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Wario Land: Shake It

theDarkStranger — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:22:47 +0000

Have you seen this youtube Wario Land page yet? Damn that’s pretty sweet… had me smiling like a total goofball when I pulled it up. Some nice effects coding.

Can’t slap a picture up but here is the linky.

Line Rider

Paul — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:20:18 +0000

Hi everyone. It’s been a long time. I’ve been playing Line Rider.

Mmmm… liney.

ZOLTAR!

theDarkStranger — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:20:41 +0000

Remember Zoltar from our childhood days? Come on, think! Zoltar is the fortune telling machine that was the movie Big. Now that should ring a bell. Well looks like Zoltar has now become a mass production machine. You can purchase one for the low low price of $8,999.95. Here is a link if you want to purchase your own Zoltar!

Â Â Zoltar Specs:

The classic animatronic fortune teller lives in an oak cabinet that stands at 6 1/2′ tall, and senses your presence and invites you to approach him. After you insert a quarter, Zoltar checks his crystal ball and provides one of 16 different spoken fortunes and dispenses one of 23 different printed fortunes on a paper card. Just be careful what you wish for.

Microsoft Announces XNA Game Studio Express

Paul — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:56:22 +0000

“Talking on the eve of its Gamefest event in Seattle, Microsoft has revealed XNA Game Studio Express, a new product which will allow indie developers and students to develop simultaneously on Xbox 360 and PC, and share their games to others in a new Xbox 360 ‘Creators Club’.”

Taken from the Gamasutra website.

Looks like Microsoft is ramping up for what will be one of the largest and most vicious console wars to date. This alone would convince me to purchase a 360 over the exorbitantly priced, PS3. Coupled with rumors that Microsoft is also planning project Panorama, a version of Live Arcade for Vista has me lickin’ my chops. There is slight catch, however.

Developers who want to share their homemade beauties with the Xbox 360 base will have to shell out $99 per year to be part of the “Creators Club”. A small price to pay for such a wide audience, IMO.

Related Gamasutra article, here and be sure to check out the XNA Game Studio Express FAQ, here.

Color me PSYCHED!!!

E3 Is Upon Us

Grendel Stupe — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:52:13 +0000

Check out the E3 Insider site for up-to-the-minute coverage (I’m just hoping for some Wolfenstein action, myself).

Bethesda: Don’t Step In The Horse Manure

Grendel Stupe — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:14:44 +0000

Bethesda software released a mod for their most recent uber-RPG Oblivion that allows the player to download and equip armor for a horse. Cool, right? Mos def – With one exception: players who want the armor have to shell out either $1.99 (PC) or $2.50 (XBox 360) for the mod. I’m just crushed at the thought of this business model catching on and bleeding into the market. With games starting to get so incredible, I guess it was just a matter of time before some wonderboy wants to withhold just a little bit of cool factor and bleed me nickel by dime to get the “full” game. And there’s more on the way…

Pete Hines: “…I think once folks see the full list of things weâ€™re doing and not just this first one, theyâ€™ll understand weâ€™re trying to do more than last time.”

“Lots of people have done themes, so nobody flinches when we put out a theme for 150 points. They download it like crazy, but nobody else is doing premium content like this, so weâ€™re out front on it.”

Thanks Pete. Really. I mean, it’s quite similar – a theme, really, is almost exactly like FREAKING HORSE ARMOR WHICH WILL LET MY CHARACTER LIVE A LITTLE LONGER IN YOUR GAME.

It’s just so…so…lame! Isn’t there a way to at least incorporate this into the game somehow? Hey, here’s a crazy idea…let me DEFEAT SOME EVIL GRUE to win the armor? Whoah! Crazy talk! I know!!! Lead me away, I’m just nutty.

This is ridiculous. I bought the freaking COLLECTORS EDITION, folks. What a cheap-ass low blow. Hey, Bethesda – suck it!!! Looks like my horse will be suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. At least until somebody hacks it and releases it for free! Bitches.

YALL: Gaming Now and Then

Paul — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:28:12 +0000

Here’s yet another leached link for y’all: Gaming Now and Then

Very short and entertaining with plenty of pictures and no reading.

What else could you ask for on a Thursday morning?

(Besides a toasted everything bagle with bacon scallion cream cheese and large coffee, that is.)

The Blind Samurai Gamer

Paul — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:21:51 +0000

You read it right folks. Brice Mellen, blind since birth when he was struck with Leberâ€™s disease learned to play video games when he was 6 years old. Brice honed his craft by listening to the sounds that are invoked when certain moves are made. His focus is primarily on fighting games and he’ll be testing his skills against some of the best when he enters a Mortal Kombat Deception tournament in Lincoln, Nebraska.

You can learn more about Brice here.

Nissan to Develop Xbox 360 Car

Paul — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:15:42 +0000

According to Motortrend, Nissan is developing a concept car that will include an embedded Xbox 360 video game console.

“A pure, powerful sports car with motorcycle-inspired styling, the rear-wheel drive URGE features a quick, high-revving, small-displacement engine, six-speed manual gearbox, brushed aluminum-alloy wheels, color-infused aluminum body panels and a driver-oriented cockpit with an integrated Xbox 360 gaming system.”

Apparantly the car will allow people to play games like Project Gotham Racing 3 (while parked of course) on a 7-inch flat-panel display.

More images can be found, here.

Crazy or cool?

The Ultimate Flight Sim

Paul — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:11:15 +0000

According to some rumors floating around the flight simulator community it seems that very soon when someone asks you what you did over the weekend you can say, “I circumnavigated the earth in a Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. What did you do?”

The goal is simple enough. Create enough digital landscape to allow players to fly around the world.

For more info, you can check out X-Plane, here and X-Plane’s Global scenery project here.