Inaue Daikuroo Masatada

Kuniyoshi was a Japanese ukyio-e (woodblock print) artist who worked in Edo (now Tokyo) during the first half of the 19th century. Unlike many of his contemporaries who liked to depict peaceful country scenes (like Hokusai) or famous contemporary stage performers (like Sharaku), Kuniyoshi’s preferred subject was martial heroes from legend. In this work he [...]

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We’re ready to inspire you

I’ve been getting the odd view via the Brazilian gaming site Pensotopia on Flikr, so I decided to see where they are coming from. Turns out my old RPG group headlines the “Imagens Inspiradoras” goodie on their page (the ones marked in red):

Wierd thing is the pics seem to be hand picked. We’re here to [...]

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Some fun on the InterTubes(TM)

Here is a couple of Natalie Dee bits for you:

This next one makes me think of Koko:

Still here? Go and listen to some Owl City instead.
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Running FSX under Windows 7

Lately there has been a lot of talk about how Windows 7 will run faster than Vista, and how this should be great for gamers (apparently it runs a little faster than XP did). With FSX however, often the standard ‘gamer tweaks’ do not actually affect performance, because it has a fairly odd architecture compared [...]

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Good podcasts for the weekend

Lately I have hit a very regular weekend rhythm – Saturday go and look at some neighborhoods where we might buy a house, Sundays go to Chinatown and Pioneer Square for a two hour walk (and pick up some Asian groceries from Uwajimaya, which gives me 2 hours of free parking).

For that Sunday walk, I [...]

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Google competition Fail

So Microsoft has rolled out its new search engine, Bing.com, to compete with Google. How does Google respond? By very helpfully pointing you to its competitor:

There is a lot of smoke about how Bing fares compared to Google, so one helpful person has set up an experiment – the Blind Search Taste Test. You enter [...]

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Way ahead of its time: SEAL Team

Another great oldie I picked up over Christmas this year was SEAL Team.It was not too hard to find on eBay, but it was a little expensive (around $20). It comes in a great big box with a packed manual. Previously I only had the budget, all-on-one CD version, which was simply not cutting the [...]

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20 years of Sword of the Samurai

I discovered this game about 10 years ago during one of my abandonware trawling trips on the then 56k enabled interwebs. It was originally released by awesome hit machine Microprose (Sid Meier’s original company), written by a team led by Lawrance Schick. Late last year I finally found a copy on Amazon.
In many ways it [...]

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We are safe from a robot revolution

This comic from Luke Surl (I love the brutal honesty about each OS):

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Adult Swim games reinvents Cannon Fodder

Adult Swim games has some interesting free flash games available. The one where play a guy trying to whack chips out of a vending machine, the one where you play a hooker killing zombies. For their latest offering they have decided to pay homage to one of the great games of the 16 bit era: [...]

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