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Game Music: Gunbird (ガンバード) 15 Apr 2011 | 04:06 pm
Everybody who knows Shoot’em’ups probably knows Gunbird! This is a classic that doesn’t need much explanation and as so often with this game genre it’s soundtrack is outstanding and Gunbird’s music i...
Game Music: RayForce (1994) 6 Apr 2011 | 03:55 pm
Another tidbit of smup style music worth to be mentioned … Rayforce (aka Layer Section, aka Galactic Attack, aka …) from 1994. The Sega Saturn version followed the Arcade version in 1995 and the outst...
Game Music: Thunder Force IV 4 Apr 2011 | 07:22 pm
The Mega Drive once again proves to be among the finest game consoles when taking it’s sound capabilities into account. Here’s one of countless tunes that gives you the full spectrum of beauty of Yama...
Game Music: Einhänder (1997) 3 Apr 2011 | 07:51 pm
Back in the 90s during the heights of the PSX (or Playstation 1) we find Einhänder (アインハンダー), a horizontal shoot’Em’Up with an excellent Techno soundtrack by Kenichiro Fukui. The only downside to this...
hexagonstar.com Launched! 2 Mar 2011 | 03:37 am
I’m proud for today being able to finally announce the official launch of hexagonstar.com! Wait, what?? That site has been up like, for years! That’s true but so far it was pretty much permanently un...
PC Repair vs. Mac Repair 14 Feb 2011 | 05:12 pm
Here’s how PC repair works: You build your PC by yourself after checking on the web what components are of good quality and work well together. So after picking the motherboard, RAM, harddrive, PSU e...
Spiral Galaxy Generator for Filter Forge 28 Dec 2010 | 02:04 am
… While we’re at it … here’s another filter for Filterforge I’ve created recently, a generator for rendering galactic disc images … Actually this filter has been “on hold” for a while because it was ...
Terrestrial Planet Generator for Filter Forge 18 Dec 2010 | 03:06 am
Every once in a while the Filter Forge fever grabs me and then I start creating filters for it that turn out to be actually useful. So I’ve made a couple of toy camera style photo filters recently but...
Flash gets Low-Level 3D API, golden Times for Game Devs ahead 26 Oct 2010 | 04:50 pm
I’ve heard plans and rumors about this before but it seems now it’s official: The next versions of the Flash and AIR runtimes will have a low-level 3D API on board that utilizes DirectX, OpenGL and Op...
Good Old Games gives Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games Freebie for Beta Users 21 Oct 2010 | 07:18 pm
This is a great gift from GOG.com! For anyone who has registered an account during their beta period (which lasted at least over a year, I think) they are giving away a copy of Jagged Alliance: Deadly...
