Overly Positive

It’s the start of another week, and for those of you down in the dumps, don’t despair that the weekend is far, far away. For Americans, July 4th makes this week a short week, but aside from that, there’s tons going on in the world to bring a smile to your face:

Preview – Starcraft 2 Multiplayer (Destructoid): Be jealous of Destructoid’s Jonathan Ross, because he got an invite to Blizzard’s studios to check out the first hands-on demo of Starcraft 2′s Multiplayer. Apparently, there is much in the way of sexy in Blizzard’s upcoming hotly anticipated sequel. If the press is starting to get their hands on this stuff, it definitely means that release is definitely looking to be set in stone.

SEGA Comments on Michael Jackson (Kotaku): Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few days, then you obviously know Michael Jackson died of a heart attack, leading to a broad range of speculation from everyone from no-name bloggers to major news media outlets. Sega joins the commenting circus in the linked article, so with the developer of the only Michael Jackson game in the books, perhaps we’ll see less of Michael and more talk about actual games. Take heart!

Loyalty to Google Keeps Users From Bing (Digg): If you’ve been freaking out over the advertising blitz that new search engine Bing has been doing, don’t worry – people are attached to the “Don’t Be Evil” appeal of Google and its growing empire of open source applications. No one’s going to be uprooted any time soon for new hotness, so Bing’s got a lot to prove.

Despite Terrible Reviews, Transformers 2 Makes $200 Million (The Escapist): So if you despaired at some of the worst reviews given to a movie ever, then you haven’t looked at the numbers for Transformers 2, the Michael Bay sequel featuring more robot fights upstaged by more tiny humans. Even though the movie was set to flop worse than a politician running for office, the movie made back its costs and more in 5 days, pulling in a cool $200 million. Guess that goes to show that reviewers sometimes don’t know everything about a title – or that giant fucking robots sell seats.

There you go – feel better? I know you would.