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Cheat Sheet 3/29: Fez has a release date, Yoshinori Ono temporarily stepping down, and Kellee Santiago finding her own way
I feel like I’ve heard this before, but it was different… – Following the recent news of the game’s certification, Fez has announced the official XBLA release date and it’s actually really soon, April 13th! – After being hopsitalized a few days ago, Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has announce
The beauty of bizarre game combinations, from chess-boxing to outhouse-racing.
A beautiful collection of photos from Sol Neeman, via The New York Times, shows off what I love and what’s wonderful about games. Neeman’s series focuses on “weird sports” throughout the world. From outhouse racing to downhill ice skating, the games have varying intensities and audiences but all of
Why is Bully’s rating is so important to movies…and games?
Video About a month ago, The Weinstein Company’s documentary Bully received an R rating from the MPAA. An R rating would mean that kids wouldn’t be able to see the film alone, a fact that Harvey Weinstein has argued is critical to the film’s message. Weinstein appealed the film’s rating and though h
Devin Shatsky on the Silent Hill franchise and HD remakes in the changing landscape of the Horror genre
When debates flare up again about whether games are art, one title that often gets brought to the table is Silent Hill 2. Like the lovechild of Polanski and Cronenberg, it’s a psychosexual thriller that worms its way into the player’s psyche. The critical and fan responses to subsequent entries have
PAUSE: Indie Game the Parody
Mega64 has spoofed theIndie Game the Movie trailer, making it an action movie rife with hilarious references to the (indie) gaming community as a whole. [via IndieGamingMag]
If videogames are in their "indie" period, where’s our Factory Records?
Author of How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 Richard King outlines his argument that labels like Factory Records shaped the sound and business of music for the decades after their heyday. He surmises: What differentiated Mute, Factory, Rough Trade and the
Play of the Day: Ms. Particle Man is a love letter to Pac-Man…and the mysterious Higgs-Boson.
Video Ever wonder what it would be like to fall in love with the “God Particle“? Michael Falk may have the answer in his new iOS title Ms. Particle Man. The gameplay is somewhere between VVVVVV, Pac-Man, and Defender. The concept, of course, should appeal to the particle accelerator in all of us. Ge
The mystery of the Super Mario Bros. launch day and the sad state of videogame preservation.
Like my most children, I remember the day when one of my classmates bought an NES with Super Mario Bros. in tow. It’s a pop culture milestone, but Frank Cifaldi opens up a rabbit hole that I didn’t even know existed. We know the dates of many historical events, but do we know exactly when Super Mari
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