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Insomniac pushes for cease-fire

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Mike Acton from Insomniac is onto something real big, gameplay over technology is not a revelation but openly sharing your code is new and very refreshing. Read more here..
Insomniac pushes for cease-fire in the development technology war

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RE: Notes on *Portal*

October 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Jamie Fristrom over at GameDevBlog has credited Portal with rekindling his faith in gaming! I don’t have time (make time) to play games at the moment; very busy at work and if I ever do get time off I try to spend it with the wife or out with my camera.
We do however have a [...]

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Fallout3 video looking slick..

July 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Matt Peckham has written a review of the first Fallout 3 trailer over at PC World’s blog that is worth reading..
We’re shown two minutes, over two-thirds of which are spent panning slowly (if delightfully, courtesy The Ink Spots’ “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire”) back from the interior of a 1950s-style “radiation [...]

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Wii, Disruptor or Fad?

July 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I have a friend… yup, it happened.. anyway, my friend and I could debate forever on almost any subject even if we agree on 99% of the issue so as a rule I don’t give much thought to our chats once they are over but tonight was a more interesting one..
He is an avid Wii [...]

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Min-E3 is over…yes it was this week

July 13th, 2007 · No Comments

So here we are at the end of E3 week, old friends came into town, I went to a few parties and drank free drinks provided by scantily clad females and collected a bunch of business cards that will I hope convince my boss that I was there on business.
I myself was not invited to [...]

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