Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Day Trip to San Diego



Although both Just two hours from here in San Diego had never been there until last Sunday. And to think that the day had started very differently. Sterling and I were at the market in Hollywood to go crazy with fruits and vegetables in California, when we receive a phone call that tells us that a dear friend in Atlanta is in San Diego for work. Completely ignorant of geography in California (as indeed many other Americans), poor Steven could not imagine that we were so close and had not thought to warn us in time. So we downloaded fruit and vegetables at home in record time and we jumped on the Mini Steven # 2 (think Sterling's friends all have the same name), south. To me, that I had never gone beyond Costa Mesa, la parte bassa di Orange County è stata una sorpresa inaspettata. Abituata com'ero agli anonimi complessi residenziali e ai centri commerciali intorno a Anaheim, non mi aspettavo chilometri di costa completamente inabitata e affacciata su un Pacifico in forma smagliante. Sono sempre i road trip a ricordarmi quanto gli immensi spazi americani mi siano cresciuti dentro in appena un paio d'anni, quale senso di liberazione possa creare anche solo mezza giornata al di fuori della città. San Diego si è comunque rivelata interessante, con spiagge fantastiche, un bel centro "storico" con i lampioni a gas e una baia densa di isolette e ponti. La cosa migliore è stata ovviamente rivedere Steven, che ci ha intrattenuti con l'incredibile racconto della sua shamanic experience in the Peruvian Andes!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Viewpoints

Speaking on the phone with my friend:
Me: "... and recently went back to cross stitch, I left a little"
She: "You are old"
Me: "In I'm actually making a giant screen Pac-Man "
She:" How did you geek

In fact I enjoy cross stitching, it relaxes me and distracts me from above boxing prowess of Sterling, who now does nothing but play Fight Night 4 every night because the review is imminent. GreenPixels I even commissioned an article about arts & crafts applied to video games, a clear sign that they are not alone in this world. I was also thinking of buying a sewing machine and find someone to teach me how to use it, so my masterpiece will finally have a practical use (for example, Pac-Man should become a pillowy for the living room).

Talking about something completely different (but still related to video games), I found a mentor. Or rather, he found a mentor to me. E 'official news now enough that I'm trying a career change from journalism to the localization and translation of video games. It 's a fairly difficult process, because companies locating suspicious of the new generation, always fearful that you want to steal your work. I'm going a little groping and translating all me what comes to hand, but also free to give me a name (my Italian translation of this wonderful game was published yesterday, by the way: have a look and if you do not know how to fix it ask me). A few days ago I decided to address Women in Games, an association of which I share with the other 800 poor souls who form the minority of women in this industry. Apparently it worked, because soon after I received an email from an industry veteran who has offered to help me in my career change by contacting the people with whom he worked in the past and could be useful . All for the sole purpose of helping a philanthropic woman to make inroads in an industry almost completely dominated by men. The funny thing is that I realized I know very well this veteran, at least to fame was the author of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and many other famous titles of the year '90 I played furiously with my sister and squeeze in two of the chair my father's study. My mother looked at us, smiled and shook his head: he would never have imagined that those games would have been my salvation after fifteen years ...

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

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For (s) is the luck of the Smurfs E3


exchange between home and boxes I had almost forgotten the existence of E3, the usual fair dedicated to video games which, like it or not, we're still an issue. The strangest thing about this year was able to go home every night rather than in a hotel room with bad internet connection courtesy of the company of Sterling. This edition has returned to its former glory, after the last two years, much narrower than that I was sincerely sorry at all. But here again, check the chaos, the crowd of onlookers, the booth babes half-naked and appointments postponed at the last minute because of the PR round was confused, or perhaps did not sleep enough for all the previous month. I'm not a fan of the events so great, also because it ends to see fewer and fewer games than you would like. But there is also some positive aspects as well: the evening party, chatting with random industry people who would otherwise never happen to cross, games and accessories received as a gift just because you are journalists, celebrities involved against their will as legitimize the game in the eyes of the general public, and all the pleasure of trying titles that will not be in stores several months before. Titles that remind me from time to time because I do this job, because I want to stay in this industry. A vortex which is nice dive, but which is equally beautiful to remember back to a normal life.

Paul McCartney e Ringo sul palco della conferenza Microsoft. Altri ospiti dal vivo sono stati Steven Spielberg, James Cameron e Pelè.

E' il 25° anniversario del film e i Ghostbusters, veri o finti, spuntano ovunque.

Cartelloni giganti per strada pubblicizzano il prossimo Final Fantasy. Siamo già al numero 13, Rocky e Freddy Krueger ci fanno un baffo!