After three-years and fourty-thousand checks of my email, the Starcraft II beta finally arrived. I guess one of the perks of keeping a blog is that you get access to the newest things in video games as they ...
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Star Guard
Platform: PC/Mac
System Requirements: Adobe Flash Player 10
Price: Free
Star Guard is a Flash-developed platformer developed by Vacuum Flowers, and is available from their website.
This game contains excellent design and animation. It is distinctly retro, and the pixelated graphics ...
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A while back REZ was quite a bloggable game. And it may be a bit old hat to bring it up again, but I stumbled across this fascinatingarticle by Douglas Brown on its recursive interactions between visuals, audibles ...
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RunMan: Race Around the World, For PC -- I saw Ikko Taniuchi perform last week. For those of you who aren't familiar with him, Taniuchi covers himself in paint and rolls around on a large canvas [1]. It's ...
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(Resported: Ben Barone-Nugent / Photos: Cal Lamshed)
Well, it was interesting. I'm not sure it was quite in the E3-league of things, but there were some really great games. The Avatar game looks amazing in 3D. So amazing, in ...
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Synaesthetics in Modern Games
Two articles have recently got me thinking about the interactions we are seeing between the visual elements of games and the aural. In this article on Osmos at Create Digital Music [via Critical Distance], Peter Kim discusses with ...
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