Hock Show Weekend Top Five for February 14th – 20th, 2010
1. The Olympics Are Still Happening. Man, look at all that elegance and grace on the ice! The garish costumes and girlish figures. And that’s just the hockey! Also something called “Snowboardcross” which sounds like something they would make for a filler game on one of the old NES Olympic Games. Gotta love it!
2. The Dalai Llama Is a Media Whore. He’s got a Twitter now, he’s giving out interviews about Tiger Woods. How long before the dude guest hosts TMZ? What does he think about Conan and Snooki? Seriously, though, I have nothing but respect for the man, but this is getting a little silly.
3. Hey…You Still Have That Beta Invite? If you attended Blizzcon in 2008, you got an invite to the StarCraft 2 Beta. A Beta that didn’t start until…last week. Well, if you held onto your registration information, you finally got rewarded! Only not really, because their Beta was closed quite quickly, locking out several thousand Blizzcon attendees from their just reward. Blizzard swears that will be rectified in the next few weeks, but that’s some awfully agonizing carrot waving there.
4. Sony Wants to Control All Your Game Consoles. Seeing the PS3 fall even further behind the XBox and Wii has been tough over the last year for Sony (maybe Heavy Rain will turn things around! No? Damn), so they just went out and patented a controller that will be able to integrate fully with all three systems. Sounds handy right? No matter that it probably won’t come out until all three consoles are dead, it’s still pretty cool. And kind of shifty.
5. Tiger Woods Said Stuff. Far be it from me to put myself above the Dalai Llama and not cover this…historic press conference. Where…Tiger said exactly the same thing he did at his last historic press conference four months ago, only this time he let reporters watch him hit golf balls for an hour afterwards. What Would the Dalai Llama Tweet?