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The Mane Quest
The Mane Quest : This excellent blog is about horses in videogames, and only horses in videogames. It’s by a videogame producer and equestrian who is making a videogame about horses. I feel l...
In its fifth printing since 2011 is this cartoon-filled book on game programming for the fairly…
In its fifth printing since 2011 is this cartoon-filled book on game programming for the fairly obscure (these days) academic programming language lisp. The author, an MD, also made a Jaguar game...
Atari is making a Pong RPG and it looks pretty bonkers, in a...
Atari is making a Pong RPG and it looks pretty bonkers, in a super good way.
Doug Jones is running for Senate in Alabama and some...
Doug Jones is running for Senate in Alabama and some enterprising folks made a campaign ad using Dig-Dug as the theme. I like it when games make it in the cultural consciousness enough to be used...
Tetris on a car dashboard
Found on Reddit, there’s a Russian car with a Tetris easter egg. Awesome.
Last Saturday night we did our first edition of INCREDIBLY...
Last Saturday night we did our first edition of INCREDIBLY STRANGE GAMES LIVE at the Fuse Box, Seattle’s smallest bar! I think we had more consoles set up then they have bar stools, but we had ...
This should be pretty fun. Devs from various Seattle area...
This should be pretty fun. Devs from various Seattle area developers will be there showing off weird games.
Book Review: Tetris
I picked up this graphic novel retelling of the story of Tetris at Comics Dungeon and it’s pretty rad. With simple straightforward language and a beautiful, spare, two-color art style, author ...
I was looking through the archives and I realized I never posted...
I was looking through the archives and I realized I never posted a pic for the release party we didn’t have for ISG 2 back in 2010. I guess now it can be told we only had 45 copies of Ninja Go...
Space Invaders Bowling
On a scale of one to even, I don’t. I’m not really sure what that means, but I saw it on Reddit one time, and it kind of sprang to mind when I saw Space Invaders Bowling peeking out of my ...
In 2008 Foundation 9 Entertainment, where I used to work,...
In 2008 Foundation 9 Entertainment, where I used to work, worked with iam8bit to put out an album of Christmas chiptunes. It was a really fun project – in a limited edition of 1024 discs in me...
Kevin Wong’s Flight Sim
So a few years ago Gary Whitta and Mike Mika and I were talking and we came up with an awesome film idea: ROUTINE FLIGHT. Basically it’s like a ‘70s disaster flick, you start with this 737 ...
IDK what’s weirder, an election ad that uses game talk and...
IDK what’s weirder, an election ad that uses game talk and frames Donald Trump as a selfish team killer, or the fact that the Wall Street Journal has an article explaining what “Trump mains H...
Strange way to play Q*Bert?
Strange way to play Q*Bert?
Buck Bumble, UbiSoft, N64. I actually don’t know how...
Buck Bumble, UbiSoft, N64. I actually don’t know how strange this is, because no one ever got past the title screen music…
Vans X Nintendo 8-Bit collab incoming this summer! There’s...
Vans X Nintendo 8-Bit collab incoming this summer! There’s nothing that strange about this, but I like the subtlety of some of the patterns vs the usual Marioana style (there’s not a slavish ...
Spotted by @mikejmika is this neat draft PITFALL Lego set,...
Spotted by @mikejmika is this neat draft PITFALL Lego set, presented at Lego Ideas. You can see more images (and typos) at https://ideas.lego.com/projects/120720
Let’s Baseball
From legendary editor Chris Bieniek’s totally crucial site, Video Game Ephemera comes this this fascinating Konami oddity. A hardware gizmo for scoring games, complete with printer. This was i...
“I Casio in the morning in the bath” I don’t...
“I Casio in the morning in the bath” I don’t even know where to go with this…
Sketchers Game Kicks
It’s a shoe. It’s a game. It’s basically the greatest thing Skechers has invented since that shoe that made you walk further because of its gigantic sole, or those rad comic books they deve...