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Blip Japan Artist Profile: M7Kenji

Are you guys excited about the Blip Festival Tokyo? For those of you who are, we’ve got an interview with one of the artists who will be playing during the shows dates of October 22-23, 2011.

August 22, 2011
In Real Life

This Guy Just Wants To Hold A Controller (So Do I)

Game designer Xander Davis recently started a new game design show on YouTube called “THINK TANK!” (his caps, not mine), where sounds off on game design.

Xbox

Kinect Was Tested By Dropping It On Concrete

The Microsoft engineers building Kinect “knew this thing was going to be viewed as a toy,” says one, “and so it was going to be abused.” So they abused it first, toughening the thing up to the point it could be dropped on concrete and still function.

August 5, 2011
In Real Life

These Designers Are The Height Of 8-Bit Fashion

The fashionistas at fashion site Fashionary have come up with a range of 8-bit fashions based on their favourite designs from their favourite fashion designers. Fashion. Fashion.

June 17, 2011
Nintendo

Why Nintendo Went Back To White For The Wii U

Launching in a white case five years ago, the Wii has seen a special edition release in red, and currently is available in black. Its successor, Wii U, goes back to white. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto says the design choice is so people won’t think the console is kid’s stuff.

In Real Life

It’s A Nintendo From A Parallel Universe

Graphic designer Graham Smith has a little ongoing project where he takes famous brands and switches their logo. So for example you get the Coke logo but it says Pepsi. His work include a few video game examples.

May 16, 2011
Mobile

An Idea On How To Fix IPhone Gaming

While it can do some game genres well, boy, for others the iPod can be a nightmare to use. Yet those nightmares could easily be sweet dreams with an add-on like Alan Li’s Iphone Gaming Pod.

April 18, 2011
PlayStation

Imagining What Sony’s Next Controller (And Its Box) Will Look Like

My dork tendencies run a little… stranger than most. While I enjoy looking at things like mock-ups of new control pads, for example, I prefer looking at a mock-up of the packaging for said controller.

March 7, 2011
In Real Life

How Video Games Can Build A Better Whorehouse

It’s the oldest profession in the world, but even in the free and easy 21st century, prostitution is still something that makes a lot of people squirm. Makes them feel uncomfortable. Maybe games can help!

Mobile

The Social Games Rant You Didn’t Hear From GDC

By all accounts, “No F@*#king Respect: Social Game Developers Rant Back” was a hit at Game Developers Conference 2011. A standing-room only crowd listened to a panel of eminent designers address the virtues of and double-standards applied to social games.

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