“So now you like me?”

Cryptic Studios is working on “Marvel Universe Online” for Xbox 360 and Windows Vista, Microsoft announced this evening.

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“Cryptic Studios and Microsoft share a common vision for online gaming and commitment to quality titles. Together we will create a new exciting game that captures the uniqueness of the Marvel IP.”

Mind you, the last time we heard Cryptic Studios’ and Marvel’s names in the same sentence, it was anything but pleasant – and we’re not just talking about the cadence of the thing.

Because the last time we did the two were warring over the questions of whether being able to create facsimiles of popular Marvel characters using Cryptic’s City of Heroes MMO. Cryptic thought it was fine. Marvel, and its phalanxes of lawyers, clearly did not.

But whatever’s happened, it clearly involved kissing and making up, because now there will be an officially sanctioned massively multiplayer game by the superhero aficionados.

[via Eurogamer.net]

Hey, that’s a lot of cars

Yes yes, I know that this is old by now, but man that’s a lot of cars…

… did I say the video had a lot of cars in it?

It’s the 1k Project II taken from Trackmania.

Is that a FACT?

Please correct me if I’m wrong on this one, but the last three DVDs I bought (as in PAID for… with REAL money) had a pamphlet from The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT… original) inserted inside the DVD cover. The pamphlet said in very strong terms that pirate DVDs bought from the street corner and DVD rips downloaded from the Internet is illegal.

You don’t say? So all this time I’ve been buying DVD legally? Get outta here? So I have been breaking no laws, giving money to the ones that made the movies in the first place and all around doing just what you want me doing?

Then why the fuck are you inserting your stinking pamphlets inside my DVDs? Buy some add space on The Pirate Bay (they will properly sell it to you) and aim your marketing money at the ones that need the preaching…

Playstation 3 delayed in Europe

Now Sony has lost it all. Nintendo will have their Wii out before Christmas and Microsoft have already a solid foundation with their XBox 360 (with a new improved version coming soon).

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the release date for PlayStation 3 in PAL territories has been pushed back until March 2007.

Sony will have to fight very hard to gain foothold in Europe now.

TextilMalerier

From today on throughout September my talented wife is having her first exhibition of her TextilMalerier (“Textile Paintings”) at the Café Elvira on Østerbro in Copenhagen.

The invitation text that accompanied the image above (in Danish only):

Jeg udstiller mine textilmalerier på den skønneste café & restaurant på Østerbro i hele september måned.

Malerierne er mangeartede, der er både praktiske opslagstavleophæng til køkkener og pryd til børnevarelser, smukke stuer og lækre
entreer…

Kig forbi, bliv inspireret og nyd deres dejlige brunch eller en øl om aftenen til live musik. Adressen er Café Elvira, Østerfælled Torv, Østerbro København.