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Hero Generations: An Interview w Scott Brodie – Former Microsoft Game Dev Goes Facebook Indie
An interview with Scott Brodie of Heart Shaped Games, on how he left his job at Microsoft to start a multi-generational hero title for Facebook.
8-Bit Is the New Black
This week I have come across a growing number of videos that also find their muse in the pixelated style of the 8-Bit ouevre. Is it pure nostalgia or something deeper in the transforming human psyche that commands our interest, like a scratch in an old vinyl 45?
Metal Slug 3 Conspicuously Absent from XBLA 2008 Award Nominees
Released January 2nd 2008, Metal Slug 3 from Japanese developer SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION, with its fast-paced, multi-path action and gorgeous post 8-bit graphics brings both outstanding and consistently fresh gameplay and legitimately humor entertainment to the XBOX 360 Live Arcade and yet it is conspicuously absent from Microsoft’s own year-end gamers’ polls. Maybe it is somehow considered a 2007 release, or a an original Xbox re-release, but technically it is a 2008 XBLA release and should have figured in this year’s awards. Plus playing as a blood-spewing zombie rules.
