Category Archives: gaming
We’re Living In The Golden Age of Game Music
Kirk Hamilton at Gamer Melodica on today’s game music: We appear to be living in a bit of a golden age of game music at the moment, huh? Folks may bemoan the loss of the classic chiptune themes of the … Continue reading
Videogame music is more like film music now
This All Things Considered story about video game music composers discusses how video game composing gigs are viable contenders in the composition job market. But that’s videogame music today. Back in the 1980s and 1990s there were shorter themes. Nearly … Continue reading
Someone at Capcom Please Explain…
Here’s a standard Nintendo cartridge: Mega Man 3 was a 3-megabit cartridge, or about 375kb of storage. Now here’s how much storage Mega Man 10 on Xbox Live Arcade takes up: 172 megabytes. How did that happen? EDIT: Ok – … Continue reading
The Single-Player Campaigns Are Alright
Eric Frederickson writes for Games Are Evil about if we’re approaching the end of single-player campaigns. About the difference between CoD: Black Ops and previous titles: One little change, though, could have a big ripple effect. In the multiplayer menu, … Continue reading
Angry Birds Plush Toys
Might be a nice idea for my brother, but he wants airplane shirts or something. He’s been getting obsessive about Angry Birds since I showed him it on my iPhone. Since he has a Droid he’s got the complete ad-supported … Continue reading
The Howard and Nester complete archives
From what I can tell some of these comics were the only way to learn how to beat some games. How else would you know to kneel down forever near a lake to get to that third mansion in Castelvania … Continue reading
My Dad Was The Game Master
Alex Phillips interviewed his Dad Howard Phillips for Vice in April 2009. If you read Nintendo Power growing up you know who Howard Phillips is. On the bow tie: Alex: Why did you wear the bowtie? Howard: I never liked … Continue reading
Boxer – A DOS Emulator For Your Mac
If you want to catch up on tons of old DOS games on your Mac this is pretty much the greatest thing ever. Boxer plays MS-DOS games on your Mac. It’s based on the robust DOSBox emulator, with a lot … Continue reading
You’ll Be Able To Play The Incident On Your TV
This may be how a lot of indie games get on your TV – not through a console or Apple TV, but through an iPad using an iPhone as a controller. I wouldn’t be surprised if a ton of iOS … Continue reading
What’s wrong with the gaming industry?
The author dreams of the 1990s, back when game companies were interested in developing unique titles year after year and weren’t just trying to turn a quick buck on big names. You know, names like: Final Fantasy Super Mario Bros … Continue reading