Month: March 2006

Since and I were waxing nostalgic recently about our love for the 80s cheesefest Monster Squad:

Apparently, there’s going to be a a reunion screening held in Austin on April 16th, with guests Andre Gower (Sean) and Ryan Lambert (Rudy).

The movie hasn’t officially been released on DVD, but if you check eBay, you can find a bunch of bootleg DVDs (often made from dubs of the Laserdisc), readily available. I have to admit, I’m tempted.

The most recent issue of Comics & Games Retailer, the sole trade magazine for the industry, arrived in the mail yesterday.

This is the “State of the Gaming Industry” issue — and I figured I’d post some summary and comment here, since if I do it at any of the usual gaming fora, I’ll be shouted down by wishful-thinking uninformed gamers, who seem to feel that any statement of how bad the industry is doing is somehow an attack on their very identity, and hence argue the contrary with all of the reasoned and logical thought that you’d expect from a Relgious Fundamentalist.

C&GR is flawed, to be sure, since it relies primarily on estimates based on a self-selecting sample, but, as I’ve said before, it’s the best thing we’ve got, and I’ve seen no major indications in my 10 years of reading it that it has ever been too far off the mark.

So, how’s the industry doing?

Game Industry Wonkery Behind the Cut — Be Warned.

Today is Quentin Tarantino’s 43rd birthday.

Please mark the observance by engaging in rapid-fire witty banter about 70s pop culture topics, before engaging in acts of stylized violence.

(The linked site has an excellent run-down on the current movie being helmed by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, Grind House— sounds like an absolute blast.)