MULTIPOINTS

*First, a clarification courtesy of Dark Age Iron Savior, on the SB forums:

is your name actually chris ervin?

also I randomly skimmed your blog and I must unfortunately comment that the main guy behind the awesome Mr. Driller music, Masaru Shiina, apparently never worked on the Katamari games....although he did compose Tales of Legendia, which is kind of weird.

And yes, my name is actually Chris Ervin. I'm too boring to have a neat hacker alias.

*Today the final episode of GFW Radio went online -- with both Jeff Green and Shawn Elliot leaving Ziff-Davis for assistant producer jobs (at the Sims studio and 2k Boston, respectively), there seems little point in keeping a podcast named GFW Radio going, considering only one editor from the defunct magazine from which the podcast was derived , Ryan Scott, is still at ZD. As someone with little money, abundant free time, and a one-time addiction to talk radio, podcasts are perfect for me, and GFW Radio was one of the better videogame-related ones; it's got nothing on the New York Review of Books new podcast, however. Nonetheless, sad to see it go.

*The series of interviews with Japanese gaming personalities 1up.com has been running lately, espically the one with Kenji Eno, have been far more interesting than the typical Japanese devleoper interview, be it a Time Magazine interview with Sawata or a Gamasutra interview with, um, a Square employee or something.

*Hey, I just beat Final Fantasy IV DS while writing this post! Yay!