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Ads in games – What would work?

thiswayup — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:59:06 +0000

I was just reading something on bbc about putting anti-drink driving adverts in games. I thought to myself what other good ads would work in games, maybe something like plasters in Street Fighter or ear muffs in Sing Star.

Wanted: MI5 agents – see gaming world for details

thiswayup — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:52:29 +0000

Was wondering past wonderland and noticed this.

Looks like GCHQ (think the UK version of NSA) are hiring by putting ads in video games as …

A spokesperson for GCHQ described the potential recruits that it wanted to reach as â€œcomputer-savvy, technologically able, quick thinking.

But would potential recruits mum’s appreciate this? I mean if I was a parent I wouldn’t want little Johnny to be staying up past their bed time hours on end, trying to translate some cryptic message when they still gotta do their French homework!

Video Games Live – Oh what a night!

thiswayup — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:53:03 +0000

On Monday 22nd October at the South Bank Royal festival hall, there was (IMHO) the highlight of the games calendar (no not Halo 3 release I’m afraid), the Video Games Live concert. Essentially it was an evening of classic video games music played live! Well to be more precise there was the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing game tracks.
It was hosted by the two creators Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. Both are gaming composers who team up a couple of years ago to create an event drawing in music from the 30 odd years of gaming. So we got to hear music from Frogger, Tron, Halo, Metal Gear, Civilization, Chrono Cross along with others.

The night started with a group of us DS:london crowd meeting in hall of the South Bank center. I was really looking forward to this night given that I been meaning to check out the South Bank Center hall since it’s refurbishment, plus last year was just bloody good fun when it was at the Hammersmith Apollo. There was a nice cos play in the hall whilst we waited for the show to start. When it did, I think the sell out show (the first sell out show since the refurb) was enjoyed by everyone. The cencert was comprised of the cosplay comp (nice) ,the blind folded pianist’s of youtube fame (brilliant) who could play the tracks thrown at him at amazing speeds, the composer of outrun (was ok), a couple of stage comps (frogger and space invaders) along with just a whole bunch of tracks. My personal favorites was the Final Fantasy, War Craft, Halo and Tetris tracks. Simply amazing.

Can’t bloody wait for next year.

A night of music and video games…

thiswayup — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:58:01 +0000

On the 19th September, on a school night, in a little pub near the all so trendy area of Hoxton/Shoreditch in East london, it was the first Delete Yourself and Handheld night. The night was co-hosted by Ste from the One Life Left and was presented as a night of…
Handheld videogames, multiplayer madness and sweet, sweet game-related music to the backdrop of DY's anti-traditional nu-future night.

And it certainly was that! A nice mixture of DS’s and PSP’s was on display through out within the rather charming pub, The Macbeth. Our group arrived fairly early before the intended time of 9pm to do some warming up before hand. The real party kicked off closer to 10pm when the 10 player bomberman kicked in on the projector. As one would hope, it was mayhem! There is just something about playng bomberman with a bunch of people. Ofcourse the DS players were near the pool table at the back of the pub enjoying some rather loud games of tetris and mario kart as well. Gotta love it!

There was also much merriment of chit chatter between a whole host of different characters with different interests in gaming including a Phd student in games of some sort (hi allie!), a Gamestation store manager (hey Daniel!) along with his posse and the famous DS:London gang (I know, I know…shameless plug). Discussuing the real important subjects to a gamers heart including how best to squeeze in Halo 3 on release next weekend (drink, drugs, pulling sickies or all?), Mario Galaxy – all hype?, gaming music one should have on their Ipod, 2nd life – easier to make money in then real life? and as well lots of other things that would take longer then my attention span can handle to write about.

All in all, a damn great night and round of applause for the organisers. Can’t wait for the next one!

PS it would have been a better night if it wasn’t for the fact my camera’s memory card corrupted and I lost ALL my pictures I took!!!! Not happy joey at all (

Tetris grand master!

thiswayup — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:12:39 +0000

Every once in a while, just when I pull some decent beats on level 5 of Tetris on the DS. I find people like the following….
If you get bored at the beginning, check out the last quarter of the clip.

Short video on the state of the next gen consoles

thiswayup — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:59:59 +0000

It was once said that great wisdom can be found in a few short sentences, well this aren’t particularly great but has a little bit of humorous insight into the the next gen consoles. Brilliant.

Console Wars

Moooorrrrtall Kombat! The home-music video!

thiswayup — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:11:54 +0000

This cracked me up!!!

Thanks to Wonderland

Before the DS, GBA and even the Gameboy, we had…

thiswayup — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:10:59 +0000

Game and Watch! I remember having one of these when I was a 8 year old kid playing on the donkey kong chucking down barrels plus the Zelda one, great days! Now with the power of the web and some java, we can go old school!

http://www.handheld.remakes.org/online.php

Listening to: 5-8-6,New order, John Peel sessions

More game/geek chic fashion…Gaming in mind and on your body

thiswayup — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:58:22 +0000

Display ya adoration to your gaming roots..and buy the tshirt! A real nice selection of both classic and gaming themed tops from Tshirts, long sleeves and hoodies. All seem to have a real nostalgic tocuh to them or is it just me? [Source: DSmeetup forums]

Tune of the moment whilst writing this blog: Outkast vs. The Streets : Ya Mug

Guys who likes their sticks

thiswayup — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:23:22 +0000

Maybe it was because did I spent too much time in Brighton, but I somehow found the tagline of gaygamer.net quite interesting:

“For boys who like boys who like joysticks!”

lol!