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Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
Super Mario in 14kB Javascript
This is pretty impressive work to have done it all in Javascript.
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White Dwarf game
White Dwarf is basically three games in one involving moving with your mouse a small white circle which exerts a gravitational like pull on other coloured circles which cross the gameboard.
I think the most fun play mode is Original in which you have to collect the green circles and then touch a blue circle to bank the points you’ve accumulated all whilst avoiding the red circles.
If that description makes little sense I urge you to go play it and you’ll soon pick up the knack of it.
My best score so far 15590
Best score on the Avoid mode is around 56 million!
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Game: Thin Ice
Cute little seasonal game from the folks at Nitrome. Thin Ice involves skating a loop around the monsters on the frozen pond to make the ice beneath them fall away.
So when I wrote cute I meant cute in the way that causing monsters to freeze and drown to death in a frozen pond is cute. 
A new enquiry into harmful content on the internet and in video games was launched by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 5 December 2007, Session 2007-08.
The Committee is announcing today a new inquiry into the potential risks from harmful material on the Internet and in video games, with the following terms of reference:
The benefits and opportunities offered to consumers, including children and young people, and the economy by technologies such as the Internet, video games and mobile phones.
The potential risks to consumers, including children and young people, from exposure to harmful content on the Internet or in video games. The Committee is particularly interested in the potential risks posed by:
– Cyber bullying;
– user generated content, including content that glorifies guns and gang violence;
– the availability of personal information on social networking sites;
– content that incites racial hatred, extremism or terrorism; and
– content that exhibits extreme pornography or violence.
Very similar remit to the Byron Review which is examining the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games. Though I think the Byron Review is more concerned with videogame violence than the DCMS Committee’s enquiry.
Talking of videogame violence a new bloody trailer for Ninja Gaiden II is out
It seems like there’s almost nothing you can do in this game that doesn’t result in an enemy losing an appendage and spewing forth a geyser of blood.
and Rubbish Pixels has listed The six biggest arseholes in games
The King of All Cosmos, Katamari Damacy
Nothing’s ever good enough for this bearded, carpet-headed bell-end. No matter how big your Katamari is he’ll complain about it being too small. Maybe you shouldn’t have accidentally destroyed the entire cosmos then, you giant regal fuck.
The last character on the list is a bit of a surprise. but on reflection I think I do agree with the assessment.
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Who you gonna call?
Gameplay footage from the new Ghostbusters game which features the voices of the original cast and has been scripted by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
Looks damn awesome! I had the original game for my Spectrum 48k back in the day so this makes me very nostalgic and happy.
Damnatus an ambitious fan-film produced by German fans of the Warhammer 40K game, made by the company Games Workshop, may never be seen by an audience according to BBC News due to copyright issues.
The German producers of Damnatus had tried to make the film as professional looking as possible and spent over 10 000 Euros and months of filming on the project. Unfortunately Games Workshop say that due to German copyright law there is a danger of them losing control over their Intellectual Property should they let the fan film be distributed.
Andy Jones, legal and licensing head for Games Workshop, said this law confers rights on the creators of works that cannot be given away.
This means that the creators of Damnatus cannot assign their rights to Games Workshop even if they wanted to.
But by sanctioning the release of the film without this “assignment” Games Workshop would essentially be giving up the title to the Warhammer 40,000 intellectual property.
In a lengthy response explaining the ban on Damnatus Mr Jones wrote: “To lose control of Warhammer or Warhammer 40,000 is simply unthinkable.
“So we must be vigilant, and perhaps sometimes seemingly heartless in our decisions to safeguard the IP for the future success of the business and the hobby.”
I have to say that I’m dubious about the truth of Games Workshop’s position here. I’m no expert on German copyright law but I can’t believe there is no possible work around to this obstacle if Games Workshop truly wished to help their German fans release the movie.
If German law is like any other countries’ copyright law then there must be provision within that law to licence the copyrighted works of others to create new works. How else could the movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer have been produced unless their licensed the right from the book’s author Patrick Süskind?
A contract could surely be drawn up to licence the copyright of Games Workshop on a limited basis for a nominal sum of 1 Euro to the German film producers that would allow the movie to be released on a non-commercial basis.
Mr Jones said despite Games Workshop’s “admiration” for Damnatus it could not change its policy and allow the film to be shown.
He said Games Workshop was not acting “malevolently” but that this was a case where an agreement has “failed to be reached”.
Said Mr Jones: “This is perhaps to be regretted, nonetheless in the final analysis we simply have no choice but to say ‘no’.”
I have a feeling that the BBC article does not tell the full story, either there is some genuine confusion here or Games Workshop is saying one thing in public and trying to muddy the waters with talk of copyright issues but is in reality opposed to the release of this movie.
Edit: A commenter at TechDirt with some familiarity of German law suggests that the company find a new copyright lawyer as like I wrote above it’s perfectly possible for them to grant a limited licence to use their copyrighted works without losing control over their Intellectual Property.
Also another commenter suggests that there might be some confusion and it is actually a Trademark issue instead, I could believe that this might be the case but surely there is a workable solution if this is the case too.
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Chat Noir – Addictive Flash game.
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free rice
How’s your vocabulary?
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Hitler Banned From iSketch!
I’ve not played iSketch in over a year but I still found this most hilarious.