If we ain’t outta here in ten minutes, we won’t need no rocket to fly through space.
This week’s Almanac was originally going to be a rant at EA over the new SimCity BuildIt details that they divulged to Pocket Gamer‘s intrepid Mark Brown. But as Typhoid Mary once said: I’m not worried about all that crap.
No, tonight I’m more concerned with the iPad release of Galaxy Trucker, the year’s most surprisingly excellent digital board game adaptation. If you live in Germany or points east, Galaxy Trucker for iPad is on the App Store right now for five American dollars. In the US, it’ll be dropping at 11pm Eastern time and in the UK at midnight.
I interviewed designer Vlaada Chvatil about this game on Friday and if I interpret the howls emanating from the PT Writers’ Dungeon correctly, Neumann should be putting the finishing touches on our review momentarily. But here’s the short version: this game is damn good, and you’re going to be playing it tonight for longer than you’d planned. I’ve taken the liberty of preparing some excuses you can use when you turn up to the office an hour late tomorrow morning.
- “The boiler exploded.”
- “My wife/husband has become the Gatekeeper/Keymaster of Gozer the Gozerian.”
- “Time is an illusion/flat circle.”
One of those should do the trick. Sunday links after the jump.
In case you’re the only PT reader who hasn’t seen this video yet, here’s the Galaxy Trucker trailer.
- How popular are mobile games? A third of Americans over 13 are playing them, according to the “Entertainment Software Association”, who — to be perfectly fair — sound like they might have a dog in that fight. But to put that number in perspective, it’s roughly equal to the number of adults who read an e-book last year, according to Pew.
- Back in the mid-1990s, search engines sucked and the best way to find stuff online was the people-powered Yahoo Directory. That artefact of Web history will be shut down on December 31st.
- Japanese industrial concern Obayashi wants to build an operational space elevator by 2050.
- If you’re going to lose something in an airport, Schiphol is where you want to do it. What a great dog.
- When the sewers of Paris get too gunked up, maintenance workers clean them out with these giant 19th-century pinballs.
- The Sinquefield Cup in August quite possibly saw the strongest field of any chess tournament in history, including Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, described by an opponent as “the Sauron of chess”. (Hat-tip to Jonathan R.)
- Congratulations sons of Poland: every single point in last week’s Patriots-Raiders game was scored by a ‘-kowski’.
- Norway is a film about a vampire who can’t stop dancing or he’ll die.
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