“The editors of Think Services’ Game Developer magazine, a sister publication to Gamasutra, have named the winners for the 2008 Front Line Awards, honoring the best tools used to make video games.
This is the magazine’s much-revered eleventh annual evaluation of the year’s best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engine, middleware, and books.”
To see the full list of awards and see the full post, check the source.
From the LiaG website:
“The stunning conclusion to Episode 6 has been posted at Screwattack!
This chapter, “The Fourth Wall”, brings some love (and hate) to point-and-click adventure games, as well as brings the story of Subplott and The Master Chief full circle. Will Lollerskates receive his just desserts? Find out NOW!“
I happy to see this web show getting better. The first few did an ok job of covering indie games but the host “Anthony Carboni” was trying to hard but now it’s not that bad.
“‘Mega Defender’ is a new twist on an old classic – Tower Defence. Sporting a swathe of creep and gun types, this all new game will keep you busy for hours. It started out partly as Paul Johnson’s hobby project and partly as a demo for our cross platform Raz0r engine, but we decided to finish it off properly and offer the game as a free download as a reward for coming to our site.
It requires a beefy PC with ideally a shader model 3 video card (SM2 is min spec). The game has been tested on XP and Vista. Unfortunately because it’s a free game we can’t offer tech support, but thus far we’ve not heard of any problems with it. Download size is a tad over 30 Meg. Enjoy!”
“I made this one-level arcade interpretation of Zelda for no reason but being a big damn nerd and just needing to take a break from having little motivation with Solar Plexus. Also, I wanted to try out the item-system changing parts of the level slightly.
It’s pretty challenging, not tested a whole lot and the gamepad support might be strange on some joypads, I haven’t tried it on any but mine.
At least now I’m burnt-out on making arcadey action games for a while.
It is a kind of love letter to Zelda, my personal favorite game series, both from nostalgia and its often great design. The Legend of Zelda-franchise is obviously a NINTENDO-copyrighted franchise, and this game, while admittedly trying to be like a bootleg Zelda, should not be sold etc., but that goes without saying.”
Source: konjak.org
Yes it’s true Ted Logan will be Spike Spiegel. The live-action Cowboy Bebop movie has been confirmed. Keanu Reeves has signed on to star as Spike Spiegel.
Jonathan "ThaDellaFunk" Sharp Posted in Japaneazee
