Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer.
Enthusiast:
Cryptic Studios countdown to reveal existence of Star Trek Online [or another blatant asset ripoff] this July 28 (Hailing Frequency Forum via Ten Ton Hammer)
X360 Unreal Tournament 3 gets July 7th ship date, contains exclusive new video preview of Gears 2 (BusinessWire)
Game “borrowing” Oblivion assets is pulled from distribution as accusations continue to mount, publisher is super sorry (Press release via GamesIndustry.biz)
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix beta begins June 25th, open to Commando 3 buyers (Shacknews)
Industry:
UK government to consider law testing games for seizure-inducing flashes; Ubisoft will voluntarily test all products (Evening Post via Kotaku)
AMD partners with Havok to hardware-optimize physics, possibly compete with NVIDIA (AMD)
ESA spent $714k to lobby US government in Q1 (Gamasutra)
Former SOCOM dev forms game company built around social networking (Kotaku, GameDaily)
Research: Red vs. Blue an unequal match in UT2004, as study finds red team wins disproportionately (Associated Press via Kotaku)
Film: Clock Tower, Onimusha adaptations dated 2009, 2011 respectively (Capcom Unity via Eurogamer)
Interviewed: EA DICE’s Karl-Magnus Troedsson on Battlefield: Bad Company single-player and why DLC weapons would have been totally fine (GamePlayer via Evil Avatar)
Trials and Tribulations:
Gamers sue EA over “anti-competitive” NFL exclusivity… (GameSpot)
…just as Moore reflects on EA Sports’ bright future ‘in the crosshairs’ of its competitors (Peter Moore Blog via Next-Gen)
Rumoriffic: Nintendo working on USB-based Wii storage? (Nintencast, PC World)
Surprise, Surprise: Microsoft exec says Zune > PSP (VentureBeat via GameDaily)
Behind the Scenes: Capcom uses eBay, community polls to see which games to port to PSN and XBLA (MTV Multiplayer)
$$$:
XSeed and Marvelous bringing Little King’s Story to Wii, which looks refreshingly original and not similar in theme or name to anything else we’ve heard of (Gamasutra)
New internet radio station plays music for “guitar heroes” in “rock bands,” is totally not trying to “cash in” on the “bandwagon” (BusinessWire)
iD Gaming Academy introduces Camp Fatal1ty, where $3500 buys all-you-can-eat Fatal1ty Brand Imitation Gruel, mad skillz in UT3. Your results may vary, actual fatalities not included (iDGA)
June 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
- I thought most gamers would’ve realized by now that it was the NFL and not EA who wanted an exclusivity deal for their video games, but I guess you can’t underestimate the stupidity that hatred of a company can generate.
- Well, time to go to eBay and make ridiculously overpriced bids on copies of Rival Schools and Project Justice.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
#1: IMHO they’re both to blame — monopoly is monopoly. The FCC is certainly the one that allows radio licenses to be sold to the highest bidder, but that doesn’t mean Clear Channel is to be congratulated for snapping up enough of them to exercise control over what we hear.
#2: LOL