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Menno Schellekens
Menno Schellekens
Born in 1992, a young creative who is trying to break into the game-industry. Born and raised in the Netherlands, but likes the English language better than Dutch. Started a small-time blog in April of 2007 to gain some experience, and now works at one of Holland's biggest sites about videogames: GamersNet.nl.
I've been playing videogames since I was seven years old. My first game was Super Mario Allstars, the one including Super Mario World, on the SNES. These days I play all kinds of games, except for realistic sports and racing games, on all consoles. My favorite games of all time are Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and Grand Theft Auto IV. I am addicted to Rock Band and the Internet.
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@ GeeLW:
I thought Starbreeze was doing a reinterpretation of Road Rash?
Correction: Nintendo has scraped the surface of the mainstream. Activision has one surprise hit that they are forcefeeding casual audiences, namely Guitar Hero, and is struggling to find a title that can match that success.
I was quite intrigued by the setting of the trailer. Miss Raymond sure knows which setting to choose for her games!
Such a weird thing to say.
Blu-Ray is, still, a niche product, 1080p TV's are still a niche product, and honestly the PS3 is still a niche product. All of them expensive, all of them with a low market penetration and all of them with less mainstream appeal than Nintendo's offerings.
I'm sensing the infamous Sony arrogance, that was eradicated after the terrible presentation two years ago, again. Not good.
Sure, Sony showed us some software. But we've already seen the magical wonderland that is LitteBigPlanet, we already knew that Resistance 2 was gonna contain a huge boss, and the InFamous trailer was exactly what we expected.
Sure, Sony showed us some games. But, while he was announcing the God of War III teaser, I saw in Jack Tretton's eyes that even he knew that a short, unrevealing teaser wasn't the big bang he needed to seal the deal for the PlayStation 3 in 2008. He knew that MAG wasn't the announcement he needed to counter the fantastic bombshell Microsoft dropped at the end their press-conference.
Sure, Sony has a solid line-up for 2008. But with Metal Gear coming up a little short, Sony is missing a killer-app in the likes of Gears 2 or Smash Brothers.
-- Menno
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