Surfer Girl: Keeping Up With The Drama, Part 3
Well, we've talked about her before, and we're going to do it again, thanks to the volume and recent amped-up insanity of the rumors and likely truth emanating from the 'Surfer Girl Reviews Star Wars' blog. So let's start with some highlights of recent posts.
- The 'November 11th things' post claims that 'Everquest is coming to PS3' (likely in some version of the franchise), 'Big Huge Games' Wii title is God the Game' (leftfield, but sure!), and 'The game counterpart of the 2009 Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg HBO miniseries The Pacific (the follow-up to 2001's Band of Brothers) is being developed by Delirious Games' (interesting, the company site reveals the company is co-helmed by ex-Climax LA boss Erik Gloersen. Very plausible.)
- As for other notables, there have been some pretty funny spoof rumors, including 'DaNcE DaNcE KLAXONS from Konami', an entire 'inside Ubisoft' post which looks to have a good, if cynical insider grasp on issues at the firm, and a couple more 'games that never were', Ubisoft's 'Dirty Work' and 'Campus', the former of which was meant to be a GTA killer, and a screenshot/info on Digital Anvil's Project Enwor - definitely legit and not previously released. Hmm, another Microsoft-related leaked project, eh?
- An earlier round-up of comment responses has a whole bunch of vaguer information, but I thought this was an interesting list of games that are worth checking out in 2008 from the 'Girl': "Next year, I'm looking forward to Brutal Legend, Blocks, LMNO, Alive, Hail to the Chimp, Alan Wake, Prince of Persia, Heavy Rain, fl0wer, Getaway, Duke Nukem Forever (not that I cared for the previous games, but you have to wonder what was done with ten years of development), Max Payne 3, thatgamecompany's third PS3 game, The Outsider, Lego Batman, No More Heroes, Mushroom Men, Spore, as well as I few others I have forgotten."
Finally, there was just a whole 'hijacking of the site' by a Polish hacker, which resulted in two of the Resistance 2 design doc flow diagrams being briefly hosted, and personal info about Surfer Girl allegedly being leaked.
Now order has been restored, with some claims that this third party independently hacked them. Not true, I would hazard, since other Resistance 2 elements have already been made available by the 'Girl' herself. So overall - still a bizarre attention grab, and the readiness to answer ANY random question from clueless commenters is a bit disturbing, but still filled with fascinating and genuine insider info. Keep it up!
[UPDATE: Although I am starting to get concerned that some of the peripheral information, besides the Microsoft and Ubisoft stalwarts, is Google-able - for example 'God: The Game' from Big Huge Games turns up on an unfortunate artist's portfolio. This is the second time I've noticed this recently, and help might explain the wide reach of rumors across multiple companies. Though plenty of other things aren't Google-able, of course.]









Comments
According to statcounter, someone from Ohio (not Poland, it was fairly obvious that the hacker was lying as Tom Tancredo, who the hacker changed my page to endorse, is not that big of a name even in America) was accessing the blog from the control panel. They were wildly overstating any email that was in there, there is maybe one or two emails with information sent to me for putting up on the blog, a gmail address and a hotmail address. Any emails from journalists or those in the industry were comments about the blog or inquiries. If I were the source behind this, I would have waited a day or so to respond and wait for all sorts of coverage, I know what I'm like. They did very little damage thankfully and I will resume today or tomorrow.
Posted by: surfer girl | November 14, 2007 4:44 PM