Posts Tagged With 'video games'

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Popular game blog deblogs itself, forgets that people like scrolling

Popular game blog deblogs itself, forgets that people like scrolling
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I unsubscribed to Kotaku last year. Nice folks and all. It’s just their coverage became too esoteric for my liking and not as fun or game-focused as they used to be (same goes for Joystiq).

In any case, Kotaku launched a redesign yesterday. From a usability perspective, it’s horrible. Like a return to frames. Or a flash site that makes you scroll within frames as opposed to the entire browsing window. It’s bold, I’ll admit. But web users like scrolling. And this has unorthodox use of it. So my guess is traffic will decrease.

Either way, what do you think? And while we’re on the subject, what are some of your favorite gaming websites?

Posted by Dan 08.02.2011 in All
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The NES that never was…
A look at the “Home Computer” Nintendo ALMOST released in North America

The NES that never was...A look at the "Home Computer" Nintendo ALMOST released in North America

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In the summer of 1983, the original Famicom was unleashed on the Japanese market – a small, affordable home computer system with just three launch titles: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong 2, and Popeye – each nearly dead ringers for their arcade counterparts.  The console was an instant hit, and it wasn’t long before Nintendo started to look to the west, eventually releasing the legendary Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 – but before the NES, Nintendo had something very different in mind, something that could been the difference between success and failure in the North American market.  This is the story of the Nintendo “Advanced Video System”

Posted by Sean Buckley 30.12.2009 in All
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Video Game references for An Energy Drink?

This is a very awesomely done traditional/sprite animation done by a team of awesome artists. The art was done by PersonaSama A.K.A. Jonathan Kim who did the traditional hand drawn art, and Paul Robertson for the sprite animation.

This is all pretty awesome. I wish I had an energy drink that made life like a video game.

[Via PersonaSama on Youtube]

Posted by Will Thompson 19.10.2009 in Uncategorized
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