A bevy of BlazBlue screenshots accompany the announcement that Aksys game is bringing the spiritual successor to Guilty Gear to the states this summer. Recently announced for Japan in the pages of Famitsu, Aksys is picking up the ball and running it to North America with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation...

Filed under: Gaming, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Toy Bot Diaries is a fun little series of platforming games with a physics twist -- you probably saw it on those early iPod touch gaming commercials. It features a little robot jumping around levels with a grappling hook and some magnetic...

Video search engine blinkx.com has just released its 3D search engine: “Over 32 million hours of  video. Search it all.” It’ll be interesting to see how they manage to grow the content to embrace more and more 3D virtual worlds, as well as the traditional 2D web portals, espec...

Aside from the Jedi training of young Lord Phoenix, my resources of time and energy have been focused on the following "projects" as a human swiss army knife:1. Relocating to the Bay Area - Matt just got a job there!2.......

There's de facto (in fact) violation of a constitutional right, and there's de jure (in law) violations. The Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia's de jure violation of the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller. Now, the District appears hell bent on engaging in a de facto...

I remember when I first saw SolidWorks back in about 1998. I had just become part of the Technical Publications team at Genie, charged with illustrating and writing parts manuals. At the time, the illustrations were created in some convoluted process that included AutoCAD, CorelDraw and an EPS conve...

Filed under: Arcade, Nintendo DS, Retro Is 2D gaming headed for life support status? Last year Castlevania main man Koji Igarashi was vehement in his declaration that 2D games would never die. In fact, he felt so strongly about it that he had to use a PowerPoint slide to illustrate just how he felt ...

2D Boy Drops Historic First F-Bombs During A Nintendo Presentation. Kudos to 2D Boy's Kyle Gabler, for bringing the adult language to the Nintendo Media Summit. It's certainly the first Nintendo media presentation to feature the phrase "Fuck that" delivered by a presenter. Later, Kyle kept it rated-...

Phun is a 2D physics environment where you can build/destroy and otherwise have a jolly good time with all sorts of objects (including your own). It was programmed by Emil Emerfeld (awesome name) of Umeå University for his CS thesis. It really is awesome and the perfect way to piss away several day...

There has been some shaky-cam footage of KOF XII floating around for a few days now, but the quality was pretty terrible. While we don’t have any direct feed “yet”, the good folks over at gamevideos.com were nice enough to get some high res (non shaky) cam footage from GDC08. This ...