Archive for April, 2012

80s corporate name and logo

Notch has offered to add names of indie game studios to the world of his upcoming game 0x10c, apparently as fictional hi-tech companies. Megastructure Industries is already a tongue-in-cheek kind of name. It means to invoke Tsutomu Nihei’s fictional company Toha Heavy Industries, as well as give the feeling of a cyberpunk megacorp, with either millions of […]

Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:34 pm by eli · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Presenting FEX

This Friday, after five years, Fez is finally coming to households everywhere! … if you have an Xbox, of course. And if that wasn’t enough to give me a Feeling of Missing Out, a select elite who got the game early have already flooded the twitternets with reports of how wonderful the game is. My […]

Posted on April 9, 2012 at 9:06 pm by eli · Permalink · Comments Closed
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GDC12 Pirate Kart games

  Thanks to the efforts of ExciteMike (and the incredible Glorious Trainwrecks!), over 1000 games were collected for a “GDC Pirate Kart”! The concept is simple: getting to GDC is expensive, and putting up a booth is even more expensive. Making a pirate kart that would be displayed on the GDC floor enabled a conference […]

Posted on April 7, 2012 at 12:22 pm by eli · Permalink · Comments Closed
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