Make Your Voice Heard

I’m sure everyone has already been over to the Golden Joystick Awards to vote for our favourite creative platformer,but have you been over to MTV Brasil to to let them know your Game do Ano?

Television may in fact be worth it for a whole hour tonight

[Update - almost not worth watching;half of the awards skipped in favor of tons of commercials in a half-hour time slot.]

Almost forgot that G4‘s X-Play was going to show some of the 2009 GDCA. Check it out.

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Television worth watching for 0.5 hrs Friday night

[Update - IFC decided to air some SXSW stuff instead,not updating their schedule until after the fact.  Looks like it won't be until the 21st.]

If you’re lucky enough to receive the Independent Film Channel (Wikipedia sez Dish,DirecTV,FiOS,and “most U.S. cable systems”),and didn’t get invited to the Interactive Achievement Awards [...]

BAVGAs?

[Update:Molecular BAFTA pics here and here.]

[Update:  snazzy pic of Kareem,Mark,and Leo is #15 in this gallery.]

Big congratulations to the Molecules for the great showing at this year’s British Academy Video Games Awards (the BAFTA for video games)!

Nominated for Artistic Achievement,Casual,Original Score,Technical Achievement,Use of Audio,[...]

Nice email from Amazon this morning

…even if clicking on “Learn more”takes you to a top 30 list (in no particular order).  Darn the number 2 game on the list,though,for taking almost as much of my PS3′s uptime.

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PAX and Plush Toys and More

PAX

A games blog over at the Portland Mercury seemed impressed by LittleBigPlanet,and were nice enough to point out something that I think is being largely overlooked:

Unlike most world-building games,this platforming section is robust enough to functionally be its own game,much to the delight of those who don’t have [...]

Pax in bello –gloria mundi

Lots to report,before anything starts coming in from PAX:

First of all,the LittleBigPlanet News Site is showing off the official boxart for the USA [thanks Brian!].  I can’t decide whether I like the UK packaging better or not.  I like the USA crowd better than just showing two Sackboys,but the use [...]

Another convention,another award

The “Best of GC”awards have been announced already,and it’s LittleBigPlanet that grabs “Best PS3 Game”.  From the press release:

Sony brings new life to an old genre,the laterally scrolling platformer. It also adds both a social and a creative element to the console world:the gamer community becomes the developer community. “Little [...]

Pre-Leipzig Plethora

I promised myself that I wouldn’t do any more of these mega-posts.  But with a ridiculous backlog,and the Leipzig Games Convention looming,it’s clear that I was lying.

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Two more for the trophy case

Over at the Game Critics Awards for E3,LittleBigPlanet picked up Best Console Game and Best Social/Casual/Puzzle.  As far as its other nominations:Best of Show went to Fallout 3 instead,Best Original Game to Mirror’s Edge,and Best Online Multiplayer to Left 4 Dead.  Not a bad showing,I’d say.

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