It got damn cold in Toronto last week. People wonder why Canadians are so into electronic entertainment; it’s because the weather turns semi-lethal for six months of the year.
Here’s what caught my eye last week:
Microsoft is blocking 3rd-party memory units in the latest Dashboard update [Joystiq]. They are determined to keep an iron grip on [...]

Another new IP from the reformed Electronic Arts: Mirror’s Edge. They previewed this game recently for a small gaggle of the usual gaming press suspects. Earnest Cavalli at Game|Life has a good write-up.

The concept is parkour again, like Assassin’s Creed but faster-more-intense. Also the game has a refreshingly modern/near-future setting, something of a rarity these [...]

(I’m going to be trying these big compilation posts for awhile, see if it works better. If you’d rather I did the old format, by all means, hurl fruit in the comments section, kthx.)
Ah, but these minor delays do tend to pile up, don’t they. I looked upon that little calendar on the right [...]

December 19 for Rock Band in Canada? Jesus sweet hangliding neon magenta trolly of christ, what have we done to deserve this?
EDIT – Jim Squires of bits bytes pixels & sprites mentions a good interview they have up on all things Rock Band, including the delay and Canadian distribution issues.

Man. I thought Rockstar was cool, once upon a time. And perhaps, in the not-so-distant future, for instance let’s say sometime Spring 2008, I may call them cool once again. But for now I just wonder why they’re letting they’re lawyers rule their sensibilities – of all companies, Rockstar is one that should not listen [...]

So I crawl out of the hidey-hole, blinking furiously as my milky pupils attempt to adjust to the overpowering glare of the daystar, and what greets me?
Gnashing and wailing of teeth, furious rending of garments, and gamer self-flagellation as far as the eye can see. EA has bought both BioWare and Pandemic Studios from Bono.
Now [...]