February 28, 2005
Gamasutra: Question Of The Week Responses - Moral Responsibilities of Game Creators (Free reg. req, dayjob, even an answer from Ian Bell of Elite fame, and another great pic from Arjan Westerdiep.)
IC: Planetarian English translation complete (Rather adult, but rather interesting 'visual novel' translation action.)
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Wondercon trailer (.RM) (Marvellously tongue in cheek, with Stephen Fry (the book!) narrating, here's the other trailers - via PlanetMagrathea.)
Monotonik: Datassette - 'Maintenance Werk' MP3 release (Latest on my netlabel, tight CC-licensed UK retrodigifunk.)
Stockpatrol: Infinium Labs Inc - 'Waiting For A Phantom' (Some good solid financial analysis on the ever-controversial game hardware - via The-Inbetween.)
Octopus Dropkick: Shin Dekotora Densetsu PS2 truck game (The office copy of Famitsu has recently had prominent ads for this truck-stylin' game. )
February 27, 2005
Click-Stick BBS: Tales of the Hardcore vol. 1: The Santa Fe Diner (Finding Outzone in a NM biker bar? Priceless.)
Livejournal Community: 'Shi**y Advice' ('This is the forum to ask questions and get bad advice.' Good idea!)
AP: Oscar Winners Outlive Other Actors (Thank God for dumb scientific studies about slinky gold statuettes.)
Scene.org 2004 Award nominees announced (Nice to see the demo-scene hanging in there - via Waxy.)
TVShowsonDVD: Danger Mouse coming to U.S. DVD in May (Oh, eck!)
Ziff Davis Game Group - official editorial shufflings (FYI, FYI. With magazines disappearing, 1UP is becoming a priority?)
New version of Traktor DJ mixing software uses netlabel songs for demo (Good app, good demo tracks, good for netlabels.)
Jason Scott of Textfiles.com on collecting podcasts (Written as a partial response to my linklog skepticism about podcasting, apparently. The man is certainly a collector, hee.)
February 26, 2005
Dwelling Of Duels: 2D shooter game music remix competition (Some fun stuff here, though the joke songs are rather.. jokey.)
Gigantic old school hiphop flyer collection (Rather cool - via Fort90.)
PRWeek: Cheaptickets pulls Gridskipper.com blog sponsorship (Apparently, they didn't realize it was Fleshbot with alleged travel overtones.)
Paidcontent: Lotsa info on Ev Williams' podcasting startup, Odeo (I don't know how excited I am about podcasting.)
Game Informer: Xbox's Peter Moore talks about Mistwalker/Sakaguchi hook-up (V.helpful on the details - Xbox are really trying to win over Japan, next time.)
Grand Text Auto: Meretzky, other DNA collaborators talk interactive fiction in London (I would go, were I in London.)
Press release: Philip Morris USA Denies Requests for Product Placement (Smoking in movies is cool, but they just don't pay for it, OK?)
February 25, 2005
Leland Yee getting crank calls re:CA game violence legislation (Uhoh, this isn't going to do the cause any good.)
ALA president on 'Revenge Of The Blog People!' (Slashdot commenters either act pithy or troll hilariously.)
Gamasutra: The End Game: 2005 Acquisition Activity Update (Free reg. req., a good (dayjob-related) analysis of who got bought by whom in 2004.)
CNN/AP: Road kill candy angers animal rights activists (But how about hedgehog crisps?)
RedOctane moving from dance mat production to PS2 game publishing (Obscure imports? Dancing game clones? Who knows, but we'll find out.)
Nanaca Crash - random super-addictive Flash game du jour (Here's more info for the terminally confused.)
Joystiq: Xbox power cord switch actually worse that it seems? ('When your PSU sparks and shorts out, it just trips a switch instead of catching fire, but your Xbox still doesn’t work'?)
DaveG: Hamster/Papercraft Sega arcade cabinet crossover (Not Photoshopped - bonus if anyone knows where you can get the papercraft design from.)
E!/Yahoo: 'Whitney's Tummy Woes' (Starting this article with 'It was the greatest barf of all'? Priceless! Via mcbutter.)
IC: Pump It Up! dancing game CCG (..available in Mexico, created by Koreans, my, the world is multi-cultural - see my previous IC post for more PIU.)
February 24, 2005
Wired Rave Award Winners for 2005 (Hacks series didn't make it, but some great, relevant picks in here.)
Gamasutra: Nintendo Warns Webzen Over Zelda MMO Similarities (I can't see the similarity, myself.)
IGN Filmforce: Bruce Willis planning 'Die Hard 4.0' (Shortly to be followed by 'Die Hard 4.0 Professional' and 'Die Hard 4.0 Server Edition'?)
Yahoo Auctions JP: Ikaruga model (Incredibly expensive, rather handsome.)
1UP: Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante #4 (Completely forgot about this, due to 1UP's tricksy front page, but try all of them - wonderfully dumbass stuff.)
Gamasutra: 'Isle of Man Seeks Game Companies' (What's next, HavenCo? BTW, my dayjob, Gamasutra, has dropped reg. requirements for the news section, so read away!)
Arcadia Magazine: complete AOU 2005 game list (Every game shown at the AOU arcade show in Tokyo - some obscure stuff in here - via Click-Stick.)
Low Level All Stars chiptune extravaganza @ NYC (Wow, right now, Bodenstandig, Treewave, Nullsleep on a triple-threat bill? If you're in NY, you must go.)
February 23, 2005
Ash doing 'Clones' pop single, tied into 'Republic Commando' Star Wars game (Ash are insane Star Wars geeks, obviously.)
Drupal: World Of WarCraft's /bug reporting method redirects... (...to /dev/null, and some people are rather unaware about it, uhoh.)
Taxpayer.net: 'Full Spectrum Welfare: How Taxpayers Paid for One of the Nation's Most Profitable Video Games' (There may be a hint of disgruntled ex-employee in here, but still interesting.)
Radica: 'Tetris Tower' board game (...Connect 4 stylee. Via The-Inbetween.)
Private-Eye: Acupuncture, breast implant intersection not for the best ('She returned, complaining that her left breast had shrunk from a D-cup to an A-cup.')
GAF: Dragon Quest fanboy arrested in Japan for messageboard death threats ('The potential killer liked [Dragon Quest] 6 most, apparently.')
Archive.org: The S Sessions on the Michael Jackson case (.MOV) (As far as I'm concerned, this is the definitive ruling.)
Surge Magazine - no more? (Not the most well-known games mag anyhow, but has allegedly closed down.)
February 22, 2005
Serbin Communications: 'PLAY!' portfolio for game/toy illustrators (Collectors will probably want to get hold of this in '06, too - should have nice artwork.)
Guardian Gamesblog: 'Is there a role for the New Games Journalism?' (Finally a well-considered perspective on the 'why mags suck in '05!' repetitiveness.)
Jorn Barger's Robotwisdom.com back up (You may remember he disappeared a while back - now he's blogging again, after an El Reg appearance.)
TV commercial: Black Black Japanese caffeinated candy ad (.WMV) (Since I just picked up some Black Black in San Jose Japantown - for the record (thanks Endekks!), it's _English_, and he's saying: 'Yeah.. this is Tokoro Ichiyoshi.. one push! And one push again! You understand?')
Archive.org: Grandma - Tiny fashion [Cam078] (Marvellously obtuse free new release from Monotonik alumnus and Type Records star Khonnor.)
TellTale Games announces Bone adventure game for PC (These were the guys hoping to make the Sam & Max sequel - now trying poker games as staging-post to Bone.)
February 21, 2005
Ashley Slater of Fatboy Slim sideproject Freakpower declares bankuptcy ("I have just completed a soundtrack to the latest Hollywood release MirrorMask" - the Gaiman/McKean movie? How odd. Via XRRF.)
Gaming-Age: Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force are Midway's first Adult Swim video games? (There were multiple Adult Swim titles licensed, apparently these are the first in development?)
CBR: 'Shaun Of The Dead' comic announced by IDW (Top stuff - IDW are an interesting company, also doing 'Angel' miniseries.)
GameTunnel doing extended, multi-article IGF preview (Wow - this is amazing, kudos to the GameTunnel chaps.)
LegalTorrents: 'Blue - A Short Film' CC-licensed CG movie (Rather gorgeous animation for a bedroom-rendered effort - here's some stills.)
Yahoo!: Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide (What a long, strange trip - this makes no sense.)
SF Chronicle on Justin Hall's blog farewell (..and others, too - some private life should be, well, private? Via Paul Boutin.)
February 20, 2005
Loonatics trailer [.MOV] (Hate to say it, but isn't this a little Poochie? Could be wrong, mind you.)
GameGirlAdvance on the Final Fantasy Dear Friends concert in Chicago ('This is the future of concert music. You could feel the electricity of it in the air.')
PC Gamer: Dan Morris on Half-Life 2's awards 'disappearance' (A rival magazine ignoring HL2 'perhaps the most shocking moment in the history of the games press'?)
Sony gives away free gas to promote Gran Turismo 4 (Beep beep, yeah.)
Hardcore Gamer Magazine announced, sample PDFs available (Can they beat the long history of hardcore U.S. game magazine tragedy?)
Whedonesque: Joss Whedon's pre-event review of Wondercon (Heehee, I don't think WonderCon really happened like that, Joss.)
Jeremy Wright on IE7's possible feature list (I had a dream about getting spyware from using IE last night! Via Waxy.)
February 19, 2005
NFG Games: Japanese mobile gaming gallery (If U.S. phone games were like this, I would be v.excited for the market.)
Impress Watch: Lots more pictures of Mario Kart Arcade GP (You can see the webcam effect better here.)
TIGSource: The Sexiest Indie Gamer Of All Time Competition (Artfully positioned joysticks to the fore.)
Undeadart: Winners of CC zombie remix competition (The overall winner, How To Survive A Zombie Epidemic, is kinda fun!)
GrumpyGamer: Everybody loves to hate the gaming press... (Although small-subscription 'hardcore' publications work in the UK due to better news-stand distro (Edge, GamesTM), this is a bit of a red herring for me - let the U.S. paper-magazines cater to a paper-magazine audience.)
Aleksi Eeben's util/demo download page (From the Monotonik artist, now with screenshots, also Retroskoi 2-oscillator C64 performance synth newly released.)
IC: Taito's 'Spica Adventure' 2D arcade sidescroller @ AOU (Wow, they really do still make games like this.)
'Alan Moore and the Graphic Novel's Viable Bridge to the 4th Dimension' paper (Way too academiakwak, but some good points in here about Moore's use of time - via Metafilter.)
Gamasutra: Question Of The Week Responses: Nintendo's DS vs. Sony's PSP (Free. reg. req., dayjob, another great accompanying illustration by Arjan Westerdiep.)
February 18, 2005
Watch Impress: Namco's Mario Kart Arcade GP confirmed! (And here's the proof - includes video cameras taking pics of the players!)
JP.Playstation.com: Katamari Damacy hand puppet (I want Katamari Damacy DS, kinda badly.)
Toonzone: 'Loonatics' cartoon remakes classic WB characters ('The evils of Acmetropolis'? It's cold in my heart.)
Sony Online: Order pizza while playing EverQuest II (Of course, it just spawns a browser window, but what the hey?)
GC Advanced: Guy proposes using 'Animal Crossing' (But will he have to buff her car by button-pounding? Via GAF.)
Reuters/Yahoo: Britain's Channel Five Rapped Over CSI:NY Stalker Promo ('People who received the package had been selected from a list of viewers who had registered an interest in getting information about crime programs.' Heh.)
Google Groups: not as archival as we think? (Does Google just delete X-No-Archive messages, not dark-archive them? Wasn't very aware of this.)
Click-Stick: Senko No Ronde video (Was screening this out as just another shmup - but, wow, a one-on-one shmup fighter (MPEG)? Delicious.)
Archive.org: Sofasound net.label (Just spotted these guys, freely downloadable Kruder+Dorfmeister-ish jazzy German/Austrian lounge releases.)
February 17, 2005
Glarkware: 'Dingo Snack' T-shirt for baby (If you really want to say Streep - via McButter.)
Joystiq: EA blanking word 'Sega' from House Of Pain's 'Jump Around' (..in NBA Street V3. A hilarious conundrum, indeed.)
Nathan Barley reviews Nathan Barley (I want one of Nathan's phones, regardless - trailers for first episode here and here - U.S. release, ever?)
J. Michael Straczynski makes another impassioned plea to take on a Star Trek series (..and then takes it back, haw.)
Yahoo/HW: 'House Of Flying Daggers' first simultaneous DVD/UMD release. (Oh, that lovable PSP with its movie-playing capabilities - I could just pinch it!)
TVGasm: Jonathan and Victoria from 'The Amazing Race' on Dr. Phil (Cirque du moustache with Uncle Phil, scary Jon.)
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy movie trailer [.MOV] (Non-SWF version pointed out by Waxy - a higher-res version should be along v.soon. Still salivating.)
February 16, 2005
MSNFound.com - watch this space (More to be 'found' here? MSN Search doing some odd things.)
Kikizo Games: Tomonobu Itagaki (Tecmo) interviewed (Not quite as outrageous as normal? Wonders never cease.)
Mu: 'Paris Hilton' video (.MOV) (Just got the new XLR8R with Mu on the front - Maurice Fulton and Japanese wife, delightfully mangling language - via JeanSnow.)
Gothamist: Dachshunds Are Hot Dogs in Manhattan (Weiners also winners in our household, etc, etc.)
Google Print: 'Gaming Hacks' (My book, with slightly mangled front cover (heh!), plus the first 3 pages/ToC in Google's Print database, yay.)
Engine Comics: The Craft - an Alan Moore interview (Never get bored of Moore waxing lyrical - via Gaiman.)
February 15, 2005
Yahoo!: Fans Buy 'Fawlty Towers' Hotel (Particularly famous for ' throwing Eric Idle's briefcase out of the hotel "in case it contained a bomb".')
Fortean Times: 'The Eye Of The Outsider' (True outsider art is rather marvellous - via BoingBoing.)
GTA creator making GTA-style MMO game for Korean publisher (Cross-cultural, a long way off, also a big deal.)
InsertCredit: Namco's sweet tooth, respect for elders (My latest IC post, mmm, Namco's sweet theme park desserts look like they're to die for.)
Uwe_Boll's LiveJournal - 'du hast mich' (Perhaps unfunny, certainly symptomatic of a trend.)
Ugandan Discussions: Complete Private Eye cover archive (So far, this one made me laugh the most - via BoingBoing)
Edge Online: Yuji Naka interview (Also now online - PoP: Sands Of Time 'postmortem', Irrational Games discussion.)
February 14, 2005
Gamasutra: Wik & The Fable Of Souls postmortem (Dayjob, free. reg. req., ugly non-reg version, smart Bionic Commando-esque IGF finalist analyzed.)
PETA Proggy Awards - Best Animal-Friendly Video Game (Huzzah to Whiplash and IGF finalist Steer Madness - via the Spanx-crazed Video-Fenky.)
Reality Panic: On credits in the Game Developers Choice Award nominations (Here are the full nominations - but 'one nominee had to forfeit their nomination as they were unwilling to provide [specific personnel credits]!' Interesting.)
InsertCredit: Atari Cosmos resurfaces (Spotted this on the uber-uber-geek ASSEMblergames forums.)
The ARTS: Artscene Radio Talk Show Vol.10 (Interviews with Sir GarbageTruck of Nectarine, Def Base of Havok Radio, good scene-stuff.)
InsertCredit: Retro Core videos all online (For easy grabbing at Archive.org, good obscure game footage/Japanese arcade walkthroughs.)
February 13, 2005
Trailer: The RZA recommends 'Ong Bak' (Opens this weekend - ignoring The RZA/Ali G trailer comparisons, this Thai kungfu movie looks 'next Jackie Chan'-style awesome - also see star Tony Jaa's Dallas Mavs half-time show - wow.)
Archive.org: 'The Box Maker' ('The speed of his hands... is for real and not fast-mo' - eye-opening home-movie footage of an Indian worker.)
IGN Filmforce: New pics of Vogons from Hitchhiker's Guide movie (Wow, having poetry read to you never looked so scary.)
Computer History Museum: 'From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Accessing Cultural Assets Online' (Great-looking event with Rick Prelinger, Henry Lowood, the Octavo founder, more..)
AlwaysBlack - alt.gaming prose site (Some v.interesting stuff here, like personal views on violence and gaming.)
eBay: Super Mario Bros 42" ceiling fan/light kit for sale (Obscure merchandise alert! Here's a close-up, here's the original AtariAge thrift store finds thread.)
LegalTorrents: 'The Meaty McMeat Show' (Completely, _completely_ insane CC-licensed full-length Flash-animated feature - trailer here, direct download here.)
February 12, 2005
Reuters: Actor Tom Sizemore Fails Drug Test with Fake Penis ('Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device, sold over the Internet under the brand name the Whizzinator' - via Defamer.)
Salon.com: 'HP Lovecraft - Master of Disgust' (A little weak on the potted biography, but good on the extreme love/hate responses to 'weird fiction'.)
Katamari Damacy hat-maker branches out (Now it's 'white katamari with blue/green/yellow/red rainbow dots', and a dedicated webpage, ohmy.)
1UP: Crucial Classics - Dance Dance Revolution (Very straightforward, but good didactic stuff from Toastyfrog.)
Design Synthesis: Making an action-RPG based on the songs of Blue Oyster Cult (Entirely imaginary, entirely odd.)
A Brief History Of Plagiarism in Games (May well be old, but reminded me again what a HORRIBLE rip-off Popcap's Zuma is of Mitchell's Puzzloop/Ballistic - scandalous - via The-Inbetween.)
Hasbro releasing ION EyeToy-styled kids gaming system ("There's even a parental check button on the system to let parents track their kid's progress, see what game they've been playing and for how long." Big momma!)
February 11, 2005
InsertCredit: Mastiff announces U.S. PS2/Xbox release of Pump It Up Exceed (Just got back from this - great news, Mastiff rocks, also Steriogram.)
Jeansnow: Inflatable Mona from 2ch in Akihabara (Here's what you need to know about Mona and about 2ch - geekout.)
IGN: Racing Gears Advance review (Notable because it looks great, is Orbital Media's _LONG_-awaited GBA debut, has a Neil Voss soundtrack.)
SF Weekly: On Journey's star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Yes, that Journey - neat article, via Paul Boutin.)
/. Timothy: 'How To Watch Your Friend's Wiener (Dog)' (Since we are weiner-enabled, we found this tragically adorable.)
Yahoo!/Reuters: No comeback for Blackadder (Darn you for getting our hopes up, Tony Robinson.)
Game-Science: Nintendo DS ads outpace many other consumer products in Japan (Impressive brand-recognition stuff for Ninty.)
February 10, 2005
Insert Credit: Retro Core Saturn Shooting Special (That's a whole lotta Saturn shooters.)
Newest National Lampoon comedy to debut on DVD 4 days after theatrical release (Movies soon debuting on DVD before they are made - via Defamer.)
Kevin 'Video-Fenky' Gifford gets job with Newtype USA (Congrats, Kevin - post pictures of Spanx when you get him.)
Denver girls fined for hospitalizing neighbor with cookie (There's a heartfelt letter at the Denver Post, for which this is evidently story of the year.)
Ludonauts pick their best game writing of 2004 ('Weightier-than-thou beards like Ernest Adams'? Vicious, Mr. Kelly :P)
G4TechTV: UbiSoft shipping Lumines on PSP launch, with improvements (...including new skins and faster loading. Drooling already.)
February 09, 2005
Tony Hawk to guest on 'CSI: Miami' as slain star of skateboarding video game (The episode is called 'Game Over'? Pure genius.)
Tecmo sues Dead or Alive hackers under DMCA for modding (Often swimsuit-removing modding, mind you, but interesting, controversial.)
Yahoo/Reuters: Alan Sugar is the UK's Donald Trump, 'Apprentice' Mogul (This is amusing to me, remembering Sugar from the Amstrad CPC464.)
OneMusic: Rob Da Bank (Nobody can really replace John Peel, but this is good stuff.)
ICV2: Topps schedules Wayans Collectible Card Game project (Wow, there's no end to 'Ya Mama's So Fat' marketing opportunities - via OgreCave.)
February 08, 2005
WZZM: 4-year-old steals car to go rent PlayStation game (This is the original report, specifically mentioning it was a video game, unlike syndicated versions.)
Gamasutra: Question Of The Week Responses: 2004's Most Creative Games (Free reg. req., dayjob, obviously Katamari 'won' (great illustration by Drububu!), but plenty of interesting commentary.)
Private Eye: Pseuds Corner, Issue 1125 (Corking Tom Stoppard pseudery - 'the library as Superword'!)
Video-Fenky: Namco slapped down by Red Cross over Anna's Tekken 5 nurse outfit (Here's some background history, people forget that it's a trademark.)
Ananova: Geri Halliwell got lost on way to bathroom, missed meeting with Austrian president (On the cutting edge of news.)
February 07, 2005
InsertCredit: Activision retro Burger King toys (Kids meal giveaways always tempting.)
Supermanisadick.com (Safe for work, really quite self-explanatory.)
Archive.org: disrupt - International Karate 7 (Badass dub reggae bleep version of classic C64 karate game music.)
AskJeeves buys Bloglines (I know Bloglines is simple, but it's easy and effective - hopefully it will stay so. Via Waxy.)
The Independent Gaming Source weblog (More good indie gaming weblog action, also see IndiePlay for more goodness.)
February 06, 2005
Monotonik: Vim! - Perpetual Autumn EP [mtk142] (Latest release on my net.label, have been releasing Vim's idm-bleep loveliness for, ohmy, almost 10 years.)
Segagaga - Retro Core 'online retro games show' (These will be up on Archive.org presently - lots of in-game footage of obscuro games, yay.)
Armchair Arcade: Atari Flashback versus Commodore 64 30-in-1 (Battling retro 'TV game' console alert.)
Archive.org: Berkeley's Constructed Languages course, videotaped (Constructed languages include Esperanto, Klingon, etc - this looks fascinating - more info available.)
InsertCredit: Space*Axe bleep synth (Another of my occasional IC posts, about a very '80s Space Invaders sound chip synth.)
February 05, 2005
Michael 'Zonk' Zenke now full-time Slashdot editor (Congrats! Coincides with the departure of Michael, and good luck to him.)
Archive.org: Anti-ecstasy U.S. Navy PSA (Cheesy ravemonkey effects? Check. In-copyright trance music background? Check. 'Navy E epidemic'? Check?)
Everything2: 'The unexamined genius of schoolyard rhymes' (Gleefully dumb deconstruction ahoy.)
PVRBlog: CinemaNow to offer NBC TV shows for $1-$3 per episode (This is starting to get promising.)
Lisa Snellings: HP Lovecraft as a rat limited-edition sculpture (Weird. Also see Neil Gaiman as a rat, via Gaiman himself.)
InsertCredit: Obscure new Pioneer LaserActive in-game videos (Also see info on Korean 'Hot Shots Golf' clones, Chaz is on an obscurity-filled roll.)
February 04, 2005
VW ad: Gene Kelly 'updates' Singing In The Rain [.MOV] (Only he's dead, his face is digitally inserted, and a breakdancer has taken his place. Insane stuff, via NewsFromMe.)
Reality Blurred: Idol producers sue Peruvian show ("The lawsuit lists the similarities between the two shows, including having two supportive judges and a caustic one", heh.)
Archive.org: Transient - Quieter EP [nvr019] (Some beautiful CC-licensed piano/orchestral ambience from Transient.)
Defamer: Rob Schneider takes out full-page ad to defend Deuce Bigalow 2 (Or, more accurately, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, thank you VERY much.)
Beck's new single, 'Hell Yes', has bleep remixes! (..from 8-Bit and 8BitPeoples cohort Paza - Nullsleep is also doing one, although it may not get released? Via The-Inbetween.)
February 03, 2005
Car4Ron.com - buy a car for Ron Gilbert (The Monkey Island designer made a throwaway comment about wanting a car with a ribbon round it for Xmas - hey presto!)
Die Anstalt - flash 'game' (A 'game' where you psychiatrically counsel soft toys, which you can then buy real-life versions of? Whoa. Via Linkbunnies.)
1UP: Memoirs of an Urban Vigilante #1 (Scott Sharkey gets all medieval on City Of Heroes - hi-laaaaarious.)
NTSC-UK: Shining Back - Reflections on Shining Force (NTSC-UK always bring the high with the quality.)
Gamasutra: 'Top 10 Tips on How to Improve a Game Quality Assurance Department' (Free reg. req., BioWare's QA director discusses game testing ethos tips.)
Classic Famicom Tsushin 1990-ish Japanese mag excerpts (Some great stuff here, like early SNES prototype pictures.)
Revolution Mag: Head & Shoulders racing advergame launched (Apparently, players "get penalised if they hit the piles of dandruff [on the track.]")
Onion A.V. Club interviews Will Wright, Howard Scott Warshaw (The Sims Online "surprised [Wright] in a lot of ways, primarily the sexual dynamics that went on.")
GameSpy on Richard Marks' DICE lecture about EyeToy (I interviewed Marks at GDC 2004, he's a fascinating guy.)
February 02, 2005
LinkBunnies linklog (A good linklog I had no idea about - really neat conversational link-pasting style, too.)
Igloo Magazine: An introduction to net.labels (Quite the best intro to net.labels I've seen - highly recommended.)
Got-Next: 'Mono' freeware game mini-review (It's freely downloadable and agreeably trippy, oh yes.)
The CCC: The Top Ten Cutest Comic Creators (Please, someone do this for game designers? Via Gillen.)
Jake 'Virt' Kaufman talks about Food Network (Sorry, random link 'o the day, but the Rachael Ray description cracks me up.)
Archive.org: a subjective sinewaves compendium (idmix09) (A smartly-mixed, v.ambient compilation from the Italian Sinewaves net.label.)
Dreamcast-Scene wiki (Features some good info on recent Dreamcast 'scene' demos, amongst other things - via Click-Stick.)
February 01, 2005
Dyadin - abstract surreal multiplayer IGF Student Finalist game (Freely downloadable, here's the info page, a _really_ neat design.)
Namako Team: tri-Ace/Square Enix's Radiata Stories - sleeper hit? (Only just released in Japan, maybe not as bad as some claimed?)
Uweboll.com (Money well spent, indeed.)
ToughPigs: New Muppets Pizza Hut ads showing during Superbowl! ('What else are you going to do, sit around and wait for Henson to pimp out the Fraggles to Jiffy Lube?')
InsertCredit: Doukutsu Monogatari translated (One of the best Japanese freeware games of the past year gets an English translation patch, hooray.)
Gamasutra: ' Making Great Games In 40 Hours Per Week' (Free reg. req., dayjob, an interesting perspective on avoiding crunch from a developer.)