No Left Turn #0001 - Lasers and Losers
October 18, 2003

I never see you on AIM or Battle.net. Have you given up WarCraft?

Starting October 19th and ending on the 25th, TRU will have another one of those great "buy two, get the third one of equal or lesser value for free" deals for all Gamecube games, and the following week all X-Box and PS2 titles will have the same deal (and they'll be mix and match for the X-Box and PS2). That would be a great deal for you ABF, if you could afford it. You could get Rebel Strike, Viewtiful Joe, and Ikaruga for around $90 total.

*waits for DJ to come in and say "What, do you work for Toys R Us or something like that??"

I just thought that some of you would appreciate knowing about this.

iTunes for Windows was released today. For anyone who doesn't know iTunes is pretty much like WinAMP except it can play most audio formats, has a great GUI, and a bunch of cool features that are better you see for yourself than have me explain to you. It also has the iTunes Music Store which most of you probably know about. You don't have to use it at all, however. You could download all of your music from Kazaa and play it in iTunes if you wanted. Anyway, I just wanted to hear some open-minded opinions from anyone who gives it a try.

Info On iTunes

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Rebel Strike, Castlevania (PS2), and Mario 3 are all coming out on the same day next week. Guess I won't be saving too much money from this week's paycheck, ay? AYE??!!!

Blast.

Where do your favorite foods come from?

http://pc.ign.com/articles/454/454807p1.html

Quote:John Romero & Tom Hall Off To Midway
A return to mainstream games for the duo.
October 14, 2003 - Recent internet reports indicated that John Romero (creator of the nefarious Daikatana) and Tom Hall (brains behind the excellent Anachronox) had accepted positions at Midway. Romero has stated on his forums that this true and also revealed what their positions will be.

Hall will become Creative Director of projects being developed internally and externally as well as contributing towards the games in a creative capacity. Romero will be Project Lead for an internally developed game (rumours indicate a new version of Gauntlet). Further rumours suggest that Romero will be tasked with restructuring the internal development teams although we have been unable to get confirmation on that as of yet.

Romero put special emphasis on his intention to turn the Midway developers into "hardcore developers," but also mentioned Monkeystone Games, where he had been working with Hall on mobile platform games, will continue to be operated by Lucas Davis.

We shall soon see how their new venture turns out.

Looks pretty nice. I'll probably get it with either I-Ninja or Pacman World 2 [since it's only $20].

Quote:Wizards of the Coast filed a lawsuit on October 1st accusing Nintendo's Pokémon business of abandoning a contract with Wizards, the longtime producer and distributor of Pokémon trading-card games, instead producing the methods and technology to manufacture the card game themselves and having Nintendo be the distributor.

Wizards, a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc., claims it pioneered the idea of a trading-card game and holds the patent rights to it. The company signed an agreement with Nintendo in 1998 to manufacture and distribute the Pokemon trading card games outside Asia, the lawsuit says. The Pokemon companies are affiliates of Nintendo's parent company in Japan, according to the suit. In 2002, however, two former executives of Wizards of the Coast were hired at the Pokémon company as well as several others.

In March 2003 it's stated that Pokémon USA refused to allow Wizards to release two trading card games, the Jamboree and Legendary II expansion sets for the Pokemon Gold & Silver edition, which the Wizards team had spent considerable time and money developing, says the suit. Pokémon also informed Wizards that it had not been chosen to manufacture and distribute a new Pokémon trading-card game, the Ruby/Sapphire edition.