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12.10.06 by Widge @ 11:16 pm  What is MobZombies? Basically it's a handheld game where you're being chased by zombies. No, we mean it. You're being chased by zombies--as in run or they'll catch your ass on the screen and then it's all final reel of Day of the Dead. Well, albeit on a pixel-art scale, but flesh-feasting is flesh-feasting even if it's not photorealistic. But yes, the game keeps track of your movement as you try to hightail it to relative safety, or blow the piss out of the approaching horde. Knowing my dumb ass, I'd be head down looking at the handheld console and not notice the concrete column I was headed for until I had rendered myself unconscious with it. Talk about a stupid way to greet the apocalypse. Categorized as: Games
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10.28.06 by Widge @ 5:24 am  Check out this awesome video of Jeff Han, of NYU, demonstrating a multi-point touch interface. He also looks forward to how this thing can be used for creating, mapping, data analysis and more. You gamers are going to have your brains melt as you think about all the cool shit you could do with something like this. Categorized as: Games and Stimuli
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10.20.06 by Widge @ 3:38 am  Nintendo made games long before there was anything like video games. They actually made board games, among other things. Here's a gallery of their pre-1980 products. Readers my age are now probably fascinated in the concept of it. Readers younger than me are asking themselves, "What are board games?" All those in the latter category, please go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Just go. The game pictured was popular in Japan a few decades ago and involved summoning up the ghost of a giant troll and using it to torture your older siblings. Update: Unfortunately, that original site is gone. The closest I could find is this gallery of an exhibition from the Nintendo museum. Categorized as: Games
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10.07.06 by Widge @ 3:43 am
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09.28.06 by Doc @ 10:47 pm  I read a lot of gaming websites, play a helluva lot of games, and spend a not-completely-healthy amount of time pondering game theory, the game industry, and game writing. As such, Klosterman's plea for a game-journalist version of Lester Bangs struck a chord with me. Coupled with a steadily increasing irritation with what passes for the gaming press over the past couple of months, add a dash of bitter, and boom. Wrote a rant about it. Wanna hear it? Here it go. Image snagged from In Our Times. Categorized as: Games and Rants
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09.17.06 by Widge @ 3:21 am And now for something completely different: finding where Python and Halo overlap. Yes, the correct answer is "blowing shit up." Well done. Categorized as: Games
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08.13.06 by Widge @ 8:50 pm  Well, it starts off as Pong. Then gravity wells show up. Then blocks. Then Pac-Man starts chasing the ball around. Oh, and you can smack the ball by firing at it the whole time. Thank you for summarizing my childhood in a single game. Much appreciated. Categorized as: Games and Stimuli
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07.29.06 by Widge @ 2:09 pm  If you ever want to learn the meaning of comedy, then sit me down in this thing: Simmer Down Sprinter is a two-person video game in which biofeedback rules. The faster and more completely you relax, the faster your character in the game runs. You tense up bad enough, your guy will run backwards. Be sure and watch the video of the game in action that's there on the site. The only way I could possibly win this is if my guy, running backwards, ran into your guy and knocked him unconscious, making me win by default. Categorized as: Games and Stimuli
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07.29.06 by Widge @ 1:51 am  Sometimes dice go bad. They were brought up right by their parents, did well in school, but somewhere along the way...and it's nothing you did necessarily...they just turn on you. When they're beyond saving, and they seem to do nothing but screw up your rolls, you can do what Treasure Tables did...and bury them in your backyard to rid yourself of their "projectile-vomiting, masturbating-with-a-crucifix, possessed-by-the-Devil" badness. Of course, if they're really that evil, effectively "planting" them in ground where they can grow some kind of hellish plant creature probably wasn't the best idea, come to think of it... Categorized as: Games and Stimuli
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07.19.06 by Widge @ 7:51 pm Update: Well, it looks like the owner of the content decided to have it pulled. From everywhere. Which is the artist's right, no doubt. But's odd, because had anyone heard of Guillaume REYMOND before this video made the rounds? I hadn't. Sorry the blogosphere threatened your obscurity, Guillaume. We'll forget you shortly, no worries. You know, it takes a special kind of mind to think, "Hey...Hey, Steve...check out these seats. I just had a wild idea..." But to have that kind of mind and know that many people willing to participate? That's a rare kind of person. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found at High T3ch via Digg. Categorized as: Games
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