September 30, 2006
Ironic Sans: 'Interview: Seetharaman Narayanan' ('When did you become aware of the fascination with your name among Photoshop users?')
Jason Scott's ASCII: 'Leave a Message' (More amazing saving of history on Textfiles.com.)
September 29, 2006
Serious Games Source: 'Persuasive Games: The Right to Bore Arms' (A new SGS column from Persuasive Games' Bogost - neeto!)
GSW: '10th Anniversary, Super-Smooth Mario 64 Speed Run!' (Neat speed run!)
September 28, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Event Wrap-Up: Tokyo Game Show 2006' (All my Japan write-ups together, in one place.)
September 27, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Canessa On Xbox Live Arcade 'Imports', Improvements' (Some interesting talk on the future of Xbox Live Arcade.)
Flickr: 'Superpotato, Osaka, makes with the geeky retro goodness' (Wow, so much good kit in there.)
Gamasutra: '8-4's Ricciardi On The State Of Japanese Gaming' (Some interesting viewpoints on the Japanese game biz - my penultimate JP report.)
September 26, 2006
Flickr: 'Higashi Honganji temple, Kyoto, Japan' ('I think I saw that lamp in Unreal Tournament 2007.')
Flickr: 'Michael Jackson impersonator advertising... seafood?' (He's bad!)
September 25, 2006
Flickr: 'Umeda Sky building in Osaka' (Seriously weird architecture.)
Flickr: 'Mt. Fuji from the bullet train to Osaka, Sept. 2006' (One of the better pics I've taken, yay.)
September 24, 2006
GSW: 'COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 9/23/06' (More superior game mag round-up action from the Weasel.)
GSW: 'GameSetPics: Alt.Highlights Of TGS, Part 2' (Bomberman vans and D3 girls.)
September 23, 2006
Flickr: 'YMCK chiptune concert @ D4 booth, TGS 2006' (Nice outfits! Great band, too.)
Gamasutra: 'Sweeney Talks Cell Difficulties, PS3 Online Inclusivity' (Tim Sweeney is a great, insightful guy when let off the PR leash - which he was, huzzah!)
September 22, 2006
GSW: 'Kutaragi On 'The Future Of Gaming'' (Sony's Ken Kutaragi is going quietly (OK, publically!) bonkers. I was there.)
GSW: 'GameSetPics: Alt.Highlights Of TGS, Part 1' (Yay Parappa on PSP yay.)
September 21, 2006
Gamasutra: Special: Gitaroo Man Creator On The State Of The Japanese Game Biz (Yay Elite Beat Agents yay!)
Flickr: No 'Snakes On A Plane' for Japan! (It's all about the Snake Flight?)
September 20, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Opinion: Microsoft's High Hopes In Japan' (On whether Xbox 360 can kick it in Japan - probably not, sadly.)
September 19, 2006
Flickr: Tokyo pics to date, now compiled (Everything except Disney and video game stuff in one set.)
Flickr: Tokyo DisneySea park (OMG, Jules Verne fans (like me!) will collapse at the amazing Mysterious Island part of this sister Disney park, which is worth a visit for amazing architecture alone.)
September 18, 2006
Flickr: Taking the cable car at 'beautiful' Hakone (Oh dear, this is the best 'view' of Mt. Fuji we got, haw.)
GSW: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Famous Last Words (More awesome work from the Mag Weasel.)
Flickr: A row of Taiko arcade machines (Banging on the big drum!)
September 17, 2006
Flickr: Sega Joypolis amusement arcade @ Odaiba, Tokyo (Including Sonic as an evil mastermind, uhoh.)
Flickr: Fuji TV building in Odaiba (How much for an apartment in the sphere? :))
September 16, 2006
Flickr: Tokyo trip, Rainbow Bridge to Odaiba (We took the computer-controlled train across there.)
Flickr: Imperial palace moat, Tokyo (Early in morning!)
September 14, 2006
Flickr: Watch for Tokyo photos (I'm off to Japan with Holly for holiday (Mt. Fuji/Tokyo DisneySea), TGS, holiday (Osaka/Kyoto), out for 2 weeks - expect some GSW and Gama updates, but mainly Flickr/crosslinking here, yay.)
GSW: 'GameSetInterview: Slipstream Production's Dispraiser on Halogen cancellation' (Interview with the (pre) cease and desisted Halo RTS modders.)
September 13, 2006
GameVideos.com: 'Heavenly Star' music video from Lumines II (MUST GET this game - what an awesome (yes, cheesy) track.)
NCSX: Banpresto 'Aquapict' silicone jellyfish (Damn, I want it. But it's expensive. )
Gamasutra: 'Q&A: The Third Degree With Gastronaut Studios' (The Small Arms XBLA folks tell all.)
GSW: 'COLUMN: 'Parallax Memories' – Live A Live' (Neat Japanese game obscurities, exposed.)
September 12, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Analyze This: The Current State of the PC Game Business' ('The PC games market is becoming a niche, substantial in size, but a niche nonetheless.')
GSW: '2007 Independent Games Festival Entries Announced' (141 entries, wow, a record - lots of indie goodness here.)
September 11, 2006
Monotonik: Northbound - Landscapes Of Late [mtk171] (If you check out one release on my Monotonik net.label, make it this one - 'gorgeous live instrument-filled nu-chill groove' from Finland.)
GSW: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 9/9/06 (Everything you need to know about U.S. game mags, innit?)
Popcultscanfun: 'Trading Cards 'Dogs By Zito' Miniatures #15, #24 (1940s)' (Started posting on my ephemera blog again, hurrah.)
September 10, 2006
Green Man Press: Charles Vess' blog (Amazing illustrator and Gaiman collaborator has nice blog, now.)
Toon Zone interviews Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer (More info on his new Cartoon Network pilot Tyrone's Inferno - it's about a demon banished to a trailer park, "Little Rascals meets The Young Ones in The Twilight Zone". Can't wait!)
Pink Tentacle on the Edo-period Japanese UFO (Some good debunking in a linked article.)
Lacunae: Results of Douglas Wolk's 'Green Light' Burning Man project (What people asked for permission to do. Neat, and telling.)
Snark Hunting: 'SpiralFrog is partying like it’s 1999' (Dead on - doomed to failure just for the TERRIBLE name.)
September 09, 2006
Twitch: UK trailer for Sacha Baron-Cohen's 'Borat' (Oh my yes.)
Google Video: ZeFrank's geek standup at TED (Incredibly watchable - here's the original link - via BB/everyone!)
GSW: 'Our Blazing Destiny - Revenge of the PokéOffice' (Continuing the agreeably surreal, for the last time in color!)
Gamasutra: 'Postmortem: Gamevil's Nom 2' (If you win at this cellphone game, you get to send messages into outer space. Yay!)
YouTube: 'Teaching Japanese women to speak English when being robbed' (Nuff said! Via B_Sheffie!)
September 08, 2006
Ironic Sans: 'Interview with Adam Rex, illustrator and author of “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich”' (Great art.)
Gamasutra: 'Book Excerpt - Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion' (From a fascinating book about competitive gaming and 'The Art Of War'.)
Radar Online: 'Strange Bedfellows' (Interesting piece on Perverted-Justice.com and TV deals.)
September 07, 2006
GSW: 'Letters from the Metaverse: The Littlest Pyramid Head' (Ickle cute Silent Hill thingies!)
Functional Autonomy: 'P2P and Institutional Art' (Hey, a post about art that I care about.)
Wikipedia: 'Heisenbug' (The GDMag code columnist used this v.cute term this month - Wikipedia page also cites 'mandelbugs', 'schroedinbugs'.)
September 06, 2006
Gamasutra: 'Q&A: Introversion's Bedroom Programmer Survival Guide' (Like they say, 'everybody dies'.)
IGN: Video of Wii titles with controller motions filmed simultaneously (Very good if you want to understand how Wii actually works.)
September 05, 2006
YMU Playa: 'My YMU Playlist Mix: 'Her Voice Of Summer'' (New on my Yahoo! Music Unlimited blog, gorgeous female-fronted vocal stuffola.)
Move recommendation - 'Crank' (Absolutely profane and ridiculous, but an awful lot of pointless fun - and Jason Statham's cover for being a hitman was a video game designer.)
YouTube: The Knife - 'Silent Shout' music video (Agreeably WinAmp-surreal - the best vid on the current Res magazine DVD.)
LA Times: Joel Stein gives Kathy Griffin $42,367 of swag just for losing at the Emmys (Stein's archived columns, listed to the right (but free reg. only, gr!), are all fun too.)
September 04, 2006
Gratis Vibes likes Monotonik artist Akira Kosemura (It's a nice blog about CC-licensed electronic music.)
YouTube: OK Go 'Here It Goes Again' live @ the MTV VMAs (Well, a semi-Internet meme was the ONLY good bit at the VMAs, so yay.)
Twitch reviews Mike Judge's Idiocracy (An ambivalent review, ohwell - in unrelated news, Twitch notes a FLCL box set, excellent.)
Quick Stop Entertainment: 'Toy Box: The Evil Monkey' (He's POINTING at me.)
Pink Tentacle: 'Diamonds made from baby hair' (A deeply creepy concept.)
September 03, 2006
Music Thing: 'These loudspeakers can defy gravity' (Cool, I want one.)
Reality Blurred on Mark Burnett's new online treasure hunt (Here's earlier info - lots of AOL sponsorship ahoy?)
Antipixel: 'Osaka Steamship #5' (Previous scans of this beautiful series are on the blog too.)
Ironic Sans: 'A parallel istaverse' (YAY at 'The Village-Ist'!)
Above The Law - new legal gossip website from the Dealbreaker folks (And here's Dealbreaker - all very Gawker-esque, of course, but I like both sites a lot.)
September 02, 2006
Kieron Gillen's workblog - the cover of Phonogram #5 (Incredibly disturbing because the lead Phonogram character _looks_ like Gillen. Yeeeeergh!)
YouTube: 'Stiffy George' (V. disturbing. It's Big Brother 7-related, but works pretty well even if you haven't seen the show. That's Chicken George, btw.)
Guilt-inducing Internet ad of the week (Spotted on Dean & Nooch's Mercury News blog - MOM!)
September 01, 2006
GSW: 'MMOG Nation - 'Resurrecting EverQuest'' (Why EQ ain't dead yet - interesting.)
Gamasutra: 'The Gamasutra Quantum Leap Awards: First-Person Shooters' (A fun chart of FPS titles, voted by game developers.)