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Black Dice’s visuals for Animal Collective at Coachella are geometrically glitchy, delightful
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Cheat Sheet 6/27: TF2 is a free-for-all, Smash Bros. for Wii U will be a long time coming
Here’s some bite-size mainstream videogame news to go with your morning coffee. -Get a look at new screens, details and the trailer for the upcoming XCOM reboot. –Team Fortress 2 is now free-to-play online, but you can still pay for virtual hats and stuff. –Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki trades in his r
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Box art or art boxed? GA Tech professor’s $500 bespoke "game poems"
GA Tech professor Ian Bogost produced a series of “game poems” called A Slow Year as a set of 1K games for the Atari. But now he’s create a super luxe boxed version of the games for sale for $500 a piece. This strategy for boxed games is an interesting tack. Obviously, A Slow Year is not worth that
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High-end Space Invaders watch for the very vain, pixelated
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome is releasing this eye-sore in collaboration with Taito. The company’s other watches go from more than $10k, but honestly, given the other crazy things that watches can do, we’d expect a playable build. Also, of note, is the company’s tag of “DNA of Famous Legends.” Per
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PAUSE: Portal Paradox Profoundly Pondering
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The new crate-diggers?: What it is like turning old Japanese RPGs for the Genesis into modern classics?
GamePro has a fascinating, but short, interview with a man named Brandon Cobb who’s single-handedly is re-releasing old Genesis titles like Star Odyssey and breathing new life into them. By revisiting classic work, it’s a bit the role that classic soul labels like Now-Again and Numero Group have in
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Cheat Sheet 6/24: Blizzard may join the iOS generation, Rainbow Six sequel screens make an appearance
It’s Friday. Time to get your bowl of mainstream videogame news! –Blizzard considering bringing mobile MMOs to iOS devices. –Tern Digital adapting spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps, and other classics, into videogames. –L.A. Noire is coming to PC this fall. -Rumors of an EA acquisition of PopCap h
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Cheat Sheet 6/23: Gabe Newell positive about Wii U, Sir Mix-a-Lot gets his own Facebook game
Time for more mainstream videogame news tidbits! -Check out this video for info on Gears of War 3’s new and improved Horde. –Rage is now available as a comic book, for those who crave the storyline. –Dungeon Siege III dev Obsidian to release an update to fix finicky controls, and more! -Sir Mix-a-
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Cheat Sheet 6/22: Professor Layton goes social, Gears of War design director feeling rusty
Brace yourself for another dose of mainstream videogame news! -The question of turning the Professor Layton series into a social mobile game has been answered. –L.A. Noire DLC is evidence of what it would look like as an action game. –Gears of War design director Cliff Bleszinski wants to break fr
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Cheat Sheet 6/21: Yoshinori Ono talks Street Fighter, Industry moguls consider the impossible
Here’s your daily spoonful of mainstream videogame news! –Zynga’s Emperors & Allies tops 30 million users in 17 days. –Industry giants talk about risk-taking at GameTech 2011. –Redbox vending machines now lending AAA videogames. –Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono talks about the past —and future— of
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Czech artist crosses light projection with 8-bit pastiche
8 bit Invader (maping) from Darkfejzr on Vimeo.
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PAUSE: Final Nadal-Federer set as page-turning stop-motion short.
WIMBLEDON from BRYANKU on Vimeo.