The Settlers of Catan ported to Microsoft Surface #
[via:Chris Helenius]
25 June 2010
6 December 2009
Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement
An essay on how role playing games might work as bogus affirmation for vulnerable, performance orientated egos.
[via:Nelg]
13 August 2009
New York Times discusses the creation of “The Beatles: Rock Band”
A few videos and slide shows with elaborate notes and included.
The Beatles in video games has been discussed on this site before.
[via:Waxy]
30 July 2009
Disney developing “Epic Mickey”, a video game set in a dystopian steampunk Magic Kingdom
“The project [...] is being headed by former Deus Ex designer Warren Spector, whose studio was acquired by Disney in 2007″
[via:Waxy]
26 June 2009
Certified WTF: Michael Jackson’s video game career
The above link is a quite readable Google translation from Italian.
See also:
Youtube links 1, 2, Wikipedia article on the game series.
EDIT: Jean pointed out that Angry Video Game Nerd has an extensive review of one of the games. Beats the videos mentioned above.
25 March 2009
7 February 2009
Awesome book covers for games in Something Awful forums.
6 February 2009
Ze Frank’s voice drawing toy
See also: the show
[via:Skrubu]
23 December 2008
1 December 2008
Unsanity in a Flash: Bio-Bak, a Dutch artist portfolio
This is true, rare Fat-Pie class weirdness. Make sure that you view the site in full screen.
[via:Waxy]
17 November 2008
Offworld, Boing Boing’s new gaming blog
That web design is so retro it makes me want to eat mushrooms.
[via:Waxy]
18 October 2008
PS3 game soundtrack with Qur’an reference causes massive recall
The combination of religious pigfuckers and corporate censorship is such great fun. Also: fuck multiculturalism.
[via:LOLtheist]
13 October 2008
Ars Technica reviews “Night of Bush Capturing” (islamist propaganda game)
The following Youtube video of the “final boss” is included in the review.
[via:rms]
9 October 2008
Portal: Prelude, a free, unofficial Portal mod with prequel storyline
“At this time, test subjects were monitored by real Aperture Science employees whose work was tedious, lengthy and repetitive. This is why they decided to build a great artificial intelligence that could both replace them in these difficult tasks [...] and compete with Black Mesa’s superiority. All employees of the Aperture Science complex are now eagerly awaiting GlaDOS. Maybe even a little too eagerly, as the upcoming events will tell…”
[via:Waxy]