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Cheat Sheet 2/23: The Last Guardian gets a little help from their friends, the PS4 has a rumored graphics card, and a Grim Fandango-inspired adventure game
You finish that game or so help me I will turn this car around! Here’s the news: – The Last Guardian team is getting the help of the God of War guys to help finish their game. I’m not sure how to feel about this. – The PS4 is rumored to be using an AMD graphics card. Just like the Nextbox. – Indie d
Transformers 3’s tech makes us wonder about the necessity of blockbuster films and games
While there may be few that would argue Transformers 3 was a great movie, a couple new videos out of visual effect studios ILM and Digital Domain featured at Slashfilm dissect a few action sequences and show the amount of work that was put in to every shot. Watching every individual layer stripped o
PAUSE: Rare view of whales and dolphins at play.
Scientists in Hawaii recently caught dolphins and whales playing together off of the coasts of Maui and Kauai and it’s just really amazing. Watch and be in awe. -Lyndsey Edelman [link]
The Indie Talks: Daniel Benmergui’s Storyteller lets you make webcomics, simply by playing.
The first time I met Daniel Benmerguithe creator of dreamy games such as I Wish I Were the Moon and Today I Diewasn’t when I interviewed him, but the night before. I had been playing a preview build of his IGF finalist game Storyteller before I went to bed. The game has you to arrange pixellated
Morning Cheat Sheet 2/23/12: "Xenoblade" gets a release date, "Guild Wars" beta, Wii U streaming and Kojima Productions in the West.
Good morning. RPG fans: take a deep breath. –The well-received Xenoblade Chronicles is set for release in the US on April 6. -The Guild Wars 2 beta is available for sign ups … but not for long. -Facebook is opening a new European games division. -Nintendo has plans to take advantage of video streami
New York taxis find a better alternative to back-seat televisions: tablet games.
For all New Yorkers annoyed by the inexplicable presence of a television in the back of their car whenever they take a cab, help is on the way. The New York Times reports that the Taxi and Limousine Commission is now weighing the option of embedding tablet computers, which can only mean one thing fo
Cheat Sheet 2/22: Zelda 3DS, the Borderlands 2 trailer, and the next Metal Gear game
Betas and DLC and 3DS games, oh my! – The 3DS is getting Mario Tennis (May 20th), Brain Age and may be getting a Zelda game. – Borderlands 2 is coming September 18 and has a detail-filled trailer too. – The next Metal Gear Solid game (possibly not MGS5) is looking for talent and is planned for cons
