Some people, like myself, are often annoyed at the spell checker on Apple’s touchscreen products and the way that it often corrects itself to a word that is far removed from the one you wanted.
However, in this instance, it’s nice to get some clarification on whether or not there is a space between the words.
Thank you Steve, thank you so much…
I’m struggling to think what the inspiration was for this weeks Mafia Wars iPhone bonus missions.
I really am….
I was just about to type that WordPress needed to do an update to it’s app to include iPad support but it appears that they released another app instead.
So, let’s see if this whole thing works shall we? Cause if it does then my productivity around here could go up quite a bit…
This time of year E.g. the first nine months of the year are usually a pretty barren spell with regards gaming; the games industry has/had become so obsessed with mimicking the film industry that it believed that the only way that it could actually make any money was by releasing all it’s major games in one three month period. Of course, the film industry, to a certain degree, grew out of this a few years ago and it would seem that the games industry is slowly following suit.
Mainly in no small part to Modern Warfare 2. Predictions that it was going to sell “shitloads” proved to be accurate and most of the major games that were scheduled for launch late last year quickly decided that going up against Infinity Wards behemoth wasn’t for them. So instead we now have a wonderful situation where in the early stages of 2010, we have AAA games being released on a monthly basis (though why the American Automobile Association is doing releasing games I’ve no idea.
Two of them, Perfect Dark Arcade and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, were two of these games and I must admit that I am looking forward to them, particularly as both series hold a place in my heart.
Perfect Dark Arcade is a semi-remake of the N64 original and as you can see in the vid below, it finally lives up to some of the promise it showed 10 years ago. I played my original cartridge of it recently and lets say once the rose tinted spectacles came off, things weren’t as I remembered them.
I was looking forward to this before; Almost obscenely looking forward to this now. Arrives on Wednesday for a not at all obscene £7.
Next up is Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker. Now my feelings on this were the complete opposite; the last PSP MGS (yes, it’s acronym central from here on in) didn’t inspire me at all, particularly when it came to controlling the camera. But this gameplay video looks like a hell of a lot of fun. It’s obvious that Kojima’s direction is helping to firm up the gameplay a lot. And that soundtrack? Want a copy of that on CD ASAP. Certainly makes a change from the endlessly looped 2 minute tracks that were in Portable Ops (another major annoyance I had with the game). So very much a want now from me.
Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker is out late May, and hopefully in time for my birthday. Which would be nice.
What does this have to do with anything? Read on...
Well, I never thought I would get such a sudden writing urge as I did the other night. But digging through all that Conan related stuff was good fun. If it is Conan, then this just confirms his genius. If it isn’t then he genuinely does have some very, very clever and imaginative fans.
But, there are a few similarities between that are worth pointing out. Take the timing of arrival for each one. It always seems to occur less than a day after the related tweet. For example, Conan’s Monkey appeared one day after his first tweet. And he didn’t even reference the monkey in the tweet. The squirrel, yes but not the monkey. Which leads me to suggest that Conan has SOMETHING to do with all this. Maybe not ALL of them are his but at least some of them are.
Also, the speed of the new characters shows no dangers of slowing down. In the last 48 hours two new Conan related accounts have sprung up. In respect to Conan’s comment about his tour being half assed, @ConansAss (as in the farmyard creature) has now become another character added to the Team Conan repertoire. Also added is @ConansVan, which is in relation to Conan auditioning groupies. Only one tweet from the Van so far but I can appreciate where it is coming from.
Let the stank out!
Add in the fact that it is always one of the other accounts that is always the first one to mention the new account (the first time the van was mentioned was in a tweet by ConansDoctor) and that they are all following each other back, you can start to see the patterns emerging. However. There is one more link that suggests that there is something more to this than some dedicated fans. At the end of one of @ConansPeas tweets, he/she/they posts a link.
This is getting like Lost. Only more coherent.
Accessing that link takes you to the web-cam for (what it says is) a branch of BIG donut at Los Angeles Airport. Web-cam viewable by clicking here.
Checking it in Google Maps however (View Larger Map) shows you the Randy’s Donuts mentioned in Conan’s related tweet. So a web-cam positioned at the same branch that Conan himself mentioned and linked to by one of the accounts that was itself first mentioned in a tweet by Conan? Sorry but this has now become way too coincidental for it to be the work of some “clever, talented and hilarious fans”. Whatever Conan’s web manager may tell us, there is something going on here.
Not that I’m pretending that this is some super secret government scheme which I’m blowing wide open; more this is increasingly obvious that this is the work of someone with an over active imagination who probably has a lot of free time at the moment. Regardless of who is behind all this though, it is utter genius. If it is the work of some super creative fans, then Conan clearly needs to get them on his payroll as soon as September rolls around.
Whoever is behind this, I will try and keep up with it every step of the way. Cause I quite obviously have nothing else better to do with my time. Quite possibly, much like Conan.
ConansAss and ConansVan added to the Team Conan Twitter list at Twitter.com/andrewproom/team-conan
