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Archive for June, 2009


Happy Belated Birthday, Tetris.

Posted on June 10th, 2009 in Techie Tidbits.
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tetrispotsPic Stolt from Behance.net

On June 6th, millions of grandmothers, old-school gamers, and bored office secretaries across the world gave a big Ensure toast to Tetris – which just celebrated its 25th year on our planet. Sadly, you can’t buy the Tetris pots pictured above to celebrate. They were part of an art project from 2007 at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn.

So… happy birthday from all of us who have enjoyed your block-tastic puzzlery across various consoles and calculators since 1984. And you suck for reminding us that 1984 was 25 years ago.

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Conan’s Set Inspired by Mario Brothers?

Posted on June 9th, 2009 in Videos.
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Check out this clip from hulu where Conan O’Brien discusses the buzz surrounding his new backdrop and how much it looks like Super Mario Brothers or – as Conan says – Super Maryo Brothers. ;)

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Level-Update Episode #21

Posted on June 9th, 2009 in Level-Update Podcasts.
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  • 11-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin graduates college/is anti-video games
  • A dude who calls himself “Jay” gets arrested for being an awesome seamstress (pic below)
  • A little taste of Natal
  • Sony brings us PSP Go
  • The Entertainment Software Association publishes 2009 stats

 
 Level-Update #21 [4:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s “Jay” in costume:
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Pic Stolt From: KomoNews.com where you can read the whole story

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Project Natal at E3

Posted on June 7th, 2009 in Console/Platform-Related.
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For those of you who haven’t seen this particular video on Project Natal, checkkit. My favorite part is at about 3:29 where Creative Director Kudo Tsunoda totally burns the Nintendo Wii.

And because the release date hasn’t been announced, but they’re already capable of doing things like you’ll see in this next video, I would like to encourage all horror film creators to start writing scripts NOW that have to do with gamers connecting with evil virtual worlds. If you can release a movie the same week as Natal, you’ll make millions.

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Level-Update Episode #20

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in Level-Update Podcasts.
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  • The Sims 3 gets nekkid.
  • Manhattan GameStop employees get trapped in the store by a swarm of bees.
  • Blockbuster offers both video game and movie rentals by mail in Cleveland.
  • 6-year-old Matthew North stops gaming – starts crashing cars.
  • Susan Betancourt leaves one-year-old in the car so she can go get her game on.
  • No strip poker for the Aussies.

 
 Level-Update Episode #20 [4:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


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inFamous for PS3

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in Pre/Reviews.
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This is a pretty sweet interactive experience promoting the PS3 game: inFamous from Sucker Punch Productions. In the game, you play Cole MacGrath who – according to Wikipedia – is “a bike messenger given an assignment to deliver a package that is secretly a bomb. Cole survives the massive explosion and develops electricity-based powers. Soon, Cole discovers that his city has fallen into chaos under the rule of gangs and factions and must fight back against them to restore order.” Following a comic book style, this game actually looks pretty cool. It’s already out in the U.S. and will be available in Australia (pending any “OMG this is too violent!” censorship issues from the board) on June 4th.

Check out the official site where you can download a comic book (it’s in the media section) that gives you the back story»

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Punch-Out!! The Movie

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in Videos.
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This is old but I hadn’t seen it until my friend Matthew forwarded it my way and I thought it was post-worthy:

It’s Team Awesome’s entry in the Nintendo Short Cuts Showcase Contest and you should totally check out their YouTube channel because there’s a ton of other awesome stuff there.

Here they are on MySpace»
Get the song»

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Calendar

In the Media

Game Heroes
Video podcast appearance
—June 2008

Sweet Flag
Interview
—May 2008

Attack of the Show
“The Loop” panelist
—November 2007

CrotchMail.com
Interview
—June 2007

TiedTheLeader.com
Interview
—April 2007