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Sep
4
Leipzig GC 2007: The French team preserving gaming history for the future
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"Dave, you’ve got to get over to Hall 5. There are some guys over there who’ve got every console ever on free play."
"Every console ever?"
"And a couple of arcade cabinets. And the consoles are all set up on the original TVs from each era."
"Let’s go."
Thus went the conversation between myself and and my Dad which […]
Sep
4
How-to guide to get you started with XNA Game Studio
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Now that you know how much game makers make, perhaps you’d like to try making your own game. Apparently, Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express is easy enough for 10th graders to land a game on the X07 show floor, so this would be a great place for newbs to start. You’re in luck, as Ed […]
Sep
4
Sony to use PS3, PSP, and Bravia to take on iTunes
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While the day-to-day pew! pew! of gaming news is left to gaming Web sites and blogs, you can bet that the big dogs like the Wall Street Journal will quickly jump on news about opposition to Apple and its iTunes download services, especialy when Sony is a player in the battle.
The article talks about how […]
Sep
4
RetroforceGO!: Episode 14: Everything’s coming up Metroid
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Another week, another podcast, and another chance to hem and haw about games from a cranky old gamers point of view. Yes folks, it’s time for another RetroforceGO!
This week, the Core Four reunites and has a long, looooong discussion in celebration of the Month of Metroid. As always, we do our best to be at […]
Sep
4
Threadless holds contest to design an E for All shirt, winner gets to attend
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Half my closet consists of Threadless.com t shirts. The other half is filled with stiletto pumps and goat costumes with neon genitalia, but that’s a story best saved for another time. After their awesome competition to design a BioShock shirt as a part of their "Loves Threadless" series, the video game love has continued — […]
Sep
4
It came from 1995: Bug Too! promotional video
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Do you remember the Sega Saturn game Bug!? Wait, do you even remember the Sega Saturn?
Gamers that dropped $400 on Sega’s black beast surely came to know the three-dimensional platformer called Bug! for many of the same reasons they came to know Clockwork Knight — there was almost nothing else to play at the time. […]
Sep
4
Our beloved .Tiff was kind enough to point me in the direction of this amazing new oki-ni 8-inch Dunny, which releases Sept 6th in a limited run of 1000 pieces. She and I are obsessed with all things vinyl, as we may have mentioned in our previous posts. Retro themed modern toys are like the […]
Sep
4
Now, we previously reported back in April that the highlights of Game Developer magazine’s latest Salary Survey had been released - well now, over on our sister educational site Game Career Guide, there’s a more in-depth run down of game industry salaries, taken from the very same survey.
There are plenty of graphs to check […]
Sep
4
Destructoid review: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
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If you own a Wii, chances are you’ve spent the last month biting your fingernails to the quick in anticipation for the final installment in the Metroid Prime series, Corruption. For the hardcore crowd, there’s a lot riding this game’s quality and success; Metroid Prime 3 is the first big release to be built from […]
Sep
4
Time was short at Activision on the day I popped over for a look at the new Quake II-themed Enemy Territory game, so I unfortunately didn’t get as long as I’d hoped for with what was one of my most looked-forward-to games of the GC. What I did get though, was a very enjoyable twenty […]