This is from September, but I just found out about it. Kirsten Dunst in cosplay:

She wears it well, but I don;t think much of the craftsmanship.

http://yeinjee.com/2009/kirsten-dunst-cosplay-tokyo-akiba/

aspro said:

This is from September, but I just found out about it. Kirsten Dunst in cosplay:

She wears it well, but I don;t think much of the craftsmanship.

http://yeinjee.com/2009/kirsten-dunst-cosplay-tokyo-akiba/

Was it for a film?

She looked cute in Spiderman 1.

But by the third film I dunno what happened but not so cute.

aspro said:

Just reading Dean Takahashi's Book about the 360.  All these years I wondered why Microsoft did not buy Sega or Square to help them along (those companies being the most obvious targets given their financial condition at the time) -- apparently they did try to buy Sega, Square and Nintendo when they first got the XBOX rolling.  Apparently Japan doesn't favor the gaijin.

Crazy possibilities.  This wasn't just a speculative, "hey what do you think of buying Square" kinda thing, they were in meetings with all three of these companies to discuss the possibilities.

Anyhooo, it is a good read, as was his previous book about the Xbox, available from the VGPress store:

http://astore.amazon.com/thvgpr0d-20/detail/0977784215

And the funny thing is none of these companies would have fared well on the Xbox since the Xbox pretty much had the PC audience on a console instead of the usual console crowd. SEGA released a bunch of their best last-gen games on XBOX regardless (making me wonder if they were paid for) and they all bombed hard.

Square continued to find great success with Sony despite getting raped making their foolishly expensive FF movies while not taking anywhere near the chanced on new IP or smaller IP's that they usually do.

And Nintendo......well I can't even imagine such an independant company allowing themselves to be bought by MS while they were and are still a major console maker. From what I've heard, Nintendo pretty much laughed at them. Then I guess they allowed them to buy Rare later on, as some kind of consolation prize. And look how great Rare has done?

gamingeek said:

Leo you need a hit squad to take out all your tormentors.

Jack Baur to the rescue!

phantom_leo said:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the WORST written review of ALL TIME ! ! !

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It all starts out like this:

"It isn't often we'll see two Zelda efforts on a single platform.  NES had it, Game Boy Color had it, GameCube sort of had it, but unless you count ports, remakes, or the trilogy of face-palm proportions on CD-i, there really haven't been many times in history when Zelda fans could expect multiple iterations of the green-clad hero on one platform."**

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Goes on to say this:

"When it comes to general travel and "out of tower" gameplay, Spirit Tracks is a mix of both amazingly inspired, classic Zelda action, and some segments that should have simply been left on the cutting room floor. True statement: The game runs over 25 hours from front to end. Unfortunate reality: A good fifth of that could have been cut out to better pace the experience. Spirit Tracks is never dull, it's never boring, but it does border on monotonous at times, and while there's always strong writing, beautiful music, and new locales to experience, the designers seem to revel in sending you on ping pong quests, bouncing you from location to location to solve otherwise mudane tasks. Want to get to the fire temple? Tough break, kid: there's a lava river in the way. Don't worry, you're just a five minute drive to the ice village where ice can be made to cool the lava. That is, you can make ice after you take somebody from the ice village to the forest where fresh water can be found; don't want to be making dirty ice. Delivered him there? Nice! Come back later and you can get the ice. Go kill some time. Oh, you made it back to the fire world with the ice? Congrats, it's time to move on. Unless you want to do it all over again in a side quest, that is."

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And then finishes off with this:

9.3

Outstanding

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What a horribly written bunch of contradictions! Why didn't he just end with: "OK, Nintendo, you got your 9+ review. Now gimme my money-hat!"

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**Ummm... Wuh? That's almost totally wrong! Way to start a review Bozo(n)!

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Dvader said:

I finished Assassin's Creed 2 today. I love that after the big revelation at the end, the first words out of the main characters mouth is "What the fuck?!". Metal Gear should have used that line more often. Bring on Assassin's Creed 3.

Hearing you say that makes me a little more interested in the game.  I have the PS3 AC and have not touched it.  Did you review the first one?