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UncategorizedAn Adventure Game That Should Have Been Called Milhouse: The Later Years
Anna’s Quest is a new episodic adventure game series from indie developer Dane Krams, with a cute little art style. It gains added weight, though, when you see the poster/art for the game, and notice it features what looks like a 70 year-old Milhouse. Good to see he got over Lisa Simpson and moved on…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
The History of Music. In Animated Gif Form.
Those lacking the will to read up on the history of music, or even watch a nice documentary, here: the history of music, presented in the form of animated gifs. They’re the work of musician Joshua Carrafa, and what I like best isn’t the fact they’re genuinely educational (in a “Trivial Pursuit card” kind of…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedNew Trailer For The New Kingdom Hearts Game…Collection…Thing
Square Enix was really weird about Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix at the Tokyo Game Show. Kept saying it was a “video work”. We’re sure there’s going to be game in there somewhere, probably a lot going by the footage here, but just how much, we won’t know until Square stops being so weird. Anyway,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedFrom Mass Effect to…Death Metal Horror Movies
Richard Boylan, a cinematic artist at BioWare, has spent his waking hours for the last few years working on the Mass Effect series. All that synth, and white walls, and clean space stations…it’s enough to drive a man to make a death metal horror movie. So, you know, that’s what he’s done. Boylan has written…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhen Brilliant Scientists Also Have Amazing Toy Collections
Dr. Mark C. Glassy’s official bio reads like this: Dr. Mark C. Glassy is the Chief Executive Officer of Nascent Biologics, Inc., the Director of and Professor at the Integrated Medical Science Association Foundation, and is on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Bioscience…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Animal Crossing Only Makes Break-Ups Worse
If you’ve ever played an Animal Crossing game, you’ve surely done it at least once: name something, or somewhere, after a friend or loved one. It seems a good fit, bringing the real world into your clockwork virtual one, but that door swings both ways. What seems cute or appropriate when things are going well…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
A Week of Cosplayers Doing What They Do Best
While all eyes were on Japan this week at the Tokyo Game Show, where cosplay is almost as big a draw as the games themselves (at least on the weekend), those engaged in the art elsewhere quietly had one of the most impressive weeks we’ve seen in a while here on Fancy Pants. Seriously. If…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
The World Would be Cooler if it Was Made Out of Polygons
Designers Jeremiah Shaw & Danny Jones have set up a site called Geo a Day. The idea is simple. It’s a “daily exercise in exploration of shapes and form”, meaning every day we get a new image made entirely out of geometric shapes. It’s like children’s television, video games and graphic design got together and…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedThis Brand New Neo Geo Game Will Make You Move Your TV
From the same guys who brought you Gunlord, comes NEO XYX, a shooter for the Neo Geo that…yes, this will be a Neo Geo game. On a cartridge and everything. Because it’ll only be made in a small run, and because it’s being made for a dead console that uses expensive cartridges, don’t be too…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
“He Threatens to Stab me if I Don’t Give Him a Copy of This New JRPG”
Website CollegeHumor has a section called Works Sucks. It’s a place where the downtrodden and downbeat can swap stories, comparing how awful their jobs are and hopefully finding solace in the fact their shitty job isn’t as shitty as someone else’s. Amidst all the complaints from factory workers and IT victims, this one popped up…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
One of These 17 Beautiful Screenshots is Your Next Desktop Wallpaper
Joanne, aka PixieGIrl4, is a video game “photographer” in the same vein as guys like Duncan “Dead End Thrills” Harris She is very, very good at what she does. Below you’ll find some of her best “screenshots” (click to embiggen), which are captured using tools and tweaks that can – and often does – melt…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Murdered EVE Online Player Was a CIA Agent, According to the Infinite Wisdom of Glenn Beck
Continuing his blossoming love affair with the video game community, conservative pundit Glenn Beck has waded into the tragic events surrounding the death of State Department employee Sean Smith in Libya earlier this month Not to pay his respects, though. He’s bringing it up to accuse Smith and his colleagues of either working with the…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Sports Video Games Try to Hold On, with Infinite Diversity in Finite Releases
The question was put forth this past week, in a podcast where I was a panelist: Are sports video games in a golden age? “No,” seems to be the most obvious answer. Ten years ago, we had competing simulation titles in college football, college basketball and in professional hockey at least, to say nothing of…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Culture
The Week in Game: Kick a Panda
Only Warcraft could survive a matchup with both FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, and that’s what you get this week, along with Dead Or Alive 5 Tuesday • World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (PC) • FIFA 13 (PS3, PC, Xbox 360, Vita, 3DS, PSP, Wii) • Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 (360, PS3, PC) •…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Esports
Free-to-Play Considered for Multiplayer StarCraft, Says Designer
At the inaugural eSports Congress in Valencia, StarCraft II‘s lead designer was asked of the possibility his game would go free-to-play, considering the potential that has to grow a game’s user base and competitive population. According to PCGamesN, that concept has been discussed. Blizzard, the game’s publisher is “looking at free-to-play as an option for…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 -
UncategorizedWhat Really Happened to Abe Lincoln? Skyrim has the Answer.
Two mods, the “Now you F**ked Up Mudcrab” mod, and the “Posh mudcrabs” mod combine for a near virtuoso reenactment of the climactic dialogue in The Whitest Kids You Know’s “What Really Happened to Abraham Lincoln.” [NSFW, language] I’m a little unclear, however. Despite the mudcrabs’ remonstrations, has the player in fact fucked up? YouTube…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
For a Change, Here’s a Borderlands 2 Easter Egg in Another Game
Barely a week into its release, Borderlands 2 is sprouting Easter eggs like—OK, the hell with it, it’s already a mixed metaphor—mushrooms after rain. Fine. Borderlands 2 is paying homage to so many other great games, here’s Torchlight II paying tribute to its fellow alumnus of the Class of Sept 17, 2012. Image uploaded by…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Strange Xbox Live/Time-Warner Outage Now In Its Second Day
This is the best part of Internet outages—when the Internet service provider blames the hardware, and vice versa. The customers really don’t care what the problem is. But a “a subset of Time/Warner ISP users” that haven’t been able to connect to Xbox Live since noon yesterday still can’t get into the system today. The…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Brief Boxes
The Sega Saturn lasted about three years in North America. It hung on twice as long in Japan. These two cosplayers paid tribute to it (more specifically, to the console’s Hitachi and JVC models) at Tokyo Game Show. It’s been a while since we had a cosplay exploitable, and if any is good for the…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012 - Uncategorized
ChrisWarcraft’s Weekly NFL Quest, Level Three: Banish the Gold Farmers of the West [Update]
Haven’t you heard? Football is a role-playing game. Or at least, that’s how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, seems to be approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterizes his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We’re going to chart his progress and…
By Owen Good Published September 23, 2012