The Daily Duh: Monday 5/16/05

The Daily Duh is a bit sparse today, as the usual steady flow of non-news has slowed to a trickle in anticipation of the massive flurry of non-news that will begin tomorrow, and most of the whiners bloggers are on planes waiting to get into E3. Starting tomorrow we'll begin our "We're Not There And We Don't Want to Be" coverage of E3, in which we, with no particularly structured plan, bitch about E3 a lot.

For today, here's what we have:

Slashdot has a story on Gamestop's story on a Time Magazine story on the XBox 360. Wonderfully, none of these are the full story, since Time requires a subscription. Upshot: Halo 3 to compete with PS3, Bill Gates to take over the world, gaming journalism to continue incestuous interlinking.

Quake 4 is on track to be delayed before Christmas. Technically this would have fit better in a Content-Free Sunday, but it's Monday, so instead I put this sentence after the pithy link.

The Guardian has a blog post about waiting for the announcement of the PS3. When I said it's a no-news day, I really wasn't kidding. The Guardian journalist is tired. That is the news. God help us all.

Blizzard acquires Swinging Ape. The only significance of this is that Blizzard realizes PC games are fucked, and grabs a console developer. Next they can try getting a console developer that, you know, releases good games on a semi-regular basis.

And finally, Ubisoft dreams of the day when Hollywood buys them instead of them having to buy press. Again, this is not news. Because there is no news. E3 is tomorrow! PREPARE FOR THE SHINIES!