one of the most ambitious videogame projects finally has its own page ! :p

Kieron Gillen on System Shock 2's SHODAN

on horror in games (feat. spoilers)

on Valve's Steam

Children of the Nile, online version

In November of 1982 my best friend had a Sony TCS-310 Stereo Cassette Recorder. Audio cassette tape was the affordable recording medium at the time and one wintery day while on our way to the arcade 'Just Fun' in Ithaca, NY, we came up with the idea to record video game sounds in the arcades.

mod games "to simulate global illumination (occlusion, indirect lightning as parts of it) for more realistic looks of objects in games.

The old build contains everything that had been built to that date, which includes levels cut from the retail release, and also game features that THQ cut to help make the game more palatable to the mass market. Word is: "The build uses a completely different physics engine than the one used in the final retail version. This build is fully playable and contains all of the original levels as well as those that were cut such as Dead City, Swamp and Generators."

a bit in the audiosurf idea, more basic though

Legit bittorent website for game demos, patches & stuff

"I had played Stalker countless times since that initial run through, and now I put it on in quiet hours, just to soak up the atmosphere. There’s something evocative and slightly alarming about finding fictional worlds that you want to taste repeatedly"

a videogames database... it has Tank Universal or Grim Fandango, so it looks like a decent db ;) Now what to do with it ? Quick ! Mashups, apps !

Bit Battles : a "tron tank" multiplayer game / aka "like Tank Universal, but multiplayer"

gameplay videos of Tension/Turgor/The Void

"Hal Barwood, the lead designer of Mata Hari, is a LucasArts alumni who now works as a freelance contractor at Finite Arts. "

on STALKER & Pathologic

games development in ex-ussr

jeez!

videogames development glitches

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wow

by the devs of Pathologic... new game should be released by Atari in March 09 under the title "The Void"