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NikeFuel introduces a digital version of Pong, disc battle from Tron.
The roll-out of the NikeFuel band was one of the biggest marketing pushes from the last year. Nike spared no expense for non-traditional approaches. That includes this magical digital version of Pong released in Japan.
Katamari is a horrific exercise in self-loathing.
The cutscenes between levels in Touch My Katamari show an otaku of the worst kind. As he shuns his geeky self, he becomes more successful and happier in life. But what message is that sending to us geeks playing the game? CJ Melendez at the site Rely on Horror sees Katamari as a game specializing in
Eat or be eaten when Tokyo Jungle comes to the US.
Most of the games that have been coming out lately seem to focus an awful lot on humans or humanoids. Animals are a completely neglected part of wilderness survival, except occasionally when they can provide transport or meat. Tokyo Jungle might be the antidote to all our human-centric game-playing.
Fan-made Pac-Man trailer finally explains why he’s so hungry.
PAC-MAN never had a great story. Yellow circle runs from ghosts, then eats them when they turn blue. Project Yellow Sphere elucidates the issue. – – – In the last 10 years or so, the internet has lit up with fan-made takes on the PAC-MAN mythos, casting him as everything from a motorcycle-riding vi
BLEEP BLOOP: Check out this chiptunes synthesizer made with arcade console buttons.
Where does 8-bit music come from, and where does it go? Known scientifically as monophonic square-waves, the audio synthesizers of the NES and Gameboy have been channeled into a new, custom-built instrument called Pianocade built by Canadian tinkerer Jonathan Guberman. Guberman had already created t
Pokémon takes on the typing-tutor game sub genre.
When I was a kid, nobody I knew actually learned anything from Mario Teaches Typing. It was the kind of lazily constructed, “edutainment” game that came pre-loaded on computers in my elementary school’s computer lab. Nobody played it to learn how to type— it wasn’t very useful in that regard, nor di
Celebrate Lovecraft’s birthday week with these scenes from an imaginary gothic horror adventure.
Adventure games from the 1990s have a certain aesthetic that draws on comic art. Uno Moralez’s GIFs evoke a gothic horror videogame that never existed. The floating head probably needs you to fetch her an eyeball before she’ll tell you where the secret society’s hideout is. – – –
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