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On The Wild Bunch and Contemporary Westerns

Don't have a problem here, but it might be a useful reference

First Lisa Simpson now this?

Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility

(Apple App Store)

Copyright laws are meanderingly stupid

LOOK AT ME NOT PLAYING A GAME. MAYBE NEXT WRITE ABOUT THAT NOVEL YOU HAVEN'T READ

a Ruby regular expression editor

Reinier Gerritsen

RDR timelapse

The Story of Paris’s Most Secret Underground Society

Thorough review of OnLive. Not an overall positive one.

Processing for Android

What happens when an anarchist creates rules for football?

Cool stuff, not possible on iPhone because it's Flash based

FIPILELE

A lot of the cases for are very weak and tenuous. And games still need to learn editing.

For the references/link

Fraise is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6

"a film that is being shot 300 style with the backgrounds generated by the Unreal video game engine"

Yikes. Though the title is misleading: it's an AT&T problem.

Boardgame Puerto Rico as a bunch of Excel Macros

Kind of needless, but it saves the extra five seconds that comes with having to edit a hosts file

/^[-_a-z0-9\'+*$^&%=~!?{}]++(?:\.[-_a-z0-9\'+*$^&%=~!?{}]+)*+@(?:(?![-.])[-a-z0-9.]+(?<![-.])\.[a-z]{2,6}|\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?::\d++)?$/iD

Kind of a metaphor for buildings with doors in open world games that you can not enter and exist only to give the illusion of a city or town.

This is real nice

I've seen most of these, but a few I have to add to the list

Wired list of 8-bit inspired videos

Another fucking Tim Rogers epic digression

TRAINING MONTAGE

"His Dark Majesty is a turn-based strategy game for 8-bit Atari computers" huh

Color picker tool

a set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games in Javascript

Mostly about BSG boardgame

Yeah, this is how I've been describing myself for years.

Analysis of L4D maps

Buying experiences better than buying things

"The emerging world, long a source of cheap labour, now rivals the rich countries for business innovation"

Cool, but would be better if it didn't use a Wii remote that requires the viewer to wear a pendant and just used a camera with eye tracking.

I hate this incremental BS.

Incomplete list of a bunch of Unity/other games that can potentially be banned by Apple because of their recent license changes.

I love these kind of typography tear-downs

"And right now, shyness is countercultural."

New approach to water desalination could lead to small, portable units that could be sent to disaster sites or remote locations.

Personally, I find the secrets of SMW or Metroid far more satisfying because they open new paths and possibilities in the game space rather than rewarding you with virtual trinkets.

From 2003. This guy's writing is pretty good so there's a lot to catch up on.

(As an aside, their recent editorial changes have me checking GamePro out, willingly, for the first time since I stopped subscribing to it when I was, like, thirteen.)

Some faulty hypotheses and overuse of "epic".

Modern Milgram experiment

"To play with the makers of our games is to play with the ghosts that once animated the systems they leave us"

(Naturally, the first thing one does with this is insert an infinite loop)

Flash gravity well game sort of similar to Auditorium. Well made.

Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations.

Nooo

<Nelson>ha haaa</nelson>

Oh man, totally missed this before.

Wow. This makes me feel a lot better about my photography

Even Capcom is jumping on the retro VHS cheese aesthetic

GOOD JOB UBI

NO. Seriously. Every mundane thing does NOT need trophies and achievements.

Dev blog for Jonathan Blow's next game

This is as3sfxr, flash port of sfxr.

I love such extensive world building

A Trans-Siberian crossing is on my "to do" list

Flash image recognition lib

Birds are rapidly evolving different shapes to cope with clear-cut forests

iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language.

Yes. More of this and less of that OTHER thing.

"The Matrix"? No. That is straight out of "The Thirteenth Floor"

That's a lot of Street Fighters

I've know about this for a while but the more I see it the more it depresses me. It makes sense when you consider that the only game design that most developers seem to know is: "kill things".

Less than two decades after it came into being, the web is now a pawn in an international public policy debate that could create rifts between nations so deep that they lay the foundation for future wars.

In short: people will still buy their shit regardless and the gaming press are pussies.

hahaha. Of course, THEIR internet connection will never be pulled.

Vimeo, in ASCII

Can we effectively ban corporate use of Internet Explorer now? Please? Especially for people working with sensitive data. So dumb.

Basic, but f'in cool. Also: javascript+SVG == flash on iPhone.

It says a lot for our disconnection with the world around us that walking can be considered a creative, even subversive act.

They start by acting like real countries, then hope to become them.

Will XBLA's Game Room ever support new games for old systems?

"Field is a development environment for experimental code and digital art in the broadest of possible senses."

I still need to play Galaxy Trucker. It's been on my "to play" list for two years.

VARCHAR(20) ruled hazardous

Tempting...

It is nearly 2010: can we drop the fucking "games aren't for loser children anymore" tropes, dear non-gaming journalists?

Potentially extremely useful (screen capture where every screen element exists as a layer in a PSD fle)

Yet another Javascript framework

A Decade of Flying Lotus Mixed by The Gaslamp Killer

Good list, especially Geometry Wars inclusion

Decent list!

Slammer gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want

Ahh, web development

That's a title that gets your attention.

Ew, no. Besides, how is that "App Button" going to work on OS X? Oh yeah, it won't.

I don't normally like lists but this is a good one. Mostly strategy-ish types. Not a single platformer to be found!

interesting Beaterator cross-promotion. Features Flying Lotus; Prefuse 73; Starkey.

This can be useful...

I can't believe I watched the whole thing.

"Soundtrack for Images"

I like Joker

Nice to see Canadian media represented heavily :\

Tim Rogers weirdness

And do people in the Advertising Industry understand brands?

Picture / Story

Undercover with a Michelin inspector.

free download

One-Button Games

List of games released this week LAST YEAR by Torrez. Find something you missed, get something cheaper, don't be bleeding edge. "newer is not always better. "

Been meaning to do this. Javascript is perfectly capable for web-based games.

I don't get it. What's the point if you basically destroy the original casing anyway? And why get a clear XBox if you're going to paint it black anyway?

"Anyone who says video games shouldn’t appeal to adults, let alone women, has never flirted with General Carth Onassi."

The ed schools' pedagogy adds up to trouble.

Some weird picks, but I have no qualms about #1

Facebook "games" are less game and more scam

More Langdell fraud

haha, indie game "Lose/Lose" has been classified as a "threat" by Symantec (see http://is.gd/4NJ9U )

Good comments.

IGF entries list

Kind of a microcosm of the overall AppStore games market, really.

The Banner Campaign that Started a $24 billion Business, and Got a 78% Click-through Rate

Some odd picks/placements. (An early precursor to the inevitable onslaught of best of the decade lists before 2010 hits)

Love this.

With just one coat, IdeaPaint turns any surface into a dry-erase board

Hardest quiz ever.

Aww, that's too bad. I put money into their KickStarter project to see this happen

"fan-made episode of Metal Gear Solid is from a group called Hive Division. It's every bit as ambitious, self-aware, tongue-in-cheek, slick, and incomprehensible as an actual Metal Gear Solid game"

We are a group of artists that create installations, usually in urban spaces. Listed below is a small selection of our work, more is added all the time.

"Fewer Americans are relocating than at any time since 1962. That's good news for families, communities ... and even the environment." BAH!! I say.

Science is rad

For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.

Oh god, it's *that* guy: "Nick Smith (aka ulillillia) writes a captivating story with many unexpected turns. Based on the concept of RPGs (role playing games), follow Knuckles, a powerful, spell-casting wizard, as he investigates a mystery of supernatural proportion."

It makes me sad that "hey, the world isn't really going to end you idiots" is actually a news story.

"It's very threatening to think our profession is a charade"

Plogue’s new soft-synthesizer turns your VST/AU/RTAS host into a classic video game console, vintage 8bit home computer and even an 80’s arcade.

scarcity = value, which is something that is lost in the all-digital age

(with "Alan" in the comments completely missing all posted points)

Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing.

Starts ok but then meanders off the cliff at the end...

"Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an update to CS4 that makes it not crash when you move the mouse too fast. You really want to trust them to manage your memory, translate your code and keep up with Apple’s SDK?"

If it's compiled to be a native app, it's not really Flash on the iPhone; it's just a Flash authored iPhone app. It's no different than what Unity already does. Way to play catch-up, Adobe.

Now this is a retro remake I was not anticipating.

French write-up on the "Festival du Jeu" in Paris that happened the one weekend I was out of town (arg).

"user-generated, machine-mediated content"

My favourite of the SEGA Racers

Intelligent design proponents are so retarded

Odd looking adventure-type game for XBLA

Guardian, with your "revenge of the nerds" high school clique generalizations, pay attention.

haha, this is stupid

Advent calendar of stuff for Gothtober

Sparse UT3 mod

Oh man, need to check it out (didn't even know there was a Mac version :\ )

Want to play

Missed this review the first time around

a new iPhone App, Think Like A Shrink, that puts Greek hero Achilles on the psychiatrist's couch.

Nice augmented reality Paris Metro app

"Work formerly done by reporters and producers is now routinely performed by political operatives and amateur ideologues of one stripe or another, whose goal is not to educate the public but to win."

Flash tenori-on, sort of

Look into the CSS behind the new iTunes Store... all 8000 lines of it (!?)

Edge feature on Toronto and Southern Ontario games industry.

"In 1980, Lebbeus Woods proposed a tomb for Albert Einstein [..] an asymmetrical space station traveling on the gravitational warp and weft of infinite emptiness"

There are SIX parts to this.

Python powered, fully moddable strategy game engine

ie. there isn't any because good design can't be created by committee

Interesting CMS

8BP #100

Mornings!? No wonder I get no writing done.

1400 character MINIMUM

BTW: "Delgo is notable for producing the worst opening ever for a movie playing at over 2,000 theaters, earning $511,920 at 2,160 sites"

Local

"All the Flash authoring (.fla) files I used to make Sita Sings the Blues have just been posted on archive.org, under a Creative Commons Share Alike license"

"The software giant said it would support IE6 until 2014" AWWWHADDAFUCK?

Interview about the scene and promo of August 21st chiptune show in TO

This blog is devoted to understanding why there are no girls in San Francisco

tl;dr

Huh.

I was going to write about "Magic: TG" on XBox with a comparison to Dominion, but never got around to it.

"the sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick." -> "June 6, a disease of sheep of the royal family." Also see "To be or not to be"

Screen projected on wall with accelerometers to register physical bullet hits as mouse clicks

(testing Twitter integration from delicious with this -- doesn't seem to work)

Somehow not surprised the guy is from Windsor.

THIS IS STUPID: Mother Brain never had any influence on SR-388!!!!

I would want to live like this

Still my favourite Harmonix game

"We don't believe in coming to market like Apple - high margin, high quality, high price. We believe in high volume and low price," No surprise, no mention of what Microsoft believes about "quality"

Sammy is a tiny javascript framework built on top of jQuery inspired by Ruby’s Sinatra.

"This is an emergency guide to iPhone software development, i.e. a guide for competent developers who haven’t written code for the iPhone platform before, and just want to get started right now."

"I’ve never doubted the viability of running a serious business of writing iPhone apps before. For the first time, now, I am."

Matt Haughey on Mefi's 10 year anniversary

Hmm. I started a tile engine using jQuery last summer. Maybe I should get back on it

"The music of Daft Punk revisited on vintage Game Systems"

North Korean advertising

This is ridiculous. The only industry that free games hurt is the industry charging people for shitty games.

"After years of observation and reverse engineering I am proud to say I have been able to reproduce the IE6 algorithm to break even the most standards-compliant websites. "

On criticism of criticism (of Transformers 2)

Coming from the people making "Dragon Age"... put your money where your mouth is.

If the movie was actually marketed like this, I'd be in line for tickets already.

Huh. Hadn't considered that some might consider plug-ins of a GPL'ed app to fall under GPL themselves.

OH FLASH. I thought Flash memory leaks were obvious?

The Globe and Mail has a videogames weblog!??

"These photographs show extreme makeovers of actual fast food items purchased at popular fast food restaurants. "

Nice effect (fixed position bg animation on scroll)

"With the HappyTube Firefox plugin, YouTube will become an oase of peace and happiness. Simply install HappyTube on your Firefox Browser and enjoy the new, friendly YouTube community. Awesome!"

"Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies"

(no comment)

"Out of sheer boredom, I’ve compiled a list of terms used by other CCG’s to fulfill the same purpose as the term 'tapping' does in Magic."

huh

If your sprite is a "1299x15,000 PNG", you're doing it wrong.

Thugs with a badge.

Oh man, the audio is perfect. Screw keyboard cat, give me more Heavy.

"The buttons above will provide you with information about Alan Emrich's course Principles of Game Design that he's taught at The University of California at Irvine, Stanford University, and The Art Institute of California"

Microsoft Excel powered demo

No.

"BREADBOX64 is a twitter client for the C64/128"

I feel nauseous to link to Techcrunch AND a facebook story, but, yes, that is a very good facebook username

CNN interviews Pajitnov. As to the title: NO. Not as long as Tetris retains the el-retardo "infinite spin"

The Unseen Power of Google's Malware Detection

When the current crisis is over, the reputation of American-style capitalism will have taken a beating--not least because of the gap between what Washington practices and what it preaches.

Playable in browser

Trent Reznor on quitting Twitter and social media, although, I guess, problems are amplified if you are famous

"Flash FM 1989" Mix. A homage of sorts to Vice City's Flash FM station. Super cheesy.

haha

As the game says "Click Play"

"Marketing"

flixel is a completely free collection of Actionscript 3 files that helps organize, automate, and optimize Flash games

Star Wars clips cut up in the style of various old TV shows

That's a lot of fucking code for a video embed. But uses HTML 5 <video> tag by default

Indie Space RTS. For future perusal.

Agency portfolio site using only YouTube and YT annotations

haha

huh. Passing cross-domain data via CSS... ??

"A livecoding performance where the game of missile command is slowly rewritten to be a piece of abstract machinima."

wha?

Dipshits

Wow. Fucking stupid. My favourite iPhone game deserves better than this shit.

"ntroducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the dice rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day. "

They might not have invented the iPod, but they did create the Wii. Then again, Nintendo's probably the exception that proves the rule.

This is me.

Best GPS product commercial ever.

Two movies I do not need to see in one!

Short EP composed entirely (and can be played live) on DSs with Korg DS-10 and Electroplankton.

"Paavoharju is not a real band,"

"For example, ‘Z’ was totally made with factory sounds that come with Logic. "

I love how the Ico Team has a completely distinct and instantly recognizable architectural style

yikes @ "Worldwide Intelligence Update"

Story about the hockey and the whole Phoenix Coyotes thing by... Kevin Smith !?

"Games for Creatives"

Quite the varied exhibit there

"Bloopsaphone is a Ruby library for making 8-bit music and sound effects."

Is there a site that Jim Rossignol hasn't contributed to?

Nintendo ad for new Punch-Out with Isiah Whitlock Jr (aka. Clay "Sheeeeeit" Davis) in the role of Little Mac trainer Doc. Features live-action "stole my bike" sequence. I think this was made for YTMND. Awesome.

For future reference, in case I find myself in this situation.

Tumblr adds weird Leaderboard popularity index. Ugh. Not everything is a game people!

Why some mentally ill patients are rejecting their medication and making the case for 'mad pride.'

Starbucks in Warsaw

No amount of designer wallpapers will compensate for a UI that was designed by committee.

Oh shit at Goofy Movie

Real life Mirror's Edge photo set

8bit related news and media

Bit of a Firefox extension feud. NoScript = NotNice.

X-Ray shots of videogame systems/controllers

"Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required."

Mount & Blade??

"Psytronik Software plans to release a new and original game for Commodore 64 this June"

Set reuse in film

AS3 isometric engine

Emulation nostalgia?

Sold!

At $8 billion, Sir Allen Stanford’s alleged fraud wouldn’t even be the biggest Ponzi scheme uncovered in the past few months. But his wretched excess and jaw-dropping gumption have no equal.

Old school

Flashbang with a WSJ nod

"Variety reports that the concept will be 'modernised' into a larger action thriller featuring nanotechnology." WTF NO

BoyScout is a PC Windows softwaresynth that emulates the GameBoy Advance sound chip.

"I made the decision to switch all my client work starting point templates from XHTML over to HTML 4.01 and start delivering everything as plain old semantic HTML, minus the X."

Meant to save this earlier. Forgot. It is relevant to my interests!

Not all surprising. It's had for a few decades worth of genetic engineering to compete with millions of years of evolution.

Working remotely.

...

"The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon" Was always curious about this.

"I wrote my first music on the NES 20 years ago and have recently been amazed to discover that the "chip music" scene is still going strong."

Hudson's Bay redesign

60 Second Metroidvania-like game. I like time limited, condensed game experiences.

My favourite part is when the arrogant, taunting player gets completely destroyed in the (exhibition) international final.

David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today.

It's true. The French will protest anything.

Atari 800XL, TI-99/4a, floppy drive, harddrive, scanjet.

I never watched Different Strokes but this makes me want to

Talk about specialized products

The Brainfucked Lone Wolf is a space combat game completely written by hand in brainfuck

"i'm one of the editors of Unseen 64, an archive for beta, unseen and cancelled videogames"

"The not-very-often-seen Cannon Fodder music video, produced by Sensible Software one sunny afternoon to promote their controversial Amiga game, Cannon Fodder."

Huh. Gameboy turns 20. I feel old.

Yet another game engine. Heavy use of Flash.

Wired on Catan. Wired typically behind the times AGAIN! We've all moved on to Puerto Rico and Agricola by now.

A Loveland company marketing an iPhone application called iFart is in talks to settle a fight with a Florida firm with a competing app.

(A lot on here to put on the "to read" list)

These don't make me want to buy beer, but they're great faux retro French cinema styled takes on modern films (and TV).

"living t he sweet life in Paris"

More than 70 gay men in their living rooms pet their cats and say “She’s a talker.”

About bloody time

Is early 90s nostalgia in vogue now?

Kate Bush animated gif bonanza

(Article completely misses the point. It doesn't need to. For every one person that cares about homebrews and system architecture, there's over 100000 consumers that just want a simple, fun device.)

Genuinely EPIC use of Verdi in the trailer

"I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate" BUT QUESTIONS OF SCIENCE ARE IMPORTANT TO A SCIENCE MINISTER DIPFUCKINGSHIT.

(I just bought a netbook last week.)

"In November of 1982 my best friend had a Sony TCS-310 Stereo Cassette Recorder. [..] we came up with the idea to record video game sounds in the arcades."

"Numbers Stations"

Scans of sandwiches for education and delight.

Abyss Web Server

Hmm

New single and video (!) from personal favourite French thrashy lo-fi electro band Kap Bambino