Obligatory Cat Photo Vol. 3: Cornelius Snuggles Up with the April Issue of Play Magazine

One-half of the Air Massive feline mascot team, Cornelius, has his paws on the April issue of Play, the best-designed, best-written video games magazine that ever was. Although, to be accurate, Play bills itself as a "Games / Anime / Multimedia" publication. And, indeed, it covers all of those things and covers them well. Think of it as an otaku reviews mag minus the misfit otaku style. That is, Play looks like it was designed for a kind of anime and games fan who prefers to stay at the W Hotel. Anyway, the April issue has an interesting article on the relative merits of the super-charged Microsoft X-Box 360 videogame console, now that a few months have passed since the hysteria of its launch. The verdict is that the X-Box an amazing piece of hardware with amazing multimedia potential, but the paucity of game titles and the prohibitive expense of many of those titles is what will keep Microsoft's second generation games platform from winning the console war with Sony PlayStation and Nintendo.

Posted by Supercore at April 1, 2006 06:08 PM