Clearly, there is no way that I can post everything related to E309 in the coming days, and why would I? It’s going to be everywhere, Gametrailers, IGN, G4TV.com, 1UP, and more blogs than you could ever read in a four day time span.

What I can do is tell you a bit about what I see though, thus Trailer Talk. See, rarely is a trailer for a new game just about pretty visuals. Most of the time, elements of gameplay are hidden within, even in the case of pre-rendered trailers. So when I see some of that, I’ll let you know here. Shall we?

• Blur Debut Trailer – It looks like Activision Blizzard’s multiplatform answer to Mario Kart is going to feature at least four different powerups: Shock, Shunt, Barge, and Nitro. The game will also support a lot of players for a car combat centric racer. From the trailer, it’s hard to tell exactly how many, but I’d say at least 12 to 16.
  Graphically, Blur doesn’t seem to be on par with Bizzare Creations’ previous PRG racing game, which is somewhat sad, but the feel of the trailer, music and all, seems to indicate they are going for the Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, younger audience on this one.

While summer vacation doesn’t really have any meaning for me, living life after school, seeing all those new graduates entering society this past week has inspired me to do more stuff in the coming months.

Work Harder, Play Harder

That pretty much sums up the plan. The idea is to simply keep better track of where my time is going so that I can do more of the things that I want to do.

Like what, you ask?

As a few of you know, I’ve been building an XNA Community Game for a while now. I’m thinking that I’ll need to start spreading the word on it soon, but as it currently has no graphics (just placeholder “art”) or sound, I’m not really sure how to go about it. I don’t even have a name for it yet. I call it SWD, at the moment.

In game teaser fashion, I can tell you that it’s a shooter ala Gradius, sprinkled with modern gaming spices, so look for that when it gets closer to release.

I have more plans for myself too, but I don’t want to overpromise. If things work out though, you should be seeing “Trioptical” a lot more. The name at least. The person is, hopefully, going to be really busy.

An aside:

The graduation ceremony format needs an upgrade.

I’m sure that in some time in the past, classes were a lot smaller than they are today, so when the school paraded its graduating seniors across the stage, handing out diplomas and shaking hands, there was a true sense of ceremony, as it were.

Of course, what works for a dozen students, doesn’t necessarily work for a thousand. When a thousand students need to walk up and get their degrees, it seems to me that it diminishes the occasion, turns it into an assembly line type deal.

I’m not really sure what the solution is. On the one hand, you don’t want it all to be a matter of getting everyone out on time. On the other hand, they paid thousands of dollars to get through school, at least they should get to shake your hand on stage in front of their family and friends. I dunno.

At what point did April Fool’s Day become such a big deal? We never get that day off, but at some point, every gaming web site and magazine thought it would be fun to spread completely false information on April 1st.

What sucks is that often it’s difficult to tell whether the news is a prank or not, and that’s not how the news should be.

Guess I’ll just catch up on old news today then.