Archive for July, 2008
Blizzard Execs Wear Money Hats
I saw this story and just had to share it. In a recent interview with Develop Magazine, Gabe Newell was asked the age-old question “Is PC gaming dead?”. His response is what you’d expect; no, but it is changing. And he’s right, it’s not dead. PC gaming is smaller, but title quality is way up, [...]
Prince of Persia gets Nickelodeon makeover
“Kid-friendly” isn’t a term you would normally use to describe the Prince of Persia franchise. On the contrary, the most recent titles in the long-running series have fallen very solidly under the “T for Teen” rating. For whatever reason, though, Ubisoft is out to change that.
The latest entry for Nintendo DS, Prince of Persia: The [...]
Sega slides one under the radar: Sonic and the Black Knight
While we all recover from E3, not that there was much to recover from, a leaked scan of the cover of September’s Nintendo Power managed to sneak it’s way onto the NeoGAF forums for the world to see. Warning, the image may shock you.
What makes the picture of a new Sonic game so interesting is [...]
“The Conduit” gameplay vids emerge from E3
In an effort to show that E3 wasn’t a complete and utter waste of time for Wii fans, IGN has posted some of the first detailed gameplay videos from High Voltage Software’s sci-fi shooter The Conduit. The sneak peek was offered behind closed doors and thankfully gives me something to look forward to early next [...]
Electronic Arts to “Moneytize” id games
Yesterday at the Electronic Arts Press conference John Carmack, founder of id Software, announced that EA would be publishing their upcoming game RAGE which is the first game to use the new id Tech 5 engine. EA CEO John Riccitiello then came on stage to announce that they would add micro transactions to RAGE in [...]
And the World goes “meh”: Nintendo’s Keynote
All eyes are on the gaming world this week with the Expo extravaganza that is E3. While the air is rife with anticipation, things seem to have fallen a little sour for the Nintendo crowd.
With very few things to actually anticipate, Nintendo fans had some pretty fantastic guessing games as to what the Big [...]
E3 Wolfenstein footage
As id continues to cycle through its mainstay franchises (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein) it seems it is now time for William ”BJ” Blazkowicz to save the earth once again from the occult experimentation of the Third Reich……again.
Announced 3 years ago, little so far has been announced about 2001’s RTCW sequel. Going by the end of the trailer above [...]
Mega Man 9 - Multi-platform Retro
Oh, you beautfiul thing you. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Capcom recently cracked the gaming world in half with their announcement of Mega Man 9. A modern game that is being developed with the same tools and techniques that made it a classic during the 1980s? It’s like Capcom is writing videogame [...]
