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Sega is an old brand. There's heritage in that, but also baggage. So French design firm SYN decided to take a swing at sprucing the company's image up a little! More »
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Xander Davis is a game industry artist and graphic design fan, who after seeing the recent feature we ran on WipeOut and The Designers Republic dropped us a line. More »
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With only a few short weeks before Christmas, Razer prepares to take preorders on their dedicated gaming laptop, the Razer Blade. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan explains what's changed since the "world's first true gaming laptop" was revealed in August, and talks about the Army origins of the laptop's sleek and sexy design. More »
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In an interview with author William Gibson, the creator of the notion of "cyberpunk"—a milieu that remains heavily influential to the world building of video games—comments on what inspired him to deviate from the then-too-polished world of mainstream science fiction. It's relevant to today's Neuromancer-inspired video games: Make sure you put the dirt in corners. More »
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Blik, maker of fine stickables, and Namco Bandai, the people who own Pac-Man, are combining their respective powers to bring Inky, Pinky, Blinky, Clyde and other memorable 8-bit sprites to your wall. Starting today, you can put only the finest of Pac-Man decals on your walls, safely and stylishly. More »
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Playing video games and doing laundry are two activities that don't go well together at all, unless you're Kingston University design student Lee Wei Chen, who has used his magical powers to combine to join the two tasks in unholy matrimony. More »
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Lee Wei Chen, a design student at Kingston University, has come up with an arcade cabinet that washes your clothes. Which is also a washing machine that plays games. More »
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Are you guys excited about the Blip Festival Tokyo? For those of you who are, we've got an interview with one of the artists who will be playing during the shows dates of October 22-23rd, 2011. His name is Kenji, or better known as "M7Kenji." A mobile app designer, M7Kenji has played in two Blip Festivals alongside visualists like NoCarrier, Raquel Meyers, and Visualiscious. I'm not done yet, Kenji has also worked on many Flash, Android, and iPhone apps as well as aided in the design for numerous events in and around Japan. Quite the profile, if it has whet your appetite, then read on to see what M7Kenji has had to say about his style, influences, and more: More »
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Game designer Xander Davis recently started a new game design show on YouTube called "THINK TANK!" (his caps, not mine), where he sounds off on game design. More »
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The Microsoft engineers building Kinect "knew this thing was going to be viewed as a toy," says one, "and so it was going to be abused." So they abused it first, toughening the thing up to the point it could be dropped on concrete and still function. More »
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The fashionistas at fashion site Fashionary have come up with a range of 8-bit fashions based on their favourite designs from their favourite fashion designers. Fashion. Fashion. More »
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Launching in a white case five years ago, the Wii has seen a special edition release in red, and currently is available in black. Its successor, Wii U, goes back to white. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says the design choice is so people won't think the console is kid's stuff. More »
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Graphic designer Graham Smith has a little ongoing project where he takes famous brands and switches their logo. So for example you get the Coke logo but it says Pepsi. His work include a few video game examples. More »
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While it can do some game genres well, boy, for others the iPod can be a nightmare to use. Yet those nightmares could easily be sweet dreams with an add-on like Alan Li's Iphone Gaming Pod. More »
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Is there a perfect Sonic the Hedgehog video game? Perhaps the answer lies in our imaginations. In today's Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Lance423 wonders what your ideal speeding hedgehog game would play like. More »
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My dork tendencies run a little...stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller. More »
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It's the oldest profession in the world, but even in the free and easy 21st century, prostitution is still something that makes a lot of people squirm. Makes them feel uncomfortable. Maybe games can change that. More »
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By all accounts, "No F@*#king Respect: Social Game Developers Rant Back" was a hit at Game Developers Conference 2011. A standing-room only crowd listened to a panel of eminent designers address the virtues of and double-standards applied to social games. More »
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Isaac Clarke, hero of the Dead Space series of horror shooters from Electronic Arts, isn't the first man you'd turn to for fashion advice. I mean, he spends his days in an engineer suit. Covered in blood. More »
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Having to enter letters and numbers via a control pad sucks, as anyone typing out credit card numbers or download codes on an Xbox 360 or PS3 will attest. If only there was a way to make this necessary evil easier... More »
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You know how you have the ice cream part that goes in the middle and the cookie parts that stick out? The 3DS is designed like that, but for a very good reason. More »
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Bingo is fun! Least, it is when old ladies play. When it's based on how predictable blockbuster video game marketing and design has become, though, it's kind of a bummer. By Christina Coffin, as seen on I Get Your Fail. More »
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While the starships players will inhabit in the massively multiplayer Star Wars: The Old Republic may look unfamiliar, the initial reference for those vessels is a vehicle Star Wars gamers are intimately familiar with. More »
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Jenova Chen is the designer of genre-bending, artfully crafted games Cloud, FlOw and Flower. He's the co-founder of ThatGameCompany and the recipient of a master's degree from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division. He's also a cheater. More »
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A common criticism of Disney's Epic Mickey (made by Totilo in his review, too) concerns the game's flawed camera view. Warren Spector, the game's designer, says the problem is the game bridges two styles that use fairly standard angles. More »
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Freelance artist and game designer Anjin Anhut shares some thoughts (and neat comparison charts) on what size means for video game's creatures great and small . More »
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This cool demonstration by Design I/O, which produces "interactive installations" shows the Kinect being used to project animated hand puppets that respond to the user's movements. Design I/O built it in a day using open-source Kinect drivers. More »
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Adventure Time is the best new cartoon I've seen in years. So it's nice to see that the first person putting down sketches on how a game adaptation would work is Pendleton Ward, the man who created the show. More »
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Every year Gamescom hosts a computer design contest that draw some of the best case mods I've ever seen to the annual German game convention. More »
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Answer: "We're game development pussies," Bethesda's Todd Howard said at a QuakeCon panel on Friday. No really, the engine in Fallout and Elder Scrolls runs into AI problems if ladders are introduced, and the developer just works around them. More »
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Responding to vociferous reaction from its hardcore community, Madden NFL 11 will patch in original pre-snap adjustment controls that countermand the new "Strategy Pad," design, but not before a month after the game releases. More »
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A major change to a technical - but essential - component of calling plays had hardcore Madden gamers howling with complaints within hours of the demo version's release on Tuesday. But the new "Strategy Pad" controls are here to stay, like it or not. More »
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There doesn't seem to be a lot going on in the game scene right now (at least for people not interested in motion controls, ever-more-unsettling modern war shooters and misjudged forum policies), so I'm taking advantage of the quiet time to go back some of the basic structures in games. Today I'm taking a first-principles look at the kinds of stories videogames tell. More »
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There are regular editions of games, sure, but there are also two kinds of fancy editions: the kind people pay extra money for, and the kind publishers send to the press. More »
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Didn't know this: Red Dead Redemption has an "afk" mode - don't move the controller, and Marston and the HUD disappear, revealing a panoramic view. Digital Foundry used this mode to create startlingly lifelike time-lapse videos that you may download. More »
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Kitchen not Asteroids-referencing enough? Have a Centipede problem in your foyer, as in not enough Centipede stickers slathered upon your walls? Wall experts Blik and retro-game rights holders Atari can fix that right up. More »
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When veteran developers Rare changed their logo earlier this week, it got me thinking about other studio's brands, and how a good logo can really help define what a developer is all about. More »
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In this day and age, logos are a fickle thing, companies going through them like clean underwear in the constant search for "reinvention". This week, one of the oldest developers in the industry has broken down and joined in. More »
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When the world is in turmoil, fashion is everything. Guild Wars 2 character artist Kristen Perry discusses the process of creating the clothes the races of Tyria will wear 250 years after the first game. More »
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Like movies, the design of games can often be reduced to a set of "building blocks", various elements that you can combine to form the final product. It's an abstract concept, but one that's perfectly illustrated in this...card game. More »
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