The Mother of All Video Game Museums
Space Invaders video game. Photo: Wikipedia
Berlin is now host to the world’s largest game museum.
From Fast Company:
The Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum), located on Karl-Marx-Allee, just unveiled a new permanent exhibition, Computer Games: Evolution of a Medium. For video game fans, the exhibition will be a pixelated dream come true: Over 300 video and computer systems and stand-alone games dating from 1951 until the present obtained from around the world, many of which are playable.Alongside epochal games like Pong, Super Mario Brothers and World of Warcraft, the Computerspielemuseum’s exhibition includes some extremely interesting rarities. Among the products on display are the Nimrod—an incredibly rare game-playing computer from 1951, the first ever arcade game, 1971’s ComputerSpace which guests can play), Cold War-era strategy game Balance of Power and numerous rare video games from the former Eastern Bloc.
Black Ops Lego
I don’t think much needs to be added to the title. If you equate Lego with innocent childhood memories, you may want to skip this bloody good bit of fun. Video masterfully crafted by Keshen8.
This brilliant stop motion video by French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond substitutes pixels for humans, recreating game play from one of the video arcade’s all time classics: Pac-Man.
Via Engadget
Source: Engadget
New Tron Legacy trailer, looking good.
One of the most impressive demonstrations at E3 2010 wasn’t a game, and wasn’t the 3DS (though that was pretty neat.) It was actually a little tech demo tucked away in the back of one of the halls that could completely change the way we see characters in games.
Grand Theft Auto IV Review
Grand Theft Auto IV is certainly one of the most anticipated games of 2008 and early impressions don’t disappoint. Video gaming site IGN reviews the newest installment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise and gives it nothing less than a 10 out of 10, a score which they last gave out for a console game in 1999 for Soul Caliber.
From the IGN review:
Grand Theft Auto III was a revolutionary title, one that inspired a whole new generation of 3D action games. Grand Theft Auto IV is just as big a leap forward, though perhaps in subtler ways, and sets a new benchmark for open-world games. Everything in GTA IV works in harmony. The story would be nothing without the city; the city gains realism from the physics engine; the physics compliment the improved AI; the AI would make no sense without the new cover system. And on and on. There is no one major weak aspect.A “10” is not a score we give out very often. In fact, the last time we gave a 10 to a console game was Soul Calibur in 1999. A 10 doesn’t mean a game is perfect — it means a game is pushing boundaries, expanding a genre, and doing many things to a level so far above and beyond its competitors that they overshadows any flaws. Certainly, GTA IV has some issues, the most noticeable being the occasional flaw in the cover system, but there are many more pieces of GTA IV that are better than anything I’ve seen from a game in the past decade. We don’t give 10s often — just to games that merit the score.
Read the full Grand Theft Auto IV review
