Author Archives: TheUser

Game Mods

William pointed me to an article at The Hottest Gadgets that shows 25 really awesome video game related mods. My favorites are the SNES in a Wii case and the Rainbow Six Vegas cityscape with a PS3 as one of the buildings. It’s gorgeous!

Ubiquity

WebMonkey reports on an excellent sounding plugin for Firefox called Ubiquity. Using everyday English input, users can perform specific tasks on the web. For example, typing the word “twitter” followed by any other text will post that text on your twitter. This should eventually allow everyday users do complex things on the web, even mashing together multiple web applications.

Samba de Amigo

It’s no secret that I’m totally looking forward to Samba de Amigo. I really enjoy rhythm games, this has a bunch of cool songs I haven’t seen in other games, and I also really like Sega mascot characters. It’s nice to see this game coming out! Joystiq has some information about the maracas, which are gorgeous, and a full song list. Looks good!

Blow Still Hasn’t Made Enough

In an article titled Counting Rupees: Sustainable Indies, Joystiq examines the cost of Braid to Blow, how much he made, and how much he needs to make. He has sold 55K copies of the game, yielding $825K. After Microsoft’s cut, that’s $578K. The article suggests that he invested $180K of his own money and that the cost of the game was probably near $400K. That means he’s just breaking even now. For Blow to have enough money to make another game without having to take out loans, Braid would need to sell one million copies.