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Month: August 2016

  • Image Hunter

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    Yet another weekend spent repopulating old posts with images, and the bad news is that it’s getting harder. I’m starting to have a hard time finding old posts as the site started moving towards pagination within monthly archives (which I think is when I moved from Movable Type to WordPress for my blog engine), and…

  • Koya Bound

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    The Japan Times has a great photo essay and interview up with Craig Mod and Dan Rubin, who earlier this year walked the Kumano Kodo route in Wakayama, and are about to launch a photo book based on the experience (Koya Bound, out in September). Update (16/09/06): A Kickstarter campaign for Koya Bound was launched…

  • Masakatsu Sashie

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    I’m really digging the paintings of Masakatsu Sashie (which I found via this post). I’m especially taken by his series of floating spheres (go in his “Works” gallery, and check out “2014-2015.”

  • Hyrule Tease

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    I’m loving the latest teeses — see what I did there — showing up in  Editmode‘s Instagram feed for new additions coming to its “The King of Games” collection of clothing.

  • Crystal

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    I quite like the music coming from Qrion — who hails from Hokkaido — and here she is with a new music video, for the track “Crystal.” Some of you may remember this Vine video that featured her playing a track with a Legend of Zelda sample.

  • Gawkerless

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    The news of the sale of Gawker Media and the closure of Gawker.com was a sad one for me. I consider myself very thankful and lucky that early in my writing career I had the opportunity to write for three Gawker sites (Kotaku, Gizmodo, and Gridskipper). These things happened after I had the chance to…

  • Legend of the Skyfish

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    The last of the iOS games currently seeing heavy play on my devices is the one that I really knew nothing before launch, but saw it mentioned in articles that were talking about Deus Ex GO and Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa, and my interest was piqued. I was first attracted when I saw it getting described as…

  • Deus Ex GO

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    The GO series of games from Square Enix Montreal has been fantastic so far, and I’ve been anxiously waiting for the release of this latest one, based on the Deus Ex franchise (another series I quite like). It’s pretty much what you’d expect it to be like, an extension/evolution of what we saw with Lara…

  • Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa

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    I wrote the other day how I was getting excited about playing a few iOS games, and this is another one of them. I really loved the first season of Mr. Robot – and am currently waiting for season 2 to finish before watching it – and when I saw that there was a new…

  • Only Yesterday

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    I don’t quite know why I’d never watched Only Yesterday – I’ve watched pretty much every Ghibli film, and I even thought I had seen it. I was reminded of it recently because they’re planning a new western release for it this year with new English voice acting (the film originally came out in 1991). I…