This weekend, the 5 minutes of personal, free time I managed to wangle away from family responsibility ended up being spent on what I thought was a fascinating read. As somebody who could only be considered a casual Pac-Man player, I had no idea that the enemy AI in the game was so complex, or at least, seemingly complex. …
The creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, was recently at the Festival of Games and he brought with him his original sketches of Pac-Man. It’s weird to see the origins of something so iconic and if you are wondering what that little red stamp in the middle of the page means… it means the documents are secret… but I guess that …
Oh Namco-Bandai, you big tease you! Namco have let the word know that they’ll be hosting Pac-Man 30th Anniversary event at E3 to celebrate the 30 year life of the pellet munching, ghost-chasing anthropomorphised 7/8ths of a lemon-yellow pizza. They’ve also said they’ll be revealing the future of the franchise. What the waka could they mean? Last Updated: May 6, …
David Jones, Head of Realtime Worlds and creator of Lemmings and GTA delivered a keynote at Brighton’s Develop conference, where he highlighted the inspiration classic games can have. One of the parallels he drew was between his own game, GTA and what may possibly be the most iconic game in videogame history : Pac-man. Before you start calling him – …
One of the hottest topics on the Internet at the moment is how violent video games have become and what sort of effect this is having on our young. Well to put it into perspective lets think back to the 8Bit days when we used to innocently smash mushroom men, devour ghosts and explode little innocent diggers. Just because our …
This video is brought to you by the same crazy gamer that brought us the real life Mario Kart video a while back, and now him and his buddies are up to no good but this time running around in Pac-Man suits causing all sorts of chaos. Needless to say, the public, as well as supermarket security found this a …
Namco have revealed plans to resurrect everyone’s favourite lemon-yellow pill-munching pie graph, just in time for it’s 30th year Anniversary next year. Leading the team will be Hirokazu Yasuhara, a former Naughty Dog employee who worked on Jak and Daxter and Uncharted. Yashuhara was also the director, and co-creator of the original Sonic the Hedgehog games along with Yuji Naka. …
Gamerlimit.com has put together their list of the top 5 gaming icons of our time, while we obviously won’t be complaining about how won I do think that they have missed some important ones out. Their list is as follows 5.  NES Controller 4.  Space Invader 3. T-Shaped Tetris piece 2.  Mario 1. Pac Man Pac-Man and Mario I have …
Every archive has that one photograph that stops you mid-scroll: a crowded market square …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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