Nuclear Monster

Author: Jack Slater

  • DeNA + Nintendo

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    Mike Fahey: This morning Nintendo announced a partnership with Japanese company DeNA to produce games using Nintendo properties on mobile platforms. As the owner of mobile platform Mobage, DeNA is one of the most powerful names in mobile gaming, but the sort of games it’s known for won’t make traditional console gamers happy.

  • We’re All Doomed: Part LXVII

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    Chris DiBona announces the shutdown of Google Code: When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety…

  • Hypnotize

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    How did Dinosaurs go extinct when they could rap like this?

  • Steam Machines Aren’t Here to Challenge Consoles

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    Valve recently put up an early list of Steam Machines coming this November from various gaming computer makers. Paul Tassi of Forbes is here predicting doom and gloom in an article comparing the chances for Valve’s success against traditional gaming consoles: So if Steam Machines aren’t for console players, will existing PC gamers bite? I really…

  • OlliOlli2

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    Evan Narcisse writing about the sequel to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater-esque 2D platforming skate-em-up OlliOlli: OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood will drive perfectionists crazy, because they’ll want to master everything about the each of the game’s intricately tricky levels before moving on to the next one. That way lies madness. And ridiculous amounts of fun. Out this…