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Creating the perfect soundtrack

The compliment to a perfect visceral and visual experience - like Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption - is often times the perfect score. This clip gives us an inside view to what it's like building a dynamic and meaningful score into a video game.

 
 

8-bit Nintendo Graphics + Extreme Sports = Viral Video Win.


Here's a great mashup of all your favorite 8-bit video game baddies (plus a little bonus Portal thrown in for good measure) and some extreme sports.

 
 

Monkey Island 2 Lands on the iPad and iPhone

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Nothing exploits the multi-touch interface better than a great point and click adventure. Thankfully LucasArts has taken it upon themselves to regard Apple's iDevices as a tier 1 platform, launching the re-worked Monkey Island classic alongside Xbox and Playstation offerings.

Here's all you need to click on in order to experience the best in adventure gaming;

The Monkey Island 2 review over at Touch Arcade

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Download Monkey Island for iPhone

 
 

The BP Oil Spill As Visualized With Unreal Engine Physics

If you're wondering what 25,000 Barrels looks like, you're in luck. Prepare to be in a Physics (or PhysX as the case may be) - induced trance as the barrels come crashing down. neat.

 
 

Gran Turismo 5 Looks Amazing.

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If you're a car fan and have a Playstation, you're likely intimately familiar with the Gran Turismo series. You're also likely growing impatient waiting for the next full installment - Gran Turismo 5, a title which has been in the works for years, and has thus far produced nothing but a few isolated tech demos and screenshots.

E3 2010 brings some hope, however, in the form of a release date (November 2010) and a handful of gorgeous screenshots. There's also some amazing shots of the Top Gear test track - which will be fully simulated in the upcoming title.

 
 

OnLive on iPad Demo At E3 2010

OnLive - the virtual gaming platform which allows users to play games that are hosted on remote servers, gave a demo to TouchArcade at E3 2010. The controls looks a bit awkward, but the tech appears pretty solid. My guess is that this is better suited for RTS games and the like and not for FPS titles which require super fast reactions.

 
 

Microsoft's E3 2010 Leak; Slim Xbox Revealed?

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Over at NeoGAF they've found an overseas ad for a new slim version of the Xbox 360.. Just ahead of E3 2010. In addition to the aggressive (tacky?) styling, this new Xbox 360 will supposedly sport integrated WiFi, a 250 GB HDD and support for 'Kinect' (i.e. Project Natal)

Found over at GiantBomb

 
 

Play SNES Games On Your iDevices!


If you've got an iPad an iPhone and a willingness to jailbreak them (which actually isn't that hard) then you've got a fully functional SNES console via emulator that looks amazing. It's coming to the Cydia store soon so jailbreak away!

 
 

Upcoming Horror Game Uses the Wii Remote as it Should be Used.

Here's a sneak peek at a new Wii title known as "Feel". It's being overseen by Takahashi Shimizu, the director who helped to popularized J-horror with his work on "The Grudge". As Kotaku points out - the control scheme is what makes this so potentially appealing - namely using the Wii remote as a flashlight.

 
 

Waste Time 1980's Style!


For those of you who are craving a bit of retro gaming, be sure to stop by sarien.net for full (and online) versions of your favorite old-school Sierra adventure games. Thus far they've got the first two Space Quest games, Lesiure Suit Larry, Police Quest and The Black Cauldron. Neat.