Archive for May, 2009
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Submitted by videogame2play.com
Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik are celebrating their 10th year of Penny Arcade, while not the first, it’s the most popular, successful, and most influential comic dedicated to video gaming.
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LGJ: Supreme Court Decision Doesn’t Bode Well
Submitted by Law of the Game
This week’s LGJ gets into a recent US Supreme Court decision and how it may offer a glimpse of how the court could potentially treat similar issues in games, future interactive broadcast TV, and even a bit about potential new justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Feature on State Bar of Texas Blog
Submitted by Law of the Game
A recently posted article on the State Bar of Texas blog about Machinima Law features me fairly prominently. While there is a bit of a misquote with regard to the origin of machinima (it should say Quake, not Halo, though Halo certainly popularized it), it’s an interesting piece. I really [...]
The LA trade show
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
The next convention in Los Angeles is coming up, and they say it’s returning to a glitzy look:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The interactive video game industry’s biggest convention meets next week in Los Angeles promising a return to its glitzy past, but on the heels of weak sales and [...]
An increase in exercise programs
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
According to this article, here’s why more exercise games are being produced:
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters Life!) - With the recession cutting out some family vacations, gym memberships, and personal trainers, a rash of new videogames designed to let people workout in their living room are hitting the shelves.
Electronic Arts [...]
Turrican tapings
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
These are the Atari ST versions. First up is - what else? - the first game:
It’s a side-scrolling shoot-em-up that brings to mind old games like Xain’d Sleena.
Then, here’s the second:
Looks like more of the same.
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Berlin Wall brief
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A platform game that shares similarities to Lode Runner, made to cash in on the time when the barrier seperating east and west in Germany was torn down.
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Mahjong Hyper Reaction brief
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
This one’s even cooler than the last:
Thanks to the hot anime girls hosting this one, I really wish this were in English, so that I could figure out the names of the babes here. Whoa, just look at the lovely green eyes you could just dive into that the [...]
Chinese Casino clip
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Right after the jump.
Another computerized mahjong game, what else?
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Gladiator A.D.
Submitted by videogame2play.com
If you were wondering what the folks at High Voltage are working on with now that The Conduit is approaching release (it’s not out already?), it’s another Wii game built with their Quantum3 engine.Gladiator A.D. will feature Motion+ support and is should be available in stores early next year.
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Pop-Powered Adventures Bubble Up Through The Clay
Submitted by videogame2play.com
With summer just around the corner, this Monday finds an especially hot mix of downloadable game offerings for the WiiWare™ and Nintendo DSiWare™ services, as well as for the Virtual Console™. Nintendo DSi™ users can become world-famous pop stars or use a new photo application to view their pictures in interesting new ways. [...]
Rodland recording
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Comes right after the jump.
A cute game where you guide a girl with a special pole for grabbing and ramming enemies into the ground around some single screen stages to battle all sorts of odd creatures. I think the idea here is to rescue the heroine’s mom from them. [...]
Yie Ar Kung-Fu recording
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
An early one-on-one:
Made just two years before the first Street Fighter, you play as a kung-fu champ who dukes it out with several opponents with varying degrees of skill and weapons. The part where it tells you “perfect” whenever you clear a round without losing a life unit, must [...]
A short tape of Beat Head
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Right after the musical beat.
This is some kind of hopscotch-style puzzle concept where you need to eliminate sections of a certain color. Unfortunately, it may not have made it past the testing stages back in the day, and is only available as a prototype.
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Bubble 2000: a Bobble ripoff
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This is basically a clone of the far superior Puzzle Bobble, that seems to star a caveman as the guy in charge of the bubble launcher.
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Cloak & Dagger taping
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
In two recordings:
You play as Agent X, who’s been sent on a mission to destroy the laboratory of a mad scientist plotting world destruction. A very tricky and challenging game, with some good animation between stages on the elevators where Agent X can be seen up front. You need [...]
Short Stunt Cycle videos
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
First comes a link to a clip featuring the arcade version of the game, since the embed code was turned off.
And then, here’s a recording of a prototype of the home 2600 console version:
This was one of the earliest motorcycle racing games made, where the object is going through [...]
Cycle Warriors clip
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A motorcycle-based variation on games like Chase HQ and even Round Up 5, you control a hefty biker battling more baddies on the road, and there’s some tough bosses to face soon afterwards. You can move your player into the “background” and back to the “foreground” [...]
Power Spikes post
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Right after the jump.
A sequel to Super Volleyball, it’s very similar to its predecessor.
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Ta-o Taido taping
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
In two parts:
A fighter that’s nothing special at all. Whatever special moves they tried to put into this one, they’re uninspired, and what a bore this game is! And the girl fighter here looks better in the main action than she does on the selection menu.
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American Horseshoes clip
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It’s the sport of trying to toss a horseshoe onto a small pole. Clearly, the controls for this are very complicated and need some practice in order to get the hang of how to play properly.
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The third Sims game
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
EA is producing a third entry in this “life-simulator”:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Maybe it’s neat, childish, lucky, ambitious and insane - just depends on what traits gamers choose for their neighborhood of virtual playthings in “The Sims 3,” Electronic Arts and Maxis’ popular life-simulating game for the PC and [...]
Guitar Hero takes over television
Written by Black Entertainment USA
I am sure all the gamers out there have heard this news already, but for anyone that missed this here we go. Reality television shows are here to stay, sadly, but over the past several years they have been dwindling in viewers. Shows like American Idol, Survivor and the ilk are [...]
Study finds more are playing vidgames than going to movies
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
According to this short article on Yahoo’s game section, a recent study is telling why the game consoles at home must have more of an audience than your local movie theater.
But hey, when the quality of screenwriting has gone down so much and become only so plagued with political [...]
LGJ: A case of tortious interference
Submitted by Law of the Game
This week’s LGJ is a little primer on tortious interference.
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