MetaFilter posts tagged with videogames and computerGames

When Gravity Fails

Artw — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:24:45 -0800

Editor Marty Halpern looks back at the career of George Alec Effinger (part 1, part 2, part 3), a prolific author best known for his work set in the Budayeen, a walled city in a future Islamic state, teeming with gangsters, hustlers and transsexual prostitutes, many of them habitual users of plug in personality modules. The noirish tone and exotic technology of the Marîd Audran books (When Gravity Fails, A Fire In The Sun, The Exile Kiss) made Effinger one of the leading lights in the cyberpunk movie, and spawned a videogame - a rare attempt at a graphical adventure from Infocom - and an RPG setting. Sadly Effinger faded from prominence after that, and he suffered from a number of health and financial setbacks before passing away in 2002. His work has had somewhat of a resurgence in popularity of late, with the Marîd Audran books coming back into print in 2007, a long with a collection containing The Wolves of Memory, Effinger's personal favourite amongst his novels.

Hey little sister what have you done

Artw — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:27 -0800

There's something in the sea... and it has a big drill for an arm.

Unintentionally Funny Voice Acting

Foci for Analysis — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:59:25 -0800

Unintentionally funny voice acting in old school computer games.

Harpooned: Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator

nthdegx — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:46:00 -0800

Harpooned: Japanese Cetacean Research Simulator Or Whale-hunting shmup, in other words. Shock as consciousness-raiser, is the general idea.

"Report a la bug. (That's French for bug report)." Halo 3 Linkorama.

nthdegx — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:47 -0800

Halo 3: Easter eggs, including the excellent Red Vs Blue in-game dialog easter egg; the RvB Halo 3 beta initiation; 3D images and how-to (dig out your glasses); achievements, ranks, armor, skulls, and campaign scoring explained; Bungie's favorites (videos, pics, maps, game variants to download to your 360)... and that grenade stick.

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:53:08 -0800

"Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream is an OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the soundtrack to Square's legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Sony Playstation."

Dove of Brutality!

thirteenkiller — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:00:47 -0800

Bible Fight [Flash game]

When/If It's [Ever] Done.

Effigy2000 — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:27:25 -0800

The Duke Nukem Forever List provides a bullet-point run down of notable events that have occurred since Duke Nukem Forever was first announced back in 1997. And for those who may have missed last month's Gamespot interview, George Broussard is still saying it'll be done when it's done, insisting that 3D Realms "won't be rushed" into releasing DNF before it's ready.

sega penn teller

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:13:18 -0800

sega cd emulator with the penn and teller and stuff

Concerned (Half-Life 2 comic)

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:09:17 -0800

Concerned (Half-Life 2 comic)

More topsoil. Videogames discussion with leading UK comedy writers

nthdegx — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:31:09 -0800

This is what happens when you put some of the best writers in UK comedy around a table to discuss videogames. Needless to say even the above average videogame writing gets a deserved hard time. Via the Spaced Out forums.

'I'm a fucking hero. A real one': New Games Journalism, the state of play...

nthdegx — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:25:08 -0800

New Games Journalism (a Wikipedia definition for the uninitiated), appeared on MetaFilter last December with a link to the now legendary 'Bow, Nigger' article. In the first quarter of 2005 the buzz surrounding the phenomenon grew. Articles like This is Why Your Game Magazine Sucks got the attention of the Guardian, who examined the role of NGJ in a February article. In March, they linked to ten unmissable examples. At about the same time, the movement got its very own publication, The Gamer's Quarter; and in June PC Gamer wrote an open letter to the gaming community requesting articles about, well, anything really.

It's not Friday and it's not Flash, but...

speicus — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:09:45 -0800

What do you get when you mix a fiendishly difficult and addictive puzzle game with the feel of a hack & slash RPG set in a cartoonish, slightly tongue-in-cheek fantasy world? That would be Deadly Rooms of Death (DROD for short). The game is freakin' huge, with 25 levels filled with unique rooms, and it also happens to be free.

A Dog for All Seasons

nthdegx — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:45:52 -0800

A Dog for All Seasons. A wonderful Flash game. From Orisinal. Via Edge.

EDSAC/USER FIRST (DIAL 0/1)

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:46:47 -0800

EDSAC - home of the first videogame, OXO.

Gibby's Game Room

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:04:35 -0800

On the trail of The Collector comes The Game Room. What a rubbish television.

Bare NESessities

nthdegx — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 08:54:02 -0800

I am 8 bit is a celebration of the pixelated graphics of 80s videogames, at LA's Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight. A hundred artists have produced paintings, sculptures and designs inspired by the two-dimensional imagery of the pre-PlayStation era. The exhibition runs from April 19 until May 20. More information, including highlights from the gallery, appear at Game Informer. It remains to be seen if the other ninety-nine artists can match the quality of Sean Clarity's exceptional reworking of the cover to NES classic Excitebike.