Yet another retro style “demake” coming out for WiiWare next month. I could listen to these sweet 8-bit tunes all day! (Okay, I might actually get sick of them after a couple hours.) For more info, check out the game’s official website.
Wow, I had heard the rumours about a Microsoft Zune / Xbox Handheld phone for a couple of years now, but I had no idea that Sony was working on a Playstation phone. This is still just a prototype, but it is apparently the real deal. As you can see it’s a Sony Ericsson phone [...]
Nope, it’s not real, but somehow it makes perfect sense. Atlantic City… Baltimore… what’s the difference?
via The Poke
Super Meat Boy is another indie retro throwback platformer headed to Xbox Live Arcade next week, and to promote it they’ve released this fantastic commercial that parodies what video game commercials looked like on TV back in the late ’80s / early ’90s. This brings back fond memories of the Gamepro TV show hosted by [...]
I’ve read a lot of books about video games over the years, some of them dry and academic, others more nerdy and obsessive, but I don’t think any of them have been as insightful or important as Tom Bissell’s Extra Lives. Bissell is a fiction writer who just so happens to love playing video games [...]
Weird. Valve recently announced that Stephen Merchant (yes, writing partner of Ricky Gervais and co-creator of The Office) will be voicing a character in Portal 2, and they’ve released a new gameplay video to prove it. He plays Wheatley, a floating eyeball droid type thing that acts as your companion through part of the game. [...]
There’s been a definite trend in commercials and trailers for blockbuster video game releases as of late. They all seem to favour quiet, sombre music in an attempt to appear artistic and thoughtful — something that probably stems from the Gears of War commercial that Microsoft put out a few years ago featuring Gary Jules’ [...]
Puzzle Quest meets Castlevania anyone? Although Konami claims that the main inspiration for Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night is an older Japanese game series called Puzzle-Dama, I can’t help but think that Puzzle Quest was also a big influence as it essentially takes the RPG and story elements of Castlevania and combines them with [...]