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Quake Live – Let’s Frag ’em

Posted on May 1, 2012 11:14 pm by lartens

Quake Live is quake in the browser with a plugin, and it looks wicked, and plays brilliantly, you may have recently seen a game with @notch, @jeb, and i think @kappische of Mojang play some young dude and a couple … Continue reading →

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Ludum Dare 23 is kicking off with Tiny World, oh

Posted on April 21, 2012 2:13 am by lartens

Here in the UK the time has just struck 02:00 and the gauntlet is down, Ludum Dare #23 a 10 year aniversary has started with the theme “Tiny World” and now i’m stumped, hmmm what to do? For those un … Continue reading →

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Fez gets April 13th XBLA release

Posted on March 29, 2012 11:56 pm by lartens

Wait a cotton picking minute, the Grig has new posts barely a day apart, what gives? Fez release date thats what, 800 Microsoft points on the unusual release day of a friday, eh? Those crazy indie devs just don’t know … Continue reading →

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XBLA has a NEXT thing, and it has Minecraft in it

Posted on March 22, 2012 11:22 pm by lartens

So Microsoft like to do these little XBLA release schedule promotion things for decent profile games, and call it a name like “Summer of Arcade” or in the case of this spring, “Arcade NEXT”. Starting April 18th with the Trials … Continue reading →

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Are video games art?

Posted on March 17, 2012 8:30 pm by lartens

We pose the question because this week saw both the BAFTA video game awards, and the opening of the The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lets start off with a hearty congratulations to our … Continue reading →

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Just over 2 months until Fez

Posted on February 26, 2012 5:00 pm by lartens

Woah woah woah woah, what? Long time in the making indie title Fez, is finally coming to XBLA 2nd of May according to xbox.com. Fez sees a little 2d creature named Gomez, embark on a journey in a 2d world … Continue reading →

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Kinect for windows coming February, BUT all is not peachy

Posted on January 11, 2012 12:13 am by lartens

Microsoft have announced over at their blog that Kinect for Windows is coming this February 1st in 12 countries including the UK, Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, USA, canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. Though i can see no … Continue reading →

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Minecraft Pocket Edition to get survival mode

Posted on January 8, 2012 4:34 pm by admin

Mojang, the company behind the hugely popular (and main reason we get any visitors) Minecraft, have announced that the pocket Edition of Minecraft that is currently available on Android an iOS is going through some changes, bassed on feedback form … Continue reading →

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XNA for xbox maybe more hidden, but Microsoft haven’t forgotten us

Posted on January 4, 2012 10:40 pm by lartens

In a surprise post on the msdn blogs, the might Microsoft have listened to feedback from the XNA creators club app hub community, and finally upped the maximum file size form a mear 150MB to 500MB, not only that but … Continue reading →

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3DS update ahoy

Posted on December 9, 2011 12:07 am by lartens

The November update for the 3DS is upon us, this December 8th, hey it could of been worse, the big updates are the 3D video recording which is just as bad as the 3D camera so i’ll skip that one, … Continue reading →

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