Beatbox 360: You could dance to it

Follow the link to a story about a machanima guy who recently created an all-xbox-360 beatbox video. It’s fairly impressive, not just because he did it in 4k, but because it’s pretty catchy and all done with video + sound samples. I own a fair number of the games in this video, though [...]

New Auto-generated Smashball Source Videos

At Smashball Labs, we’re working on our automated video production process. Krenzo uploaded some automatically generated footage from Friday’s playtest to Veoh. I’m impressed with the quality, with this quick test it appears to look better than YouTube’s. We’re working on Revver, but have had our submission rejected. I’m sure it’s [...]

Teh LAN!!1

Thanks to Bloater for having us over to destroy his house with computers, network cables, beer, and food. It was good to see everyone! lo0mis, roland, madboy, bloater, tikoth, voodoo, sobchak, finsack, graywolf, phargle, and others all had a great time laying waste to each other in Supreme Commander and Smashball.
Here are two [...]

GTAIV. You know, for kids!*

* That was a joke alluding to The Hudsucker Proxy, now calm the hell down.
I was rapping with Krenzo in the Smashball developer’s channel the other day, and I happened to mention that I had recently played GTAIV for 4 hours straight (an eternity for a dude with my number of obligations), that the game [...]

Portal: I <3 my Weighted Companion Cube

I also euthanized my weighted companion cube faster than any other test subject. That is because I rock.
Portal is a brilliant departure from FPS action gaming. As the guys over at Penny Arcade put it, the idea was sort of risky along all axes. First person…puzzle…comedy?
When Portal was first mentioned to me [...]