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If 2007 was anything, it was the year of the payoff. The hardware we invested our money into and the games we invested our hopes into finally returned with plenty of interest on the investments (OK, there was Transformers, Lair...look, this is a positive piece, ok?). More »
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2007 was a pretty big year for me - ch-ch-ch-changes! ruled supreme. I got into my dream PhD program (which left me wondering - after the requisite running around and squealing - 'How in the hell did I manage that?'), I moved back to Virginia from Taipei, I moved from Virginia to San Diego, I started grad school - and, oh yeah, landed a pretty sweet gig at Kotaku this past spring. It's been a year filled with getting used to new things, delightfully bad Chinese press releases, learning how to be a grad student, learning how to deal with undergrads, learning how to be on the Kotaku staff - and figuring out how to balance it all. More »
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I am perpetually lagging behind on my gaming list: too much to do, not enough time, and it's all I can do to eek out a little chunk of something like Puzzle Quest here and there. So I kinda like the 'top 20' or 'top 10' or 'top whatever' lists - at the very least, I can jot down a few more games to add to my 'to play in the next 5 years ... I hope' list. Poisonous-Pixels has a nice little list up of '07 games that you maybe should've played, but probably didn't - a few of these even made it to our 2007 Goaties. I'm even feeling inspired to actually finish Odin Sphere. The 20 Games that You Should Have Played for 2007, But Didn't[Thanks Sumantra] More »
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In 2007, I became a somewhat avid observer of MMOs, even though I don't play them - mostly because there are so many interesting issues wrapped up in the wide, wide world of online multiplayer games, especially in Asia. 2007 was a pretty interesting year for MMOs, and Gamasutra names five of the most important trends and moments of '07 for MMOs: 'little' games get huge, messy MMO failures, WoW's mainstream success, big companies go head to head, and new questions on the best way to play: More »
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With 2007 almost behind us, it's easy to look forward to the bright and beautiful future or look back to good times had by all. But sometimes the more cynical route is the more real, and learning from our past transgressions is the only way to kick ourselves when we make the same future mistakes. More »
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What do you get when you take some of the most well-spoken writers in the gaming press and throw them into a round table discussion on the year in video games? You get Slate Magazine's first annual Gaming Club, which assembles Slate's Chris Suellentrop, Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, Seth Schiesel of the New York Times, and MTV's Stephen Totilo to discuss the video games that made 2007 the "best year ever for video games." They talk about the finer points of BioShock - the Citizen Kane of video games - versus Tetris, the joys of Desktop Tower Defense, the massive growth in the handheld gaming segment, and the future of gaming as we know it. Through twelve pages of back and forth and one podcast the gaming intelligentsia manage to cover the entire year and then some, and it is a fascinating read if you've got the time and vocabulary and cognitive power to keep up. More »
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A three day conference to be held in the UK starting April 19th, Women in Games is having a conference to discuss new platforms, players, and opinions the future in gaming. More »
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Looks like that video was legit after all. As was the QWERTY keyboard. More »
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Site Next Generation has a good list of upcoming 2007 titles. Games we'll be all going gaga over or be sorely disappointed by. Stand-out titles include: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227251&view=rss&microfeed=true Ozymandias has put together his game industry predictions for 2007 which, not surprisingly, include some very bad news for Sony. More »
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2007: Two questions for you, dearest readers. More »
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Oh, for fuck's sakes... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=200720&view=rss&microfeed=true Ugh. A punny Ashcraft post title. I sense Eliza's cold, contemptuous glare from far off across the seas. More »
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British Gaming Blog is pretty optimistic about the rest of this year in 360 gaming. I mean, why not be? While Live Arcade might expel new games only after months of constipation, the 360 line-up for the rest of the year looks pretty good, and the BGB have posted their full-on geek-out pics of what the best games for the rest of the year are going to be... sight unseen! More »
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2006 is the last year your vintage XBox is going to be good for anything besides killing wharf rats. Bill Harris over at Dubious Quality has taken a look at the release dates of all announced XBox and 360 titles and the XBox is practically dead in the water: More »
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