With a slowing economy and consumer spending, people will turn to the buzz generated by Nintendo and its console that costs half price. I expect Nintendo to run away with this. The Wii has an iPod feel to it. And it's a fresh new perspective that I think gamers are looking for.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
A Non-Gamer's Perspective
An interesting article on Seeking Alpha, a stock market opinion and analysis website predicting a boom for MoSys based on the fact that they are providing the memory chips for the Wii.
FLW's Kauffman House modelled in HalfLife 2
A quickie for Jal. Kauffman House by Frank Lloyd Wright modelled using HalfLife2 tech.
This really sets a par for architectural modelling in near-realistic game engines. Ruut - remember when we talked about modelling Southdowns in Quake 3? Having spent hours and hours doing my own house (and it was still pretty poor) I can appreciate how difficult this must've been.
This really sets a par for architectural modelling in near-realistic game engines. Ruut - remember when we talked about modelling Southdowns in Quake 3? Having spent hours and hours doing my own house (and it was still pretty poor) I can appreciate how difficult this must've been.
Fi Club Seal
Just messing about, made using this. It needs a better center but nothing in the drop down was appropriate. Still, easy to photoshop something different in.
You Say You Want A Revolution
No, not that Revolution, but the real potential for a revolution in games.
From the Scratchware Manifesto:
The machinery of gaming has run amok.
Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month's PC Data list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.
It is time for revolution.
Driven by this vision a community of game designers, programmers and players is growing at Manifesto Games, dedicated to releasing quality, artistic, unusual games of the type that Walmart and GAME wouldn't and couldn't stock. Their own Manifesto Manifesto makes for interesting and inspiring reading, and it's hard to fault their logic.
Maybe not quite the gaming equivalent of the Punk ethos as it's clear that while anyone can play guitar it's actually quite hard to write a game it is possible for everyone who loves games and gaming to still get involved: submit ideas; buy, download and play these games; write reviews (they welcome honest reviews whether they're good or bad); spread the word.
Join us, and help build a better tomorrow. Get the word out that there's more to games than you'll find at Best Buy, and that Manifesto Games is the place to find the best of the rest, the products of individual vision, games created for love and not at the behest of some blinkered suit whose last job was selling Tide.
Let a thousand flowers blossom; let a thousand different games contend.
From now on, we must all strive resolutely to bring about the overthrow of the existing order.
Gameplay over glitz.
Word Komrad!
From the Scratchware Manifesto:
The machinery of gaming has run amok.
Instead of serving creative vision, it suppresses it. Instead of encouraging innovation, it represses it. Instead of taking its cue from our most imaginative minds, it takes its cue from the latest month's PC Data list. Instead of rewarding those who succeed, it penalizes them with development budgets so high and royalties so low that there can be no reward for creators. Instead of ascribing credit to those who deserve it, it seeks to associate success with the corporate machine.
It is time for revolution.
Driven by this vision a community of game designers, programmers and players is growing at Manifesto Games, dedicated to releasing quality, artistic, unusual games of the type that Walmart and GAME wouldn't and couldn't stock. Their own Manifesto Manifesto makes for interesting and inspiring reading, and it's hard to fault their logic.
Maybe not quite the gaming equivalent of the Punk ethos as it's clear that while anyone can play guitar it's actually quite hard to write a game it is possible for everyone who loves games and gaming to still get involved: submit ideas; buy, download and play these games; write reviews (they welcome honest reviews whether they're good or bad); spread the word.
Join us, and help build a better tomorrow. Get the word out that there's more to games than you'll find at Best Buy, and that Manifesto Games is the place to find the best of the rest, the products of individual vision, games created for love and not at the behest of some blinkered suit whose last job was selling Tide.
Let a thousand flowers blossom; let a thousand different games contend.
From now on, we must all strive resolutely to bring about the overthrow of the existing order.
Gameplay over glitz.
Word Komrad!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
GT4: Mobile goes Duke Nukem
Famitsu magazine in Japan has found out from Polyphony Digital that eagerly anticipated PSP title Gran Turismo 4: Mobile Edition has been given an indefinite release date.
This is a blow to those of us who believed the rumours that this game would include the 'overclocking' feature (actually, just clocking up to 100% of the CPU's capability) not to mention a top-notch driving sim for the PSP.
This is a blow to those of us who believed the rumours that this game would include the 'overclocking' feature (actually, just clocking up to 100% of the CPU's capability) not to mention a top-notch driving sim for the PSP.
Ooh Pwetty!
I found a stash of Zelda screenies. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Zelda ever used cut-scene FMV, making it all the more likely that these are in-game graphics.Some of these are pretty old, but the most recent are from this month's Leipzig Game Conference.
Monday, August 28, 2006
'Fi Club this week
I think it's probably my turn, but as we're off to Bristol early on Saturday would someone else mind taking this one for me and I'll do the 15th?
Sunday, August 27, 2006
DS titles from £9.99
Virgin Megastores online store has DS titles from £9.99.
I just picked up Meteos and SuperMario 64 for a tenner each.
I just picked up Meteos and SuperMario 64 for a tenner each.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Wii for less
According to the beeb a high-up in Nintendo Germany has mentioned that the Wii will cost under €250 which is about £170.
Folding@Home distributed computing to run on PS3s
Now this is sheer bloody genius. Volunteers will be able to run the Folding@Home software on their PS3s to harness spare cycles to help understand causes of diseases.
And that's with only 10,000 machines.
With 10,000 machines joined together the researchers calculate they should be able to do a thousand trillion calculations per second.
If that was achieved it would be nearly four times as fast as the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L System, capable of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.
And that's with only 10,000 machines.
Soda Fountain delayed by 13 years
Such a shame, I was looking forward to playing that. I reckon it'll be horribly outdated by 2020.Maybe I should stop getting my breaking gamer news from Tesco.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Official GTA:VCS screenies
The story at PSPworld.com says eight official screenshots, but I can only count seven, and I can't see any link at the Rockstar VCS site.October 20th release date in Europe.
PSP gadgets
Gizmodo.com has a couple of quick snaps of the PSP Camera (Eye Toy?) and GPS unit. Both stick out a mile and look like crap if you ask me. You can also see the vile pink PSP.
Rumour has it Sony might actually be releasing some games for this expensive bauble eventually.
Rumour has it Sony might actually be releasing some games for this expensive bauble eventually.
DS Homebrew Portal
For those of us maybe considering a flash cart for the DS, Portal:NDS looks like a valuable resource, with guides, links to hardware outlets, and a catalogue of homebrew apps.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Valve teasers
Some Valve teasers shot on hand-held shakey-cam, but cool nonetheless. From what I read HL2: Ep2, TeamFortress 2 and Portal are all going to be bundled for less than £50. There are also mentions of the lot being available for Xbox 360 too.
How many dicks is that?
Some pretty fucking disturbing viral videos for the upcoming Reservoir Dogs video game. (Audio most definitely NSFW, video is unsettlingly prosaic.)
Clever editing or dubbing aside, those kids say those lines and I'm just not sure that's right (or legal?) Still, it'll cause a commotion, get people talking about it and get the game and publishers publicity which is entirely the point.
Clever editing or dubbing aside, those kids say those lines and I'm just not sure that's right (or legal?) Still, it'll cause a commotion, get people talking about it and get the game and publishers publicity which is entirely the point.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Pink, Pink, Pink and more Pink
Pink PS2, and DS and artist Pink helps launch pink PSP.
<Insert joke at Munchk's expnse here>
In other news Aibo does a sex wii.
<Insert joke at Munchk's expnse here>
In other news Aibo does a sex wii.
Soda Fountain
Are we all getting Syphon Filter for the PSP before the next 'Fi Club? If so, where's the cheapest you've seen it?
I'm definitely planning to grab it soon.
I'm definitely planning to grab it soon.
Sonic Rush DS
I have finished Sonic Rush for the DS (well finished the story mode with the Sonic character). First to post gets to borrow it. When you're done, pass it on.
It's a furiously fast platformer in the true Sonic vein. If (like me) you've not played a Sonic game for a while there a couple of tiny convention changes that you'll need to read the booklet to get used to but nothing terribly drastic. It's good fun, occasionally deeply frustrating, but nothing unsurmountable. The levels are very inventive, and quite replayable, and the music is enjoyable.
It's a furiously fast platformer in the true Sonic vein. If (like me) you've not played a Sonic game for a while there a couple of tiny convention changes that you'll need to read the booklet to get used to but nothing terribly drastic. It's good fun, occasionally deeply frustrating, but nothing unsurmountable. The levels are very inventive, and quite replayable, and the music is enjoyable.
Chav Rising
I was wondering whether the game Dead Rising would be skinnable. If so, the first one out has to be a chav hack. Running round a shopping centre killing chavs with a scythe is quite appealing to me.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Monday, August 14, 2006
Coke's Grand Theft
Check out this nicely done Coke Commercial. It's going to be completely lost on Granny, but it raised a smile on my Monday morning face.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
!NEWS FLASH HALO!
for all you halo geeks
heres just a quicky
gets a bit dull after 30 seconds or so, but there you go!!!!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Veni Vidi Vice
GTAViceCityStories.com has a scan of Australian gamer mag Gamepro's VCS preview, along with a synopsis of the article. Some exciting tidbits:
And so on.
C'mon Rockstar, make me love my PSP again!
Players can now take on the water of Vice City With jet skis!
VCS is "much, much bigger than Vice City"
You can fly helicopters!
You can swim in the game!
LCS is "rookie first-gen PSP title compared to VCS"
And so on.
C'mon Rockstar, make me love my PSP again!
A Brace of Geeky videos
The story of Chad Vader Day Shift Manager. (See also Ep 2.)
Second up Super Mario Bros Live. Not without technical problems, and when it starts off you think "Meh", but the longer it goes on the better it gets.
Both via Wonderland.