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Jan
15
As is well-established, the best video game TV show in the world (sorry, revamped X-Play, Videogaiden) is Japanese ‘beat classic games’ show Game Center CX, as previously covered on GSW and painstakingly documented by our buddy Ray Barnholt at Crunk Games.
Now, Ray has updated Crunk Games (only the .org version, not the .com version […]
Sep
27
Aha - so John H’s second in Gamasutra’s ‘Game Design Essentials’ series, following ‘20 Difficult Games’, looks at the roots and design lessons of ‘open world games’ - titles in which the player “is left to his own devices to explore a large world” - from Adventure through Metroid to Grand Theft Auto.
Here’s something […]
Sep
9
The Rodent Pays Tribute To The Ocean
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Crazed UK-based game webazine Way Of The Rodent recently added their latest ramshackle Issue - #86, called ‘Caribbean Queen’, and I particularly wanted to highlight their tribute to UK software ‘legends’ Ocean Software - who were eventually subsumed into the Infogrames monolith, but rocked things for about 15 years from their Manchester, England HQ.
Of […]
Aug
13
[The fifth in a ragged series of ‘Alex Handy Sez’ missives, in which the former Game Developer editor and current Gamasutra contributor riffs on something or other, focuses on the just-concluded California Extreme retro arcade show.]
Yesterday, Travis and I went to California Extreme 2007, a celebration of arcade and pinball games. Hundreds of them, […]
Aug
3
Last night, something amazing happened. I was at a university reunion, and happily and accidentally enough, the keynote/commencement speech was from noted Deus Ex game designer Warren Spector. Mind you, I didn’t catch up with him straight away - not until I was browsing in a junk shop close to the reunion.
Turns out I […]
Jul
29
Who Is The Real King Of Kong?
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GameSetWatch has been all over classic game doc King Of Kong since it was signed at Sundance this year, even bringing retro-hungry readers an early review of the movie, which charts the intense Donkey Kong high score rivalry between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, back in April.
The doc, which opens nationwide on August 17th, […]
Jul
23
Happened to be reading the Chronicle Books blog today, and noticed a new post discussing their planned collaboration with Capcom to do detail histories of the Street Fighter and Mega Man franchises in book form in Fall 2008 - neat!
These folks also put out the ‘I Am 8-Bit’ book, and as assistant editor […]
Jul
22
Nope, not the classic David Crane co-designed game that preceded The Sims - rather, it’s The New Gamer checking out Anthony Rother’s chiptune/electro EP called ‘Little Computer People - The Remixes’, and it’s notable because of the retro computer visual content on the disc - which they’ve handily put up on YouTube.
As G.Turner notes […]
Jun
29
So, I’m hoping most of you already spotted Matt Barton’s awesome ‘The History Of Zork’ feature over at Gamasutra, another one in a series profiling the Digital Game Canon titles. But you might not have spotted that Barton put up full versions of his original interviews for the feature on his own Armchair Arcade […]
Jun
27
Every now and again, I like to sit back and focus on a neglected site that’s doing a sterling job in some way, and this time round, it’s the PlayStation Museum that I’d like to highlight, a resource that’s doing a great job of somewhat obsessively finding and documenting unreleased PlayStation games.
Of course, the […]