Disturbing Art From Nintendo Powers Past [Blasts From The Past?] Agent B from The -Minus World discovered a stack of old Nintendo Power magazines recently, and for some god-awful reason decided to share with us the The Top 10 Most Disturbing Illustrations From Nintendo Power. B theorizes that Nintendo Power made the switch to graphics designers rathe [..]
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The past and future Pac-Man Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani brought a rather incredible historical artifact to the recent NLGD Festival of Games in the Netherlands: a notebook full of sketches from the original design of Pac-Man. The thirty-year-old sketches show that Iwat [..]
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Those who cannot remember the past... Via PZ Myers, I learn of a new entrant into the science/religion accomodation fracas. Mano Singham's generally well-grounded historical look at how these arguments have played out historically begins:
The accommodationists argue that it is a mistake to insist that science is antithetical to religion because if science is determined to be an intrinsically atheistic enterprise [..]
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On The Internet, The Past Isn't That Old People say things live on the internet forever. With Twitter limiting access to old tweets and Google apparently becoming increasingly forgetful as it ages, that may not quite be the case.
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How About That: GTA IV Pushes Take-Two's Q2 Past Consensus Take-Two management's mantra for the past six months or so: "Just wait and see what happens when we roll out Grand Theft Auto IV." Their line today: "Told you so!"
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Explodemon review: A blast from the past
"I am have destruct!!! Always be prepare!" - Explodemon
The titular character of Curve Studios' long-in-development platformer is a little ... special. Like its hero, Explodemon isn't the smartes [..]
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Modern Warfare 2 Goes Past 11, And 69 [Clips] Infinity Ward revealed some key numbers and details about Modern Warfare 2 on Game Trailers TV last night. Plus they made it clear that at least one part of the game will be tough. GTTV host Geoff Keighley got word that character-leveling in Modern Warfare 2 wi [..]
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Wii sales have dwiindled by 50% in the past five months
NPD figures show that, compared to the same five-month period last year, sales of the Wii in the US are down a full 50% -- prompting Michael Pachter, games industry analyst at Wedbush Morgan, to look away from [..]
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The Green Bubble Will Not Be Like Past Bubbles Last week we argued that a green bubble will not take shape. We were talking from an investment perspective. If we were talking about a marketing/hype perspective we'd say we're in the middle of a gigantic green bubble. That hype, though, might get one to thinking that investment will follow and a bubble will be inflated.
The reason we don't think there will be a great green bubble: Ther [..]
Tumblr Rockets Past Wordpress
Tumblr now has more blogs than Wordpress, a pretty impressive milestone considering the startup was only founded in 2007.
Tumblr is just much easier to sign up for and use than Wordpress. Wordpress blogs are geared toward longer f [..]