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Best Thing I Saw Today #43: Thru You
Kutiman just won remixing. He’s painstakingly collected YouTube videos, edited them and then mixed them together to create an ingenious 7-track record. Part of its joy comes through his creative matching of diverse clips from around the world, but Thru You’s enduring worth rests in the raw quality of the compositions, which reward repeat listens ...
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Edge’s 200 Covers
Earlier today Edge announced that the 200th issue of the magazine is to hit news stands in a selection of 199 different covers. A 200th cover, designed by Little Big Planet’s developer Media Molecule, will be sent out exclusively to subscribers. I had some neat involvement in this issue, although, as usual I can’t say ...
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Mr Do or Die.
Continuing the theme of unloved arcade machines, this image of two cabinets left abaondoned in the Forest Haven Children’s Development Center is arresting. Based in Laurel, Maryland, Forest Haven was closed down in 1991 by the federal court for its poor conditions and abuse of patients. Katherine Boo’s article for the Washington Post, which is ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #42: R2D2 Subbed
This is how you make the Star Wars prequels watchable. Also: Subtitles possibly not safe for work. Soundtrack too, come to think of it. See Episode 1′s treatment here.
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Metal Slug 7 – Nintendo DS Review
For over thirteen years now, SNK has been releasing much the same videogame over and over again. In mechanical, visual and thematic terms, Metal Slug’s developments are measured in minutiae: tweaks to format indiscernible by all but the aficionado. What other series continues to use the same sprites, sound effects and ideas found in its ...
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The King of Pop (n’ Music)
I’m sure you’ve read by now that Michael Jackson is auctioning off his enviable arcade game collection. Living in a castle with no means of income means he can no longer afford to feed his unicorns so, yup, that Virtual Boy in-store demo pod has to go. The auction catalogue is now online, complete with ...
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SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection – Xbox 360 Review
Nobody talks of retro films or retro music. Read a novel by Tolstoy or a passage from the Bible and you aren’t retro-reading, just as sitting down to a DVD of Citizen Kane or Lost in Translation would never be referred to as retro-viewing. And yet our industry is still yet to reach the point ...