Just a quick blurb to point out a video that’s been doing the rounds on the blogosphere. Some people with a LOT of free time and patience have filmed space invaders IRL with stop animation. Original can be found here. Cool to see but I don’t want to think how long it took them to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Video Games'
Desert Bus, Most Boring Game Ever Made?
March 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Humor, Video Games
After 11 years of waiting, here it is. The most boring game ever for the Sega: Desert bus is probably one of the best games ever. Unfortunately the game was never released, until now. 11 years after the planned release date Waxy is hosting a torrent for this mythical game. The game is part of [...]
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The SNES Was As Good As It’s Gonna Get?
February 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Video Games
XYZ Computing has an interesting editorial touting that the SNES was the best console ever made, and that we’ll probably never achieve that kind of gaming perfection again: As a long time console gamer I have made certain observations about the progress of consoles over the past few years. I, like everyone else, have enjoyed [...]
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Cyber Porn Sold In MMORPG
December 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment · Video Games
The sex industry has found yet a new medium to sell it’s seductive warez, the humble video game: Pornography and online video games are joining forces. You’ve heard of machinima — films made by altering video-game footage — but that’s not the only thing coming out of games these days. Players of the massively multiplayer [...]
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The NES Is Back, And It’s Bad!
December 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Video Games
Yup, the little plastic box that has brought so much joy to so many kids (and adults) has ben re-released in a tight little package: For those of us that were actually alive back in the early ’80s, there is no denying that the drab grey box that was the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) changed [...]
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GTA: Lego City
December 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Humor, Video Games
Just another quick post to mention a cool stop motion video made with Lego to spoof GTA. Enjoy!
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Remote Control Mario To Be Released
December 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets, Video Games
Gamebrink has a cool tidbit on a soon to be released remote control Mario: Many moons ago we shared the news of a remote control mario coming to market this winter. Banpresto, the maker of many Japanese toys, has just released a new image showing off how the remote control character actually works. It also [...]
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Grand Theft Auto III Ported To NES!
November 14th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Video Games
It seems some incredibly cool guy has ported GTA 3 to the NES: “Grand Theftendo”:http://www.grandtheftendo.com/ is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely [...]
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Cross Platform Gaming Development To Be Tough
November 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Video Games
Arstechnica has an excellent editorial piece on how developing for multiple plaforms is becoming more and more difficult and give their view on where the future is taking us: The gaming industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings more than thirty years ago. From a time when people were thrilled to see [...]
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World Of Warcraft Contains Spyware!
October 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Security, Video Games
Some dude at rootkit.com has dome some reverse engineering on World of Warcraft and uncovered some disturbing finds: I recently performed a rather long reversing session on a piece of software written by Blizzard Entertainment, yes – the ones who made Warcraft, and World of Warcraft (which has 4.5 million+ players now, apparently). This software [...]
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