IGN/GameSpy Shutting Down Classicgaming Fan Sites
Woof, this is a big deal. There is a lot of culture and history in these sites.
Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit
John Gruber on the new Pre’s integration with iTunes. He’s, as usual, pretty right. The real crime here, though, is that Apple doesn’t provide a good way for third party devices to do this without this kind of chicanery.
There’s another thing here, too: maybe Palm is using their position to force Apple’s hand? Obviously, the market that Palm is gunning for is going to have a lot of iTunes users, and for many (including me, if I owned a Pre) easy, smooth, syncing with iTunes isn’t just a feature, it is an essential.
Tales of Monkey Island
Update: They’re also remaking the original Monkey Island, with the help of Lucasarts.
Telltale is making new, episodic, Monkey Island games using the same engine as their Wallace and Gromit, Sam & Max, and Strong Band’s Cool Game For Attractive People series. The question is: How will they stack up without the writing of Tim Schafer?
If you buy stuff from Telltale, use this link and I get a small kickback.
Tecmo Super Coach Updates Roster, Gameplay
Tecmo Super Coach is a ROM hack for Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) that adds and changes a whole bunch of stuff.
Bing
Microsoft’s new, absurdly-named, search engine has launched. Two things: How is this better than their own live.com, and how is this better than Google.com? It seems to bring nothing new to the table aside from the little popups on the right side of the results (which I’m sure is where “bing” came from. Bing! Bing! We’re lucky they don’t have a sound effect with them. It plays in my head, regardless.) and that isn’t super useful. It’s cramped, and boring at the same time.
The text-search engine space desperately needs some serious competition. Something like TinEye is doing for image search. The question is: What else do you do to search? I have a feeling the answer is not going to look anything like Google or Bing or even Wolfram Alpha.
Perch
A new, tiny, CMS. I could see this being used on a lot of simple client sites. Wiring it up to existing HTML files looks very simple (just include a file), and it does a lot of things for you.
