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Friday will be popular gaming pundit N'Gai Croal's last day at Newsweek. The well-known game journalist took a buyout from the magazine publisher and plans to move more toward the development side of gaming. More »
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Maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't, but it seems Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has been taking quite a few little digs at its fellow giant Electronic Arts these days — perhaps coincidentally, the same digs many of you have been taking at EA in the comments of my recent stories on the company's bid to purchase Take-Two. More »
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N'Gai Croal of Newsweek's Level Up takes us on a tour of the hipper-than-thou launch parties Rockstar threw to kick off GTA IV over the past two weeks. Billed as "a rare series of intimate events representing the eclectic musical soundtrack," they were really a big meet-n-greet pairing gaming writers with artists and other Rockstar types. More »
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In line with the earlier post on race in video games, Newsweek journalist N'Gai Croal offers these insights about the Resident Evil 5 trailer:
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Yesterday, we brought word of "Pokemones", the androgynous, public-orgy-havin', Poké-watchin' Chilean youths. Well, according to Newsweek. And what does Newsweek know! It's only Newsweek. Chilean reader Juan writes:
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Still having trouble making sense of this whole Eidos-CNet-Gamespot clusterfuck? Newsweek's N'Gai Croal does a nice job of summing up what it all means. N'Gai writes: More »
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Two of my good friends and colleagues have put up thoughtful pieces on their respective blogs about how we play videogames. On Level Up, N'Gai posted a column about how our saved game files are actually worth more than a $60 game. N'Gai calculates that his Mass Effect saved game is worth $122.10. His point: We should back up our saved games more often. And at MTV's Multiplayer Blog, Stephen Totilo posted a fascinating essay on how Rockstar's removal of the scoring system in Manhunt 2 changed the way he played through the final version. Was Stephen a tamer killer with scoring or without? Go find out! More »
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The second part of N'Gai Croal's chat with Nintendo of America prez Reggie Fils-Aime is up for your reading pleasure and, in it, the former marketing VP touches on his "read my lips" promise to ensure no Gamecube-like drought for the Wii. Turns out he wasn't talking about a more consistent stream of first party releases, but third party titles as well. With rumored releases Resident Evil 4 Wii and Beautiful Katamari, alongside confirmed stuff like Manhunt 2 and Nights, the line up is already looking stronger. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249019&view=rss&microfeed=true It is, I would think, no big secret that MTV's Stephen Totilo and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal are two of my favorite gaming writers. (Clive Thompson would be the third, in my trinity of game writers)So N'Gai's latest feature over on his Newsweek blog is for me, quite a thing to behold. In Vs. Mode Totilo and N'Gai take one another to task over their feelings on God of War 2.I'll summarize, poorly, their takes on the game here, but you really, really owe it to yourself to go over there and read the whole thing because it's the sort of game critiquing that you will almost never find.Totilo comes down on the side of liking God of War 2 but not really being blown away with it. It is a marvel of game creation, he argues, but it's also very much more of the same. And not just because it's a sequel that uses some of the same sorts of setting and themes, but because the game, like its predecessor, uses "level design to define a character's personality", the personalilty of Kratos. And the sequel relies heavily on this same sort of trick. More »
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Ubisoft has revealed to Level Up, N'Gai Croal's Newsweek blog focused on the game-o-sphere, that they'll publish the Japanese guitar software for the Nintendo DS we previously covered back in November. Titled Hiite Utaeru DS Guitar M-06 over there, over here it will simple be called Jam Sessions. More »
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Newsweek's N'Gai Croal posted part two of his DICE-era interview with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Phil Harrison, asking if any future Sony-developed games will "change people's view of the kind of subject matter, themes, content, approach that can be taken with games" like, for analogy's sake, Michael Moore documentary "Bowling For Columbine." More »
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Oh, the internet drama. Phil Harrison's said many stupid things, but he claims he's been misquoted by a game site. Just listen to what he tells Newsweek's N'Gai Croal: More »
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Tucked far in the back of the Newsweek that I purchased for my flight to Quebec this week was a brief Q&A with Celine Dion. More »
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Joseph Olin is about to open up the discussion between Sony's Phil Harrison and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, whom he refers to as "blogger extraordinaire". I'll be doing my best to keep up with the liveblogging. More »
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Don't let Mario's overalls fool you, Nintendo likes money just as the next console maker. No surprises there — Memories do come flooding back to when Nintendo announced Wii pricing and many flipped out at parting with US $250 as opposed to the rumored $199. Newsweek's got a piece up on the Wii about demand for the machine, the radio contest fiasco and a few blurbs from Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan. Regarding the contest, Kaplan offered her condolences and stressed that Nintendo had nothing to do with it. Regarding the shortages, she said: More »
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Newsweek's N'Gai Croal pinged us with his take on how the iPhone will shake things up. He blogs: More »
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Following 1UP's revelation yesterday that Rare founders Chris and Tim Stamper had recently moved on from the company comes some insight into the "decline" of the developer, courtesy of, oddly enough, Phil Harrison. The Sony exec was questioned by Newsweek supereditor N'Gai Croal on what Phil thought about Rare's inability to "regain its former glory." More »
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Newsweek's resident game guru N'Gai Croal pinged us about a pledge Nintendo honcho Reggie Fils-Aime has made. The company president has promised no "Nintendo drought," which typically follows between first party games. While Twilight Princess is out and about, sites such as CVG rumor that the next two big titles Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Mario Galaxy won't see the light of day until late next year. More »
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N'Gai Croal, that lucky bastard from Newsweek, got a chance to hang-out with Will Wright backstage prior to the developer's appearance on the Colbert Report. More »
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Where part one and part two of N'Gai Croal's interview of Electronic Arts CEo Larry Probst was lecture and brimstone, part three is much more Probst dancing around the harder questions. More »
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In part two of his interview with EA CEO Larry Probst, N'Gai Croal gets the man to dish on the Playstation Portable and what it would take to get Electronic Arts to start developing original titles for it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=218413&view=rss&microfeed=true Newsweeks' N'Gai Croal has a fascinating interview up with David Jaffe about Sony's version of Xbox Live Arcade, called (oh, so poetically), e-Distribution Initiative or eDI. More »
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Two years after release, Newsweek has finally discovered World of Warcraft and written an excellent little three page primer for the hopeless, draconian cubes who have never even considered spending the vast majority of their leisure time prancing around as an effete, imaginary elf. More »
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