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Why We’re Still Playing: Injustice Gods Among Us

Injustice Gods Among Us

It was released the second week in April but more than a month later we are still playing Injustice Gods Among Us. Why you ask? Because NetherRealm Studios (yes, the same people who brought you Mortal Kombat,) has blurred the lines between good and evil with our favorite DC superheros...and villains. Read More »

Unevenly Distributed: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The @

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I start this column with only one aim. I would like to try to impart my love for one of the oldest, and most impenetrable, and aesthetically unattractive, and sociopathic and schizophrenic genres of computer game to a reader who will doubtlessly hate it for all of those exact reasons. I'm talking about rogue-likes, so called because of their ancestry in a progenitor called Rogue. Let's see how I do. Read More »

If Modern Movies Were Packaged Like Retro Video Games…

There’s something about the packaging of Atari-era games that really strikes my design fancy. The minimalistic bit style was both honest and gorgeous. I actually don’t think I’d mind if modern movie posters were designed in the same style. Some modern posters could certainly use the revision. Or at least a few zombies added here or there. Hit the jump ... Read More »

Buy My Label-less N64 Cartridge… If You Dare

But see, I don’t dare. And I’ll tell you where you screwed up. 25% of the profits go right the Child’s Play charity. Which means 75% still goes to some dude. Look, I’m not feeling very charitable. I can barely put food on the table myself. I’ve been eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches twice a day. So while I’m ... Read More »

Arcade Game Expressionism

When geekism meets fine art, the results are usually breath-taking. Such is the case with Brock Davis’s Arcade Expressionism pieces, which reduce the 8-bit arcade images to their basic shapes and smudges. Above is Donkey Kong and after the jump you can spot Dig Dug and Missle Command. Read More »

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