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Gran Tursimo Prologue looks ordinary

It appears as though Playstation is starting ramp up their advertising spend and are heavily promoting the PS3 Gran Tursmo Prologue pack. The thing is, the graphics look extremely ordinary, with a lazy framerate, so-so visuals and so much blurry frame interlacing that it looks like a souped up PS2 game, rather than the greatest [...]

Hondamentalism

For more games like this one, visit www.honda.co.uk/hondamentalism/challenge

Human Breakout - Augmented reality combined with flash game

Whilst waiting for the film “spiderman3″ to start in Los Angeles, theatre goers played a version of Breakout as a group. By waving their arms in the air and by swaying from side to side, the audience was able to control the direction of the paddle on screen. The “Newsbreaker” game is a combination of [...]

Interesting article on games

Age: “Although children are beginning to start playing games at a younger age, the overall age of players is getting older. Younger games players are influenced to play particular games by peer pressure and word of mouth, but negative press coverage for a game will significantly increase its take up.”
Gender: “There is a sharp divide [...]

WiiMote Music Makin

extract :’We have previously mentioned several fun uses of the Wiimote with your Mac. The Wii Loop Machine by Yann Seznec is nifty little application for controlling music loops (similar to those in Garageband) using the Wiimote. You can select different loops with the buttons and control playback by moving the Wiimote around in space.’ [...]

My 15 minutes as an Internet phenomenon

The Frantic Day
Last Thursday night i was madly rushing about our local Westfield Shoppingtown trying to lock down a shirt, present, card and hair smeg for my friends wedding. It was a frantic search, after a frantic day, before having to head home for a frantic grab of packing for weekend ahead. At the last [...]

Google Gadgets

The great ZeFrank & TED

Space Invaded by Humans

Counter Strike - Inverted Machinima

This is a homebrew movie that explores the wonderful world of counter strike. Whilst the direction is a bit shabby at times (the opening scenes are way too long) the art direction and special effects are very cleverly done considering the budget. This is just another example of different media blurring from one into the [...]

Real World Mario Bros

Golden Goose is a yearly talent show held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. This video is a “live” performance of the first level from Super Mario Brothers. Well worth a nostalgic click down 8bit memory lane. It reminds me of a dream I once had…

Tetris on a building

Firstly, apologies for not coming up with a cleverer title to this post. I’m only halfway through my koffee and the brain-nodule-think-bits aren’t coherent enough to be clever yet (if et al). But I digress….
I’ve heard about digital media artists creating tetris games on the sides of sky scrapers but it’s been difficult to find [...]

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