Quote:2 men charged in killing of 'Curious George' collaborator, Florida police say
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Two men have been arrested and charged with murdering Alan Shalleck, who collaborated with the co-creator of Curious George on a series of books and TV episodes about the mischievous monkey.
Rex Spears Ditto, 29, and Vincent Puglisi, 54, were jailed after turning themselves in to police on Wednesday. Investigators said the two men knew Shalleck, and were tracked down using the victim's telephone records.
"They came in . . . and confessed to robbing and murdering this guy," Sgt. Gladys Cannon said.
A maintenance worker Tuesday found Shalleck's body covered in garbage bags in the driveway of his home. The 76-year-old man had been stabbed.
Authorities said the killers stole jewelry from Shalleck and money from his chequing account.
Shalleck was the writer and director of more than 100 short episodes of Curious George, which aired on the Disney Channel, and co-wrote more than two dozen Curious George books with Margret Rey, who created the character with her husband, H.A. Rey, in 1939.
Quote:DS Download Service: Starting next month, Nintendo will offer all DS owners free downloadable game demos and other downloadable content at thousands of participating retail locations around the United States. An in-store kiosk will beam wireless demo versions of games and other downloadable content into a players' Nintendo DS system. Users simply stop by the store with their Nintendo DS, click "DS Download Play" on their system and choose one of a variety of DS games they want to sample. The game will download automatically and users can play all they want (even if they leave the store) until the Nintendo DS is turned off.
Sequentially, players can try out as many games as they want, letting them test drive the wide array of games that can only be played on Nintendo DS. The first DS Download Service stations will include free demos of Tetris® DS, Brain Age™: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, Mario Kart® DS, Meteos™, True Swing Golf and Pokémon® Trozei, along with a Metroid® Prime Hunters video clip. The selection of games and other downloadable content at DS Download Service kiosks will refresh quarterly.
Metroid Chat: The new Metroid Prime Hunters game for Nintendo DS will give gamers the ability to chat directly with one another before and after matches played via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Players in North America simply click the chat icon and say what they have to say. The microphone of the Nintendo DS picks up voice communication and transmits it to the people on their friend list. Players can use the chat function before a match to agree on settings or after a battle to relive their glories. This Teen-rated first-person adventure arrives March 20 and promises to open a dramatically fun new facet of gaming to Nintendo fans.
Nintendo DS Momentum: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection now boasts more than 20 million different connections, representing more than 850,000 unique users worldwide. Nintendo DS has enjoyed extremely strong sales worldwide, selling more than 14.4 million units worldwide through December. The Japanese sell-through of the existing Nintendo DS hardware exceeded 5 million within 13 months, which made Nintendo DS there the fastest-selling video game launch ever. In addition to Metroid Prime Hunters, Tetris DS also launches March 20. Using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, up to four players can compete in wireless two- or four-player Tetris DS battles against friends or strangers, near or far.
Nintendo DS Lite: The lighter, brighter Nintendo DS system goes on sale in Japan next month. Nintendo DS Lite is about two-thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS and more than 20 percent lighter. Its availability in other regions will be announced at a later date.
Nintendo's moronic, horribly misinformed, 'almost makes me not want to care at all about the "online" multiplayer' quest to not allow people to add people they meet online to their friends lists or communicate with them in any way continues! Way to go!
It's a videogame review show, shot with a camcorder in someone's basement by a Batman and Robin duo of master dorks. It's 45 minutes long, and I'm still watching it, but so far it consists of kids who lack even an ounce of self-consciousness, focusing the camcorder on a DS sideways and telling you the straight, hard edge analysis... with Sonic and Mario music playing in the background.
It's a calculator. Instead of electricity forming the constant on/off signals and gateways, it's all a physical (well electricity is physical), er, mechanical process, like in the olden days before electricity.... became utilized by humans.
So there ya go. Here's something. If a self aware intellect can be formed from programming, can the same be said of a giant series of levers and pullies? Could someone design a self aware aquaduct system? Try envisioning ALL computer programming as just this using electricity and you see why we are pretty far off from moving AI to I just yet.
Because having game of the year awards during the year the awards are for is just stupid. It leaves out games which come out right at the end of the year... which often happens...
Anyway... Nintendo stuff only, at least for this thread. Not sure how to organize it though... 'top 10' or whatever for each platform? By genre and platform? By genre, platform neutral (with top-list platform awards too)? I'll start with the last idea. Nominations... (add more!)
RPG
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Final Fantasy IV Advance (GBA)
Riviera: The Promised Land (GBA)
Lunar Dragon Song (DS)
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Strategy
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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)
Rebelstar Tactical Command (GBA)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GC)
Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS)
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Simulation
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Nintendogs (DS)
Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
Racing
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Midway Arcade Treasures 3 (GC)
Racing Gears Advance (GBA)
Mario Kart DS (DS)
SSX On Tour (GC)
Music
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Donkey Konga 2 (GC)
DDR: Mario Mix (GC)
Puzzle
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Meteos (DS)
Dr. Mario / Puzzle League (GBA)
Sports
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Mario Superstar Baseball (GC)
Super Mario Strikers (GC)
Mario Power Tennis (GBA)
Other games that should be fit in somewhere, but which genre do they belong in
Wario Ware: Twisted - puzzle? create a 'minigames' category for this and Mario Party 7?
Sonic Gems Collection - 2d platformer, 3d fighting, and racing...
Battalion Wars (GC) - action/adventure? action? strategy?
Yoshi Touch 'n Go (DS) - action/shooter or 2d platformer?
Killer 7 (GC) - action/shooter or FPS?
What else?
... not that I actually expect this to go very far, but making lists is fun. :)
Oh, and I wouldn't mind a 'none of the above' category for some genres... :D
i have adopted a G4 Mac and boy is my penis erect. Everything runs super smooth, even with a dozen programs open there isn't a single drop in performance. i have to say though, one clicck mice are for the birds, so i'm using the bastard MS wheel mouse which the mac seems to have no problem with.
I'm getting use to this keyboard and the other mac-oddities i'm just not used to. USB plugs in the keyboard? Safari?....panther? we worked on these guys at film school for editing stations and many of the game classes are using them (or were using them, I think its all alienware now) so i have some experience with them but holy krap, this is different. Everything is so integrated and easy to use.
Annyone else currently in a relationship with one of these things?
A parasite that, at a certain time, mind controllinates the ant and so the ant seeks out a blade of grass and hangs on the very end with it's mighty mandibles until a cow comes by and eats it. MIND TAKER!
