Full FeedAlternate Disc-Tractions: Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 DVD review
The final season of the groundbreaking revamp TV series, Battlestar Galactica, wraps up all of the mysteries, visions and even relationships that had been developing throughout the series. Even with all the bonus footage, extended episodes and commentary tracks, that doesn’t mean the ending will make any more sense. But… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Star Ocean: The Last Hope for Xbox 360
Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the latest installation to the Star Ocean franchise and serves as the prequel to the entire series of games released so far. Players are thrust into a not so distant future where the planet Earth we know and love is no longer able to… Continue Reading »
Gamertell Review: Quark on DVD
Title: Quark: The Complete Series Price: $19.95 Release Date: September 2, 2008 Studio: Sony Pictures Rating: Not Rated. Pros: A relatively unknown sci fi parody TV series resurrected for home video for the first time. Hokey humor, cheesy Star Trek homages, blatant stereotyping and over-the-top acting make this so bad… Continue Reading »
Hugo Award for graphic novels in 2009: Are videogames next?
ICV2 has just reported that graphic novels will soon be eligible for the prestigious Hugo Award. The notion does have to be ratified, but if it goes through, “‘Any science fiction or fantasy story told in graphic form appearing for the first time in the previous calendar year’ will be… Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 10: The dream becomes a bit more real with a working demo
After months of talking, debating writing, art and music production and numerous people coming and going, we have finally come to the early stage of our first working demo. The journey of getting to a demo phase is a long and difficult one and there is still so much more… Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 9-B: An interview with Project Manager Andrea Wieslander
This week, Burning Ambition includes an Interview with Andreas Wieslander, project manager for Burning Man Studios... Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 9-A: Managers, programmers and modellers, oh my
This week in Burning ambition, Christopher Buckner takes a closer look at the blessings and biggest hardships that Burning Man Studios has faced to date: finding the right Project Manager and a number of skilled programmers (the blessings) and finding 3D modelers that are able to measure up to the… Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 8-B: An interview with composers Nathan Pinard and Eike Steffen
In this dual interview, Chistopher interviews Burning Man Studios two composers, Nathan Pinard and Eike Steffe. Find out how two professional composers living in different countries manage make beautiful videogame music together… Click through to download an exclusive MP3 (“Arkady”) from the game! Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 8-A: The sound of beautiful music
One of the problems in game design that I find is, that production has a lot of surprises, and I hate surprises. Thankfully, when it has come to our music and sounds, the work has been consistently outstanding. I count Burning Man Studios very lucky to have found some amazing… Continue Reading »
Burning Ambition Part 7-B: An interview with colorist Jesse Heagy
Get an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Burning Man Studios in this interview with its colorist, Jesse Heagy. Find out how he got into the indie game business and what it takes to be a good colorist… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
