30 Apr 2006, 17:24
Apparently, Hollywood is scared to death because they can’t make crap and get rich like they used to. Lynda Obst points at videogames and other distractions (your guess) as reasons why teenagers are not as interested in visiting the movie theater and digesting their latest piece of shit. Gasp! Could teenagers have suddenly become smarter? Surely not.
The secret that is about to kill the movie industry turns out to be word of mouth.
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29 Apr 2006, 19:07
What a wonderful, entertaining and intelligent movie! I’ve never been a fan of Spike Lee, but with The Inside Man he manages to disguise as a “standard” cop movie what really is a diatribe about deception, racism and how everyone can be fooled by appearances and preconceptions. The movie has many characters, but with just a few lines of dialogue, they all communicate a lot about their personality, background and motivations.
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28 Apr 2006, 15:53
Back home from work at 23:30 (that’s 11:30pm for you americans)… hm, yeah, it must be that time of the year. I’m not travelling to E3 this time, and I can’t say that I’m terribly sad about that. I mean, it’s always cool to get some hands-on experience with new stuff, and see old friends sweating behind closed doors in the epic fight against sensory overload. But the media coverage for E3 has grown so comprehensive, that I would expect to come back and the people here had seen things I hadn’t even heard of on the showfloor.
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22 Apr 2006, 17:39
So I sat down and spent a few more hours with the Oblivion on the 360, trying to enjoy it. And I’m almost there! Almost… but not quite! I realized that I was reliving the Everquest 2 experience (and Black & White before): a game that is interesting and has many things to do, but I end up not having fun doing them. A game where I like some bits of the graphics but never stop feeling like it’s all just cardboard cutouts.
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20 Apr 2006, 13:22
Little Mathematics has recently interviewedKenta Cho. He knows how to make beautiful, engaging and unique games, he releases them for free including source code, and he does it all out of sheer love for the classic shooting genre.
And of course, he loves Geometry Wars on the 360. 🙂
18 Apr 2006, 15:36
Fascinating procedural generation of urban-like images. Simple is sometimes beautiful. Check the whole gallery here.
13 Apr 2006, 18:34
Guess I never got down to post my notes… actually, I haven’t written most of them yet! Ah well, it’s not like I promised anyone. 🙂 Keep checking the Archives page because they have added many new slides.
Halo 2 is a fantastic game. I only played it halfway through when it first came out, so I took the opportunity to replay it to the end. The story ended up confusing me with the twists and jumps, but the very fact that I was paying attention says a lot about how well presented it was.
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07 Apr 2006, 17:00
– Tomb Raider: Legend demo: Surprisingly good! I’ll play the full game after Easter, although I doubt I’ll finish it. I enjoyed the first Tomb Raider a lot but eventually grew bored with the puzzles, and never really played the rest. After the series went downhill, this one goes back to the roots. It seems to have more combat and physics-based puzzles, and might very well prove to be the best Tomb Raider.
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06 Apr 2006, 11:45
Noticed today in Gamasutra that there’s a Postmortem for Galactic Civilizations 2. The article is very interesting and the team should be proud of their accomplishments. They mention how the first game sold quite well but they failed to receive a good chunk of their royalties due to publisher Strategy First going bankrupt.
Then, in the news section of the same site, I see that Strategy First just acquired small studio Malfador Machinations.
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05 Apr 2006, 00:53
All I can say is: yay!
Who wants to pay more in order to own a movie they probably already own on DVD, with lesser quality, in a format that can only be played on a specific piece of equipment, and which can’t even be connected to a TV. At GDC I asked the Sony reps if they planned on releasing the devices they used at the booth to display PSP games on TVs, and they said those were test kits and that such a device was not in the works.
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