[Now Playing| FF2 - DS]

Got some time to kill? If so hopefully not as much as the speed runners featured in the Archive.org Speed Runs Archive. These sick little puppies played the same game for months in order to get the fastest time possible, just for you.

Speed Runs

Please, do NOT try any of this at home.

[Now Groovin’ To| OCRemix - Stream]

Today a friend and I were chatting about OverClocked ReMix and he alerted me to the fact that there is an Ogg stream dedicated to the video game remixes.

Overclocked Remix Streaming Server

This site also lets you click and directly download any of the songs that you hear and like, rather than search through the thousands on OCRemix.org.

If you haven’t heard of OCRemix, I highly suggest you check it out. All the classic game music you grew up with remixed in various flavors.

Check out one of my favorites:
Mega Man 2 ‘BubbleMan (wantstoget) FunkedUp’

Note: The 80kbit stream seems to be fubar at the moment. However, as they are Ogg Streams, the 56kbit/s won’t make your ears bleed.

source: Andy Thai

[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

Since Starfox: Assault has come out, Ive found a bunch of interesting Starfox related articles. The first one is a interview with Dylan Cuthbert, the man behind the engine for the first Starfox. The second article is all about Starfox 2, which was never released. Thank god for leaked roms and emulators. Err, I didnt say that.

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[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

I try not to be a giant fanboy with this site. Sure, I love Nintendo, but I respect gaming as an art form and a form of entertainment. Anyone who can provide that is alright in my book. I love the medium and I love the gaming community. I also hope to see gaming expand to even greater horizons in the future. More innovation, more women gamers, and more fun.

I recently read this article about the maturity of gaming journalism and I wanted to share it. Its a great read and people should really take it to heart.

Grow Up

[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

The winner of the first ever 4cr freebie giveaway was Tyler from Continuous Play. I asked him to write a little something about it, since I was so nice to give it to him for free. Ill now turn it over to him:

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[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

Spong says that they have recieved word from ‘offical’ sources that the V-Pocket has something to do with PDA functionality. Sounds reasonable to me. Again, wait and see.

Spong Article

[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

I just wanted to share two cool ads Ive seen recently. First is the Nike: Warriors one. Absolutely amazing and right on point. Awesome awesome awesome. Then we have the tv commercial for NBA Street. I just love the style of this one. It has some great animation and really shows off the game well, as opposed to something like the Starfox commercial I posted a little while ago.

Nike: Warriors Commercial

NBA Street v3 Commercial

[Now Playing| Alien Hominid - GC]

I picked up Alien Hominid today. This game is awesome! If you like Contra or Metal Slug, pick this up. I kid you not, this game is great and you can get it for only $30.

This game also shows that small companies can make awesome games that actually do sell. The art style in this game is sweet and damn hilarious. Beautiful 2d stuff here, especially the explosions. The gameplay is pure old school bliss. However, this game is hard. Be prepared to die. And die again. And again. Good thing you get lots of continues.

Anyway, get out there and support a small developer by buying this totally awesome game…or I will jump on your back, ride you like monkey and then bite off your head!

Original Flash Game

Alien Hominid Site

[Now Playing| Astroboy - DS]

Another new game popped up on EBGames.com. This time its Metroid Pinball for the DS. Hmmm, I guess I could see that with the morphball and all.

People all across the net are screaming about Nintendo whoring out another franchise. As long as it isnt made by the Mario Pinball team I bet it will be great. Mario Pinball was alright, but not Nintendo franchise quality.

full picture: Justins Metroid

[Now Playing| Astroboy - DS]

Found a few fan-made concept drawings of the Revolution on a French blog. Apparently Nintendo has decided to stick with basic shapes again. Instead of a cube, this time we get a disc. Its a nice clean design, but I have a feeling its nowhere near the truth.

[Revolution Concept 01] [Revolution Concept 02]

[Now Playing| Sonic Mega Collection - GC]

Its finally here; the first homebrew game for the DS.
Tetris style!

Here is a larger pic: [DS Tetris]

source: The Mod Gods

[Now Cursing| The Fate Of DS Online]

Well, this is unfortunate. The people over at X-Link have given up trying to tunnel the DS, at least for now.Since I considered them the best hope, this is very disheartening. I really hope Warppipe has something up its sleeve.

Go hear to read the news:
X-Link Thread

Not all is lost though, there are still some very talented people working on tunneling and/or modding the DS. If you want to help out the rest of the DS mod community, donate some CPU cycles to DarkFader:
DS Crack

*UPDATE: The first phase of DarkFaders DS cracking has been completed. Ill let you know when he makes the call for more help and CPU cycles.

[Now Playing| Minish Cap - DS]

Found this great show of craftsmanship over at DS Livejournal:
NES Blanket

Nintendo opened a Wario Ware Mini Site:
Touch Me!

A strange new commercial:
StarFox Commercial

[Now Going| To Bed]

First, this video is Not Safe For Work. Also, dont complain to me about posting it, I warned ya! It doesnt really show anything, but just to be on the safe side, watch it at home.

I dont think they would ever get away with such a scandalous commercial over here. And its actually on the official Nintendo of Europe site. Craziness.

*Update: The link must have gone down right after I posted this. Not sure if it was because of traffic or something else. However, here is another link:
RE4 Commercial

You can also find it on Rapidshare here:
RE4 Commercial (5mbs)

[Now Playing| Minish Cap - DS]

A couple of days ago I reported that Nintendo had registered a ‘game’ by the name of Lineus. I thought it was a possible name change for Polarium. Well, Darkain had a different take.

Darkain pointed out that it may be something from the company Lineus. What could it be? Possibly a web broswer or something to enable online play. Very exciting if this speculation is true. Keep your fingers crossed.

Lineus Site