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eremit — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:43:39 +0000

Brütal Legend

eremit — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:45:28 +0000

Just saw an interview with Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle) of Double Fine Productions in the weekend about their upcoming action adventure Brütal Legend (or on wikipedia).

The game will feature the character of Eddie Riggs, voiced by Jack Black, a roadie who is accidentally transported to a fantasy world inspired by the artwork of heavy metal album covers. Eddie becomes the world’s savior, leading the down-trodden humans against a range of supernatural overlords using a battle axe, his Flying V guitar infused with magical powers, and a customizable hot rod. In addition to Black, the game will feature voices of both heavy metal musicians including Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and other celebrities such as Tim Curry, as well as several metal songs selected by Schafer for inclusion in the game.

Here’s the E3 trailer:

15th Anniversary and Daggerfall

eremit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:13:27 +0000

I’ve to confess that I’m a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series — I guess I spent 1,5 years on Morrowind and it’s expansion packs and currently I’m deeply into Oblivion and back in the old days, I also played Arena and Daggerfall.

As Elder Scrolls is now celebrating it’s 15th Anniversary, Bethesda decided to release Daggerfall as a FREE download (by the way, there you will also find The Elder Scrolls: Arena, which has been published as a FREE download five years ago).

Arena and Daggerfall can be run via DOSBox — a DOS emulator.

Many thanks to Bethesda for the free download and the great work/games over the years. You are just awesome — not to say: GODS!

Arkanoid ala Web 2.0

eremit — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:26:01 +0000

Today I ran across an interesting implementation of the classic Arkanoid game. The game is coded completely in object-oriented JavaScript / DHTML. It’s kinda impressive what the author was able to do. The game has all kinds of features: a level editor, power ups, decent sound effects, and more.

String Format

eremit — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:37:11 +0000

Well, recently we played a lot of Rockband in the office. This is the screen, that came up after one of the gigs of the world tour.

Classic Commodore 64 games

eremit — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:43:50 +0000

I guess, i’ve got the right link for you, if you are in a some nostalgic mood: c64s.com. Here you can play a lot of the old Commodore 64 games, like ‘Giana Sisters’, ‘Paperboy’, ‘Agent Orange’. All what you need is a browser with enabled Java Plugin.

Lemmings arrived Web2.0

eremit — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:44:40 +0000

The original Lemmings completely re-done in JavaScript.

Tetris-Pro

eremit — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:27:01 +0000

A bit older, but re-discovered recently:

Diablo 3

eremit — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:07:11 +0000

A legend is back — Blizzard officially announced Diablo 3 yesterday. Here’s the official Trailer:

Official Website can be found here.

There can be found several in-game Trailer/Videos on youtube

Monkey Island Speedrun

eremit — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:59:37 +0000

Monkey Island 40 minutes speedrun:

Found on: http://www.fixmbr.de