Tipoli Review: One Touch To Your Heart

One-touch love

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The iPhone/iPod touch is becoming the system for new and fresh ideas that utilize simple mechanics to create compelling games.  Games like Canabalt, Hi, How Are You and Mecho Wars are rising in popularity on this device for their deceptive complexity.  While most games go for a more tradition D-Pad and buttons layout for the touch screen, Tipoli (Divide by Zero) bucks that trend and impliments a one-touch control scheme.

Winter Housekeeping

Dear loyal listeners and first-time visitors,

Hi, welcome to what will become the new and improved blog for the Heads Up! Display Show podcast.  With the winter break upon us, we will be working on the site to improve navigation and content.  Returning visitors will notice a new look to the site, but know that this might change as time goes on.

Episode 37 – Heads Up! Huge, Quickly, Thanks (MP3 Only)

Tiger likes the podcast like he likes his ladies.

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The Heads Up! Display Show Podcast is the weekly source of gamer talk and discussion without the boring news. The hosts dive deep into the latest trends in video games from the importance of indie developers to the advancement of stories in video games. We guarantee that each episode is packed with witty dialogue, sophomoric humor and thought provoking topics from the best team in bush-league podcasting.

Enjoy!

Update: Again, this week’s episode will only be available for streaming and as an mp3 download. We’re working with our new distribution channel, and we’ll hopefully be back on iTunes within the next couple weeks.  Thanks for listening and being patient with this.

WHAT WE ARE PLAYING-

Daniel – Little Big Planet PSP Demo (PSP)

Darin – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (X360)

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (X360)

Jim – Bayonetta Demo

THE HYPE MACHINE –

Dan – Darksiders (X360 & PS3)

Jim – Holiday ’09 Season

Darin – Upcoming games in 2010

Mass Effect 2, Bayonetta, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Bioshock 2

THE ROUND TABLE –

What do you think of Microsoft banning cheaters and console modders?

Do exclusive “review events” create a bias in game reviews?

8-Bit Chic

I always get a little giddy when video games creep in to other art forms.  There’s something about seeing Sonic, Mario or Samus represented in a way that isn’t very typical.  Case in point, Metin “Sevensheaven” Seven is a Dutch designer and illustrator who has created a new collection known as “Inside Video Games.”

Seven’s voxel work was highlighted today in GameSetWatch, and the rest of his art can be found on his personal flickr page.  He also sells prints of his art in case you have a spot open between your Halo and Pokemon posters

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