This is a happy story. David Wong had a dull and hard data entry job. When that finished he’d go to his other dull and hard data entry job. Somehow he found time to pull together some thoughts for publication on the web. A few people read these words in the first year. That’s the […]
Archives for July 2011
Jump into the D&D Encounters video
The D&D team have had a long form ad for Encounters up on YouTube for just under a week. It’s worth a watch just for the curiosity factor. This video is an interesting marketing angle. It’s too long to be an ad. It doesn’t deep dive into Encounters enough to be educational. I think it’s […]
8-bit excellence
Not only is it increasingly cool to be a geek native – turns out that it’s even more cool to be a retro geek native. How retro do you need to be? You need to be 8-bit retro. Kicking off this short collection of 8-bit fashion excellence we have the 8-bit glasses from SAMAL design. […]
Make your own hologram style video with an iPad and Kinect
What happens when you put Apple tech and Microsoft tech together? Do you get a fight? laan labs have proven otherwise with this demo of 3D style videos appearing on the iPad. You’ll get an R2-D2 vibe from this. The Princess Leia projection is a thing of the very near future. Check it out.
Want You Gone: Fan made Portal 2 music video rocks
I’m a big fan of the Ellen McLain and Jonathan Coulton partnership in Portal and Portal 2. I’ll admit that Want You Gone is my second favourite of the two ending songs but it’s still pretty good. It’s actually pretty hard to find samples of Ellen McLain’s opera singing – yes, the voice of GLaDOS […]
The flamethrower trombone of +1
Have you ever seen something and thought to yourself… good, but I can do better? That’s exactly what happened here. The team were aware of other flamethrower trombones out on display in the intertubes and thought; “Could be better!” Here’s the key thing. They actualy went ahead and built a better flamethrowing trombone. Hence the […]
Lost Fleet: Dauntless review
It’s rare – but sometimes being late can be an advantage. I’m late to Jack Campbell’s “Lost Fleet” series. I’m so late that Titan Books are now publishing enhanced copies of the original series. My copy of Lost Fleet: Dauntless has extra material in it. I liked Dauntless a lot. This example may illustrate precisely […]
The most dangerous geek game of hopscotch ever
You might recall hopscotch from school days. Perhaps it was not all that long ago you walked along the pavement and looked down to the see chalky designs of neighbourhood kids who had been playing. It’s a game about bounce and balance. I should have known GLaDOS would turn up. How does this game of […]
Dragons Dogma trailer
In the spirit of “It’s not an RPG – its a non-linear fantasy adventure” comes Dragons Dogma from Capcom. To be fair to Capcom, this is a fighting game, it’s a romp across an open world and pulls on the MT Framework engine. That’s the beast behind the lighting effects and graphics of Resident Evil […]
Left 4 Dead fan film gets another trailer
I think the sound in this trailer for the fan made Left 4 Dead film is remarkable. It gets the game exactly right. It sounds like Left 4 Dead. I think the actors are doing well too. No idea about how much time they put into this project but I suspect it’s a lot and […]
