This is for all design professionals. X-Rite, global leader in color standards (they own Pantone), has a little color challenge for you. Can you get the perfect score?
Limbo is a side scrolling game currently in development by Danish game designers Playdead. There’s not much to see yet, apart form this tiny size official site. It’s coming to Xbox Live Arcade and from the looks of it the game will feature a cool and intriguing dark fairytale atmosphere.
While watching an episode of GT TV on the new God of War, a video of Joe Danger came by and now I can’t wait to get that game. It looks like a mix of Mario Kart meets Little Big Planet meets Paper Boy meets Stunt Car Racer. It’s a downloadable game by Hello, who are just four young guys making their first official game together.
It’s a long time after the first news about Alan Wake was released. On the fine blog Kotaku appeared a new trailer. Still really curious for this one, looks a bit like playing a thriller or horror, the genre Silent Hill claimed. The new game Heavy Rain has a fresh movie-like approach as well, I wonder how that gaming experience is.
This is a game where 120 pads communicate and listen to each other in an organic network. Each pad is independent, and simultaneously interacts and listens to its environment based on user feedback. Together, the pads create complex, surprising, and unpredictable color arrays with their user participants.
Good example of how video games can be played in the future using AR. I thought people phoning with their invisible headset where strange, can’t wait to see these guys roam the street!
Augmented reality is everywhere, the game eyepet has been released a while ago but has some amazing tech stuff. Most impressive is the technology to turn your drawings into 3d objects that the pet can ride & play with.
German designer Patrick Molnar had some time and made a great overview of the game consoles owned by Phil Penninger, or as he puts it ‘der Katalog zu einer Videokonsolen-Sammlung von seinerzeit 145 Video-spiele-Systemen’. Yes, this is a nerd post.
Again North Kingdom lives up to the high expectations they have for each project. This time it’s an online football (soccer) game for Adidas, supporting the german team a.k.a. Die Mannshaft. The graphic novel vibe, combined with video and 3D works very well. It’s a strategic game with elements that require perfect timing.
Call of Duty : Modern Warfare is one of the best shooters of the last couple of years. The sequel is about the be released this fall and a fan has created two awesome animation shorts. The Call and
If you ever played CoD Modern Warfare you know it’s action packed. It’s as if mr. Bay wrote the script to a game. The scene with the nuclear aftermath is one of the best ever. The trailer for no. 2 is just online and I’m happy to say they stay on track, moving further away from CoD and establishing their own Modern Warfare series.
Patapon is a Japanese rhythm-based 2D platform/action game exclusively for the PSP. You have to lead the Patapons, a brave and noble tribe, through a series of epic battles against opposing armies and gigantic monsters by playing the wardrum. Funny concept en weird Japanese graphics!
After the award winning SketchStudio, IJsfontein has now created the GameStudio, an online game-development tool-kit for children. The GameStudio is made for Dutch children tv-program Het Klokhuis who, in addition, will make a series of tv-programs about game development. (All links are in Dutch)