Guess who is at E3 today and tomorrow? Mr. Darren Kitchen and Mr. Paul Tobias! While I’m back in the Bay Area holding down the fort and taking care of the HakShop, Darren and Paul are covering E3 from the show floor. Read more
I’ve always been a fan of music video games, from the early days of Dance Dance Revolution to the newest and greatest in Rock Band. But, I am finding that this genre has a ton of variations and ‘types’ of gameplay. Not only are there the popular rhythm games, but also several pitch, volume, music memory, and sight reading versions.
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It’s ridiculous. I’ve been playing with it off and on since it got announced and I’m still surprised that the 3D works as well as it does, which is pretty damn well.
The first boot process is completely idiot-proof, as Nintendo has basically perfected, and it’s about damn time they had a device that supports WPA2 wifi connections. Read more
Originating in the 1970s, Snake has become a classic of simplistic video game design. With merely two controls to speak of, turning left and right relative to the direction of the main character, Snake has found its way into popular culture and ultimately our hearts.
Play is fairly straight forward. Navigate a game board without running into obstacles, such as walls and ones self. Read more
Jenn Cutter joins us to talk about the no$gba emulator and her favorite community rom – Colors.
Gran Turismo 5 is finally out! You want to play with a wheel, don’t you? TOO BAD. There’s a massive shortage right now thanks to late adopters, people needing replacements (like me. I apologise to the rest of you short one), and those that bought early to give out as gifts. Don’t you wish you had a friend or relative willing to drop oodles of cash on peripherals? I do. But only if they buy the right ones! If you’re just starting out and want a quality wheel with lots of features, you can’t go wrong with the Logitech Driving Force GT.
Cave Story, originally released in 2004, is concrete proof that a single talented individual can create a solid, engaging feature length game.
It seems like everyone that even remotely follows the independent computer gaming scene has heard of Daisuke Amaya’s creation, which led to the formation of a very devoted fan community developed around this freeware game. Better known by his handle, Pixel, Daisuke Amaya is known for his cute style even back in 2000 with Ikachan, a game about squid navigating through water filled caverns. There are many similarities between the health and inventory system as well as the wonderfully catchy tunes.
It was only a matter of time before we put Doom on The Zipit Z2. The recently unlocked linux-based wireless device is a prime candidate for fragging, what with it’s QVGA color display, WiFi and all. After unlocking, installing Doom is simply a matter or launching Fluxbox with startx and downloading PrBoom, a cross-platform Doom Source Port, with apt-get install prboom. The trick in launching PrBoom from /usr/games/ is to add the -width 320 -height 240 parameters. While PrBoom comes included with Freedoom, a free and open source Doom compatible IWAD, you may provide your own doom or Doom2-iwad parameter.
If it begins with a #include and ends in a semi-colon our friend Jason Appelbaum is all over it. This week he’s in studio covering a subject near and dear to our hearts — Nintendo DS Homebrew.
Let’s face it, the Nintendo DS is a happy little platform full of hacking potential. And with a well established homebrew community it’s the perfect device to start your next weekend project with. Jason takes you from Homebrew 101, including carts and roms, to getting the Dev tools and building your first Hello World app.
