January 2006 Archive

A look to the gaming horizon. I think its a truism that multi-platform games tend to be generic teen-fodder, these are all Ps2-only games… …and I just noticed that they are all from Japanese designers. Hmm.

We love Katamari Damarcy (Namco)

If Bod had been a kleptomaniac and had been directed by George Dunning (of Yellow Submarine fame) then this might have been the game of the movie. The Katamari Damarcy experience finally gets unleashed in europe in the next few weeks.

Short BBC interview with the games designer Keita Takahashi

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Lynx is a text only web-browser, it’s good for testing your web site works properly sans-javascript and sans-visual rendering, and so is a great help in accessibility testing.

Lynx is obviously intended for people who are used to CLI’s and Unix, but it’s usefulness is greater than that narrow audience - hence these notes on how to get it working without too much trouble.

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