Gallery: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tagforce 4

Had some quick hands-on time with this at Konami’s NYC press event a while back. Nice anime visuals, deep gameplay, plenty of battlin’ cards and creatures and a more “mature” feel than your Pokemon games, for sure. Fans will be completely enraptured, newbies will be baffled, very helpful tutorials aside. Interesting side note: Konami spells it Tagforce, but it seems to list at most retailers as Tag Force. “Potato, Poh-tah-toe, Tomato, Toh-mah-toe….” and all that…

November 17, 2009 is the release date, so mark your calendars accordingly.

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Random Art: Playing Around With MS Paint…

Had a bit of Internet downtime around here a few days ago, so I started playing around with drawing for a few hours using markers for one piece and Microsoft Paint (which I generally hate) for the rest. Anyway, as I haven’t drawn in a while with standard pens or pencils, I wasn’t expecting much, but the piece came out OK. Using a mouse was a bit more time consuming, but I think I did pretty good for my first ever MS Paint efforts.

Here’s what I came up with, in case you’re interested:*

Now, guess which one was hand drawn (it’s pretty obvious, actually) and which were done in Paint!

* These and other works are on my Facebook page, so some of you folks may have seen ’em already.