Games
[ Jan 27 2013 ]
Bullet Hell on Android is Hell
Cave, one of the last Japanese developers still making shooters, has eight titles for the iPhone, and two for Android, which they didn’t even release themselves. Rather, they farmed them out to G-Gee by GMO who – for a long time – did a very shitty job of actually making them available for sale. First […]
[ Jan 26 2013 ]
Android Tablet: Samsung Note 10.1 Review
As a follow-up to the Android Phone thread, here’s the tablet thread! I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, and I am unbelievably happy with it. It’s only running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and it’s relatively low-res for a 10-inch device at 1280 x 800, but it’s got the quad-core Exynos chip and […]
Photography
[ Jan 23 2013 ]
RAW Converter Showdown
Over on DPReview there’s a 3-way comparison between DxO Optics, Lightroom and my favourite, Capture One. Check it out and if you already use one of these apps, be sure to have your confirmation bias locked and loaded.
[ Jan 23 2013 ]
10 Years Ago: Korokoro Post Nin
Another ten year old game review: KoroKoro Post Nin, one of the first Playstation’s last releases: a Cameltry clone with incredibly cute style and gameplay that justified its $35 price tag. Barely.
Photography
[ Jan 23 2013 ]
Giant Beetles Ahoy
When I lived in Japan I was introduced to the local beetles, giant rhinoceros and stag beetles like we never, ever saw in Canada. They’re awesome, and I was delighted to find they existed in Australia. Every christmas they emerge from the ground and fly towards the brightest lights in search of mates. They’re a […]
Games
[ Jan 23 2013 ]
MegaDrive Review: Herzog Zwei
Originally published on NFGGames in 2001, updated in 2008 for Insomnia and, I think, destined for the one-issue-and-dead GameGo magazine… ‘Herzog Zwei’ means “Dukes Two” in German, the title indicating not only that this is a two-player game, but that it’s also the sequel to Herzog, an even more obscure title for the Japanese MSX […]
[ Jan 23 2013 ]
Ten Years Ago: Cool Cool Toon
From the archives, a review of what might be fallen-giant SNK’s last attempt at something almost entirely original (ignoring for a moment it was a rhythm game with a style that looks very familiar…). Cool Cool Toon was a Dreamcast game that did everything right and still managed to suck.
Games
[ Jan 22 2013 ]
Ten Year Repost: Ai Cho Aniki
From way back in 2003, a game that’s very possibly the strangest you’ve ever seen: Ai Cho Aniki, a shooter with Street-Fighter moves, and some staggeringly homosexual overtones.
[ Jan 19 2013 ]
Android Review: Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot Pinball
Sometimes things surprise you. On the Zen Pinball forums someone mentioned this Rob-O-Bot pinball game and said favourable things about it. Others agreed, the developer chimed in, and so I went and had a look. I had seen the developer’s other games in Google Play, and been unimpressed. They looked… Amateurish. Maybe they were awesome, […]
[ Jan 19 2013 ]
Android Review: Super Hexagon
There are games that are hard because they demand concentration and timing, and there are games where you’re not asked to do anything particularly complicated but your brain just freaks out and you die ’cause somehow, deep in your grey matter, the bits of your brain that process are shaking so gleefully that the bits […]
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