For my birthday last week I got Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, a hypnotic, three-hour, existentialist essay in movie form. My wife and I watched it on Valentine’s Day (not the best choice for Valentine’s Day, but we’d been wanting to watch it and that was as good a night as any). It’s about these three guys […]
Alrighty, since lots of people have contacted me saying that they can’t download games from Platine Dispositif’s website, I’ve gone ahead and mirrored all of their demos and free games. This mirror is temporary, and I don’t know how long it will stay up (that depends primarily on how much downloading there is). If there’s […]
Just a quick note that Platine Dispositif (who, you may remember, I adore) has released one of their older games, Engage to Jabberwock, for free as a Valentine’s gift to their fans. The gameplay is kind of hard to nail down, so I’ll just say that it’s like a bullet-hell Zelda. Go check it out, […]
I don’t remember how or when I found this, but since our network was down this morning I was poking around old videos I’d previously downloaded, and discovered this awesome French documentary on shmups.
It’s very exhaustive and impressive, and covers everything from Space Invaders to modern danmaku shmups and doujin shmups.
If you lack mad […]
A couple weekends ago I settled grudges between four different gangs, I passed English, Chemistry, Art, and Gym with flying colors, I bought a really sweet bike, I trash-canned some jocks who were trying to pick a fight with me, I won a lighthouse in a boxing tournament, I learned martial arts from a hobo […]
Rejoice, all ye kiddies who have “this totally bitchin’ idea for a video game” but don’t have the impetus or means to actually make it! As long as your idea is vaguely horror, sci-fi, or suspense themed, you can enter it in the 2007 Eerie Horror Film Festival Game Competition! The competition’s categories range all […]
Six months ago I jokingly said that Tim Rogers is the Lester Bangs of video games. After reading Tim Rogers’s novel-length Fukubukuro 2004 last night, devoid of sarcasm and despite the horrible things it might do to his ego, I have to say that Tim Rogers is NOT the Lester Bangs of video games. Tim […]
Man, so about a year ago I wrote an article about how ridiculous the XBox360 marketing effort was. Apparently Sony got jealous of all the derision I was piling on Microsoft, and decided to do everything they could to get me to make fun of them too. At this point, I have to give in […]
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I am some manner of posting-machine today, making up for lost time or something. This one’s fairly short, though; I’m just posting to point out that Platine Dispositif, makers of the best shmup EVER, have released a demo of their next game, a “metroidvania” which I believe is called Chelsea: Bunny Must Die. Go check […]