Ollie Barder

21 hours ago | timeextension.com | Ollie Barder |Anthony Dickens

One of the formative figures of video games is Tomohiro Nishikado. Known for creating the arcade game smash hit Space Invaders, I caught up with him about his long and storied career. “I was born in Osaka, in a place called Kishiwada, and I spent most of my young life there until I moved to Tokyo when I was 18, when I went to university. My father ran a business related to the making and maintenance of craftsmen's tools.

6 days ago | forbes.com | Ollie Barder

In the latest episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, we’re finally introduced to the Black Tri-Stars, or what’s left of them. This was a more surprising episode and actually added something more to the show. In that, the setup for a new clan battle against Ortega and Gaia from the Black Tri-Stars, we had a switcheroo with Pomeranian pilots.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Ollie Barder

The admittedly excellent arcade mecha game Starwing Paradox is getting its own anime prequel movie this Summer, despite the game’s servers shutting down in 2021. Starwing Paradox was a fascinating arcade game. Developed by Byking, who also birthed the Gundam Extreme Versus games, it also featured character designs by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and mecha designs by Ippei Gyoubu. The game itself had an amazing cabinet that moved around, and you also had quite comprehensive controls for your mecha.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ollie Barder

Designers are excited about AI, but most don’t know what to do with itFigma’s new annual report on the state of generative AI for designers and developers shows how messy the transition to artificial intelligence can be. Artificial intelligence. It’s pretty cool, I guess? Look at those neat videos. And the thousands of product design iterations just to get those …

1 week ago | forbes.com | Ollie Barder

Earthion is one of the best-looking shmups of recent years, and it is finally coming out this year; it’s even getting a Genesis cartridge release. Developed natively on a Sega Genesis (or MegaDrive for the more cultured of you), Earthion looks and sounds astonishing. The latter part should come as no surprise, as the game’s music is being composed by the legendary Yuzo Koshiro. If you remember, I interviewed Koshiro back when Actraiser Renaissance was released.