Games
May 16 2013

Rediscovering: Front Mission: Gun Hazard

Having a look at Gun Hazard, a Super Famicom game from Squaresoft.

Games
May 1 2013

Your game and Piracy: How to Do It Wrong

When a game company copies a game then tries to punish game pirates, and doesn’t quite hit the mark.

Games
Apr 29 2013

Rediscovering: Metal Warriors

How is Metal Warriors, 20 years after it was released for the SNES? Still brilliant.

Personal
Apr 18 2013

Australia, lol

Australia bickers over the internet. 25 megabits, or 100 megabits? Meanwhile Japan is rolling out 2 gigabit – 20x faster than Australia’s biggest dream.

Games
Apr 14 2013

Ghouls n Ghosts Sprite History

Capcom’s Ghouls n Ghosts series had some brilliant sprite art. Here’s a look back at Arthur, the series’ protagonist.

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Apr 12 2013

Bonk Sprite History

Announcing the NFG book! Back in the day.

Games
Apr 12 2013

Android Review: Into the Dead

A quick look at a fun, short Android Zombie killin’ game.

Games
Apr 7 2013

Interview with Henk Nieborg (2)

This is a followup interview I did with Henk Nieborg, focusing mostly on the Nintendo DS release of Contra 4. Sadly I promptly lost this text, and finally published it a loooong time later. And now I’m re-posting it because stuff and etc but whatever! Henk’s an awesome guy with awesome pixel skills. check out […]

Games
Apr 7 2013

Interview with Henk Nieborg

Near the end of 2005 I interviewed Henk Nieborg, one of the greatest pixel artists around. He’s been pixelling since the earliest days of the C64, and he’s still going strong today – he recently completed all the backgrounds and boss art for Konami’s DS release of Contra 4. The interview was printed in my […]

Games
Apr 5 2013

WonderBoy Sprite History

This is one of a series of articles about sprite histories (see: Mario, Sonic, Castlevania, Bonk, and MegaMan). There’s an updated version of this page right here!

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