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Minecraft XBLA profitable in first hour
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
Quake Live – Let’s Frag ‘em
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
Ludum Dare 23 is kicking off with Tiny World, oh
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
Posted in Games, General, lartens, News
Tagged competition, devloper, games, indie, ludum dare
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Fez gets April 13th XBLA release
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
XBLA has a NEXT thing, and it has Minecraft in it
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
Are video games art?
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
Posted in consoles, Games, General, lartens, News
Tagged Art, BAFTA, games, Smithsonian
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Just over 2 months until Fez
Woah woah woah woah, what? Long time in the making indie title Fez, is finally coming to XBLA 2nd of May according to xbox.com. Fez sees a little 2d creature named Gomez, embark on a journey in a 2d world … Continue reading
Kinect for windows coming February, BUT all is not peachy
Microsoft have announced over at their blog that Kinect for Windows is coming this February 1st in 12 countries including the UK, Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, USA, canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. Though i can see no … Continue reading
Minecraft Pocket Edition to get survival mode
Mojang, the company behind the hugely popular (and main reason we get any visitors) Minecraft, have announced that the pocket Edition of Minecraft that is currently available on Android an iOS is going through some changes, bassed on feedback form … Continue reading
Posted in Games, General, iPad, iPhone and iOs, lartens, News
Tagged minecraft, pocket edition
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XNA for xbox maybe more hidden, but Microsoft haven’t forgotten us
In a surprise post on the msdn blogs, the might Microsoft have listened to feedback from the XNA creators club app hub community, and finally upped the maximum file size form a mear 150MB to 500MB, not only that but … Continue reading