The New Flesh

I can’t shake the feeling that this is big. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is more than just a game, more than just a port of an old game onto modern computers, a paradigm for the future of video game preservation, that LucasArts has made the move to produce this game may ultimately prove as important as the Abandonware movement, Good Old Games or DOSbox. Right now it’s an amusement but culturally this is a big step forward. Also as a game it freakin’ rocks.

Just a quick post to give you the good news that in an interveiw for CNET News Bill Gates himself has said that they’re bringing Project Natal to PC and also to say that I called it. It may have been obvious, sure anyone with half a brain could have called it but guess who did call it? ME! Jack Black wrote the one note song and I called Project Natal for PC.

I mentioned in my last post that I’d acquired a copy of The Sims 3. This might not seem that surprising  since it’s a game that’s selling like hotcakes but it was a surprise to me because I didn’t expect to own that game for at least another year. See I’m a frugal kind of guy so I have this rule, I never pay over £20 for a game, I’ve broken the rule sometimes but having got only mild enjoyment out of Sims 1 and 2 I didn’t have a very strong urge to break it for Sims 3 and given the likely decay in prices for an utterly mainstream hit like Sims 3 I couldn’t see it dropping below £20 for at least a year. So how did this happen? Simple, I got a grey import… I hope.

It seems odd to me that for all the fuss that Project Natal, Microsoft’s new motion-video-voice controllerless controller has caused at this years E3 that not many people are talking about the potential of Project Natal for PC and asking Microsoft the big question: when if ever will Natal be supported on PC?