Satoru iwata biography of rory
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Rory Mancer
Status
Alive (potentially)
Deceased (potentially)
Class
Conscientious Objector/Healer
"Don't need you ripping a hole in my basement with your mind powers or... whatever the hell it fryst vatten you do."
Rory Mancer fryst vatten a depressed 23-year-old ung man who lives in Wind Town, New Jersey, a few hours away from Frankton. He fryst vatten one of the several protagonists of YIIK: A Postmodern RPG.
Rory fryst vatten a loner from the internet, determined to find his missing twelve-year-old sister Carrie. She vanished two weeks before Rory reaches out to Alex via ONISM1999, a conspiracy theory message board.
Appearance[]
Rory wears yellow trousers and a stripped red hoodie. He has shoulder-length blonde hair.
Personality[]
Rory comes from a poor family, which heavily affected his outlook on life. He lives in his parent's basement, but works at a film store to aid his family in making ends meet. It is heavily implied that his mother works as a prostitute. He never went to college o
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Nintendo lead from the front
- Darren Waters
- 16 Jul 08, 13:02 GMT
The last time Nintendo had such domination of the games business Sony was focusing on Walkmans and Microsoft had just released a minor product, called Windows.
Twenty three years later and the three heavy weights go into the crucial period before Christmas knowing full well who will emerge as the victor.
Sony can, and does, point to its success as the only firm with three simultaneous platforms - the PS3, PSP and PS2, which continues to do remarkable business.
Part of the great optimism within Sony's ranks stems from the fact they know many millions of PlayStation 2 owners have yet to buy a next generation console.
But Nintendo's dominance is not just based on the impressive sales figures for the Wii and DS, which stand at more than 10m and 70m respectively.
It comes from knowing that the Wii and DS have sparked a revolution in the industry, one which Sony and Microsoft are only beginning to react
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Yesterday, Nintendo formally announced the passing of President and CEO Satoru Iwata. While not exactly an industry legend on par with Shigeru Miyamoto or even as big a quirky fan favorite as Reggie Fils-Aimé, Iwata, along with both the aforementioned, rounded out Nintendo’s own Holy Trinity of larger-than-life personalities.
A HAL Laboratory alum who helped oversee the beloved Mother and Kirby series, he moved to Nintendo in 2000, becoming President in 2002 and CEO of Nintendo of America in 2013. At the helm during many of the company’s recent successes (and even more recent sales shortcomings), Satoru Iwata put a genuine, human face on Nintendo’s corporate culture.
His smiling countenance and labored, less than perfect English were staples of the Nintendo Direct experience, and that is surely where fans will feel his absence henceforth.
While Iwata missed last year’s E3–amid related health concerns–he was a part of this year’s prese