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Radiohead's PolyFauna

New iOS / Android download from team Radiohead: a pretty abstract game where you wader around a digital forest environment listening to sounds from King Of Limbs track Bloom.

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12th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Video Games Data Map

(via @reddit) graph showing changes in game style and platforms played since 1975

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22nd Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Angry Birds Star Wars

No end to the mashups there is. So confusing

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9th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Ad Nauseum: Cornelius for Nike+

Cornelius's Count Five Or Six soundtracks this Nike ad imagining the world as a platform game

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7th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Michael Lau HK Foosball Table

Hong Kong toy designer Michael Lau has constructed a special foosball table

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7th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Wrongachu

Pokemon v fashion = PokeXfashion

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30th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Good Luck Getting These Past The Home Decor Committee...

More here. Donkey Kong shelves. From the man who brought you the "retro alien sofa"

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23rd Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Beck - Sound Shapes

trailer for Sound Shapes, a Playstation game that features 3 new Beck songs

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23rd Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Fix-It Felix

8-bit tie-in for Disney's new cartoon Wreck-It Ralph: a playable version of the Donkey Kong-style game that Ralph comes from/works at 

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12th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Wreck-It Ralph

John C Reilly voices Wreck-It Ralph, a videogame bad guy who gets bored of his job in this new cartoon feature out later in the year. Nice idea. Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer and Sarah Silverman are among the other voices, looks like lots of game baddies are in there too - Zangieff, one of Pac-Man's ghosts, Eggman etc...

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8th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park - 100 Yen: The Japanese Arcade Experience

Doc looking at the evolution of arcades in Japan

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9th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Breaking Bad S1-5 RPG

what if Breaking Bad looked like Pokemon? (via @thecoldvein)

(ONLY WATCH IF YOU'RE UP TO DATE WITH BREAKING BAD)

(OBVIOUSLY)

(IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU'RE NOT: STOP EVERYTHING AND COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE)

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6th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Indie Game - The Movie

doc about independent video game producers, showing at Sundance this year

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26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Super Pixel Bros

today's "a lot of time on my hands" entry - Super Mario Bros rendered in 64 pixels

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15th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Real Life Angry Birds Moon Cakes

Just in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival in Asia - real life Angry Birds moon cakes. Available here

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8th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Battleship

Trailer up for Battleship. I've got a lot of time for director Peter Berg and star Alexander Skaarsgard, but this looks about as stupid as you would imagine a movie based on a board game to be. 

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29th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Techniques

how to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors: Wikihow has a lowdown

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30th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Fire up the Chimp-O-Matic?!

not quite sure what to make of this until we've talked to our Chimp-o-lawyers (especially as we're lovers, not fighters), but there's a Chimp-O-Matic weapon in PS3 game Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time 

"The Chimp-o-Matic was a weapon that turned enemies into chimpanzees and, according to its demonstration video, was originally designed as a party gag by bored GrummelNet engineers. Robotic enemies were turned into toy monkeys with cymbals, while organic enemies turned into normal chimps."

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30th Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Very Super Mario Bros

nice mashup of Mario and a street

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12th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Gooooooooooooooal!

if you're after an all-singing, all-dancing megatron world cup chart thing, check this Spanish website from Marca.com. The Guardian's Twitter match replays are pretty funny too

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12th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Pirate Bay Sunk?

Arrrrrr!  is it all over for the Pirate Bay? this Guardian article thinks it might be

UPDATE: Of course not. Back online.

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18th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Lego Rock Band

the ongoing Rock Band world domination continues with Lego Rock Band - glad to see they've got Let's Dance era David Bowie in there with Blur...

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16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet

Hi How Are You? Daniel Johnston The App

yup, indie cult hero Daniel Johnston is now available as an iPhone app

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16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games

I'd like to play the game with the skateboarder dodging lasers from a UFO in the background before YMO take it all Tron

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23rd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet

Kurt Cobain, A Guitar Hero

ah, the rebellious spirit of the grunge is really living on in Guitar Hero 5 with the option of being wacky Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, sometimes with another Cobain or two in the backing band. Take THAT The Man!

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4th Sep 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

3D Monster Maze

News of the BBC's plans to shoot Syntax Era - a comedy drama based on the rivalry between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry (ie the Curry who gave us Curry's) in the 1980s (should be on BBC4 this Oct) - got me thinking about the genius of the ZX81 (the iPhone of its time kids) - and specifically the joy of playing 3D Monster Maze. With the help of the hefty 16K external memory booster megapack stuck on the outside of the hard-drive/membrane keyboard/CPU, and several hours spent getting it to "download" from the memory stick cassette player, you could be transported into another dimension.

The object was simple: run through the maze to the exit, or be eaten alive by a giant T-Rex. You could run a bit faster than the monster - but thanks to the hours of ambient time spent walking around the identical walls, waiting for it to arrive, and the seconds it took to pounce when it did finally show up, more often than not you were chomped up instantly after waiting for ages. No weapons. No extra lives. Just the chance to do it all over again. Existential terror has never been colder or more accurately detailed in pixel form. Good times.

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31st Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet