I'm having a small bout of insomnia, and well, the news out of South Korea that Starcraft 2 is coming out doesn't help put me to sleep. The only odd thing I find with all this is that the Games Radar article I linked above is exactly right about everything, but it was available in its entirety quite a bit earlier than the IGN live-blogging of the event. In any case, I grew up playing Starcraft and Warcraft games, so I'm quite excited about this, and I can't wait to see some of the videos that Blizzard is currently showing at their Worldwide Invitational. That was fast. It's on YouTube.
In other news, famous manga-ka Akamatsu Ken confirmed that his popular series Mahou Sensei Negima is getting a live-action drama. It seems that the actresses for the 31 girls of Negi's class have been decided, and as MOON PHASE notes, they'll probably all be child actresses and gravure idols. The first thing I thought of when I read the news was PGSM, and that didn't exactly leave me with fond memories. I'm a bit afraid to see what Negima will look like in a live-action format (wigs all over the place I would guess and maybe a stuffed animal for Kamo-kun), but morbid curiosity compels me to follow this.
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