Hmmm . . . Cthulhu wreath from Toy Vault.
Day: August 22, 2008
Music Catch
Music Catch is an odd little casual game published by Reflexive. As music plays in the background, multi-colored shapes and notes timed to the music pour out on the screen. The goal is to roll your cursor over as many of the shapes as you can, while avoiding any red shapes.
Music Catch has some built-in music, but it also lets you use any MP3 you want. I pointed it to my Buffy: The Vampire Slayer musical MP3s and played for awhile. It is a strangely captivating game, but gets old very quickly. On the other hand, the registered version is only $9.95 and the idea of music-based games that let the player use his or own MP3s is intriguing even if the execution here is excessively simplistic.
Principia Discordia
I hadn’t realized until flipping through Previews the other day that Steve Jackson Games still has Principia Discordia in print (and at a very reasonable $11.95). The book, of course, has also been effectively in the public domain since its 1965 publication and can be read online in a number of places, including PrincipiaDiscordia.Com.
The SJ Games version does includes “20 pages of new material, as revealed by Eris to her faithful worshipers when they probably should have been mowing the lawn or something.”
DC Direct — Finally, Murlocs!
DC Direct recently announced the lineup for its fourth wave of World of Warcraft figures — due out in April 2009. Finally, murlocs. Mmmwwwruurgll!!
Amazon’s Universal Wish List Button
Earlier this month, Amazon.Com expanded its wish list feature by adding a Universal Wish List Button. It’s a bookmarklet that you press on any page featuring something you’d like, and up pops a dialogue box with a few options to fill in (price, etc.) and the item then gets added to your Amazon Wish List.
Smallville Replica – Kara’s Kryptonite Bracelet
It’s amazing how much replica stuff there is out there for Smallville, and most of it is fairly reasonably priced. Like this replica of Kara’s Kryptonian Bracelet, for example, which will be out later this year and can be had for $35-$40.
