About a year ago, a Japanese programmer named OMEGA released a game called “Every Extend“, which looked really neat but wouldn’t play on my American Windows. The programmers at Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Q? Entertainment got ahold of it, and after the third day that productivity had ground to a halt because of it Mizuguchi realized its [...]

Director Keith Schofield has released his second video-game-themed music video. The first, and best, was a Beatmania-inspired video for DJ Format’s “3 Feet Deep”, which gets all kinds of extra points for the “Bling Bonus”, “Candy Bonus”, and “Hamster Bonus”. The newest video chronicles the sad sad tale of E.T. for the Atari 2600, of [...]

For all the Stepmania fans out there who’ve been dying to use an actual pad to dance to “Bitches”, “Let Mom Sleep”, and “Dan’s Theme” but didn’t want to shell out the $40 for a Playstation pad + Playstation-to-USB converter, or the $80+ for a really nice USB RedOctane pad, your salvation has come from [...]

My old host is going away, so I’m in the process of moving Inverted Castle to the new one. The old host also hosts smellslikechocobo.com, another domain I own but have never done anything with. Rather than go through the trouble of moving it, I’ve decided to give it away for free. Tell me, in [...]

This was originally just going to be a post about Melty Blood: ReACT, but I’ve found a few more mention-worthy doujin 2D fighting games. For those playing along at home, doujin soft are kinda sorta not-really the Japanese equivalent of shareware, except that instead of being sold primarily over the web, they’re sold primarily at [...]