I just went on Youtube and noticed a few changes. the title of all the videos has the name of the author next to it plus some other details underneath it like what year it was made. I also noticed some buttons above the videos, a 'dim the lights' button, a 'change size' button and a 'open in new window' button.


Now does that sound familiar?
Yeah, Newgrounds have the exact same buttons, in fact, I blogged about it last month. So obviously Newgrounds must of had them first, but I can't imagine Youtube, such a high profile site to copy off Newgrounds, but the buttons are the exact same so it can't really be a coincidence.


I don't see why Youtube even has the lights button, it makes the whole site look weird. Newgrounds always dimmed the lights before this new widescreen add on so I can see why they have the button.


Of course the person who made these may just work for Newgrounds and Youtube. Although it was PhyscoGoldfish who made it from Newgrounds. This is confusing :S

So, a while ago on Twitter, Tom Fulp said about flash content on Newgrounds will now be in widescreen. I hadn't checked it out yet, but I assumed if you wanted to make a widescreen flash, surely you just make the size of your flash have more width than height. Anyway, I finally went onto to Newgrounds to check it out, I watched this (It's by Egoraptor! Click the 'S' in the title to see an awesome easter egg, seriously, it's great) now you may notice you don't have to click 'Watch This Movie' it just automatically loads for you, which is kinda neat but I feel it ruins the layout of the page, I'll get used to it.


There are 3 buttons above the flash, the picture of a moon darkens the website so the flash stands out more which is what used to happen when you opened up the flash so that's cool.
The second button opens the flash in a separate window, I know some people who needed to do this on the old Newgrounds layout as their computer wouldn't open the flash in the javascript pop-up, so that's still there.
The last buttons makes the flash even bigger, which is pretty neat I guess.


So that's the latest Newgrounds update, go check it out I guess.

Those of you who have an iPod Touch/iPhone will possibly know of a game called Amateur Surgeon in the App Store, recently they released a free version of the game with two levels in it so you can see if you like it or not, which I do. I was going to buy the full game but released it was £2.99 which is quite expensive for an iPod game, seen as the iPod has no buttons so most of the games are either rubbish or really boring.


But when I was on Newgrounds today, I saw Amateur Surgeon on the front page for games. I assumed it was the same demo as the iPod version, but it's not, it's the full version. It's not new levels or anything either, it's the same story, same characters, same tools.


So they made people pay £2.99 on their iPods for this and then make it free for Newgrounds users. The controls are a little bit harder on the flash version, then again I'm using a TrackPad instead of a Mouse.
So I'm a little annoyed, I still want the iPod version because it's a good game to play while you're out, not sitting at a computer. But I'll feel ripped off if I pay for it.


Oh well it's not a huge problem,. If you want to play the flash version here's the link, it's a fun game and will maybe help you decide to buy the same game for a smaller screen.


http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495413

Last night Kirbopher released the latest in the trilogy of Brawl Taunts, here's the link:
One More Brawl Taunts
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/494506

Thing is, this is a collab instead of just Kirbophers and Rina-Chan's work. IT has some funny moments but the quality is not as good as the first two. If you want to see those two, here's the links, they're far better than this new one, plus you may want to watch them first to understand some of the jokes in the new one.

Brawl Taunts
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/438529

More Brawl Taunts
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/442158