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2008 Wii holiday guide part 2 - San Francisco Examiner


1.Super Mario Galaxy - Quite possibly, the best Mario game ever made. It takes the groundbreaking 3D game play of Super Mario 64 and puts it in the focused design of Super Mario Bros. 3 and adds some impressive variety, incredible music, and some of ...


21 Nov 2008

Best games for wasting time - San Francisco Examiner


Let’s be real for a minute. Some days, you just don't feel like doing anything. So how do you pass the time? By picking up a controller of course. Video games are a great way to waste time. However, some games are better than others when it comes ...


16 Nov 2008

Sign up for the Gamasutra Daily Newsletter! - Gamasutra


Midway Chicago Cuts Staff, Refocuses Development [11.12.08] Money-strapped publisher Midway has laid off some 20 to 30 staffers at its Chicago development studio, with sources telling Gamasutra it will look to further focus remaining staff on the ...


11 Nov 2008

'Faith' Saves The Day - Forbes


After quickly disarming and incapacitating your pursuers, you clamber up some stairs and burst out onto a sun-drenched rooftop. Running full-tilt to the lip of the roof, you leap, roll to your feet and vault over air ducts before sliding to safety ...


9 Nov 2008

'Picture Imperfect': Issues of Video Game Cameras - Kotaku.com


Corvus of Man Bytes Blog has been posting an interesting series over the past month, contemplating issues of the camera in games: they've ranged from issues of reliance on gun sight type targeting to 'chasing third person cinema.' The last in the ...


11 Oct 2008

I'm owen good and i approve this fuckin' message , sarah palin ... - Kotaku.com


All you guys told me STFU this morning and post about video games, not politics. Well, suck it. Pwn or Die has a half-dozen shoops of everyone's favorite fappable vice presidential candidate, and I must say, the Samus costume is quite fetching. But ...


4 Oct 2008

Opinion: Exploring Diegesis In Grim Fandango (Gamasutra)


YAHOO - Opinion: Exploring Diegesis In Grim Fandango (Gamasutra)[The film concept of "diegesis" refers to environmental elements in entertainment media that are not only perceived by the audience, but also by the characters within the fictional situation, and has fascinating applications for games -- here, Gregory Weir examines diegesis in Grim Fandango.] In video games, there is a division between the world inhabited by the game's characters and the ...


20 Nov 2008

World of Nintendo (Games Radar)


YAHOO - World of Nintendo (Games Radar)Another bumper crop of damn fine gaming crafts and goings-on, brought to you by the power of the entire planet’s obsession with Nintendo.


19 Nov 2008

Animal Crossing: City Folk Unlockables (Games Radar)


YAHOO - Animal Crossing: City Folk Unlockables (Games Radar)Entry Location: On some days there are contests. You can earn trophies by winning them. Bug Trophy - Catch the largest bug by the end of the contest. Fish Trophy - Catch the longest fish by the end of the contest.


19 Nov 2008

How to make the Best. Game. Characters. Ever (Games Radar)


YAHOO - How to make the Best. Game. Characters. Ever (Games Radar)What a cushy number being a game designer must be.


18 Nov 2008

The Conduit (Games Radar)


YAHOO - The Conduit (Games Radar)Championed by many in the press as the prettiest game on Wii, The Conduit truly is the belle of the ball. Journos paw at her silky framerate. They ogle her depth of field. Little bits of their slobber fleck her real-time shadows, particle effects, bump mapping and hi-res textures.


13 Nov 2008

'Faith' Saves The Day (Forbes)


YAHOO - How videogames are (finally!) turning to women heroines.


10 Nov 2008

NG BBS — Wacom 2: Master-Samus


Today's Wacom tablet is going to Sam Green, aka Master-Samus! Sam has been submitting Flash to NG since 2002 and has won 28 awards in the process. Master-Samus actually got a tablet back in 2003, and was so excited he made a Flash about ...


22 Nov 2008

Sketch Book 10: Samus Aran Vs. A Metroid at Gordaen’s Blog


Ramblings about art, education, Linux and a lot more.


18 Nov 2008

TWGNews » Character Biography: Samus


Samus is a very unique character as it is one of the only female characters that is used as the main character in the metroid games. The creator of Samus goes to Gunpei Yokoi, with original concepts done by Makoto Kanoh and the design ...


16 Nov 2008

Master Chief & Samus Vs The Transformers | FactPile


Two gaming icons match up against the army of the Transformers.


16 Nov 2008

Star Talk: Samus Aran


Nintendo Wii News, Editorials, Game Reviews, Media, Podcast, Analysis, and Community.


14 Nov 2008

Game Design as Cultural Practice: Chauvinistic Samus: A Tale of Irony


Metroid Prime 3 Corruption is a first person shooter that was published by Retro Studios. The plot of the game is essentially to try and stop a group of miscreants who sick “Dark Samus” (evil double of yourself) on you...


13 Nov 2008