Dancing is a series of videos on wherethehellismatt.com. I found out about this on my friend Dan’s blog. These videos, which have gotten progressively better, are really amazing. If you have time I suggest watching them in this order: Dancing 2005, Dancing 2006, Dancing 2008; if you’re short on time then you can just watch [...]

I just finished playing Lost Winds, one of the first titles available on WiiWare, and I dare say maybe the best exclusive Wii title to date. This is the first game that has compelled me to write a review since Okami, which is interesting because there are actually a lot of parallels between these two [...]

I’m leaving for Tokyo in eight hours, still have a bunch of packing to do. This will be my first time attending TGS, pretty exciting. I’m also planning on going to the Ghibli Museum, CoFesta; a contents festival, and Cedec; a Japanese developer conference. I’m also hoping to meet with some friends and fellow developers, [...]

I finally got a chance to play Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix on Partner Net yesterday. Partner Net is where X Arcade Games are put to test before releasing them for real. I have to say that the visual quality blew me away. This is surprising because I had actually done a lot of the art management and art prototyping… …this is clearly a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

My friend David Sirlin has released a free web version of his popular book. In it he discusses the virtues of “Playing to Win” in competitive games and the path of continual self improvement. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in competitive gaming or self improvement.
http://www.sirlin.net/ptw

I have been eagerly awaiting Okami, Clover’s new game that got a near perfect score from Famitsu, and was finally able to pick up a copy on the US release date earlier this week!

I had a few impressions that I wanted to share with my apparently non-existent readership:

The Good

The first thing that anyone mentions about [...]

This guy really seems to like the idea of Capcom Classics Collection which was produced by my team.

The collection was reviewed fairly well and even touted as “the collection to beat.”
I think that we beat it with the follow up Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PSP which trumped the first collection’s arcade perfect emulation, [...]