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Entries from November 2006

The Snake Game

November 19th, 2006 · No Comments

New Snake

Mark Fennell has a gorgeous Snake game called Python which is like the traditional variants, but with actual snake and mouse graphics (not to mention blood and carcass graphics), more angles, and an energy meter, but more or less the same gameplay we all love.
Old Snake
There are many incarnations of the traditional Snake game,

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Tags: Free · Game design · Online games

PS3 Crow Eggs

November 19th, 2006 · 1 Comment

In this dramatic ad for the Sony Playstation 3 Sixaxis controller, the connection between videogame controllers, eggs, and blackbirds is illustrated famously. It all makes sense now. Buy a Playstation 3, play b3yond and make some crows.

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Tags: Platforms · Playstation3 · Video

Gears of War - Mad World Promo

November 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Gears of War. Check out this dark, sad, and so beautiful Mad World trailer. Wow. Now that is a good videogame ad.

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Tags: Platforms · Video · XBox 360

Play B3yond - Capacity

November 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Another Sony PlayStation 3 commercial, this time focusing on Blu-Ray capacity. More hype, but still compelling. Initial comparisons of movies released both on Blu-ray and HD DVD show HD DVD has a slight quality advantage — no doubt a gap that will be closed. However, it makes sense that raw capacity and speed are what

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Tags: Industry News · Platforms · Playstation3 · Video

Play B3yond - Smarter

November 5th, 2006 · No Comments

This promo for the Sony PlayStation 3 and its IBM Cell Processor illustrates the PS3’s raw computing power well and makes a compelling case for its potential. Yes, the ad has got its share of hype, but the Cell is snazzy regardless.
Pretty nice ad, but unfortunately it ends with this line, “Which begs the question:

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Tags: Industry News · Nintendo Wii · Platforms · Playstation3 · Video

The Ridiculous Nintendo Wii

November 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Wii Wii whatever. Nintendo is the land of the boring and the home of kids who can’t shoot. Now they’ve got this ridiculous Nintendo Wii. Ridiculous name, ridiculous controllers, and… well, it’s Nintendo. So it has to be pathetic, right?
At first, this supposedly official Wii promo trailer is just as silly as you’d expect from

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Tags: Industry News · Nintendo Wii · Platforms · Video

Red Square Escape

November 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Don’t know who wrote this DHTML and Javascript game, but it’s kind of fun. Called either Red Square or Escape or Escapa.
Click and drag the red square around, avoiding the other moving shapes as best you can. The game ends when there’s a collision.
Nearly everywhere I see this game says “if you make it to

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Tags: Free · Online games · PC · Platforms · Uncategorized