On Christmas day, Japanese publisher AQ Interactive announced that they were canceling the upcoming Xbox 360 action RPG, Cry On. The game, developed by Mistwalker and Cavia, would have been Mistwalker’s third Xbox 360 exclusive title, after 2007’s Blue Dragon and 2008’s Lost Odyssey.
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sometimes, when a board game becomes a video game, it's a great thing for all concerned. The XBLA version of Catan is terrific fun, and while the Catan MMO misses a few steps, it's certainly a unique exercise in digital board gaming. We've seen recent Xbox conversions for many of our favorite tabletop games, including [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 30, 2008
In 2006, EA Los Angeles vice president Mike Verdu compared the substance Tiberium to the most cherished icons of popular science fiction and fantasy. "Tiberium is our Force, our Spice, our One Ring, and our Matrix," he told IGN. "Everything in our game world is defined by its relationship to Tiberium." Today, it was his sad [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 2, 2008
GameCyte has just learned that the 2008 China Game Developers Conference, commonly known as GDC China, has been canceled. Our source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that "relationship issues within China" are preventing conference sponsor Think Services (formerly CMP Game Group) from going forward with their plans for the event. Though the first GDC China [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 22, 2008
This is not news. It's not recent, and not particularly timely either. But it is important all the same. Over at The Escapist is the untold true story of Taldren's Black9, a promising dystopian action-RPG shot down in its prime not by development costs, but by threats, theft and corporate greed -- as told by [...]
Continue reading...
Monday, December 29, 2008
1 Comment