YouTube, the web-based film sharing giant owned by Google Inc., applied for a patent in February, 2009 which would enable the use of videogames on their site. The gist of what they plan to do is alter videos on there site to create games that work in a similar fashion to the way choose [...]
In 2010 is the 20th anniversary of Super Famicom, the best selling 16bit console with more than 49 millions units sold. It’s also the 30th anniversary of PacMan.
Please have a look of the video game history timeline by clicking on the picture above (via Player1). Read also The Dot Eaters timeline that describes precisely video [...]
In the mid-1980s I bought a KoalaPad, which was a wonderful touch pad for the Commodore 64. In the end-1980s I bought Deluxe Paint for the Commodore Amiga and did few graphics for our demoscene group. So, it’s a long time, that I’m really a fan of pixel art and especially pixel street art like [...]
Sega’s Wayne Shiu did an interview with MCNBC recently, in which he described Bayonetta as a game that takes things back to the “action arcade roots” of gaming with a “pick up and play” style accessible to those who want to “mash the buttons.”
At what point did button mashing become the equivalent of “arcade throwback” [...]
Sometimes video game systems start to lose their visual flair with time. It is a good thing technology experts work on a console’s visual capabilities years before it is released.
That being said, Sony is looking into ways in which they can juice their future consoles overall performance. The Playstation founders are in the midst of [...]
David Jaffe, the man behind the popular God of War franchise, loves to interact with followers on his Twitter account, but what he apparently loves even more is the open world approach of Zelda 64. In a series of tweets, David reveals that while he loves the God of War franchise in its current state, [...]
A great new and impressive demo from deMarche demo group : Mescaline Synesthesia
This demo is ranked 1st at the Ultimate Meeting 2009 in Germany.
The demo doesn’t use hardware gigascreen, it runs on normal spectrum 128k and I success to run it on my ZX Spectrum emulator ZXSP (Mac OSX).
The ZX demoscene is still alive [...]
Remember last year when a few million copies of Spore were pirated and everyone had a fit? Well, stand aside for 2009’s ‘winner’. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the PC has been torrented approximately 4.1 million times. Add that to the 970,000 illegal downloads for the Xbox 360 version and Infinity Ward is looking at over 5 million [...]
I had an Atari when I was a kid, but I didn’t really become a gamer until I got an NES. I played a ton of games on there, and thanks to Virtual Console I can be easily reminded how hard some of those games were. Sivak Games is bringing back that feeling of anger [...]
Surprise and Happy Holidays! Here’s a very small DIFNetLabel release for the holidays! It’s called « A Two Dude Christmas » and features two songs, one by VultureMoose, and one by Blair Witch On Blue Ray.
Track Listing:
( Track 1 / 04:58 ) 8-Bit Wassail (A Christmas Medley) – Blair Witch on Blue Ray
( Track 2 / 04:31 [...]
For this last week 2009, please take the time to download the last released for Amstrad CPC 6128+ : Rick Dangerous.
20 years ago, Rick Dangerous was out on Amstrad CPC. This typical platform game from end of 80’s was ported to several systems : ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga 500 and IBM PC…
20 [...]
A new Capcom surprise : Dark Void Zero. This 8bit game rocketing to DSiWare in January. The mobile and PC versions of the 8-bit game will be available in February, one month after the DSi.
Capcom seems to really like the package they did for « Mega Man 9″ and soon « Mega Man 10 » by designing retro [...]
Rush Coil presents 8-BIT CHRISTMAS, a full-length album inspired by classic video game music.
Purchasing this new 8-bit album is a great way to donate to a good cause : Child’s Play. The organization presents hospitalized chidren around the globe with games and toys during the holiday season.
(via Escapist)
Pixeljam are back with the game “Mountain Maniac“. DigitalTools says :
a strange mixture of Frogger, Pachinko, a fun casual game and some irritating storytelling. You play the “montain maniac” and have the goal to score points by destroying the city below the mountain. You do this by shooting of rocks out of the mountain. Insane [...]
After London, Los Angeles and 10 other cities …, the German artist group eBoy realizes its 13th poster to the South french riviera city Marseille. At an exhibition of outstanding posters of all cities, the public will discover the unique display of Marseille from eBoy at Centre Design of Marseille (6 avenue de la Corse, [...]
Take out your Game Boys, Commodore 64, Nes or Famicom Console, the Blip Festival is back for its fourth year of low-tech music magic. It takes place in New York City December 17th-19th.
Despite having a guess entry to the Festival we did not have the opportunity to attend to Blip Festival for professional reasons… sometimes [...]