Frothing Demand

Yes, I realise it hasn’t been very “daily.”

On a more positive note, my review of Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow is now up on Strategy Informer. Pretty good game all around, and certainly one that focuses more on the PSP’s strengths, rather than just being a mere port of a PS2 title. Though if Dark Mirror was anything to go by, the port train seems to be going from PSP to PS2 nowadays.

Talk about your slow news days. Haven’t written a damn thing so far today. Did up a belated review of Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow for StrategyInformer, but it hasn’t gone live just yet. A review of Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice needs to be done tonight. I’d rather play something from the backlog.

Yeah, I needed to start using this thing a bit more, considering the fact I pay money to run this page. What better way than to do a whole bunch of linkbacks, particularly to articles I’ve written.

Darth Vader and Yoda join Soul Calibur IV cast – Nice to see them doing the guest character thing, though obviously you’d rather take Vader over Yoda. Still, the complaints will come as they did with Masters of Teras Kasi – the loyalists will bitch that the lightsabers are toned down. I say get over it, Lucas pretty much ran the Jedi into the ground, so they’re not cool anymore. Han Solo ftw.

LittleBigPlanet pushed back – Pretty much the only thing keeping me interested in the PlayStation 3’s online service are this and Home, and to here them constantly being pushed back is something of a worry. I’m of the opinion that these and other so-called “Game 3.0” projects should have LAUNCHED with the PlayStation 3. Not come out two years later. Still, looks charming as ever.

Ron Gilbert’s DeathSpank gets a publisher – I was somewhat late to the party by about 10 years on Monkey Island, but they are very funny and enjoyable adventure games. Thing is, Gilbert hasn’t done anything since the fourth, and arguably least game in the series. HotHead has yet to put a game out, their first being the Penny Arcade title, which Gilbert was also working on. If the game is funny, it should succeed.

My time with PALGN has ended. Completely. There’s no going back this time. It’s a bit of a bummer – the front site celebrates 4 years on February 1, and only one of the original staff members remains. People have changed a lot since we launched that site, and it took a lot of hard work to convince the masses to stick with us at the time.

The last article I’ve written for the site is entitled Easy Mode: Final, the 40th Easy Mode since the column started in 2004.

Easy Mode will live on in spirit, however. Discussions have been had with the folks at Internode Games Network for an Easy Mode style column on a weekly basis. Details have to be worked out, but I’d hope to have it running quickly.