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Palm VIIx Review March 15, 2013

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There’s been a lot of love across the web for Palm recently.  With SmartPhones being as common a technology as a wallet, we owe a lot to Palm for making the first personal electronic devices.  While they couldn’t make phone calls, they had a lot going for them.  They had a well designed interface, appropriate response time, and a wide range of supported software and accessories.

Thirteen years after getting one, Maniac reviews the Palm VIIx, the PDA that he took across the entire country from 2000-2001, and which has many of the same features that today’s SmartPhones now use. It uses Palm OS 3.5 and was the last model Palm released before moving to the M series, which used Palm OS 4 and had a new form-factor.  Does it still work after 13 years?  Take a watch!

Official LocoCycle “Meet Pablo” Trailer March 15, 2013

Posted by Maniac in Game News.
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Since first playing Comic Jumper, I’ve been an enormous fan of Twisted Pixel, and all the games they have produced.  After meeting them at PAX East 2012, they seemed like a great bunch of guys with a great sense of humor, which is something very difficult to pull off in a game.

Twisted Pixel has released the first close look at their next major title, LocoCycle, which was premiered at last year’s E3.  They have announced that actor Freddy Rodriguez will be starring in the game.  He will play Pablo, I.R.I.S.’s trusty Spanish-speaking mechanic.  Pablo got his leg caught up in the cycle.  The vehicle believes he is there to help it, and Pablo just wants to get free!

LocoCycle is coming “soon” and has not specified what platforms it will be on yet.

The Phantom Pain at GDC 2013 March 15, 2013

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Last night, Geoff Keighley did an interview with the man who claimed to be the director of the highly anticipated game, The Phantom Pain, which was announced at Spike’s Video Game Awards Show at the end of last year.  For some reason, the man he was interviewing, who claimed to be Joakim Mogren, had his entire face bandaged up, very similar to the game’s main character.  He claimed he had been in an accident, and that he should be fine by the time of this year’s Game Developer’s Conference.

To prove his identity, he showed Keighley some never before seen images of the game on his iPad.  After taking a close look at the screenshots, Geoff noticed that they bore the watermark of the FOX Engine, the same engine being developed at Konami that is powering Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.  This seems to confirm something that I had speculated earlier.

Mogren said he was going to be at this year’s GDC during the interview, however after having personally checked the current GDC schedule, there doesn’t seem to be any panel or event on the official schedule which lists The Phantom Pain, Mogren, or it’s developer, Moby Dick Studios.  However, Hideo Kojima’s team is scheduled to present the FOX Engine Wednesday at 11PST.

Could this be the proof that The Phantom Pain is in fact the next Metal Gear Solid game?  Well, it seems that all will be revealed at this year’s GDC.  You can watch the entire interview with Joakim Mogren here on GameTrailers.com.