Sunday, July 31, 2005
The Definitive Guide To Speeding Tickets
Spacecraft Tracking - Shuttle and ISS
Inside Skywalker Ranch Prologue, A Day at Lucasfilm
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Free Games
Thanks to Slashdot, here's two links for free games: Liberated Games offers free single player games, and GameOgre offers free multiplayer games.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Quake 4
Doom Movie Trailer
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h
Take Two facing possible class action lawsuit over Hot Coffee
Bound to happen. Take Two is being sued by a NYC grandmother who purchased GTA:SA for her 14 year old. Waitaminute, didn't she just purchase an "M" rated game for a 14 year old?
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Hillary vs. the Xbox
An open letter to Hillary Clinton over the GTA fiasco. Makes sense? Yes. Will it do anything? Of course not.
Zelda producer slags own game
God of War
Bicycle Show
Nintendo Fan
VIDEO GAME ARCADES ARE DEAD
July 25, 2005 - Ray B. Proclaims Video Arcades Dead
"Kids no longer want to play video games outside the home" is the controversial statement recently made by self-proclaimed game guru Ray B. Others were heard to say "yeah" and "mmm hmmm".
In a recent visit to Niagara Falls, Ontario's Clifton Hill entertainment strip, Ray B. and family visited The Great Canadian Midway. Formerly a small old video arcade, GCM has been revamped into a large multi-format entertainment complex. Upon entering, to your right is a ghost-house ride where you get to also shoot at targets in the dark. In the main area you are greeted by a large colorful room full of coin-operated machines with blinking lights and exciting sounds. But these are not your father's coin-ops! No, in fact, these might be your grand-dad's coin-ops. The place is filled with "coin pushers"; machines where you take your chances, drop in a coin and hope that it causes more coins to fall out than you put in. Sounds like gambling to me. Oh, but they also dispense tickets, so I guess that makes it OK.
Searching in vain for games using CRT displays, I at last found a familiar face. Pac Man. But what's this? Oh Pac Man! How low you have fallen! Pac Man is now a pusher!
Digging deeper I eventually found some video games tucked away in the back room, surrounded by air hockey tables, skee ball and other skill games. They were mostly gun shooters from the early 90's and a few pinball machines. An old Funhouse with a broken flipper. Lethal Enforcers. Terminator. Revolution X...
So I sat myself down on a firetruck kiddie ride. Dropped in 3 tokens, and tried not to cry while I went up and down and the siren went "whoop! whoop! whoop!" and I thought "Video arcades are dead".*
*OK I didn't really ride a kiddie ride or cry.
"Kids no longer want to play video games outside the home" is the controversial statement recently made by self-proclaimed game guru Ray B. Others were heard to say "yeah" and "mmm hmmm".
In a recent visit to Niagara Falls, Ontario's Clifton Hill entertainment strip, Ray B. and family visited The Great Canadian Midway. Formerly a small old video arcade, GCM has been revamped into a large multi-format entertainment complex. Upon entering, to your right is a ghost-house ride where you get to also shoot at targets in the dark. In the main area you are greeted by a large colorful room full of coin-operated machines with blinking lights and exciting sounds. But these are not your father's coin-ops! No, in fact, these might be your grand-dad's coin-ops. The place is filled with "coin pushers"; machines where you take your chances, drop in a coin and hope that it causes more coins to fall out than you put in. Sounds like gambling to me. Oh, but they also dispense tickets, so I guess that makes it OK.
Searching in vain for games using CRT displays, I at last found a familiar face. Pac Man. But what's this? Oh Pac Man! How low you have fallen! Pac Man is now a pusher!
Digging deeper I eventually found some video games tucked away in the back room, surrounded by air hockey tables, skee ball and other skill games. They were mostly gun shooters from the early 90's and a few pinball machines. An old Funhouse with a broken flipper. Lethal Enforcers. Terminator. Revolution X...
So I sat myself down on a firetruck kiddie ride. Dropped in 3 tokens, and tried not to cry while I went up and down and the siren went "whoop! whoop! whoop!" and I thought "Video arcades are dead".*
*OK I didn't really ride a kiddie ride or cry.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
'Voltron' morphs into movie
A Visit to Adobe
Monday, July 25, 2005
Blind teenager amazes with video game ability
OfficeGuns
NINTENDO Chair
Top 50 Favorite Game Ending Songs Part 1
Sunday, July 24, 2005
How to fix your magnet ruined monitor!
What does your phone number spell?
Translations that are Marketing Mistakes
Saturday, July 23, 2005
"V" for Vendetta
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to see a water balloon pop in space?
Friday, July 22, 2005
Top 10 Web fads
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Teens Invent A Better Air Conditioner
ESRB revokes GTA: San Andreas Rating
The ESRB has advised retailers to stop selling GTA: San Andreas. Specifically, for the hot coffee content.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Nemo Mosaic Pool
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Confirmed: Sex minigame in PS2 San Andreas
Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern
Friday, July 15, 2005
Retro Arcade
Electronic Games
Tokens
Optimus keyboard
Thursday, July 14, 2005
The Best Product Designs of 2005
Hillary Clinton to take on Rockstar over Hot Coffee Mod
As the title says, the first lady will oversee the investigation of Rockstar over the GTA: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" mod. Rockstar, previously made statement that a hacker is responsible for the mod. This mod can only be done on the PC version. Give me a break! People are panicking because of this PC mod? You can get worse filth on the internet! The press is jumping on this because people are assuming this can happen on the console version.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Shoe Lacing Methods
Monday, July 11, 2005
Real Life Tron Game
Planarity
Thursday, July 07, 2005
The Making Of...Maniac Mansion
Microsoft's Personnel Puzzle
From Slashdot comes a link to an interesting article on the smugness of Microsoft's hiring techniques.
PixelRoller
WoW Coke Commercial
1UP.com Editor Walks Off CNBC Show
The editor of 1UP.com walks off a CNBC show. He left because they lied to him about what the subject of the show would be about (videogame violence).
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Faked Nintendo Revolution Video
From 1up.com: There was a video going around prior to E3 that people believed was really from Nintendo. It showed lots of footage and teasers of the Revolution console. It is REALLLY elaborate, so watch it beyond the slow intro (the whole history of Nintendo is just an intro).
