William and Sly

Derek Yu from TIGSource posted about a game recently called William and Sly by a developer named Lucas Paakh. I played through it on Sunday and really enjoyed how it was put together.

It’s a platformer in which you play a fox, romping through a magical forest to reignite a series of portals for your [...]

A Life Well Wasted

Robert Ashley, former regular on GFW Radio has a new podcast: A Life Well Wasted.

The first episode, “The Death of EGM,” includes snippets of memories from long-time editors about the magazine.

The show has a great mix of content; interviews, Robert himself talking, music… just awesome. There’s even some Seanbaby. The throwback to the [...]

Long Live the Brodeo

If you’re addicted to listening to podcasts, like myself, and also loved the former GFW Radio on 1Up, you might want to grab the GFW Collection via bittorrent. Following the 1Up buyout a couple weeks ago, you never know when these things’ll be pulled from the website, so let’s distribute them now via the [...]

APIs FTW

GiantBomb has released an API for their gigantic video game database.

If you’ve never looked at their site before, aside from the regular “games writing” stuff, they have massive amounts of data about games: developers, screenshots, box art, wikis, characters, places, et cetera. The API will allow non-commercial use of this data for use in [...]

Indie games of the moment, vol. 1

Crayon Physics Deluxe is finished. I played through the demo, which includes the first two “islands” of levels. The art is gorgeous, with its Dr. Katz-ish squigglevision animation. There’re many similarities to World of Goo, but its got such unique character that it still feels like a completely different type of game. [...]

Twittering via Pip-Boy

Y Istair has been tweeting his adventures through the Capital Wasteland. Occasionally he gets advice from other wastelanders or voices his thoughts on folks he’s met along the way.

The tiny Zombie Apocalypse

Left 4k Dead is a browser-based Java implementation of Left 4 Dead in 4 kilobytes of code. It’s got WASD/mouse controls and dynamic lighting, too. It was developed by Marcus Persson for the 2009 Java 4k Competition.

Speaking of L4D, Randy Lundeen from the team at Valve has written a blog post about the [...]

MOTYs

Steve posted his “Moments of the Year 2008” on his blog.

I’ve only played Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, and GTA IV (and Rock Band 2, obviously). I haven’t played the Agatha’s Song quest, so I skipped reading that for now. FC2’s doors were just the intro to its first-person map usage, tearing of [...]

Tunnel Snakes RULE

Wasteland Dancin’ — an instant classic…

The amazing, disappearing Capital Wasteland

Something went wrong in Fallout 3 today:

My savegame wasn’t actually corrupted, though. Thank God.