clairemojher:

To celebrate the exciting return of Arrested Development, a few of us greeting card artists put our heads (and pencils) together and whipped up a (fake) mini-line of greeting cards for this contest that anyone can download and print out for free!

It’s super easy! Download the high-res files here. They even come with a dotted line for the fold and should print easily to your basic home printer.

And if you like them, please share them to your heart’s content!

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Now Playing…

Just finished Bioshock Infinite, now playing Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut. I’ll talk more about Deadly Premonition as I keep playing, but so far it’s a brilliant take on the popular television crime scene dramas. As an avid fan of Twin Peaks, I’m getting nothing but good vibes from this game. I may stream some gameplay on Twitch.TV, so stay tuned for commentary… but for now, let’s talk Bioshock.

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My 10 favorite video game logos (for Perfectionalism)

PlayStation 2
This is probably my overall favorite video game logo. When I first saw it, it just seemed so futuristic & momentous. It seemed like it was in perfect harmony with the design of the actual PS2 hardware.

WipEout
Maybe my all-time favorite creative collaboration. The Designers Republic’s beautiful designs were peppered all over the game, the menus, the manual, the case, & the advertising. Not really a single logo per se, but it certainly deserves a spot on this list.

Panasonic Q
The Q was a Nintendo Gamecube with a DVD player built-in, manufactured by Panasonic & released only in Japan. The hardware was pretty silly looking, but the logo is wonderful & creative.

Dreamcast
This is such a weird logo for a video game system. I think that’s why I love it so much.

Bit Generations
I love these Bit Generations logos. Bit Generations were a series of simple, design-driven GBA games published by Nintendo, & released exclusively in Japan. They are some of the best game boxes ever & they work really well as a set.

Polytron
The newest logo on this list. Phil Fish is not only a brilliant game designer, but a brilliant visual designer too. This logo is an insta-classic.

Mega Drive
Outside of North America, the Sega Genesis was called Sega Mega Drive. I love this logo because it is pretty much the quintessential 80s-Japanese-Electronic-Product logo.

Nintendo 64
This logo is synonymous with the leap from 2D to 3D games. Also, when rendered in 3D, the logo has 64 faces & 64 vertices. That is some clever stuff. The colors seem kind of outdated, but it did a great job or representing the Nintendo 64.

Atari
A classic. Enough said.

Half-Life 2
Valve just does a great job with their logos. Iconic, simple & to the point. Instantly recognizable.

Honorable Mentions
Falcom, Guerilla Games, Wii, SEGA, Psygnosis, Katamari Damacy, Zone of the Enders. <3

These are excellent logos… nice post

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”

The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.

The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

A Roger Ebert quote that sticks out in my mind

From his review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant

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What are you really reviewing?

Today, Polygon dropped the review score of SimCity from 9.5 to 8.0 due to online connectivity issues. I think this begs the questions… when you review a game, what are you really reviewing? Is it just the gameplay? The publisher’s response to customer complaints? Server infrastructure? DRM? …or maybe it’s the whole package?

I played SimCity late into the night and have no doubt that the gameplay is superb, but I also know that the servers were terribly broken in an always online, DRM restricted $60 product. Obviously unfair to the consumer.

When reviewing games, pick your criteria wisely.

About Polygon’s reviews here.

Skymap Games: BACON MAN: AN ADVENTURE

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skymapgames:

Yesterday, Skymap Games and our upcoming project were featured on NHPR in an article about the New Hampshire game industry. We are so excited to finally announce the details of that project.

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Bacon Man: An Adventure is a 2/3D platforming beat-em-up RPG. In this rage infused…

One of the Skymap Games teams announced their project today! It is really cute and I am really proud of them. :3

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