Today in Non-News: Psychonauts 2
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?Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft, is a fan of Tim Schafer’s Psychonauts game, like a lot of people. Unlike a lot of people, Markus Persson has a shit-ton of money. So when Persson tweeted two messages to Schafer…
? “Let’s make Psychonauts 2 happen.”
? “I’m serious.”
…it seemed worth mentioning. Like yesterday, this is simply people talking about doing cool things in anticipation of hopefully doing them, but I know enough folks who have told me how unbelievably brilliant Psychonauts is that even the mere possibility of a Psychonauts 2 should send them in paroxysms of joy. Besides, I would very much like to see a trend of rich people funding sequels to awesome games that didn’t sell very well (*cough* Shenmue III *cough*). Thanks to SlyDante for the tip. (Via GameSpot)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.