Aliens Left Us A Nasty Surprise On The Moon - io9 Comments

Aliens Left Us A Nasty Surprise On The Moon

Dier — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:35:18 PDT

The first bug looks like cloverfield

Aliens Left Us A Nasty Surprise On The Moon

PriorMarcus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:47:54 PDT

@Charlie Jane Anders: No, it's not that I mind you posting video game articles and news stories, and it's not like I believe your stepping on Kotaku's toes, what I'm suggesting is that rather than the odd news article every so often it would be nice if science fiction video games (news, analysis, reviews from the science fiction enthusiast angle) were given their own article of sorts. A monthly/bi-monthly article covering various aspects of the genre as portrayed in that medium. It's something I'd be interested in seeing here.

PriorMarcus

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Plague — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:10 PDT

That MOON trailer was in a word: BOOOOOOOOOORING

Plague

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:50:15 PDT

@joemasaki: Yeah, I almost mentioned that, but I ran out of space in the post.

Charlie Jane Anders

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joemasaki — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:43:56 PDT

@Annalee Newitz:

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

SPOILER ALERT: For more moon destruction kicks, watch the episode "Angel Arms" of the anime Trigun.

joemasaki

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joemasaki — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:43:13 PDT

There's actually a movie called "Moon" being made right now, and directed by Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son with his first wife Angela), starring Sam Rockwell (Zaphod Beeblebrox form the "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie).

From what I gather it's about an astronaut stranded on a moon base.

joemasaki

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Annalee Newitz — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:42:47 PDT

I just really want to blow up the moon. Are there games that will let me do that?

Annalee Newitz

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Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:42:40 PDT

@PriorMarcus: Video games are such a huge part of science fiction nowadays, and have such an enormous impact on everything else, that we literally have no choice but to cover them. Plus I did check whether Kotaku had covered "Moon" before I decided to post about it. We've covered video games on io9 since day one, and we'll continue to cover them, although we defer to kotaku as the real experts.

Charlie Jane Anders

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PriorMarcus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:37:55 PDT

@itsburnsie: That is very true, but that doesn't mean I can't suggest ways I feel the articles could be better improved to serve a wide spectrum of interest as well.

PriorMarcus

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pharago — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:19:07 PDT

lol that Moon trailer made me jump back to 1995 486ish gaming

pharago

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itsburnsie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:06:30 PDT

@PriorMarcus: I actually appreciate io9's coverage because they tend to highlight certain Sci-Fi video games that Kotaku may not have time for. For instance, this is the first time I've heard of "Moon" for the DS.

Nobody's putting a gun to your head to make you read an article that's not relavent to your interests.

itsburnsie

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BoB... — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:25:07 PDT

Umm.... ok, that was like... lame.

BoB...

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Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:48:10 PDT

Because it's science fiction....

Aliens Left Us A Nasty Surprise On The Moon

PriorMarcus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:35:59 PDT

I'm not entirely sure why your covering video games, given that anyone can simply follow the link to Kotaku, but your doing a good job of the coverage all the same. Maybe you'd be better served doing articles exploring science fiction in video games, rather than just news post about them?

PriorMarcus