Author Archive for Tyler Miller

14
Jul
09

Threecast Episode 34!

By Tyler Miller 8 Comments
Categories: Threecasts

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We’re back after a two week hiatus, we hope you’re ready to sit down for our show of small talk. I honestly want to write more but I can hear the “DUN DUN DU-DUNDUN” of the Battlefield 1943 menu screen calling to me from the other room. So here it is — Your moment of Zen (that’s not a copyrighted phrase is it?).

PS – Did you know that the 43 Million kills needed to unlock Coral Sea have already been racked up? (I provided 20 Mill, give or take)

Musical guest: Russ Crandall
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10
Jul
09

Demotopia!: Ghostbusters

By Tyler Miller 6 Comments
Categories: Demotopia! and Games

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The demo for Ghostbusters is available on the Xbox 360 and I have to say that I could not download it fast enough. I love the original film and I really couldn’t wait to see a high fidelity translation to the games platform. If you yourself are a fan of the classic 1984 flick, are you going to like this playable version? After all the swirling controversy, does the game live up to the lukewarm anticipation? Have you seen Moon yet? That Twitter trend #1stdraftmovielines was pretty cool, right? Where did I leave my keys? Am I going to keep asking rhetorical questions?

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27
Jun
09

Polynomial Demo Is Free (Psst… You Need To Play It)

By Tyler Miller 2 Comments
Categories: Demotopia!, Games and Internet

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Odds are that if you are reading his post right now you have a few spare minutes to head on over HERE and download the free demo for Polynomial, the incredible spaceflight shooter by Dmytry Lavrov.

From his site:

This is the game I’m currently working on. It is a 3D space shooter with mathematically generated fractal scenery and models. It is easy to get started – you fly around, shoot some stuff, collect some other stuff, and dodge enemy bullets, all while admiring the trippy scenery and self-repairing by flying close to stars. When you’re comfortable, you can set difficulty to “Insane” (press esc) for a very fast paced gameplay.

Ugh… So gorgeous.  As everyone knows I’m a sucker for mathematically generated fractal scenery (I love the video for Radiohead’s House of Cards). Hey, let’s make a deal, m’kay? I won’t write a whole bunch of jibberjabber about the simple poetry of the aesthetics of this game if you just go download the demo. How’s that sound? Deal?

Oh, you have to watch this video too:

26
Jun
09

Hobnox’s Awesome In-Browser Audio Suite

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Games, Internet and Music

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I paused a second before posting this thinking that maybe it wouldn’t pass mustard being put up next to my usual Game-specific writeups. Then I thought, nay, the world needs to know about this.

Look, Daft Punk I ain’t. I fiddle around with stuff like this without ever saving my progress. I’m not a musician like Russ. Still, I play with things like Ron Winter’s Drum Set. The Audiotool by Hobnox blows the doors off of anything I’ve messed with prior.

All of the instruments, pedals, drum machines and synths are faithfully reproduces in flash for your late 80s desires. The amount of play you have with this toolkit is overwhelming. Add to this the fact that you can record whatever music you make and the helpful online tutorial given by Hobnox and there’s really nothing stopping you from kicking out some insane jams.

Don’t forget the magic word either — Free.

25
Jun
09

Threecast Episode 33!

By Tyler Miller 6 Comments
Categories: Threecasts

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I wish I could’ve stuck around for the whole podcast this week, but as it was I had to bail on the tail-end of the show. I know that disappoints my hardcore fanbase, but try and keep listening to Mark and Russ as they struggle to make a complete show without me. Even though the thought of a Threecast without Tyler is like a June bug caught in a sweet tea jar on a hot Mississippi mornin’… AGH, I don’t get southern colloquialisms!

This week is all about games, I think? With some movies and/or TV shows?

Musical guest – Sunny Day Real Estate

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18
Jun
09

Threecast Episode 32!

By Tyler Miller 3 Comments
Categories: Threecasts

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With E3 behind us and the promise of great games coming down the pipe still fresh in our minds, we recorded a great show this week. Blacktail gets a tweet of the week honor and we reveal out plans to start doing giveaways. Huzzah!

This week is all about Six Days in Fallujah, Crackdown, Mirror’s Edge, Mass Effect, Blacksite: Area 51, Party Down, Red Faction Guerrilla, Gran Torino and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.

Musical guest – Vampire Weekend

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11
Jun
09

Threecast Episode 31!

By Tyler Miller 3 Comments
Categories: Games and Threecasts

31*sniff* I was going to write something very funny and witty right here, you know, to endear you to the site and all. But as I sat down to write this post Point Break came on and I just watched the final scene between Keanu and Pat. Needless to say I’m a little choked up at the moment. I’m sure you understand.

Vaya con Dios.

This week’s show is all about iPhones, Travel, The Golden Compass, Crackdown, Peggle, Bionic Commando, Gran Torrino, Cave Story, No More Heroes, The Hangover and Kanye West.

Musical guest – Spoon

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09
Jun
09

Video Review: Cave Story

By Tyler Miller 3 Comments
Categories: Gadgetronic, Games, Movies, Retrograde and Reviews

08
Jun
09

What an Amazing Day

By Tyler Miller 7 Comments
Categories: Games

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Observe the following three incredibly cool things that I found out today:

  1. There are going to be 13 new episodes of Futurama coming to television (and by television I mean my iTunes library. Commercials are sooo 1993.)
  2. My hero and yours, Stephen Colbert, is in Iraq doing a show for the troops and he is so rad that he had his head shaved boot camp-style. I wish he and Tina Fey had a baby and I could be their live-in butler (I smell a sitcom!).
  3. I found this SITE.

Just remember that I share this with you all because we’re such great pals. Right?

05
Jun
09

Blueberry Muffin Tops are not what you think they are…

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Editorials, Games and News
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…or maybe they are. I thought they would be actual tops of mini muffins that were baked in an oven. In reality they’re just Cinnamon Toast Crunch with blueberry flavoring. Still good, just not what I expected.

The last minute Joystiq meet up was last night at…. I don’t know where it was held actually…  some bar in Hollywood. Swag, booze and video games was the order of the day. Raul got a beta code for Uncharted 2 before we even got in the door! I was third in line and I was only able to pilfer a copy of Lost Odyssey, a fist-sized diamond (Chris Grant told me it was authentic) from Pop-Cap Games and a SFIV art/story booklet. The big secret showing of the night turned out to be a demo of Beatles Rock Band (as overheard from Ben Gilbert) but we couldn’t stick around to check it out. E3 is just so tiring!

And check out all the awesome guest tweets by Joystiq staffers in Threevue’s twitter feed.

04
Jun
09

Threecast Episode 30!

By Tyler Miller 2 Comments
Categories: Threecasts

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Massive show today because of, what else, E3. We go over the bright spots as well as the lowlights in a round table discussion of the megatons that came out this week (MGS on the 360? Lovely.) Enjoy… if you have two hours to spare.

This week is all about everything E3: Lost, Far Cry 2, Bionic Commando, Cave Story, Metal Gear Rising, Left 4 Dead 2, Castlevania, The Last Guardian, the PSP Go!, Tony Hawk Ride, Dantes Inferno, etc, etc …

Musical Guest: Elliott

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03
Jun
09

YUSS! Joystiq reader meet up is go!

By Tyler Miller 1 Comment
Categories: Games

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That was a close one. Apparently Joystiq likes to keep their closest friends (me) in the dark about their upcoming Meet Ups.  They just put up the official “It’s happening” on the site now. Go to Facepage so you can Répondez, S‘il Vous Plaît for the festivities taking place tomorrow in Hollywood!

Looks like Video Games Live tomorrow is a no-go, I invited and got called a nerd by all of my “friends” for nothing!

03
Jun
09

Not to be outdone by Russ

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Categories: Games

Just wanted to see if my video capture application was up to snuff compared to certain other members of the site. Seems like everything is go for launch, video reviews of Cave Story and Audiosurf on the way!

PS – It’s funny because his name is Dick Lemon.

01
Jun
09

Bloggers and Bars: Kotaku Reader Meet Up

By Tyler Miller 6 Comments
Categories: Editorials and Games

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First off let me say this; if you’re going to advertise an open bar then at least keep it open for more than an hour. Cliff Blezninski, Leigh Alexander, Samit Sarkar, Raul, Kim and I were just hanging out at the Gopher last night, you know, knocking back a few, and we had to PAY FOR OUR OWN DRINKS! What am I, chopped liver?

Raul lost his shit when he got to meet and get pictures with all of the Giant Bomb guys, he was in heaven. We talked at length about the upcoming remake of  A Boy and His Blob for the Wii, fawned over Meat Bun and King of Games clothing and shared tattoos with Collete Bennett, Samit Sarkar and Chad Concelmo of Retroforce/Destructoid fame. I bought a drink for Chris Kholer of Wired and we chatted about the size of the industry nowadays (I was in way over my head at that point).

Awesome night, very, very cool people (my entourage especially), and not as many homeless, performing keyboardists accosting the line to get in as I thought there was going to be. I gotta say that it was even better than last year.

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28
May
09

These Team Fortress and L4D mobiles are revolutionary*

By Tyler Miller Leave a Comment
Categories: Games, Internet and News
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Etsy designer SaltyandSweet makes awesome mobiles.  She’s got Ninjas vs Pirates, Zombie Attack, Cowboys and Indians and Street Riot. Very cool and affordable (just $30!)

Just today she put these two masterpieces up for on her page: mobiles for the Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. And these aren’t some rinky dink, cut with child safety scissors and slapped together with bubblegum mobiles… these are professional.

Figures are laser cut from 1/16″ solid black mat board and joined with black wire. Photographed with a quarter for scale (most mobiles take up approximately the same space as a basketball when in motion). The Left 4 Dead Mobile is extremely lightweight and stays in motion with even the slightest breeze.

Excellent stuff. I bought six of the L4D mobile so I could have one of all Louises.

Check out her Etsy page HERE.

*Because they revolve, get it?

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