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If you missed Ishisoft's original Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp , it had the distinction of starting off as a homebrew DS game that was ported to Xbox Live Indie Games. Despite the game's humble origins, it's a very entertaining 2D puzzle/platformer, and GamerBytes/XNPlay even rated it ...
Gaming
Xbox
DS
Looks like we polished off the week again, so it's time to go through the top full-length features of the past week on big sister 'art and business of gaming' site Gamasutra , plus our GameCareerGuide features for the week.
Some topline material here, including interviews with BioShock and ...
Gaming
Silent Hill 2
[In an editorial originally published in Game Developer magazine 's November 2009 issue, editor-in-chief Brandon Sheffield considers whether traditional player death conventions have worn out their welcome, asking "why is death even part of the equation?" for games, if meaningful consequences ...
Gaming
[The Critter Crunch (iPhone, PSN) creators tells our own Brandon Sheffield about moving to consoles, why mobile sucks for indies, and future studio plans, including details on their upcoming WiiWare title Heartbeat .]
Capy is a small independent game studio from Toronto, now 23 people ...
Gaming
Critter Crunch
[GameSetLinks is GameSetWatch's semi-regular link round-up post, culling from hundreds of weblogs and outlets to compile the most interesting longform writing, links, and criticism on the art and culture of video games.]
As we happen upon the weekend, here's the first of a new set of ...
Gaming
Music
Wii
['Homer in Silicon' is a biweekly GameSetWatch-exclusive column by Emily Short. It looks at storytelling and narrative in games of all flavors, including the casual, indie, and obscurely hobbyist. This week she looks at an interactive storytelling experience advertising HBO.]
HBO has an ad ...
Gaming
[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog co-editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days on his sister 'state of indie' weblog.]
This week on 'Best Of Indie Games', we take a look at some of the top independent PC ...
Gaming
[Just wanted to point this one out to all, since Jon Blow, Robin Hunicke, and the other shadowy EGP organizers will again be putting together an awesome show for GDC 2010, so hopefully some readers might have good things to contribute.]
The organizers of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, a ...
Gaming
GDC
Croatian illustrator Vanja Mrgan was sitting on the toilet recently when he came up with the idea of drawing beards on beardless figures. "Instantly, I conjured a list of characters that need beards and raced to my computer to get to work," explains the artist.
He's already posted ...
Gaming
Wario
Jaleco
City Connection
In our latest employment-specific round-up, we highlight some of the notable jobs posted in big sister site Gamasutra's industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Relic Entertainment, Zoe Mode and more.
Each position posted by employers will appear on the main ...
Gaming
SCEA
UK-based creative agency Fluid Design posted another batch of media for its case study on Sega/Headstrong's The House of the Dead: Overkill , one of many video games the company has helped design packaging/advertising for. I previously featured some of the game's prototype boxes, logos, and ...
Gaming
The House of the Dead: Overkill
Sega
Offerpal Media, an ad provider for social apps and games, announced a new set of standards for its controversial lead generation offers, just as Facebook bans other providers like Tattoo Media for their questionable ads.
The company's ads consist of special offers featured alongside free ...
Gaming
[Continuing his 'Sound Current' interview series for GameSetWatch, Jeriaska sits down with video game and music documentary makers 2 Player Productions to discuss their work showcasing Blip Festival -- and, notably, this year's Penny Arcade Expo -- in cinematic form.]
When the chip music ...
Gaming
The Art History of Games, a three-day Atlanta-based public symposium investigating games as an art form, has announced its February 2010 event.
Organized by Georgia Tech Digital Media and SCAD Atlanta, the event will take place February 4-6 at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center. Along with ...
Gaming
[Just wanted to sneak this niche, but neat interview in, as our own Brandon Sheffield speaks with Sega and Image Epoch about the Japanese DS role-playing game Sands of Destruction -- scenario by Chrono Trigger 's Kato, music by Chrono Cross ' Mitsuda -- and its aim to be an "atypical" RPG.]
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Gaming
Sands of Destruction
Sega
After bringing her culinary minigames to Nintendo DS, Wii, mobile, and iPhone, Cooking Mama is now setting up her kitchen for arcades. Manufacturer Universal Space showed off a redemption machine for the cooking game at annual amusement industry tradeshow IAAPA this week, inviting ...
Gaming
DS
Wii
Cooking Mama
Ratatouille
Gardening Mama
If the release of Going Rogue , Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's new book out this week, had you hyped for a new, in-depth Dungeons & Dragons supplement for the tabletop RPG's thief class, you might want to read this review posted on Wizards of the Coast's forums first.
According to ...
Gaming
[‘Design Diversions’ is a biweekly new GameSetWatch-exclusive column by Andrew Vanden Bossche. It looks at the unexpected moments when games take us behind the scenes, and the details of how game design engages us. This time -- A dissection of the way Borderlands teaches players about guns.] ...
Gaming
Borderlands
2 Player Productions, the indie film production company responsible for the release of Blip Festival 2006/2007's DVDs and 2008's two-disc live album , published a new commercial for the chip music event's return this December 17th-19th.
Taking place at Manhattan venue The Tank , the ...
Gaming
Arthur
One of nearly 200 submissions to the 2010 IGF Student Competition, Cut & Paste is a cute little adventure title that has you cutting pieces from the game world and dropping them back in to solve its different puzzles. Each scene is presented as a flipbook animation that you can stop to ...
