The How and Why Of Paul Richard Thomas
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Nintendo’s E3 show is just fifteen minutes away! Eep…
Wii U looks better than could have been expected.
(oh, that toy/dude best at least be an assist character in the next Smash Bros!!)
Nintendo Direct Pre E3 2012
Announced only early evening yesterday and starting in less than an hour… Nintendo Direct Pre E3 2012. What will be revealed? My guess is the specs, price and release date for the Wii U. Satoru Iwata-san (Nintendo president) did say that the price and release details would not be revealed at E3 after all and doing this would let their main E3 show focus just on the games while also pipping Sony and Microsoft before the show begins. Fifty-four minutes and counting…
New Liverpool FC manager Brendan Rogers today spoke to the media for the first time. Of what he said what as most exciting was for his desire to play “relentless” attacking football and of creating an environment at Anfield that will make opposition players long for full time. It has been a while since any visiting team have felt like that.
“I was here with Chelsea in the Champions League (in the 2005 semi-final) and the players said they had never experienced support like that,” the Northern Irishman recalled. “That was ultimately what won the game for Liverpool and that is what I want to do here. I want to use the incredible support to make coming to Anfield the longest ninety minutes of an opponent’s life. That’s the idea. I want to see this great attacking football with creativity and imagination, with relentless pressing of the ball. I know what it’s like because I had a team like that at Swansea. Teams came to Swansea and after ten minutes when they hadn’t had a touch of the ball they were looking at the clock. It makes for a long afternoon.”
Whether you agree with the appointment of Rodgers or not (I am fully in favour of him) this, if it comes true, is exciting. We have been shit for far too long. A lot of my fellow LFC fans need to realise we’re going to need a couple of years before we challenge for the league like we all want. Get this new style working next season and go for fourth then kick-on the season after.
Happy Istanbul Day
Seven years today. Doesn’t seem five minutes…
R.I.P. Harry Morton (Grandad) 4th February 1919 - 22nd May 2012
I know this will sound like a cliche but my Grandad was the nicest, kindest, sweetest, charming, loveliest man you could ever hope to meet. A true gentleman and an inspiration to all who knew him. To say he will be missed is a massive understatement. If I can touch and influence even a handful of the amount of people he did I will be delighted. It was an honour to consider him not only a member of my family but a friend.
Goodbye Kenny. Thanks for everything.
Lego Zelda? A real possibility
Michael Inglis, the creator behind the viral Lego Zelda video, has had his dream come one step closer to reality as over 10,000 people have backed his Lego Zelda concept at the official Lego website. Because Inglis has managed to get over 10,000 supporters Lego will have to review the concept and decide if it’s something they would like to do. Of course, they would need to get Nintendo to approve the concept as well but surely they won’t say no to such a guaranteed money maker?
Good luck Red Men. Sadly gonna miss at least the first half due to hospitals. Confident we can beat the Pensioners and their plastic fans, especially as Carragher isn’t at the back. All Kenny has to do is remind them of the disgusting Chelsea fans who booed during the Hillsborough minutes silence. 2-0 I reckon/hope. Then again Jay Spearing (the worst ever LFC player, he makes Josemi look like Dani Alves) is playing so we’ll undoubtedly lose.
EDIT: Oh look, Spearing fucked up and Chelsea scored. Fucks sake…
Adam Nathaniel Yauch (August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012)
Sad, sad news… Music needs guys like Adam and the Beastie Boys. From the snot nosed frat boys singing about “girls to do the dishes” to the boys who told Liam Howlet he couldn’t use a sample because of the implied misogyny in a Prodigy show; they stood up for causes and never sold out and tried to do “the right thing”. A true pioneer who’s work will never be forgotten. YNWA.
Sega are back in the hardware business!!
After over a decade of rumours, Sega are finally back making new hardware. For toilets. Toylets, a pee-controlled gaming system, is now available to buy for personal use.
Toylets has been doing the rounds in Japanese bars and restaurants for a year or two now, and is basically a fancy urinal with a screen above it. When you pee in it, a sensor picks up the force of your urine and the game on-screen reacts accordingly. Each mini-game (well, they’d have to be) has a different task – one has you trying to wash off graffiti with a hose, while another has you trying to blow up a woman’s skirt. With pee.
I’d love to say I’m joking here but I’m really not, and now Sega is trickling out its service to people’s homes too. You can now own your very own Toylets for 140,000 yen (£1078), with each game costing 10,000 yen (£77). While that may seem like a piddling amount to some wealthy millionaire who’s more than happy to throw their coins at Sega in some sort of golden shower, to us wee folk it’s a bit much. All we can do is lie prostate and hope for Sega to implement some sort of streaming service (sorry, no more wee jokes).
When your company is reduced to making pee games, you know urine trouble. I’ll get my coat…
Concept art for a never released Metroid game
Never before released concept art from a Metroid game Retro were either contemplating making or actually making. A huge amount of info regarding the studio and Metroid has recently been found suggesting a possible Metroid II remake and a game set between Prime one and two. The first would be great, especially on the 3DS and with this art style. Unlikely but I shall keep my fingers crossed for something at E3. Perhaps we may finally see Dread…?
Roy Hodgson: England Manager
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Which dickhead thought this numpty would be suitable for England manager? Even better than moron Redknapp getting it. Can not wait for the Euros now to see not only the most overrated side in national football humiliated but this turnip sacked within two months and the press turning on him (something they should have done when he was sacked from Anfield).
