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Minecraft XBLA profitable in first hour

Posted on May 11, 2012 12:25 am by lartens

As Mojang handed over the reigns of an XBLA port of Minecraft to developer 4J Studios last year, the game has been hotly anticipated by fans, and fan fare marketed by the big Microsoft, first at the 2011 E3 expo … Continue reading →

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Quake Live – Let’s Frag ‘em

Posted on May 1, 2012 11:14 pm by lartens

Quake Live is quake in the browser with a plugin, and it looks wicked, and plays brilliantly, you may have recently seen a game with @notch, @jeb, and i think @kappische of Mojang play some young dude and a couple … Continue reading →

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The late nineties were the best for video games

Posted on April 24, 2012 11:29 pm by lartens

The Grigonians have been gaming since the early Eighties, when video games consoles had the games built in and we used paddles with twisty nobs to make a rectangle move up and down to colide with a square, beautiful. And … Continue reading →

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Ludum Dare 23 is kicking off with Tiny World, oh

Posted on April 21, 2012 2:13 am by lartens

Here in the UK the time has just struck 02:00 and the gauntlet is down, Ludum Dare #23 a 10 year aniversary has started with the theme “Tiny World” and now i’m stumped, hmmm what to do? For those un … Continue reading →

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Google Maps goes 8-bit fools ya fools

Posted on April 1, 2012 11:52 pm by lartens

Google love their april fools (TiSP, free broadband install see here), and their homage to all things cool, like the playable pacman game in place of Google on the homepage one May 22nd 2010 (still playable here). But this year … Continue reading →

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Fez gets April 13th XBLA release

Posted on March 29, 2012 11:56 pm by lartens

Wait a cotton picking minute, the Grig has new posts barely a day apart, what gives? Fez release date thats what, 800 Microsoft points on the unusual release day of a friday, eh? Those crazy indie devs just don’t know … Continue reading →

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Great humorous Ted talk on copyright math by Rob Reid

Posted on March 22, 2012 11:53 pm by lartens

See the 5 minute Ted talk from comic author Rob Reid as he talks about Copyright math, delivered in a fact based humorous presentation for Ted. Titled the $8 billion iPod. source = http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod.html.

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XBLA has a NEXT thing, and it has Minecraft in it

Posted on March 22, 2012 11:22 pm by lartens

So Microsoft like to do these little XBLA release schedule promotion things for decent profile games, and call it a name like “Summer of Arcade” or in the case of this spring, “Arcade NEXT”. Starting April 18th with the Trials … Continue reading →

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Saving up for Mars

Posted on March 21, 2012 12:23 am by lartens

We here at the Grig, sometimes stray from the path of video games or tech, and head more towards the science, though sometime this does involve tech. In the beginning of this blog, it was a way to share cool … Continue reading →

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Are video games art?

Posted on March 17, 2012 8:30 pm by lartens

We pose the question because this week saw both the BAFTA video game awards, and the opening of the The Art of Video Games exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lets start off with a hearty congratulations to our … Continue reading →

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