Archive for June, 2008
Ride your music: Introducing BodySurf
In a very interesting use of Wiimote homebrew, Evan Jones has developed a GlovePIE script that enables people to use their Wii remote and Balance Board on their PC to play the new, popular, music game AudioSurf.
For those not in the know, AudioSurf is a music-based puzzle game that develops unique puzzles based on the [...]
AMD’s Cinema 2.0… Wow. Seriously.
Sweet mother of Carmack! Did somebody say gaming on the PC was dead? Well, ok, I’ve been accused of saying that, but the flood of game titles has been on a tremendous decline since developers discovered that consoles print money. But I digress. So, what are the PC hardware manufacturers doing [...]
Unreal Tournament 3 hits Xbox 360 in July
To quote Victor Lin from Bloodsport “It’s about f**king time!”
Epic Games announced today that the long-awaited (or rather ‘late-coming’) Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 4.. er, I mean 3 (I guess Epic forgot about UT2003) hits North American store shelves on July 7th. The 360 release gets a split-screen multiplayer mode, new characters, [...]
Is Apple serious about games this time?
Apple has always had a hot and cold relationship with game developers. They’ve occasionally hinted at core-level API support and better integrated hardware for the Mac. They’ve even showcased luminaries from Bungie, id Software, EA and other developers during Steve Job’s MacWorld Expo keynotes. Most every time, though, the thunder has died even before the [...]
90s gaming… I just can’t quit you.
I’m of the opinion that there are few eras in gaming more important than the 1990s. Yes, gaming started in the 70s, and took the world by storm in the 80s, but the real beginning of the industry as we know it today happened in the 90s. I mean, just look at the [...]
What do you think of fighting games?
After wandering around gaming related videos on YouTube I came across the above video.
It’s got a nice number of views and one hell of a lot of angry comments. It shows some guy pretty much completely bashing all fighting games.
I feel he makes some really good points but he does tend to go overboard on [...]
Sims going online again?
The Sims has tried the online scene before and it failed pretty badly and was a free game on EA’s “EA-land” which has now been shut down. But even so, they are considering bringing online features back to the series, according to a Times Online interview with Nancy Smith (head of EA’s Sims division). The [...]
Getting ahead of themselves: Take Two announces Bioshock 3?
That’s right. According to Ars Technica, Strauss Zelnick, the chairman at Take Two got a bit carried away during a conference call and consequentially let it slip that Take Two would be producing a Bioshock 3.
The comment was made in regards to the release of the planned Bioshock movie. Zelnick said that the movie [...]
DoDonPachi Dai Fukkatsu - “Bullet Hell” is back!
Mmmmm…. nothing quite warms the cockles of my heart like Japanese arcade shmups. Sadly though, being in America, we rarely get top notch arcade titles anymore since the decline of the gameroom. If it shot out tickets, we might stand a chance of seeing it in one of the mega-cades like Dave & [...]
Duke Nukem Forever gameplay
Just when we had all forgotten about 3D-Realms long awaited project, late last year they sprung a teaser trailer re-igniting interest in Duke Nukem Forever, and subsequently decade old forum jokes. Now though, adding fuel to the fire of a prospective 2008 release, gameplay footage has surfaced.
Unexpectedly the thanks goes to Jace Hall, CEO of [...]
