Here's Multiplayer's links to help you get through the rest of the week:
Jason's Pick - 15th Anniversary: Revenge of the Wii: Wired has a short, but very interesting, interview with Shigeru Miyamoto where he discuss joysticks, games, and quality control.
Tracey's Pick - Paris GDC: The Rob Pardo Experience: Blizzard's SVP of game design talks about how "WoW" was originally ad-supported, the effects of the Activision merger, why their MMOs won't be on consoles anytime soon and more.
Stephen’s Pick
Stephen’s Links To The Stories He Did At Kotaku Yesterday
'Metal Gear Solid 4' And The Lack Of Sad Games
Konami: All Music Game Instruments Should Be Compatible
Proof That 1990s Game Innovations Were Often Lame
My Brief Surprise Visit To Sony's PS3 Home Beta
Obscenity Trial Could Test Whether 'Nintendo' Is More Popular Than 'Orgy'
Spare A Rodent?
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Rise and shine with Multiplayer's links for Monday:
Jason's Pick - The New Classics: Videogames: Entertainment Weekly has put together a list of the top 25 games of the last 25 years, and I have to admit, overall, I'm pretty impressed.
Tracey's Pick - Retail chains showing December 3 release date for "Starcraft II": Will Christmas come a bit early? We can only hope.
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Ahh.. this week is finally coming to an end.
Please enjoy our Friday link selections.
Jason's Pick - "Super Mario Sluggers" Opening Cinematic: The games may never, ever make sense, but they sure are fun to play.
Tracey's Pick - "Medal of Honor" Music Used in McCain Campaign Ad, Composer Unhappy: GamePolitics reports that Christopher Lennertz is actually a staunch supporter of Barack Obama.
Patrick's Pick - "House of the Dead: The Funny Version" Coming to DVD: Apparently, the original cut wasn't hilarious enough on it's own, so they've decided to release a brand-new DVD.
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Thursday's Multiplayer Link Selections:
Jason's Pick - Top 25 GBA Games: A complete list 25 of the best Gameboy Advance games, thanks to GameDaily.
Tracey's Pick - The Sporepedia: Kotaku notes that it already has over 350,000 creatures in it. We've seen Patrick's adorably hideous monster. What does your creature look like?
Patrick's Pick: -- EA's Neil Young Leaves to Form New Company: The man was partially responsible for "Boom Blox". For this, he has my utmost respect. I wonder what he's working on next?
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Wednesday's Multiplayer Link Selection:
Jason's Pick - Game Center CX - Now Subbed For Your Viewing Pleasure: GoNintendo is reporting that Game Center CX is going to be released in the U.S., and will be premiering at the New York Asian Film Festival at the end of June.
Tracey's Pick - Counting Rupees: The MMO-TV hybrid: Joystiq's business columnists wonder if the Sci Fi Channel's plan to create a TV series that simultaneously plays out as an MMO will actually work.
Patrick's Pick -- Can "Line Rider" be more successful than "GTA"?: Raph Koster wonders if people aren't thinking about the potential of the mass market in the right context.
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If you have a DS, then today is your lucky day. After you check out our links, drop everything, go to the store and buy the new "Space Invaders" and "Arkanoid" games. You won't be sorry.
Tuesday's Links:
Jason's Pick - The Ten Greatest Opening Levels in Gaming Histroy: If a game doesn't draw you in right away then you might not keep playing it. The ten games on this list don't even allow you to doubt how great they are.
Patrick's Pick -- 1UP FM: A brand-new 1UP podcast started by Philip Kollar, the awesome guy who took the reigns of 1UP News. I fully intend on crashing their podcast party in the near future.
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A new week, and a new set of Multiplayer's choice links.
Monday's Links:
Jason's Pick - 25 Insanely Modded Game Consoles and Accessories: Proof that modders love their video games.
Stephen's Pick: - This Is Why 'Star Fox 64' Is Awesome: The writers at Edge know how to celebrate a classic (that happens to be available on the Virtual Console, people!)
Patrick's Pick -- Ancient Rome Gaming Die: What games do you think they played?
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While we encourage you to always share Multiplayer's daily link selections with all your friends and family, we wanted to take this opportunity to share them with your dad. It is Father's Day weekend: treat him right.
Friday's Links:
Patrick's Pick - Mystery on Fifth Avenue: The New York Times exposes a house full of mysteries. You're supposed to live in the house as you normally would, before it begins exposing its hidden stories in the form of puzzles and clues that have been carefully laid out by its architect.
Jason's Pick - Tim Schafer's Baby On "Wii Fit": Apparently his little daughter tried out "Wii Fit" and came up a little short.
Tracey's Pick - Are female characters really penalized in Age of Conan? A reviewer says that female characters swing their weapons 25% slower than males.
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