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There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? What a week. QuakeCon material from last week spilled into Gamescom and Blizzcon bonanzas this week. Not much got left on the cutting room floor or in my notebook. There are a couple of stories I have in the works for early next week, but of the stuff I just can’t cram into a post? Not much…(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Billy Hatcher‘s Kind of Back: H25 A couple of weeks ago, I played a bunch of Sega games and wrote about them. The one I didn’t get to was Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing. I played it and still plan to write a Preview. But I also was half-tempted to post about how the game surprised me by acknowledging the existence in Sega’s past of Billy Hatcher. Hatcher was the star of 2003’s Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg, a GameCube-launching game from Yuji Naka’s Sega Team that was the wrong game at the wrong time. While the gaming world was craving Grand Theft Autos and Halos, Sonic Team made a new cute mascot character who rolled giant eggs to safety so they could hatch partner animals for Billy. I believe the game was a flop. But it turns out that this early 2010 kart-racer from Sega has a Billy Hatcher stage, complete with giant eggs rolling across the track. And Hatcher is a racer in the game with his own egg car. h25 com สล็อต​ So… Billy’s back. An Extra Two Seconds: I sort of already h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ did post this, but no one noticed and I felt it wasn’t worth a standalone post. Based on testing the original PS3 and the PS3 Slim, recording their boot-up sequences and syncing them together in split-screen (all of which you can find elsewhere on this site), I discovered that the Slim takes two seconds longer to boot up. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe because it has a single on-off switch and isn’t in perpetual stand-by mode like my original PS3, which has an on-off switch in the back and a sleep switch in the front. I used my PS3 controller to shut down each machine, recorded them each booting back up. And, well… I guess two seconds isn’t really that big a deal. https://kotaku.com/ps3-slim-the-five-senses-tests-5341849/ Lots Of Screenshots Unseen: There comes a point when enough is enough with all the Gamescom screenshots and trailers. We’ve slowed that down because that’s not what we want the site to drown on. I had some new-screenshots posts in draft I left linger. I’d rather write something that would be read. I didn’t get to a Rage interview I still need to run, believe it or not. And a piece that had me talking to John Carmack about something Hideo Kojima said to me — that one’s for Monday. So there’s more. I’d suggest you have a nice weekend, but I’m not saying goodbye yet. Gotta do a little more work for the site today. All hail Fahey, McWhertor, and Crecente, the hard-working road warriors of the week!