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Entries from December 2008

Best Thing You’ll Hear All Day

December 29th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Talent:  he has it.  Freddie25 plays an accoustic version of the Windwaker theme, playing every instrument on a different video track.  You’ve seen this kind of thing before, but this is just…sweet.

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Tags: audio

EA’s Tough Sell

December 28th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Awhile back, while I was living under a bus, I saw an article on Joystiq which pointed to a much larger article on Gamasutra, which in essence, said “new IP for EA fails.” They’re referring of course to the less than stellar launch of EA’s new IP this quarter of Mirror’s Edge and Dead Space.  [...]

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Tags: general

The Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

December 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

First off, I apologize for being away for so long.  I don’t think I’ve ever let this place go without a post for 20 days, and I don’t intend to do it again.  I really miss writing here, and it’s been probably the second thing I’ve missed the most, just behind seeing my family on [...]

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Run, or Shoot?

December 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just a quick update to point out that everyone who hasn’t already figured this out needs to go and read Jason Brownlee’s piece on how the Left 4 Dead opening movie is a passive tutorial mode for the game.  Everything you see in the opening movie is a depiction of how things work in-game.  It’s [...]

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