Author Archives: lartens

Ah, what a shmup

Radiant Silvergun, one of the most expensive Japanese only Sega Saturn games is coming cheap to a Sega Saturn Xbox 360 near you. Available for 1200 MS Points this September 14th via XBLA. This remake of a golden classic will have … Continue reading

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I’m an Ambassador don’t you know

Some of you may have noticed that the layout style of nintendo.co.uk and nintendo.com are slightly different, we have a news section with not very useful news, and the Americas have a what’s new sections, which also has news, and … Continue reading

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The US gets a free Orchestra cd with Skyward Sword, but what about us?

Over at Nintendo.com there’s news as far as the states is concerned that the first batch of The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword for the wii will come with a free cd of select tracks from the upcoming recordings of … Continue reading

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Jobsy resigns as ceo of apple, yeah, that’s what i’m calling him

Seriously though, when you have health problems but can still steer a company to have access to more cash than the US Government, you’ve done well enough, you might as well leave it there and call it a day. The … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare August 2011 is over and sleep is good

The competition for rapid game development is over, for now. My humble attempt can be found here https://www.grigorig.com/files/twister2.html it’s called twister, as the them was escape, though you can’t actually escape it as it gets faster and mows you down … Continue reading

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He who dares, wins. Ludum Dare update for my game

With just over 12 hours until the submissions for Ludum dare end, i’ve just added my first update to the ludum dare sites blog, with a brand spanking new shiny screen shot, here it is At the moment you just … Continue reading

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Live streaming is expensive, notch pulls the plug at 17000 viewer hours

Its been an interesting afternoon, i spent some time animating an awesome tornado in flash (i joke). While half watching (sorry notch) the live stream video feed of Markus Persson as he writes a dungeon explorer style game for the … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare challenge is on, let’s get our code face on

This weekend 20/08/11 or maybe 19th depending on your time zone, is the Ludum Dare game challenge thing. It happens every 4 months, April, August, and December. Those registered at http://www.ludumdare.com can submit a game to the competition. The rules … Continue reading

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Driver San Francisco Demo is live and kicking

Check out that jackass, that’s what they say, classic stuff. They said the new Driver handles like the old driver, with the big heavy American muscle cars, and it does, i’m impressed, i’m thinking the single player is going to … Continue reading

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Less is more, right?

Both Sony and Nintendo have announced new models of their old consoles, that come with less stuff, and for more that what you would pay on ebay. The new PSP will have no wifi, but looks to be a lot … Continue reading

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