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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
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
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
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
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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