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I pitched to a big publisher a game about dogs called Pound Dog. There were about 15 people in the room, and they all loved the pitch. It was gonna be great, but then one guy, who of course doesn't play games and is about to retire, says, "But who wants to be a dog?" Everyone looks at him 'cause he's the boss, then they come looking back at me, shaking their heads and saying, "Yeah, but who wants to be a dog?" Six or seven months later, Nintendogs came out to huge sales. If the capacity of your vision for what titles could be and what makes them resonate with an audience is "who wants to be a dog," then OK, go make your next shooter with 2 percent new mechanics and better graphics. Will Wright, designer of SimCity, SporeThere are things I pitched that I, in going over the development process, decided to drop for one reason or another.
Romney has fond memories of Oakland County roots
There was a lot of alcohol, speeding in cars, chasing girls, but Mitt was not party to any of that," he said. "But he wasn't a goody two-shoes. He was one of the boys, one of the gang, but he toed the line. He was a very responsible guy. We all looked up to him." Romney was born in Detroit in 1947 and grew up in Bloomfield Hills. His father George Romney was chairman of American Motors Corp. from 1954 to 1962, then served as Michigan's governor from 1963 to 1969. George Romney himself ran for president in 1968, losing the Republican nomination to Richard Nixon. Scott Romney, Mitt's brother, still lives in Birmingham. "(My brother) loved cars," said Scott, a lawyer. "He always loved cars. He'd imitate the sounds. He could tell make, model and year of a car just from the quarter panel.
Strike Can’t Stop Ernest Borgnine From Partying On Globes Night
Not every Golden Globes party was canceled. Despite the scrapping of Sunday's ceremony and official studio events, Ernest Borgnine — who, at 90, was the oldest Globes nominee ever — still threw a private bash at his hilltop home. The evening started with pizza and champagne as an assortment of publicists, photographers and friends joined Borgnine, his wife, Tova, and daughter, Nancy, to watch the awards-presentation press conference in his living room. Borgnine carried big barstools into the room to accommodate his guests. He was comfortable in his black slacks and matching sweater — much better than a stuffy tux, he said. "I don't like wearing the union suit anymore. I'm past that stage," he said, recalling that when he won his Oscar for "Marty" in 1956, he was wearing a wool tuxedo with tails — "I never perspired so much in all my life." The ever-smiling Hollywood veteran said he was happy to be home instead of wrapped up in the "hullabaloo" of the ceremony, "because if I want a beer or I want a sandwich or whatever, I'm able to get up and go.
German experts crack Mona Lisa smile
There is no reason for any lingering doubts that this is another woman," Leipzig University art historian Frank Zoellner told German radio. "One could even say that books written about all this in the past few years were unnecessary, had we known." The woman was first linked to the painting in around 1550 by Italian official Giorgio Vasari, the library said, but added there had been doubts about Vasari's reliability and had made the comments five decades after the portrait had been painted. The Heidelberg notes were actually discovered over two years ago in the library by Schlechter, a spokeswoman said. Although the findings had been printed in the library's public catalogue they had not been widely publicized and had been received little attention until a German broadcaster decided to do some recording at the library, she said.
Now that we have your attention
It reminded me of the winter of 2007/2008, where we have had sneak previews of arctic air since the first of December. Well, it appears that the featured insurgence of arctic air is about to begin. Tuesday and Wednesday give pause to ponder this is Minnesota and it is January. If you haven't yet pulled out the best of your layered looked wardrobe, you should have long johns, corduroys, turtle necks and flannel close at hand for the next couple of weeks. We were due for an invasion of character building cold in the heart of winter. Since the chilly start to the New Year, there were ten days in a row, where the Twin Cities overnight low temperatures were in the teens, twenties, and yes even a thirty. During the past twenty-four hours Old Man winter has taken control of the dominant air mass.
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