Games Video 4

More Live Arcade

There are so many Xbox Live Arcade games coming out that I want to get. But instead talking about them, how about I just show you:

Small Arms
Jump around on platforms and fight off furry creatures in this four-player fighting game for Xbox Live Arcade.

RoboBlitz
RoboBlitz is a robot combat game that mimics robotic movements and design.

Heavy Weapon
Popcap’s Heavy Weapon action shooter, previously available as a web-based game, now comes to Xbox Live Arcade.

Lumines Live
Lumines makes its way onto the Xbox Live Arcade, complete with full multiplayer play over Xbox Live, an exclusive Duel mode and an all-new Puzzle mode, downloadable puzzles, and music and skins from Xbox Live Marketplace.

HoopWorld
HoopWorld is a 3-on-3 basketballesque game featuring a variety of cast members and unique environments.

Mutant Storm Empire
Mutant Storm Empire follows up on Mutant Storm Reloaded, an 80’s style arcade shooter for the Xbox Live Arcade.

Novadrome
Stainless Games is bringing Novadrome to the Xbox Live Arcade.

And thats not including some of the classics like Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Sonic, ect.

Music Video 1

This Binary Universe

Its almost here…

binaryuniverse.jpg

What is it going to be like? No one knows actually. But expect something different. For example, the track “everything that makes us human, continues” is written completely in csound. Here is a piece of the code:

amod2 = ahilR * asin
aupshift = (amod1 + amod2) * 0.71
adownshift = (amod1 – amod2) * 0.7
aoutL = aupshift +ar*.1
aoutR = adownshift +acomb*.3
khpline line 440, p3, 180
kpanL line 1, p3, 0
kpanR line 0, p3, 1
aoutLhp butterhp aoutL* ileveloscs, khpline
aoutRhp butterhp aoutR* ileveloscs, khpline

The entire song was written like that. You can see more of it here. But yeah, this album is going to be pretty cool. A few have already heard some and have great things to say:

It’s hard to think of anything more fitting than one innovator creating art from inside the artwork of another — though “innovator” only begins to describe BT. From his work with Tori Amos almost ten years ago on “Blue Skies” and producing *NSync’s “Pop,” to Emotional Technology’s juxtaposition of trancefloor soundscapes and pop songcraft and his acclaimed score for the Oscar-winning film Monster, BT has become the face of electronic music virtuosity, a techno-mage with formal training to match his DJ and synthesis chops, a massively overclocked brain, and the childlike enthusiasm of Shaggy from Scooby Doo. “Like, wow, man, you gotta hear this,” he’ll say. “You’ll totally freak out!”

Listen we did, thanks to the opportunity to be first to hear tracks from his fifth studio project.

Labels such as “ambient” or “modern classical” fit for a few seconds, then the next passage in the song blows away the last, taking any attempt to classify along with it. We can’t restrain our editorial opinion: This as-yet-untitled magnum opus is fine art that works on many levels, mind-bendingly deep but a pleasure to kick back and just listen to. In a hundred years, it could well be studied as the first major electronic work of the new millennium. It’s that good. – Stephen Fortner in Keyboard Magazine

And he’s also been working on a dance-oriented album. So if it turns out that this isn’t as cool as people are expecting, at least we know he will deliver a solid dance album.

http://www.thisbinaryuniverse.com/
http://btmusic.com/

Update: They have relased a trailer. The CD is packaged with a DVD featuring all the compositions of the new release in DTS 5.1 Surround and illustrated by a distinguished collection of the finest computer artists and animators in the world today. I assume that the visuals in the trailer are from that DVD.

Music, Movies & Books

Music

I just added a small flash music player to the site. I am not sure what I am going to use it for. Maybe I will keep it updated with the music I am currently addicted to or something like that. Anyway, for now enjoy the four random songs I stuck on it. I currently have it on the left side of the page but that might change.

Games Video 1

There is hope

It looks like the Legions website was updated with some new graphics and music. It’s not much at all but still pretty exciting. Could this be a hint that they are still working on it? Hopefully they will show us something else soon. The last we have seen of the game was in the form of a Torque Shader Engine technology demo at GDC.

http://legionsgame.com/