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Castlevania, and longevity


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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (or SOTN to its dear friends) was released over 15 years ago, and spawned the gametype known as 'metroidvania' - the exploration, items and RPG-like elements of Metroid, fused with the gothic styling of Castlevania. It was, to understate it slightly, fairly well re...

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SF2Pal - Street Fighter 2 palette editor


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I've been working on a bunch of Street Fighter 2 stuff in relation to ROM hacking, and one of the tools I was after was an easier way of editing palettes. I know there's the PALMOD tool, but it doesn't output raw ROM data like I want it to - so I wrote one myself with HTML5 canvas.

If you've ever...

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David Sirlin's Yomi - online!


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While I may have poked some fun at noted fashion game designer David Sirlin in the last post, I actually have immense respect for the man. While I don’t think I can follow the “playing to win” attitude (I’ll write more about this in a later article), his book of that title is an extremely interestin...

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In The News - E3


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We sent our roving news reporter along to report from E3, but he was way too lazy and decided to wait until after the event and just report on the reports from OTHER news reporters instead. He saved us a lot of money. So here’s what he came up with.

E3 news from the field

E3 saw the announcement...

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