I think there’s a glitch in the Matrix. Just like three months ago, the scheduled release date for the WildTangent Orb virtual game console has come and gone. Just like three months ago, WildTangent CEO Alex St. John has made headlines with an inspirational, self-serving speech about the death of consoles without providing the nail [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Back in March, game developer and Gamasutra contributor Ian Bogost went to Toronto, and came back with two things: a glowing preview of the Spore Creature Creator (only tempered by an intuition that the game might not cater to the same broad audience as The Sims) — and within that preview, news that Spore would [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Consumer Report: Nintendo Wii Menu version 3.3 update destroys homebrew, Freeloader support (Nintendo Wii Fanboy; Nintendo Everything via videogaming247) Enthusiast: PlayStation 3 “trophies,” in-game XMB finally inbound for firmware v2.40; release date unspecified (PlayStation.Blog) Nintendo’s Laurent “geeks and otaku” Fischer promises some sort of Wii storage [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 5, 2008
“I don’t seem to be having any fun. Maybe I need to be paying more.” It’s difficult to imagine a player saying these words about a game. Yet, there is an entire business model that centers around providing this precise benefit to players — most frequently, of MMORPGs and other games whose balance centers on levels [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 23, 2008
Looks like Battlefield Heroes isn’t the only free-to-play, easily laptoppable online first-person shooter competing for your beta applications. Today, Nexon announced Combat Arms, a primarily squad-based shooter slated for release later this summer. Combat Arms will kick off a short closed beta on May 30th, which will last one week.
Continue reading...Monday, March 31, 2008
Gamasutra recently caught up with Ben Cousins, senior producer on Battlefield Heroes, and discovered just what corners had to be cut and what incentives offered to make Battlefield viable for the masses.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Today marks the launch of Nintendo’s new WiiWare game download service in Japan — and while I’ve neither the imported Wii nor the balls required to brave hundreds of thousands of fearless Final Fantasy fanboys scrambling to get their hands on My Life As A King, Game|Life has been kind enough to perform that service [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 24, 2008
Our pay-to-prey FPS fears were apparently unfounded, as EA sought today to quash rumors that those marginally richer Battlefield: Bad Company players would get any kind of gameplay advantage from purchasing additional virtual weaponry via microtransaction.
Continue reading...Friday, March 21, 2008
Xbox 360 Fanboy is reporting that the Battlefield: Bad Company beta has, among its currently unavailable armaments, a total of ten guns that are denoted by the curious phrase “Buy this weapon on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.” This is rather worrying.
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