As part of a three-part season finale, NBC’s “Community” will venture into the 8-bit video game world. IGN has an exclusive clip from the episode. The characters, seen above, look to have been animated into a Mega Man-esque Greendale Community College for the episode. From IGN: In the episode, Pierce, accompanied by the study group, [...]
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[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Visual Outbreak creative director Alex Norton shares how his team set out to create an infinite, procedurally generated game world.] Procedural generation is definitely in vogue, and I personally have believed that it is the way forward in video gaming for many years now. Using procedural generation in games is nothing new of course, as fans of ...
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The popular video game world is becoming a massively multiplayer online game and this is our first tease of what the game has in store.
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? It's the oldest argument in the video game world. Are games art? People love to say yes, people love to say no. Hilary Goldstein has a great piece up on Venturebeat where he argues that games aren't art, but despite the incendiary headline, I read a slightly different and equally important message in his ...
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“Starhawk” is another in a long line of first person shooters trying to make its mark on the video game world. Best described as a Western in space, “SH” is mostly your run-of-the-mill shooter. It does, however, manage to surprise with some new and innovative...
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Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Kevin Murphy of Trinosis unveils the neon beauty of Zytron II, a game that's firmly in the "If you like Geometry ...
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Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Kyle Pulver's Offspring Fling is the best PC and Mac game you could ask for in the week approaching Mother's Day ...
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