Well, that’s me and Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat fame at E3 2011 in that pic above. I had a great time at E3 this year, and was invited by the All Things All Things podcast to stop by and talk about the show. We get into Bastion from Warner Bros, Nintendo’s Wii U but of course, Sony’s Vita &…
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All That Rah Rah: Dying in Video Games is Dead
For such a fast moving and competitive industry, video gaming sure is hung up on a lot of gameplay conventions from its past. Specifically, I’m talking about holdouts from its heritage in the arcades: Where gameplay was admitted as a limited use contract in exchange for your quarter. The arcades differ greatly than the home console experience we are used to…
Bit by Bit: Obscure Video Game Samples in Obscure Hip-Hop Songs
Hip-Hop beats were built on producers digging through crates of old, dusty vinyl records in the elusive search for the Perfect Sample. But some of these dudes apparently have been digging through yard sales and the used video game rack at GameStop too because there’s quite a bit of video game sampling going on in hiphop. Below are some mad…