In: Gaming News|Indie
30 Dec 2009[Veteran indie game creator Edmund McMillen, known for his work on 2005 IGF Grand Prize winner Gish, Time Fcuk, and Super Meat Boy for WiiWare, shares his opinions and manifesto on making indie games, with 24 clear do-s and don't-s to make your art thrive.] One of the most common questions I’m asked in interviews [...]
In: Gaming News
30 Dec 2009Google applied for a patent earlier this year called “Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos”. Translation: bringing games to YouTube. Interesting. The application was filed in February, but only published this month. While it’s heavy on fluff, the gist of the patent is that Google would like to be able [...]
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
29 Dec 2009Champagne, pointy hats and Auld Lang Syne are for suckers. You want to kick off the new year in style, you do it by buying a brand new game for the NES. This is Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril, by Sivak Games. It’s a real, proper game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It even comes [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News
28 Dec 2009As we’ve covered, the Soviet Union didn’t just have big tanks and long lines for potatoes. It also had video games. But those games didn’t just sell themselves! Like everything else, they needed to be advertised. In addition to actual arcade cabinets, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines also plays home to a collection of [...]
In: Culture
28 Dec 2009High quality fan films can enrich video game lore as much as yaoi fanfiction damages it by filling plot holes and visualizing pieces of the game’s back story we only hear about in passing. Take for example the loss of Altair’s ring finger on his hidden-knife-hand. From playing Assassin’s Creed, we know he lost it [...]
In: Culture
28 Dec 2009This hand drawn, handmade bracelet features Pac-Man and Ghosts in a never ending circle. It was drawn as a vector image and then screened onto acetate and layered into durable clear resin. Neato! pac-man bracelet chomps its way around your wrist on [Technabob]
In: Gaming News|Microsoft
28 Dec 2009This is supposedly video of somebody playing Geometry Wars on Project Natal. Emphasis on the supposedly, in case you missed the italics first time around. A Destructoid reader reckons this was shot at a “Christmas Party”, though that’s where the information dries up. On the “could be” side of things, there’s lag at several points, [...]
In: Casual|Gaming News|iPhone
26 Dec 2009Scott Miller, the 3D Realms cofounder who came out looking somewhat better than eternally dithering partner George Broussard in Wired’s recent profile of Duke Nukem Forever, claims that “numerous other Duke games” are in development, some meant for casual gaming. Miller, quoted in the “first printed issue of Gamesauce,” says “the next few years should [...]
In: Gaming News
25 Dec 2009Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is getting more than just a big budget film adaptation next year. It’s also getting a LEGO brick adaptation of that very same movie. You know what that means? Chesty Jake LEGO! According to the LEGO obsessed crew at Brickset, there will be at least five set pieces [...]
In: Gaming News|PC
25 Dec 2009Authoring tools and a player software package that will allow for the creation and play of custom Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns for the PC were released Wednesday by Valve. Players wanting to play home-grown campaigns will need to install a sizable update (available via Steam under the Tools heading) in order to play new, [...]