April 2010
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Getting serious with the Game Boy Camera →
To use it effectively, try seeing the world the way it does. Your world is black and white. Contrast is accentuated. Detail is blurred. You can’t see very far ahead, so you must get close to things to see them. Wide angle distortion creeps in. You tilt sideways to see as much of objects as you can and still be close to them. Familiar and boring objects often look surprising and different...
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Cory Schmitz's EXP Zine is Magic
These fantastic game cluttered floors remind me heavily of a high school friend’s room and I can’t stop looking them. The VMU on the Killer 7 box is stellar.
Schmitz has crafted the perfect covers for the debut of his zine, as it really does bring on a surge of awesome memories and emotions. I mean look at that GameBoy printer, and that GBC copy of Metal Gear Solid beneath the...
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Good App Get! Joypad
Joypad is an excellent app that enables you to turn your iPhone/iPod touch into a fantastic touch-based wireless controller for your Mac. You can play your favorite emulated games and customize the controls using an easy to use keystroke mapper. I even managed to get it to work with MacMAME and played some SHMUPS and it worked really well.
Haters gonna hate. Touch screen controllers have been...
Matt Kish, Moby Dick, A Temporary Tattoo, and A...
Yesterday my girlfriend and I decided that we would go to Columbus, OH to stop in on Matt Kish and his wife, Ione Damasco at the Small Press and Comics Expo, AKA S.P.A.C.E.
Before we headed on our trip, Becca showed me this awesome temp tattoo that she applied with her younger sister, and it looked so cool we both thought it’d be rad if it was real, and of course if she designed it.
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The Sad Past and Present of the Lord of the Rings...
E.A. and Sierra made okay games inspired by the Lord of the Rings films, and now Warner Bros. has the lease for the games as well. The most recent boxart for the new Aragorn’s Quest game from Warner Bros. has saddened me and forced my hand to call out the awful video games and boxart one of the most beloved stories has had to endure.
Before the live action movies rekindled a love for...
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Good Art Get! Cory Schmitz's Team ICO Love
Cory Schmitz has a thing for games, and a thing for the mouse/pen at the end of his hand.
These pieces are absolutely fantastic.
The ICO piece is particularly excellent. While a little more chipper than the game itself, it’s a really great interpretation.
via Yay! Everyday
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Alex Okafor and Adam Stewart of One Man Left have only made one commercial game to date, but it’s hella fun, witty, and polished. Their debut game Tilt To Live isn’t some ridiculous poppycock art game, it’s an arcade inspired tilt shooter inspired by our desire to move our hands and shoot shit.
Shit being shot at also known as red dots.
You are the white ball and...
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SB: Sword & Sworcery EP Menu Sketch
The Superbrothers/Capy/Jim Gutherie iPhone epic, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is approaching, but not fast enough. Luckily we have information and images occasionally trickling down the tubes.
Craig Adams of the Brothers, Super has unveiled a sneak peak at the game’s menu which conjures even more questions about the game. Eric Caoili of GameSetWatch points out,...
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Pokémon Black and White Screenshots
Check out how the Pokémart and the Pokémon Center are now in one building!
This fall the generation five Pokémon games will debut in Japan and above are some of the very first screenshots revealed to the public. While the blurry/amateur/non-scanned/flash-on photos of the screenshots are fairly crap, we can really see the awesomeness that the overworld has to offer.
The game now has a...
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The old GameBoy graphics style is definitely obsolete, with its limited resolution of 160×144 and a monochromatic color palette that had four shades of olive.
Its legacy is intriguing as a game development platform if you think about it. It’s the absolute anti-thesis to contemporary mainstream game design.
TripWorld for the GB, via PixelStyle
I know I’m beating a dead horse...
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Generation Five Pokémon Games Officially Announced
Nintendo of Japan has updated the Pokémon website with a brand new splash page featuring the logos for Pokémon Black, and Pokémon White (or at least I’m guessing that is what they’re called based on the “bw” in the URL and the fact that one logo is black and the other is white. Could be wrong.)! They’ll be out by year’s end, which could potentially be next March...
Pokéwalker Win.
The Pokéwalker memes are so hot right now.
via my awesome GF.
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Espgaluda II coming to iPhone
Cave makes the best shmups next to Treasure, and Espgaluda II looks to be no exception.
Just listen to that soundtrack! Bad ass.
The game is due out in five days on April 10th and it’ll be released for only $4.99!
A steal!
The new awakening pulse scoring technique looks to be endearing, and hopefully doesn’t feel like some gimmick they just glued on for the port.
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“AM2, makers of OutRun 2, with Virtua Fighter 5 a worldly success, and...”
– Tim Rogers in his OutRun 2 review.
“AM2, makers of OutRun 2, with Virtua Fighter 5 a worldly success, and...”
– Tim Rogers in his OutRun 2 review.
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