Wondercon 2009
Being a huge nerd, I love comic book conventions. I’m not really down with all the smelly nerds and the awkward conversations that arise when weirdos seem to want to talk to me for no reason, but I totally dig finding bargains and learning about new stuff. I had to video game related items come up during the convention that I thought I’d share here:
Sam and Max:
It’s strange that just after I nerded out over the Sam and Max episodic games coming to Xbox Live Arcade that I actually managed to talk to the good folks at Telltale games about it. They didn’t give me a release date, but I will be reviewing the game here in the future.
They also asked me if I was interested in reviewing their Wallace and Gromit game coming out in Spring and I said yes. I love those guys, maybe not in the same way that I love Sam and Max, but Wallace and Gromit rule.
Fun Fact: I had a mouse named after Gromit.
Not so Fun Fact: The mouse died of mouse cancer.
Cyborg Mice
Speaking of mice, the creator of Cyborg Mice was there. Cyborg Mice is a game coming out for Xbox Live Arcade and was programed with XNA. The game seemed fun for the five seconds I played it, but really interested me was the artwork of the mice they had on display. They had a cool shirt based on this image, so I bought it.
I’d encourage you to buy the game when it’s available. As a side note, I can’t imagine that the game would give them that much more profit over the t-shirt. I think this is a scheme just to get me to buy t-shirts. If so, it worked.
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