PLANETDAMAGE

Jonathan Mak’s Everyday Shooter ended up as something of a concept album for the abstract shooter hardcore afficionados. Eight completely different levels, in theory, forty-something minutes of an all-guitar soundtrack for your geometric senses. Check the yt above for complete demonstration of the first three levels and embrace godly love - although it was originally released on the PlayStation platform, it’s now available on Steam (been for a while) and according to what Kotaku writes, the game will be available for the PSP around November. (via wired)

Mazer Mayhem, the latest 360-degrees spin-around arcade shooter by wireframe aesthetic god Kenta Cho is another reason why I should invest into an Xbox360. (Come to think of it, this and Rez could be the two main reasons, as GTA4 is arriving on the PC platform soon with all the other blockbuster titles. Apart from Force Unleashed.) BTW, dear readers, show me how to port XNA2.0 code onto PC platforms and my problems will be neatly solved. The graphics are not yet on par with oldschool Rez - but the music is definitely getting there. (link)

Assemble 2d pixel graphics by turning a cloud of 3d pixels with your mouse. Amazing piece of browser zen game. And what you see above, that’s really, really a cow. If you like the idea, check the Fez trailer below - it’s a platformer with basically the same premise. And hell of a lot of bad Engrish, by the way. (link, via tigsource)

Egyszer el kell oda érkezni, hogy lezárjuk, ami nem működik, ne vonjon el több energiát, töltődjön át inkább olyan helyekre a reserve energy, ahova tényleg kell. Ennek jött most el az ideje. (Lehetett tudni ezt régóta, nekem kell az, hogy mindenkinek kimondjam.) A THE DOSE magazint hivatalosan lezártam, nincs rá időm, energiám és kedvem hiába lenne, hosszú távon non-profitban megcsinálni értelmetlen. Rengeteg jó anyag gyűlt össze ebben a három számban is, büszke is vagyok rá, köszönöm is minden érintettnek, aki közreműködött benne és a részese volt. Lesz helyette más.

To all those who don’t dig Hungarian: I’ve declared the magazine dormant due to a lack of time.

If you were really into MySpace and how industrial/cyberpunk bands started making friends on community sites some two years ago, THE DOSE might ring a bell. It was a free PDF magazine (that I designed to be print-ready just in case I got the possibility to make it into a commercial venture that I failed miserably, but anyways) focusing on a single city in every issue, showing all the interesting music, bands, DJs, pieces of art that we thought would be fascinating for you. I learned how to do proper DTP and layout with the mag. I also came to know excellent people and musicians, made the magazine count at a few places. I made three issues (Budapest, Tokyo, London, consecutively) and then I became a full-time journalist and decided I didn’t have the time to continue this project anymore, because, let’s face it, the majority of the work was done by me. (This is how I get good results. But I digress.)

So now I declare extended hiatus and also upload the previous issues to Scribd. Share the love, download the mag, contact the bands and also drop me an email to planetdamage at gmail if you think this idea is good enough to monetize. Or tell me you love the mag and break my fucking heart in two.The Dose website is in a state of death and dismay, by the way.

Quickly browsing through the hottest piece of screaming sexy junk on Kotaku and HW, an E308 without babes (also receiving immensely negative reviews, the lack of quality in anything, I mean, eat the Duke Nukem trilogy trailer, that’s the worst trailer the game industry released in the past decade, it’s that bad) and here’s what delivers.

One of Steve Schofield’s dramatic cosplay pictures, full gallery here. (And check the FANTASTIC Half-Life 2 Combine aggro mashup pic on Kotaku!)

MadWorld, the uberbloody machizmo fatality quasi-TV show for Wii got a new trailer and it’s got some newer and more surreal kinks. Question is, how many ways do the devs implement for us not to get bored? If this gets released, I buy a Wii, that’s for so sure.

And some more Mirror’s Edge that’s becoming less attractive the more details I see - future parkour, fantastic. Running around on rooftops, great. Running around for five minutes in urban areas where all the elements look practically the same - less than intriguing. Missing out all the funny parts, like, running in parks, manoeuvering yourself in the dense urban traffic, through/above/under cars, pedestrians, cars and giant ebola fetishists from Connecticut - not that good. Yes, I know Asian parkour chicks rock the geeks but come on, this is not really worth it.

On a final note, Flagship Studios died, the financial/marketing disaster flushing both neo-Gothic-futuristic Hellgate:London and the WoW-clone Mythos down the drain. I regret both of them, as Hellgate:London could have been the next WH40K-clone MMO if handled perfectly, whereas Mythos was based on Fate, the next best substitute for Diablo 2 in the long years of desperate waiting. Bill, you should have hired me instead of Ivan, ehm ehm.

In a city where the movement of people and information is closely monitored, the safest way to transport sensitive information is the hire a Runner - a courier that operates via the rooftops and skyways, sez the new story trailer of parkour-cum-cyberpunk first-person-runner glory MIRROR’S EDGE. The almost-Nic-Endo protagonist’s sister is taken hostage and Faith - whom we all came to love - is doing everything she can to handle the situation. The 2D trailer with all the action sequences is quite an enjoyable piece, brings back some Aeon Flux memories - only this time it’s really white and blue (whereas the enterieur pieces are more like red, brown and yellow). And take this loveable and shamefully glorious 1980’s slogan:

On the edge of the city, you find out who you really are.

Hideo Kojima sez MGS4 has blood-curdling amounts of “butt depiction obsession”. Right. Read Kotaku.

Reading up on SC:IV ends real well: it’s basically all about tits, gothic lolitas and an unfair amount of Star Wars (and I tell you, dropping McFarlane out of the game was a bad choice). Tonight we don’t have no Darth Vader urethra busting, no. (new bust shots and female fighting rolls on kotaku)

Diablo 2 and its expansion pack was the first game I ever bought for money. (I’m a fucking liar, Might and Magic V, the French cyberpunk B.A.T. and some other mindless masturbations on floppy disks came earlier. But this was the first game I bought and then played a LOT. Compared to myself, at least.) And I might be buying a second set, just for backup.

The good thing is, it never really got boring. The gameplay - continuous looting and grinding, that becomes boring after a while and the labyrinth jungles were just a hassle. But the music, the whole atmosphere, it just got you going on. And no game, no game got ever close to this, not Titan Quest, not Sacred, not the other hack and slash games that got published throught the years and then died off in misery and solitude. (One coffee does that to your stylistic glands, you know.)

But now, it’s all butterflies, songs and brutal, virgin-raping hellfire. Blizzard has just announced Diablo III and following the news, it’s going to be full-3D, environment-interactive and as far as I know, the Barbarian and the Witch Hunter Doctor (thx, Korovjov!) are two classes to be featured. (Funny thing, on one of the forums there was this guy who wrote my friend works for Blizzard so I payed him a dinner and asked him to tell me everything. And basically the guy told him what we know now and obviously noone believed him before :D) Now that’s some awesome news for today, just to start a terrific Saturday