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You can call me Glenn.
I'm old school, man. Some of my favorites:
Strategy: Civilization series, Battle for Wesnoth, Warcraft II, RoTK series
Action/Platform: Katamari Damacy, Dynasty Warriors Series
RPG: Chrono Trigger, Xenogears
Sports: NBA 2K series
FPS: Deus Ex
Rhythm: DDR series (yeah, I said it)
Other stuff from back in the day: point & click adventures like Gabriel Knight, Sam & Max, Quest for Glory series. Doom & Wolfenstein. Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Super Mario 3, Mario Kart. The first thing in my house that played games was a Commodore 64. Giana Sisters was good times. First and only online-RPG I've played at length was The Fates of Twinion on the iMagination network. Never been a fan of Metroid or Zelda. Don't ask me why, I don't know.

Other interests:
Playing guitar and listening to music, singing (rock, folk, jazz, electro, french old school and nouvelle chanson, bossa nova and Brazilian popular music, plus many other styles)
Movie watchin': Films by Bergman, Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hayao Miyazaki, Kubrick, Satoshi Kon, Jeunet & Caro. Stuff like A History of Violence, Serial Experiments Lain, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Inland Empire.
Book readin': Some fave novels are 100 Years of Solitude, Steppenwolf, Lolita, The Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), Midnights Children, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Comix: Blankets, Maus, Persepolis, Y: The Last Man. Others: Guns, Germs, & Steel; Down and Out in Paris and London
Scrabble
Basketball

I want to use this blog to make translations into English from French game sites or mainstream press articles about video games. Maybe the occasional review or opinion or something like that.

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Square Enix hitting the arcades...in Japan, of course glenno | 12:37 AM on 11.27.2007 1 comments

An article about Lord of Vermilion, translated from GameKult in France, a little lukewarm off the presses. What I didn't get is how this is a game meant for adults. Screenshots at their site: http://www.gamekult.com/articles/A0000062761/ After its success at the arcade with Japanese school kids with Battle Quest Monsters: Battle Road, Square Enix is preparing to venture into Japanese arcades with a game intended for adults, and under its own label. Lord of Vermillion will be considered a card game, here in a heroic fantasy style. Stated objective: ride the wave of success of this genre of games and take a piece of the pie, generating money both from the arcade cabinet and the collection-based activities that follow. For the occasion, Square Enix is bringing in nine illustrators for the design of the cards, among them the very famous Yositaka Amano (Final Fantasy), as well as Akihiko Yoshida (Final Fantasy XII), and even Yûsuke Naora (The Last Remnant), in order to guarantee, to some extent, popularity among the brand's fans. The game will offer a single player mode for toughening up while winning cards each game, and a network mode for facing other players in the archipelago. The release date for Lord of Vermilion hasn't been set yet, but the game will soon be entering a public beta phase, with several “location tests” organized between December 6-17 in a handful of Japanese arcades. Given the state of the arcade in this country, we can't expect this game to enter our territory, unless there's an eventual console adaptation, which isn't in the works for the time being.