Remember the first 2 classic GTAs? They might not have been superior to the next gen versions, but they were definately fun to play with! And somebody clever enough made a cool video using Google Earth images as the background for hot pursuits. Found this on Youtube today from Ubisoft's official channel. It seems that there is some kind of really strange Renault / Raving Rabbids tie having to do with the Renault Scenic mini van. There is the typical Raving Rabbids humor involved and hijinks. HTML5 is the buzz word of 2010. Championed by Google and supported by Firefox and Opera, HTML5 is definitely here to stay. In itself HTML5 is still a bit of a curio -- the spec isn't even finalised -- but when strapped on to Javascript or other developing technologies like WebGL, the browser becomes a serious platform capable of impressive things -- cue Akihabara a set of libraries and tools for rapid in-the-browser '8 bit' games prototyping. Named after the famed district in Tokyo of the same name (or 'Akiba'), Akihabara uses just a small subset of HTML5. Its primary purpose is for quick game prototyping, but there's no reason you couldn't use the libraries for other purposes. Because the engine is written in Javascript the games work on just about every browser, including the mobile browsers on the iPhone/iPad and Android devices. Anyway, even if you're not a developer, you should give some of the sample games a go. Legend of Sadness, which is absolutely not based on the Zelda franchise, is probably the best example of what Akihabara is capable of. If you're more of the old school persuasion, give Pac, er, Capman a go. Note: I forgot to mention, 'A' in the games is Z on your keyboard. 'B' is X! Source: Download Squad What's with Playstation and their creepy ads making gamers out to be freaks? I'm really not sure about how I feel when I look at their ads. On a flip side, it's creepy in most cases and very funny in some. Enjoy, but be warned, some of these pictures can be offensive and disturbing!
Paris recently added La Musée du Jeu Vidéo (The Museum of Video Game) to its long list of museums housing world famous works of art. For €10 ($13.38), Parisians and visitors to the city can explore the history of games on the roof of La Grande Arche de la Defense -- that's only €0.50 more than the price of admission to Le Louvre (€10)! Since the museum opened on April 14, a few of its first visitors have documented their experience. French newspaper 20 Minutes has a smattering of images and YouTube user "bsyphillis" shot a couple videos of the museum's console displays (embedded after the break), both enticing us to skip out on this whole "Joystiq thing" and hop a plane to France this evening. Even if you're not so into video games (wait, why are you reading this site?), La Grande Arche offers some fairly impressive views of the city, making it significant other/family-friendly. If you visit, feel free to buy us a totally sweet t-shirt. Source: Joystiq Think you’ve seen it all? Mona Lisa and Duck Hunt, what could they possibly have in common? Well, nothing really, some random guy out there with mad video editing skills made a video with a Mona Lisa picture and a arcade style gun attached to it, with ducks flying all around Mona Lisa. A attendee grabs the gun and starts shooting the ducks as they pass around Mona Lisa. Yes it sound as trippy as it is. Have a look for your self... Source: Kokugamer Born in the early 1970s, I've experienced only a few world-changing events along the lines of the automobile, the telephone, and the television. Sure, I was around the campus computer cluster when NCSA Mosaic was installed in 1994, but the Internet didn't make a grand entrance. (The UC Museum of Paleontology, a prominent early Web site, was only so interesting.) The World Wide Web doesn't compare with 1981, when my brother and I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. Before Atari, no video games at home. After Atari, video games all the time. Males of a certain age will regale you with tales of long mornings roping cattle in Stampede and the distinctive thumb cramp that the joystick delivered. But enough nostalgia for now. Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost, two professors of media studies, have written a book, Racing the Beam, that approaches the beloved machine from a new angle: What was it like to program for the Atari 2600? Read more @ Slate.com... And as a bonus, a very interresting documentary about video games including Atari and Nintendo. The 3D teaser trailer for Resident Evil: Afterlife made its exclusive world premiere Friday night at WonderCon 2010. It was screened for a select group of invited press and lucky WonderCon attendees at the Metreon cinema in San Francisco. Special guests will include the film's writer/director, Paul W.S. Anderson, along with stars Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, who play Alice and Claire Redfield, respectively. All I can say is, I really really really hope they will make this one just as loyal to the video game as the first one did, otherwise, stop making bad RE movies! In what might be the weirdest pairing we've seen, Nintendo and Google have partnered to create a Wii game that challenges players to accurately guess search-engine rankings. According to Joystiq, the game 'And-Kensaku' will be released in Japan at the end of April, but there's no word on a U.S. release. Essentially, the title is a collection of mini-games based on search-engine results, which sounds riveting. The disc will come preloaded with 10,000 words, with more available via download. Some of the games include: players guessing what searches are more popular than others, doing "and" searches for certain words, using search results to build a staircase and climb it, and passing around a bomb that explodes in the hands of the player with the fewest searches.
We've seen some weird products come to the Nintendo Wii, but this really has us scratching our heads. Typically, we think of searching for stuff on Google as work. But, hey, we thought the same thing about exercising -- until the 'Wii Fit' came into our lives. Source: Switched Whatever it is, we will have to wait until June to find out what the twistdock actually is. Until then, we have to make do with this nifty commercial |
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