In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Jamie MacDonald, former Vice President of Sony Worldwide Studios (the company responsible for EyeToy), gave out a few pointers to Sony and Microsoft regarding their respective motion controllers. MacDonald warned that gamers are anticipating more from the 360 and PS3’s motion gaming than they ...
We’re pretty sure that the new Mass Effect 2-centric video from Mega64 that you will find after the break is pretty funny. The crew seems to be grilling each day citizens on censorship, specifically relating to all the xenofornication going down aboard the Normandy.
We state “pretty sure” and “seems” because ...
Watching the credits to Mass Effect 2 all I could think about was the continuing struggle it seems to be for video games to nail an ending. It’s one of the clearer examples of the hurdles designers face in uniting the narrative of a game with the playing of it. ...
In a conference call Q&A after their earnings report, Electronic Arts executives waxed about recent successes and strategies with downloadable content.
EA CEO John Riccitiello shared the motivation behind their inclusion of paid DLC in all their titles this year. “We sort of initiated our approach here originally with NBA Live ...
Thank you to all that nominated and voted for the top 25 books for writers on writing. The list is in order beginning with the book that received the most votes. It’s a great list as I’ve read or heard great things about many of the books.
The Elements of Style ...
Addicted to the world of Liberty City? We’ve got your fix here with our first ever FileBlog about mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. From drenching the streets in blood to realistic (and cataclysmic) automobile damage, check out what we have for you below. Be sure to read ...
There’s no question: retail has a serious lack of Wiis, once again. Yes, this is 2010, but you would not be wrong in thinking it feels more like 2008. Following up on several tips over the past month about on-line and retail Wii “shortages,” the ideal we can discover is ...
We usually do not purchase into Nintendo Week’s particular brand of family-friendly hype generation — after all, this is a Nintendo-funded program and we will be damned if we are going to let The Man tell us what we are going to like. But this week’s update on the Nintendo ...
Last week Square Enix opened a Dragon Quest-themed bar to the public. They’re calling it “Luida’s Bar”, based on the location in Dragon Quest IX.
It just so happens that I work right around the block from there (as well as Konami’s head office!) in Roppongi, so I thought I’d head ...
Here’s the begin of what will (possibly( be a semi-regular feature for the Newscast crew and our listeners: Newscast Game Club. All three of us will play a recently released WiiWare game, and speak about it at a tiny more length, hopefully with forum interaction.
Our inaugural game will be Blaster ...
Some new media for the upcoming Dragon Age: Origins ‘Awakening’ expansion is here to introduce ‘The Children,’ a new set of not-so-adorable foes that give a hellacious new meaning to the notion of daycare.
There’s no word as to who birthed the monstrosities, but the press release informs us that, ...
Microsoft wrote a fitting coda to its first game console today. On April 15 they plan to turn off Live access for the original Xbox. New games stopped coming to the system a long while ago but the persistence of online play stands as probably the strongest indication of just ...
It seems that Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata isn’t the only one who’s skeptical about 3D-tech making a significant impact in the world of gaming any time soon. Philippe Gerard of 3DLized, a company specializing in the creation of stereoscopic media, recently voiced concerns about the difficulties of creating and enforcing ...
Rockstar announced a winner in their Red Dead Redemption Moustache Contest, which was part of the Movember charity event. Canadian Charles Leece won with the entry above. (It’s fitting that there’s just a hint of mullet.) As the winner, “Charles’ likeness will now appear in Red Dead Redemption as an ...
It’s staggering information: The Sims is 10 years old.
Rightly so, Electronic Arts is trumpeting this milestone with a press release as long as your arm. Here are a few highlights from that very release:
The original The Sims debut on February 4, 2000.
The franchise has generated more than $2.5B of revenue, putting ...
Major Nelson, a.k.a. Larry Hryb, a.k.a. Director of Programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live, has announced that April 15, 2010 will be the last day you’ll get to play over Live with your original Xbox. All support for Xbox games will be discontinued as of that date, including those ...
Square Enix hasn’t announced a release for the Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack outside of Japan. Instead, it has announced a second FFXIII music release in Japan that is going to make you even more jealous. On February 26, the publisher will release a collection of eight songs from Masashi Hamauzu’s ...
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