Amazing PS3 bundle offer [amazon]

Buy a Playstation 3 Slim 250GB, Get an HDMI Cable and One Selected Game Free and an Additional Game for Just £15

offer to UK Residents only

Offer [Link]

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No need for New xbox ! [project natal]

We all know that the games business goes in cycles and that a new generation of consoles always comes along to replace whatever is popular today. In fact, we should now be talking about the Xbox 720, Sony PlayStation 4 and Wii II, or whatever they might be called, because game developers need a couple of years to create new games to exploit the new hardware capabilities that justify the launch of a new generation. But we aren’t, and Microsoft doesn’t want us to.

via Guardian [link]

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Security Locker for Xbox 360

Keep your Xbox games and controllers locked up to prevent unauthorized use with the new Xbox 360 Security Locker. Stop your friends and family members from borrowing your games or using your Xbox without permission.

See Full article via Newpcgadgets [link]

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Naughty Bear Doesn’t Play Well With Others

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via Naughty Bear Doesn’t Play Well With Others.

The goal in Naughty Bear is to scare, irritate, and, of course, hurt the other bears, racking up “Naughty Points” as you do and using weapons strewn about the game’s 30 stages. The game will dole out more Naughty Points in response to more “deviant and maniacal” tactics. From the description, it sounds like Manhunt with teddy bears. It’s going to be a polyester stuffing-bath.

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Graphical Art through gaming history [pac-man]

Came across this article by Stephen Totilo who recently took a trip to see the work of early 20th century painter Vasily Kandinsky. He descibed ” There are plenty of painters who developed their style differently. Not all veered toward abstraction. But walking past Kandinsky’s life’s work, walking through it chronologically, watching the development of his style and interests, I couldn’t help but think I was seeing the “progress” of video game graphics in reverse.
On the lowest level, at Kandinsky’s earliest work, I saw the closest things in the exhibition to a Gears of War or God of War.
At the top of my spiral journey, I saw Pac-Mans and Centipedes”. Article

I most certainly remember the early years of electronic gaming especially Pak-man, i suppose you could even go back to some of the original black and white games ‘ Pong ‘ strange to think that these images were classified as art but looking back some of the game footage was creative considering the technology.

Atari 2600 Junior Released in 1986

Kandinsky

ioneer of abstract art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) broke new ground in painting in the first decades of the twentieth century. His seminal pre–World War I treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art), published in Munich in December 1911, lays out his program for developing an art independent of one’s observations of the external world. In this and other texts, as well as his art, Kandinsky strove to use abstraction to give painting the freedom from nature that he admired in music. His discovery of a new subject matter based solely on the artist’s “inner necessity” occupied him throughout his life. via http://www.guggenheim.org

Transverse Line, 1923

Black and Violet, 1924

via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

Pac-man may also have had an influence on an Italian furniture designer who’s work of Quaot came up with some intresting furniture. |link|

The ‘Poufman Range’

Some other intresting Pac-man art

Sweets

Lights

Now i'm feeling old!

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