tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62240562008-07-16T12:39:09.420+02:00Z.noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224056.post-67870161511804014152008-07-16T12:35:00.002+02:002008-07-16T12:39:09.451+02:00

Yessiree... IF I really want to have -all- the peripherals of all music games I should buy a new home... I just love, love, love music games ever since I saw the Bemani stuff from Konami back in the 90s, so it's supposed to be heaven for me these years, but it's a pain I tell you, a pain, as I'm obsessed with having all that stuff within reach and also declaring ownership over it but ... there is

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Been to Leonard Cohen concert yesterday evening. It was .. magical. Loved this:

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http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/37257. Amazing how they never fixed it in the beta stages of the game. At least -someone- should have noticed the differences between the attackpower of both genders? ' Let me begin with saying “yes, we here at Funcom agree with you; this is an unacceptable bug”. We never intended for any character to be stronger/weaker than another based on its gender, and we

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Been hanging out with the former lead designer of Spore's Creature Creator, Chaim. Really fun guy, brilliant mind. Forgot to take a picture with him.. doh... Also met other interesting people, which I can't remember the names of.

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Very into Nerf lately, still a bit confused that SteamPunk is everywhere all of a sudden including spicing up the Nerf guns! Love it! By courtesy of Gizomodo. Find more pics of this gun at: http://gizmodo.com/383943/steampunk-nerf-rifle-lets-you-get-victorian-on-someones-ass

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Love love love it!! Electroplankton on a NDS and two iPhones = Win! Did I say I totally love it? I say it again! Their website:

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I recently rediscovered Flash Flash Revolution (thanks to my students), a webbased version of Dance Dance Revolution, which is playable with the directional keys on the keyboard. People can share videos of their skills, some real craziness to be found there!

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This is great, people really have a nick for doing unexpected things with given technology. In the next youtube movie (from CNET) a couple of guys took some codes, laptops and guitar hero controllers and turned it all into a device that can be used to make music or synthesized sounds. The movie explains it all: Ever seen a pizza slice play Guitar Hero? Now you will! This slice even has a

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Currently trying to set something up for game preservation. I came across the Gameology emulation blog post from Laurie, which asks the question: when is emulation enough? Myself I appreciate the emulation scene to preserve games that way, as digitalizing through emulation saves a lot of space and issues with hardware compatibility. Personally I prefer however the game as it was originally

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Ohh never saw a connection between Boingboings Cory Doctorow and Wonderland's Alice... but seems they have been an 'item' for quite some time now, resulting in this wonderful little 'mutant' as they call it. Congrats both of you! That's gotta turn out to be one helluva tech-savy, home-knitting, gadgetminded, writing, amazing girl. Hurray! Oh and check out this brilliant Little Big Planet puppet.

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Everyone wants to dip into the success of the Wii. And no I'm not talking about the Sixaxis controller of the Playstation 3, but the 'cheap' versions of the actual Wii. In the Netherlands a gameconsole got released called the "Vimax", 50 Euros for a crap computer with a 'vimote' that registers some movement but is not really sensitive to all your movements, images are not even vaguelly resembling

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Was looking for some numbers and figures about the gamesindustry, more specifically the general number of game (software) releases in 2007. Haven't found any real numbers on it, wonder if those stats are available and if I'm just googling with the wrong terms. According to ELSPA, NPD and ESA the industry faced a staggering growth in sales last year (2007) which is great of course. As many people

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Currently preparing classes and considering using some social networksites and tools for teaching. Ning seems to be useful to create your own social network and there are even options for educational purposes (see education.ning) such as ning availability without ads for free. I signed up for at least two ning networks: Classroom 2.0 and Bibliotheek 2.0 (Library 2.0) recently. But with all these

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Greg Pattillo and Eric Stephenson doing their thing on the cello and flute. I especially like the part from 01:22 on. I want to hear more cello pieces like that.

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I love to watch Beatbox vids, as it is amazing to see and hear what the human voice is capable of. Everyonce in a while I go through these stages that I watch a whole lot of them. Today I stumbled upon the brilliant one you can watch below. In the Paris subway a group of people suddenly burst out singing and beatboxing. And what a superb job they do! Obviously I had to find out who they were

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To be honest, I never heard of these Paternosters, until I saw this vid, the comments on it all focus on the dangerous looking elevators. And they really -do- look dangerous! People stepped in and out cabinets that moved up and downward without stopping. Of course I was curious what they are and where I can find them to try it out myself. Apparently those elevators are called Paternoster, and are

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Interesting quote which is related to a short note about the whole affair with Jeff Gerstmann, a Gamespot game editor that supposedly got sacked for writing a negative review about that one game, all of the gamesindustry got buzzing about it (see Penny Arcade Comic also) : If you pick up your average lifestyle magazine you'll note that nobody is hauling Karl Lagerfeld over hot coals because his

Z.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6224056.post-46236471965940454492008-01-13T23:55:00.000+01:002008-01-13T23:57:44.135+01:00

familiar... Yes I can relate to a bunch of what Stacey, freelance writer in NY, has to say in this Escapist column.

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Might be an oldie for most, but felt I had to share it anyways:

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(via interaction culture)

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Useful and interesting read: MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five women working in the game industry one way or another: G4's Morgan Webb, GGA's Jane Pinckard and others. There was a lot of reader response and Multiplayer gave the women the opportunity to respond to comments such as: “Let’s say you’ve got someone who’s championing the cause of women in a specific industry, and she’s all about

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There was some discussion about not enough information about gameresearch and different cultures readily and publicly available. Gamescultures.org should cater to that. "The basic philosophy behind GamesCultures.org is to share information between researchers, and to situate it within some, particularly geographical, social and cultural contexts." Everyone is invited to contribute. Blogged with

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Blogged with Flock

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