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Hello and welcome back to the Weekly 5. Here’s some more hot links fresh off our computer screens and on to yours. Tomb Raider Review – Todd Here’s a really nice review of the new Tomb Raider game written by Maddy Myers. As Todd …
With the recent reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise by Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at where the series began. We’ll play the original 1996 Tomb Raider from Eidos and Core Design …
This is the last in the series of blog posts by Richard Gould about the making of The Last Symphony. On Completion of “The Last Symphony”, several people enquired whether or not there was a soundtrack to accompany the game. …
Welcome all to another Weekly 5. We’re going to try something a little bit different this time. Every week I ask Game Lab staff members to send me links to interesting web content they would like to share. I aggregate those …
What has changed over 28 years? This Friday, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of Karateka, a game from Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, The Last Express). The original game (which we will play on an emulator) was developed for the …
This is part 2 of Richard Gould’s blog post about the summer project The Last Symphony. Another requirement of the audio was that each object should have a unique sound that would playback when the item was collected. For those …
Hey friends, welcome to Weekly 5 The Weekly Gear Rising: Weekengeance Edition! 1. Hacking A Bug Fix on Starcraft Here’s a great story from developer Patrick Wyatt about how the team hacked a solution together for a show-stopping path-finding bug during the …
It’s been more than a month since our last Friday Games! This will not stand. Actually, the lab has been going through a big renovation. Rik has been working tirelessly to get the TV and streaming computer mounted on the …
Hey friends, welcome to another Weekly 5! You know, just some links hand curated as a gift from us to you! IndieCade East The east coast version of IndieCade is this weekend in New York City. Rumor has it, it is not …