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Nintendo announced that Animal Crossing: New Leaf will arrive June 9th this year! I bought my Nintendo 3DS TWO years ago just for this game and I have been waiting forever for it! They just released a trailer for the game.

It came out in Japan back in November, so there are tons of videos showing how the game plays with kind people translating for us. For example, LinandKo have been doing tons of videos and just did one for Valentine’s Day this year, telling us what you can receive from the villagers in honor of the holiday.

I feel strangely excited that Animal Crossing: New Leaf is almost here. I haven’t had a game I have loved as much as Animal Crossing: Wild World, so I have high hopes for New Leaf.

Via: Animal Crossing: New Leaf Release Date Announced – IGN

Over the years, the most tantalizing games of the Nineties were hardly able to be called games. My favorite, was The Dark Eye. It was a strange, retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories that let you see them from the point of view of the victim and the “disturbed.”

The most disturbing was the story of Berenice. I had never read the story, so the ending of this portrayal on the game is particularly vivid in my memory. Wandering around the library, trapped and the eery voice repeating, “teeth,” over and over again is how I will always remember that story.

Here is a walkthrough of that storyline:

Watching this brought back all the creepy fascination I had with this game. That random wandering in the library, not knowing what to do, and those unintelligible voices just gave me a shiver of fear. All the portraits changed to smiling teeth and flashing teeth on the screen are just the finishing touches on a brilliant work.

KotakuNYC has an interesting tribute to the game here:

After watching these clips, I realize why The Dark Eye hasn’t been ported over to iOS like Myst and The 7th Guest. It was less a game and more an interactive movie… with puppets… and Edgar Allan Poe… and William S. Burroughs. It was just too strange to be rescued from the sterile death of non-compatibility. It remains only in clips and bits on YouTube and suffers a dismemberment not unlike the very characters it portrayed.

For more clips:

• The Dark Eye – Menu Theme
• The Dark Eye Part 1- Introduction
• The Dark Eye – The Cask of Amontillado (Montresor)
• The Dark Eye – The Cask of Amontillado (Fortunado 1/2)
• The Dark Eye – The Cask of Amontillado (Fortunado 2/2)
• The Dark Eye Part 3- Storyline
• The Dark Eye – Berenice (Egaeus)
• Let’s Play The Dark Eye [07] – Berenice: Her perspective. 1/2
• Let’s Play The Dark Eye [08] – Berenice: Her perspective. 2/2
• The Dark Eye – The Masque of the Red Death (Part 1)
• The Dark Eye – The Masque of the Red Death (Part 2)
• The Dark Eye – The Tell Tale Heart (Old Man)
• The Dark Eye Part 8-The Young Man pt.1
• The Dark Eye Part 8-The Young Man pt.2
• The Dark Eye Part 11-The Fall of Henry
• The Dark Eye – Annabel Lee
• The Dark Eye – Ending

I love this one-handed clothes hanger that makes taking clothes out of the closet easy.

They were designed by Howard Tseng and are now being marketed by Quirky.

• Quirky Solo: Collapsible Hanger

I didn’t understand the genius of this hanger until I saw the video demonstrating it.

All of this looked wonderful until I saw the price. They are $11 for four hangers.

At that price, I think I’m willing to use both hands.

Via: One-Handed Clothes Hanger is a Quirky Product Redesign | Designs & Ideas on Dornob