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The Week in Links #8
• ‘Stoned wallabies make crop circles’. I guess they eat opium so they can jump high. • Asahi ad, 1965. Poster WANT. • Trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Ponyo’. Yes. • Nearly 50% of the top 50 Street Fighter IV players in Japan this week play as Sagat… • Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, describes ...
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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile – Nintendo Wii Review
Last year, Klonoa’s publisher Namco Bandai sent its supporters a survey. “We are planning to remake one of our classic titles,” it stated. “Would you be so kind as to answer a few questions to help guide the development?” The recipient was then required to fill in some straightforward details: “Age”, “Gender”, “Do you have ...
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story – Nintendo DS Preview
Space, it turns out, was not to be Mario’s final frontier. Super Mario Galaxy 2 will no doubt offer players the chance to explore on uncharted planets, each with their own idiosyncratic colours and creatures and gravities. But it will be a case of extending our reach into the known universe rather than delving into ...
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Sin and Punishment 2 – In Search of Treasure
Verse chorus verse: grunt, boss, grunt. In Sin and Punishment 2, rhythm and structure remains as traditional as it ever was. Fistfuls of insectoid enemies are thrown relentlessly at your face for five minutes, then ten seconds of calm before the storm of a mid-boss fight with a 10-foot tall strutting chicken called ‘Cock Keeper’. ...
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You have to Throw the Frisbee: Wii Sports Resort
With global sales approaching 50 million units, Wii Sports has comfortably overtaken Super Mario Bros. as the best-selling videogame of all time. Of course a great deal of that success can, as with the previous record-holder, be ascribed to the fact that the game comes bundled with the console upon which it plays in every ...
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Lest We Forget
“So I’d just like to start by thanking you for agreeing to help us out on this project. It’s very much appreciated by the team.” “Well, that’s absolutely fine Mr… Mr? I’m sorry, I didn’t catch your name” “Caldwell. John Caldwell. I’m senior producer here at Eternity Games. It really is a privilege to have ...
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The Week in Links #7
• Up and away. The girl who held on to life for chance to see a movie. • The Worst, a magazine to celebrate the worst in life. I *heart* the feature on the worst toys esp. the dogs on page 114. • You have to teach the penguin how to fly. Play at least ...
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A Quest to End All Quests
In Smax, Alan Moore’s masterful parody of the Tolkien-style fantasy adventure, one of the party’s dwarves (or ‘big-hearted folk’, as they’re tactfully referred to in the story) turns to another comrade and remarks: “You know, questing is really sort of miserable.” “I know,” his friend answers. “In books you just turn a page and you’re ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #48: Post-It Notes and Patience
SCAD student Bang-yao Liu’s project, ‘Deadline’, is a 1:54 tribute to glue, organisation and tireless patience. I especially love the section in which he’s driving down an OutRun open road, while the clouds inch left across the wall high above: the post-its behaving as pixels writ large. It’s a wonderful example of where cute concept ...
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The Week in Links #6
Choose your own adventure book as a directed graph. This interview with newly elected mayor of Doncaster from Monday is quite brilliant. Read it, whatever country you’re from. Vocational jealousy. Humans more likely to trust a super confident source, even one with a poor track record. Btw, Killzone 2′s DEFINITELY a 7/10. We’ve probably all ...
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Decepticon Casting Reel #2: Walter the Washing Machine
Here’s the second in the trilogy of Transformers 2 CG shorts that I had a hand/ word in creating. Catch the first one here.
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Star Ocean: The Last Hope
There are 95 active-duty astronauts currently at NASA, but with only one or two shuttle missions a year, most of them will never leave the earth’s atmosphere. Whereas the space race once rocket-propelled scores of men, women, dogs and monkeys up through the stratosphere, space-exploration is too unprofitable and its benefits too indefinable to justify ...