Over at Boing Boing, this fantastic homage to classic gaming really hit home with me. Partially because I could identify so many of the games (even though I’m much younger than some of the oldest in the video) and have…
This BSG Colonial Viper Replica is Gorgeous
The folks at Quantum Mechanix have outdone themselves: the image above is of a replica Colonial Viper, of the kind piloted by Starbuck in the BattleStar Galactica television series. There are actually three versions of the replica: one with Starbuck’s…
Tiny Wings is Adorable Fun
Tiny Wings is probably the most adorable mobile game that I’ve ever seen in my life. Seriously, Angry Birds is cute, but Tiny Wings walks the line between emotional and adorable in a way that few games manage to do…
Video :: What’s On Spock’s Scanner?
Someone decided to pretend that the crew of the original Star Trek television series were a more typical workspace, with access to Facebook (better known as Spacebook) and a pretty prank-heavy set of coworkers. Aside from the virtues of not…
Motorola Xoom Sales “Underwhelming?”
Reports are that the Motorola Xoom – the iPad’s first real competitor, and the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” isn’t selling quite as well as people had hoped. Admittedly, there are likely a number of reasons for…
Video :: The Secret World Trailer – GDC 2011
So this trailer for an upcoming MMO called The Secret World was unveiled at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this month, and while at first blush it wouldn’t look terribly interesting, the trailer video belies an incredibly interesting concept. The…
Site Highlight :: BattlePaint
The guys over at DownloadSquad turned me on to this little time waster (the image is theirs too, by the way!) and I really just couldn’t get enough of it. In BattlePaint, you’re a small square with a lifebar that…
Spinning Gears :: Is Android More Profitable than iOS for Developers?
(this brand new image for Spinning Gears columns is courtesy of Narilka, who graciously gave permission to use it!) So the blogs have been buzzing recently thanks to a report that for SpaceTime Studios, the developers of the popular mobile…
Video :: Super Mario Bros with Modern Sound Effects
This short video is as intriguing as it is terrifying, actually. Someone dubbed over a little gameplay of the original Super Mario Bros. game with realistic sound effects that you’d actually hear if someone were getting chomped by a Goomba…
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Trailer Released
It’s entertaining that the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) that’s taking place this week is also taking place just after the 25th birthday of the ridiculously iconic Legend of Zelda series of videogames. As if on cue, at GDC this week…