Aliens: RPG project by Obsidian. Aliens:CM was rumoured to be out in Q1 this year; we’re all ready in February and this quarter ends in March. Other sites’ scheduled release dates predict a Q2 release date for 2009.I find it quite disgraceful that the Alien: RPG is still officially unnamed, and I first read about both games two years ago at the beginning of 2007.
I sincerely hope that both these games are good.
On This Day: Final Fantasy VIII
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