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Timecrimes director to make movie about crime game developers running into real life trouble 47 views  [1]
posted by nir on Jul 31 2009 3:56pm
tags: news games movies timecrimes nacho vigalondo gangland
| | if you haven't seen timecrimes, it's an interesting little movie that's a bit like 'if a tree falls in the forest' for time travel. if perception is satisfied, can time then be tampered with? the upcoming movie is to be produced, of all things, by the screenwriter for schindler's list and gangs of new york. playing grand theft auto i've always wondered how the creators would handle themselves in any one of the many situations portrayed in their games. 0 comments | |
penny arcade: project natal 73 views [1]
posted by nir on Jun 14 2009 4:12am
tags: games funny penny arcade xbox 360 project natal
| | project natal is an upcoming project from microsoft purporting to add a depth-sensing camera to the xbox 360. if this video is to be believed, things are about to get pretty awesome. the technology behind it appears to be rather serious as denoted by the wikipedia page for project natal but i'm guessing creating viable applications for it will prove to be a significantly greater challenge. the accompanying article to the comic is quite an interesting read too. i've been very pleasantly surprised with the writing at penny arcade for a while now. it's certainly been good enough to rival their skill at crafting videogame-related comics, the limitations of three-panel strips notwithstanding. 1 comments | |
anthropologist plays resident evil 5 and deems it not to be racist 73 views [1]
posted by nir on Mar 06 2009 7:31pm
tags: games resident evil 5 racism
| | if you're not aware of the debate, there's been much talk over the fact resident evil 5 takes place in africa and has you almost exclusively kill black zombies. i was a little worried about that, but conjectured that it's more likely the west here is under political scrutiny, since they're the ones who infect the africans in the first place. perhaps a commentary on the evils of imperialism and its effects or unprepared or incompatible cultures. the anthropologist in question agrees with me to some degree, and cites some very specific examples. 1 comments | |
psp 2 to do away with UMD drive, have sliding screen 66 views [0]
posted by nir on Feb 27 2009 4:40pm
tags: games psp rumor psp 2
| | this comes under the headline of rumor, but david perry of acclaim swears it to be true. of course those of us playing their psp games off a memory card as god intended are already enjoying this type of functionality, but the inevitability of complete digital distribution for such a device would save me a trip to the store whenever i want to buy a game i already pirated, finished and enjoyed, which happens quite frequently. 0 comments | |
zero punctuation: little big planet review 81 views [1]
posted by nir on Feb 04 2009 2:52pm
tags: games video funny zero punctuation little big planet
| | this explains pretty succinctly why i stopped playing little big planet after a couple of half hour sessions. while it's not a bad game by nine out of ten stretches of the imagination it didn't seem to have much to keep one playing for other than the visual style or the physics engine. 0 comments | |
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