N'Gai Croal: Memory Lane

(Edge Online)

[…] I’m at the end of my first full decade of gaming seriously. And, as such, it’s worth a nostalgic look back at my favourite videogame-related moments the last ten years.

A handful of these are definitely in my shared experience pool. Croal has more than his share of Q Entertainment memories in this list, which I think only goes to show how well-crafted their experiences tend to be.

Dragon Quest VI Storms Japanese Software Chart

(via Edge Online.)

Square Enix’s Nintendo DS remake of Dragon Quest VI: Realms Of Reverie sold over 900,000 units during the week ended January 31 to debut atop the Japanese software chart.

Awesome.

I hope this means it’s on its way here; I was able to track down a copy of DQV (which has been out of print for a while) over the last week and I’m really looking forward to it.

Prepare Your Troops for a Surface Attack

Pure CSS3 Animated AT-AT Walker from Star Wars

Awesome.

The Broad Appeal of iPad

Rob Foster:

The darndest thing happened in the last five days and I was fortunate to be privy to it. Apple has gotten people excited about computing.

But this time, it’s not nerds or geeks and certainly not IT industry analysts. It’s everyone else.

The last time I heard things like this, it was around the release of the Wii.

WordCast Conversations Interview

While I was in San Francisco meeting my coworkers, I was fortunate enough to be in the same place as my colleague Michael Pick, who was scheduled to be interviewed by the fine folks at WordCast Conversations.

He invited me to come along for the ride, as we both work in different ways on WordPress.tv. We had a very nice interview (though I was actually on the phone for most of it, which is why it sounds like I’m six miles away):

You can hit the page for the podcast here.