It's deep into the middle of winter in The City. As I navigate Bartleby through the cold empty forests at 1:30am in an attempt to shake furniture out of some fir trees (don't question it... ) I decide that I...

Some long time ago I made a promise to one G. Turner, and the population of The New Gamer as a whole. I would never use this function while I was not under the influence of the sweet alcohol that...

So I get word that Rockstar is porting GTA:LCS to the PS2. Well damn, there goes argument #1 for having a PSP....

I'll give you a hint: it has to do with games and this site!

A little over a week ago I posted about an idea I had to showcase how people play Gradius. The "demo" video was basically me playing Gradius a bunch of times and layering those runs on top of each other.

Well... that's not nearly the true goal of the video.

So there was this idea posted over here about averaging gameplay. The basic idea is too take a variety of runs of a video game, like completing World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros, played by a bunch of people, and merging the results to get some sort of median gameplay. To see "how people, on average, react to that first goomba" as the author puts it.

It struck me as an interesting concept... but complicated and with many pitfalls.

But after some thought I considered a simple solution...

So some months ago, as part of finishing college, I was part of a Portfolio Show. Basically each graduating student gets a booth where they set up a table to feature their best work. Fashion students show off their clothes, design students show off logos and print, animations students show off 3D models and, well, animations, game art students show off a mod project...

Enter any forum thread 'discussing' and 'speculating' the merits of next-generation consoles and you inevitably will hear someone state that Sony said the PS2 would be pumping out visuals on par with Toy Story. This, of course, is meant to...

Dude, if I boot up my Dreamcast (which is impossible since my friend hasn't given me the cables for it yet!!) will my neglected Seaman look like this...

My pinky finger is killing me. I don't even use my pinky for Gitaroo-Man. I think it's just freaked out. It sees the brutality that I put my thumb through mashing on buttons and zipping from Circle to X to...

Do you realize that years ago, people were able to send in game ideas to companies and they would actually look at it. It doesn't end there.

Due to personal reasons, there will be no TNG update for this week. Unedited articles are starting to pile up though, so hopefully next week there'll be an abundance of updates....

Mr Riley will be a fan of this...

I cannot tell you how long I've waited to actually start up this feature. Unitdaisy and myself actually brainstormed it back when we conceptualized The New Gamer and every few months I'd ponder actually starting it up before moving along...

First and foremost: NaViGaWriMo is delayed until January, which is a less-holiday ridden month. I will be spending December working on other misc. projects so perhaps I will post about them during the month instead. Come January, though, Genki Genki...