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CultureFeatureAn Interview With Blur Studio
A chat with the folks behind many of video gaming's best trailers
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 22 PvPonline published Sept. 21. ActionTrip published Sept. 20. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 22. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Sept. 21. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 23. Nerf NOW published Sept. 24. Rooster Teeth published Sept. 23. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 24. Little Gamers published Sept. 22
By Owen Good Published September 26, 2010 -
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That’s One Way To Sex Up Team Tennis
Classic racy ad for Tengen’s Davis Cup World Tour on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and you didn’t have to hide the magazine under your mattress. Seen on GameDummy via Reddit – a Redditor notes the ad references this picture (NSFW)
By Owen Good Published September 21, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 15. PvPonline published Sept. 16. ActionTrip published Sept. 13. Digital Unrest published Sept. 16. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 13. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Sept. 18. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 16. Nerf NOW published Sept. 16. Rooster Teeth published Sept. 18. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 15. Little Gamers published Sept. 13.
By Owen Good Published September 19, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 8. PvPonline published Sept. 7. ActionTrip published Sept. 6. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 7. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 7. Nerf NOW published Sept. 6. Rooster Teeth published Sept. 7. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 8. Little Gamers published Sept. 6.
By Owen Good Published September 12, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Sept. 1 PvPonline published Sept. 2 ActionTrip published Aug. 30. Digital Unrest published Aug. 30. EXTRALIFE published Sept. 3. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Sept. 3. Dueling Analogs published Sept. 2 Nerf NOW published Sept. 1 Rooster Teeth published Sept. 4. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 30. Virtual Shackles published Sept. 3. Little Gamers published…
By Owen Good Published September 5, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Aug. 25. PvPonline published Aug. 23. ActionTrip published Aug. 23. Digital Unrest published Aug. 24. EXTRALIFE published Aug. 23. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Aug. 25. Dueling Analogs published Aug. 26. Nerf NOW published Aug. 27. Rooster Teeth published Aug. 28. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 25. Virtual Shackles published Aug. 27.
By Owen Good Published August 29, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Aug. 16. PvPonline published Aug. 19. ActionTrip published Aug. 16. Digital Unrest published Aug. 9. EXTRALIFE published Aug. 18. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Aug. 21. Dueling Analogs published Aug. 19. Nerf NOW published Aug. 19. Rooster Teeth published Aug. 17. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 18. Virtual Shackles published Aug. 20. Little Gamers published…
By Owen Good Published August 22, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Aug. 11. PvPonline published Aug. 9. ActionTrip published Aug. 9. EXTRALIFE published Aug. 11. Ctrl+Alt+Del published Aug. 11. Dueling Analogs published Aug. 9. Nerf NOW published Aug. 10. Rooster Teeth published Aug. 10. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 9. Virtual Shackles published Aug. 11.
By Owen Good Published August 15, 2010 -
CultureTotal RecallNot Everyone Played The Oregon Trail, You Know
The Oregon Trail holds a special place in many American’s hearts, because it’s a game they played when they were both young, and at school. If you were British or Australian, though, you might have played something else In the 1980s, many schools in both countries were equipped with BBC Micro computers, often the first…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published Aug. 4. PvPonline published Aug. 2. ActionTrip published Aug. 2. EXTRALIFE published Aug. 2. Ctrl+Alt+Del published July 30. Dueling Analogs published Aug. 2. Nerf NOW published Aug. 3. Rooster Teeth published Aug. 3. Monday Night Crew published Aug. 4. Virtual Shackles published Aug. 4. Little Gamers published Aug. 2.
By Owen Good Published August 8, 2010 -
CultureTotal Recall
Namco: Maker Of Games, Builder Of ROBOTS
During the early 1980s, Namco wasn’t only conquering arcades with games like Pac-Man. The company was doing something else. Something important. It was building robots. Namco made a handful of bots for the Japanese Science Foundation Musuem, including “Largo” the stamp robot. Kids would press Largo’s red nose and the robot would then stamp their…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 26. PvPonline published July 26. ActionTrip published July 26. Digital Unrest published July 26. EXTRALIFE published July 27. Ctrl+Alt+Del published July 28. Dueling Analogs published July 29. Nerf NOW published July 27. Rooster Teeth published July 29. Monday Night Crew published July 28. Virtual Shackles published July 28. Little Gamers published…
By Owen Good Published August 1, 2010 -
CultureTotal Recall
Where Were You In 1998?
The first StarCraft game was released in March 1998. That was twelve years ago. So much has changed. So have I. And the smart money says so have you. In 1998, I was a student at Cornell. I hadn’t really used email before college, and I didn’t use online sources for any of my papers.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 27, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 21. PvPonline published July 23. ActionTrip published July 19. EXTRALIFE published July 23. Ctrl+Alt+Del published July 21. Dueling Analogs published July 19. Nerf NOW published July 19. Rooster Teeth published July 24. Monday Night Crew published July 23. Virtual Shackles published July 19. Little Gamers published July 20.
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2010 -
CultureTotal RecallResident Evil Does The Cancan
There are words to describe this. I, however, am at a loss for them. A Japanese gamer spliced scenes and sounds from Resident Evil to reproduce “Infernal Galop”, more commonly known as the “cancan song”. Resident Evil Meets CanCan [Capcom Unity]
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 21, 2010 -
CultureSplitscreen
Sony Explores Alternative to Split-Screen Multiplayer
A couple of patent applications published recently show that Sony’s looking at stereoscopic video for more than just 3D gaming; it could take the place of split-screen local multiplayer. Broke My Controller noticed the applications, filed a year ago and published on Thursday, that show a method for rendering separate images on the same screen,…
By Owen Good Published July 19, 2010 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Penny Arcade published July 14. PvPonline published July 13. Digital Unrest published July 12. ActionTrip published July 12. EXTRALIFE published July 12. Ctrl+Alt+Del published July 15. Dueling Analogs published July 15. Nerf NOW published July 14. Rooster Teeth published July 13. Monday Night Crew published July 14. Virtual Shackles published July 14. Little Gamers published…
By Owen Good Published July 18, 2010 -
CultureTotal RecallA Celebration Of Video Game…Boot-Up Sequences
It may seem a trivial thing, but a game’s boot-up sequence can be more important than you realise! First impressions count, after all, and the first impression you get of a game is the sequence as it starts up. This is nearly always – always – in the form of a procession of logos. Developer…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2010 -
CultureTotal Recall
The Genesis Of System Shock 2
Irrational Games, creators of BioShock, uncovered a long-lost treasure the other day: a sketchbook, full of concept art for the game that got the studio rolling, System Shock 2. In a cute touch (and a sign of how long it’s been since the game was released), the images are actual sketches on actual paper. With…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 14, 2010