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Idle Thumbs (gaming site, age 3, presumed dead since February), unexpectedly spasmed itself back into activity last week as Ben Andac and Alex Ashby posted three new articles that are much worth reading:
Getting The Short End
Alex observes that while Portal was greeted with universal praise this year, almost every media outlet commented on its […]

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I haven’t posted in a while — been busy. Some miscellaneous notes:

I was given this Nintendo DS-shaped toy as a gift at — wait for it — a wedding! It’s one of those games where you have to drop plastic bits into a container while avoiding magnetic edges. Both the groom and the bride work […]

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CVG recently reviewed the Grand Theft Auto IV teaser trailer. The blatant digg-bait article has truly phenomenal levels of ‘analysis’. It concludes from about three seconds of video that birds and pigeons have “some sort of behaviour system going on”. There’s also apparently a realistically floating buoy 16 seconds in that suggests dynamic water physics, […]

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Bullets!

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I’ve been writing far too many editorials. Time for some snacks:

Remember Another World? EuroGamer has interviewed Eric Chahi. Now there’s a guy I’d love to see return to the industry. (By the way, Idle Thumbs was first to interview him after years of obscurity.)
Project Horseshoe is, apparently, an exclusive mini-conference that aims to “positively influence […]

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