In their 2008 MediaWise Video Game Report Card, the National Institute for Media and the Family included a fairly extensive list of games to avoid buying your children this holiday season, including such grotesque, gore-filled titles as Silent Hill: Homecoming and Gears of War 2. This was all well and good — we wouldn’t advocate [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
Lionhead has finally made the big Fable 2 announcement that we’ve been awaiting for weeks. Coming to the XBOX Live Marketplace in mid-December is the Knothole Island downloadable content pack, available in both free and “premium” iterations — the premium download will cost you 800 Microsoft Points (about 10 US dollars). Both free and premium [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Though more than one CEO has cited an October retail slowdown in recent investor conference calls, such a slowdown happily does not seem to have afflicted the U.S. video game industry sales as a whole. Today, the NPD reports that game industry sales actually increased 18% year-over-year to $1.31 billion. The biggest winner, as usual, was [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Guardian has certainly stepped up their games coverage as of late, including a devoted “games week” which, today, features an interview with Peter Molyneux, conducted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun’sown Kieron Gillen. The interveux focuses on the topic of big names in gaming, and why we don’t see more Miyamotos, Meiers, or Molyneuxs rising to [...]
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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