BioShock involved designer remakes Arcadia level for Doom II
…while also explaining differences between the game mechanics/player experience of Doom versus modern FPS games.
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2 March 2010
29 January 2010
Direct Youtube link. Also, Mafia Wars. I don’t quite have a chronological grasp of Youtube memes, but these really remind me of Powerthirst.
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20 January 2010
17 January 2010
24 December 2009
22 December 2009
19 December 2009
Browser Pong lets you play pong. With popup windows in your browser. Pure awesome. You should really try it out with a decently fast browser like Chrome…
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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.
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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.
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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″
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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
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