Archive for November, 2007

Super Mario Bros MIDI Animation

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Someone at Nico Nico Douga is a big video game MIDI song fan. A presumably Japanese fellow named HattariYaro was so kind as to reveal these to YouTube for our viewing pleasure. The original is created using software called Music Animation Machine which transcribes a simple MIDI audio file to a visual representation. The works [...]

PS2 – Odin Sphere

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Odin Sphere is a gorgeous 2d game recently released on the PS2. That’s right, a game mentioned in the 2007 GameTrailers gift guide for PS2, is only rendered in two dimensions. Hopefully this is not the last of 2d games for home consoles. Either way, Okami, God of War 2 and Oden Sphere are among [...]

PC – Valve Steam

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

As I mentioned several years ago when Valve and Sierra were tied up in lawsuits around Steam, direct distribution is the future. Here we are in 2007 and Valve’s CEO, Gabe Newell, is intending on distributing every PC game ever made via Steam. RockPaperShotgun has an awesome interview with Gabe where he talks about everything [...]