I'm a real big fan of the Beatles, almost as much as I love the Beach Boys. And I've always been fustrated by all the documentaries about them. They talk too much about the Beatles mania than the creating process in the studios. This frustration has gone with this book !



Geoff Emerick worked as an audio engineer at the Emi London Studios during the 60's. He worked luckily (and surely because he was good) with the Beatles on the Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road sessions as their main audio engineer, and share a lots of interesting memories in this book. Every song recording is explain with lots of details: how they worked, who did the drums, the guitar solo, how the microphones were used to create this incredible sound, ...

What's most incredible after reading this book is to realize that the Beatles recordings have an incredible modern sound even if it's was mainly recorded on 4 tracks without any computer to mix easily things. It seems that it's in constraint that the most creative things are created.

A must read !

I was a little too young during the Thriller-Bad period but I was a big fan during the Dangerous album and discovered all its album at this moment. I remember the Jam video with Mickael Jordan or the Give It To Me video with Slash: that's all my youth.
He has changed the music industry and was a big lover of video games. Rest in peace!

Game previews by journalists are (sometimes) interesting but it's rare to get previews from people who's demoed game at E3.
An Ubisoft Frag Dolls shares his thoughts about Red Steel 2 on her blog. That's interesting with full of funny stories about what journalists asked her. For example:

Today I've met in Paris something that looks like a Google Car. The one that takes pictures for Google Street. I hope I'm in the pictures, I would be very proud to see my face in Google Street ;)

I've just discovered a japanese comic actor doing funny sketches about video games in a tv show called Jinnai Tomonari comedy shows. This one below is about Tetris but on his own YouTube page there are lots of great videos like this other one. Really really funny!

The French pop/rock band Phoenix has given a great show two weeks ago in a tiny place in Paris called La Cigale. They played most of their last record Walfgang Amadeus Phoenix and some of their greatest past songs.
I've made some videos below with my Panasonic TZ7.

When you look to a HD remake of a N64 game you're afraid to find an ugly game, and that's what happened: few polygons, cubic characters and objects, blurry textures, ...
But in the case of Perfect Dark, if you take a look to the N64 game in an emulator you will find an ugliest game, and that a big effort has been made to make the game far less ugly that the original version.
GXL Redge has compared in the GXL boards the XBLA screenshots of Perfect Dark to the N64 Perfect Dark HD output of an emulator. The difference is obvious.
It's the same feeling of playing an old good game without the feeling of playing an repelling game :)

Yes already 25 years! I've discovered Tetris on the first GameBoy like a lot of us, and it's the puzzle game I've played the most since that time. In my opinion its greatest successors are Lumines or Meteos, but Tetris is mythical. Simple et effective, that's what I love in videogames!