[the Verge]
The web aficionados among you may know Shaun Inman from his web design site experiments, the Mint analytics package, Fever feed reading app, or more recently, iOS games like The Last Rocket. He took some time to talk to The Verge about the difficulty of implementing touch-based controls, why Super Mario Bros. still works so well, and his favorite pixel art designers. You can find him online at shauninman.com and on Twitter at @shauninman. …
What was the last time you were really stunned by a development in technology (e.g. launching Spotify for the first time, using the original iPhone, seeing sports in HD)?
AR Games and Face Raiders (both included with the Nintendo 3DS) were surprising. Their gameplay is rather shallow but the combination of the 3DS’s autostereoscopic 3D screen, 3D camera, and accelerometer/gyroscope is still pretty impressive. …
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