I know you all love my Bits & Bytes segments. I do, too. However, to be honest, I just couldn’t think of anything to write long about, so I am throwing out some of the cool little things that I have seen out into the ether.
Gotham Goes Nuts
Despite the fact that everyone even slightly aware of the video game market and the dynamic success of Batman: Arkham Asylum has known for months that a sequel was coming (Heck, there has been a teaser trailer out there for most of the year), everybody has gone gaga over the recent and official Time Warner announcement. Of course the big news was the name: Batman: Arkham City.
As the name, and the teaser trailer, hints at, the madness of Arkham has spread beyond the walls of the asylum and escaped into Gotham itself, along with Joker and a host of other cronies.
Teasers and hidden clues abound, but nothing from this spat of hype over the Fall 2011 release is cooler than the awesome Batman and Catwoman images released for the announcement.
The only disappointment is the one-year plus wait for the game. I hope that Rockstar Studios and WB will use that time wisely.
Geeking Out on the Beach
So, where do you get your geek on at the beach? Well, places vary, but if you want to hook up with the geek-like-minded on the strand, you need to head over to MBGeekOut.com. While the site is simple, the group is worth checking out. With interest and professions ranging from real estate to video games, the Geek Out celebrates their diversity with monthly get-togethers ranging from baseball games to trivia nights at area pubs.
So, if you are a geek feeling alone in a sea of frantic tourists and crazy locals, look them up. You can also find them on Twitter and Facebook at #mbgeekout. (Yes, use the “#” when searching Facebook for them, too).
Starcraft II: Wings of Commerce
Just for the record, Blizzard’s Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, the long-awaited (12 years!) sequel to the hit sci-fi strategy game sold 1 million units in 24 hours.
Other game designers should take note of this, because Blizzard produces two of the most successful brands of computer games (Starcraft and Warcraft) and when they release a product, they do it for BOTH computer systems – Windows and Mac – at the SAME TIME.
That’s right. There is no whining about no market for games on Apple computers or that it’s too hard to do both. Blizzard does it, and they are consistently among the top computer game earners every year.
