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Video Game Review Scores: Pointless or Pertinent?
Another of my new Gamasutra/ GameSetWatch columns bellyflops onto the internet. It’s a rewritten and extended version of some thoughts I wrote here last year on review scores, a subject that deserves close attention in the light of Microsoft’s decision to use Metacritic scores to decide which games should get dropped from their Xbox Live ...
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Blind Spot
Created by students at the famous Gobelins animation school in France, this short animated film, Blind Spot, has been nominated for the ‘Best Student Piece’ award at Siggraph 2008. It’s a Rashamon-style short film exploring the idea that the (security) camera occasionally lies. Cute and dark (always the winning combination), the animation throughout is outstanding. ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #26: ‘Neo Geo is the REAL DEAL’
Posted on a PC Engine fan forum, this letter from SNK (click image above for full version), maker of the Neo-Geo console, is all kinds of incredible. The Neo-Geo, for those who don’t know the history, was a kind of super computer console of the early to mid-1990s (although games were released for it into ...