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Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What’s better? A list of those. Here’s a roundup of the rundowns out there. •Fifteen Classic Game Console Design Mistakes [Technologizer] Many of these fixate on poor controller design, even the good ole lovable Duke from the original Xbox. The Virtual Boy owns two of the 15, but one of them...
Following the recent mix-down of his post Prince of Persia adventure game The Last Express to more quickly-digestible video form, Jordan Mechner has just dug up and released Red Serpent — the unfinished first draft script of what would have become a prequel to Express. Set 10 years before Express and starring that game’s main character Robert Cath, Mechner notes that “the plot...
Following the recent mix-down of his post Prince of Persia adventure game The Last Express to more quickly-digestible video form, Jordan Mechner has just dug up and released Red Serpent — the unfinished first draft script of what would have become a prequel to Express. Set 10 years before Express and starring that game’s main character Robert Cath, Mechner notes that “the plot...
July 2009
4 posts
Another thing I want to do with our expanded weekends is this: The List of Lists. Each week throws off several new lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial - Top 6 Phallic Objects in Video Games; Top 12 Most Hated Non-Human NPCs from 1990s RPG, you get the idea. Rather than run one as a single post, I figured we can put together, in digest form, a roundup of the rundowns out there,...
June 2009
8 posts
Generation When? | Edge Online →
Since the NES, every five years or so a distinct new wave of technology has washed across the industry, bringing with it new power and functions to a market galvanised by the promise of faster, better, more. Change was once always tantalisingly close. Regional differences would see a console newly launched in one territory while its successor was only a gasp from being announced in another, such...
Here’s an excellent example of someone using the Left 4 Dead creation tools for their intended purpose - recreating Resident Evil 3’s Raccoon City. You’ll have to forgive the frame rate, as mod author Outatime is still ironing out the bugs for this faithful recreation of Raccoon City in Left 4 Dead, but it’s obviously well enough along that he’s seen fit to release...
May 2009
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