Pokemon Music Retrospective

Junichi Masuda explains some of the composition challenges and decisions he made in designing music for the Pokemon series in his blog.
Discussing Red/Green:
Above softwares were developed for the game
machine called “Game Boy.”
Game Boy allow us to use total of four notes.
Coordinated by two square waves, one triangle wave
and one white noise.
Not only I composed […]

Guitar Hero DS controller revealed

Activision revealed the new Guitar Hero game for the DS today. The game comes with a guitar fret controller that plugs into the GBA slot. Guitar strumming is controlled with a pick-shaped stylus on the touch screen.

This is either brilliant or a desperate attempt to cash in on the Guitar Hero […]

Brawl Snapshot Converter

If you have a bunch of Brawl screenshots on an SD card, you’ll be pleased to know that the screenshot format for brawl was cracked nearly a month ago. The downloadable converter is available here. There is also an online converter tool available here.
Source: http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=142971

GoldenEye 360 - could there have been a Wii port too?

Scans from the Xbox World 360 Magazine article about the cancelled 360 port of the N64 classic GoldenEye are up at GAF and filefront.com. According to the article, Nintendo, Activision (current holders of the Bond franchise) and Rare/Microsoft had reached an agreement to provide Nintendo with Rare classics for virtual console and a Wii […]

Sakurai confirms no DLC for Brawl

No new characters. No new songs. No new assist trophies. No new NOTHING. It’s enough to make a fanboy emo.
IGN: We have to ask because there are so many rumors about this. Are there any hidden characters to come? Can you unlock more hidden fighters by way of WiiConnect24 […]

Cool Lego map for UT3

In PC and PS3 flavors. I’m so sad I can’t play this.
Download link: http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=602931

New Red Alert 3 Details Revealed

Just a day after confirmation of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3’s existence, Electronic Arts has revealed a number of new details. Set for release on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Red Alert 3 brings back the Allies and the Soviets as well as a third Japanese faction, and introduces a fully co-operative […]

Crayon Physics

This is a cool little game and hard to describe. You draw shapes with your mouse to try to move a ball to a star. The proof of concept prototype is free to download. Watch the video to see what the full version will be like.

New Guitar Hero gives sweet emotion to Aerosmith fans

-From Yahoo News-
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activision Inc on Friday unveiled a new “Guitar Hero” video game focusing on the rock band Aerosmith, taking the billion-dollar franchise in a new direction.
Called “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith,” the new game will arrive in stores this summer, a surprise to many analysts and fans who had expected the next […]

NiGHTS Bonus Content Hidden on Disc

From 1UP.com
If you picked up NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams shortly after its release in December, there’s a good chance you’ve finished the game up and put it on the shelf. Not so fast, though. Sega revealed to 1UP today that they have hidden some fun bonus stuff into the game that can only be […]