IllumiRoom
This just came to my attention. I knew about modding TVs to reflect RGB colour off the wall behind them using LEDs, but this has taken that concept a little further. You can’t help but be reminded of...
View ArticleBorderlands and Battlefield: Bad Company
This post would’ve benefited greatly from consistent alliteration in its title had Bad Company been named something else, but, like the substance of that game, it’s obvious that not everything is...
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Guerrilla Pong
I came across these two webpages only just recently: Josh Nimoy’s MiniPong and Hakon A Hjortland, Havard Moen, and Alf Storm’s unassumingly named 5×7 LED dot matrix pong. The most immediate thing...
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Shovel Knight Team Streamed Let’s Play
One of the really gratifying things about Kickstarter, and the internet, is the increased communication that game developers have with their consumer base. Good evidence for this is Yacht Club Games’...
View ArticleWarp Drivel
A very fitting pun for what is being done to the Star Trek franchise lately. In this post, I’d like to echo the sentiments of old-school trekkies about this J. J. Abrams ‘era’ of Star Trek. For some...
View ArticleADOM
I remember when I was first introduced to Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM). I found it brutally difficult, but insanely compelling – in an era when morality systems and near-infinite customisation is...
View ArticleTamagotchi Hacking
Some of you might remember the discussion I wrote earlier about hardware convergence in video gaming, following the reports about the x86 architecture that would be featured in the upcoming PS4. Now...
View ArticlePerth Hackerspace
While not strictly related to video games, my temporary interest in programming and microcontrollers have led me to the discovery of a hackerspace right here in Perth! While I don’t yet have a good...
View ArticlePS4 Console Design Promotional Video
With the release of a teaser trailer from Sony revealing the design of their new console in a deliberately obfuscating manner, on NeoGAF an effort is currently unfolding to gain a clear picture of the...
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More Hacks and Homebrews
Over at Retrocollect (via AtariAge), 1985alternativo’s new homebrew MegaDrive game Antarex has been announced. It’s going to be a good old-fashioned shoot’em up, and, judging from the quality of their...
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