OMG! Add me on Google+! You can find me here…wait, no! Here! Damn it, I still haven’t gotten the hang of this service. Now, I know how my crazy uncle Steve feels when he tries to set his alarm clock. OK, here I am.
News Blips:
Here are the first two minutes of BioShock Infinite’s E3 demo -- the rest can be seen on Gametrailers TV Thursday, July 7 on Spike.
BioShock Infinite has won numerous E3 awards and is reaching an unmatched level of hype. Hopefully, the Boston-based team will be able to live up to the expectations.
Infinity Ward has “changed the entire way the killstreak system works” in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. “I can’t go into detail yet,” said IW Community Manager Robert Bowling, “but I will share when I can.” The series is certainly grating on many people’s nerves, so change could prove beneficial. Though there's a reason things haven’t changed much for this first-person shooter franchise in the last five years: Nothing's broke. [Destructoid]
Google+ contains code that will allow for Facebook-style gaming. Just when the news stories began surfacing that Facebook has “peaked,” Google swoops in with their own take on social networking. Their take seems a lot like Facebook only with less clutter and fewer games. But wait! Engadget is reporting on this phrase which was found in the Google+ code: “...have sent you Game invites and more from Google+ Games.” Can the clutter be far behind?
Weird Nintendo stockholder says weird things about games. If you own shares in a corporation, you are allowed to speak at its shareholders’ meeting. Unfortunately, the barrier to owning stock in a public company is pretty low -- as is evidenced by this blip. A man at one of Nintendo’s gatherings told Satoru Iwata: “I’m concerned about the falling stock price. I own stock, but I don’t own a single Nintendo product. I believe games are a waste of time. By the way, the reason I own Nintendo stock is because the name is nice, it’s in Kyoto, and it was listed in the year of my birth.”
That is completely fair. I have a stake in something called Dominion Resources because it was first listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1983 -- also known as the year of my birth -- and because if I were a word, I would totally nail the word “dominion.” Iwata tried to say that they were hoping to make a gamer out of everybody -- even the man who doesn’t own Nintendo products. [Andriasang]
