Valve says Windows 8 is a catastrophe. Blizzard doesn’t disagree. Blizzard executive vice president of game design Rob Pardo says Microsoft’s controversial new operating system also isn’t great for his company, which makes games like Diablo III and World of Warcraft “Nice interview with Gabe Newell – ‘I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for…
Wondering when you can get Skyrim‘s downloadable content Dawnguard for your PlayStation 3 or PC? So is Bethesda. “We have not announced Dawnguard for any other platform, nor given a timeline for any such news. If we have news, I promise I’d tell you,” Bethesda vice president of marketing Pete Hines wrote on Twitter yesterday…
The studio behind Minecraft was working on a first-person shooter. No more! Mojang CEO and Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson told Joystiq that they killed the game, which they were co-developing with another company, because they “did not want more external dependencies.” “The success of Minecraft meant we could focus on projects fully owned by…
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus dumped $200 million worth of stock this past April, three months before his company’s stock suddenly tanked last night, according to a new report. According to Yahoo News, Pincus sold $200 million worth of stock back in April, just when the year’s second financial quarter had begun. Other investors and executives,…
If you’ve been getting the urge to replay Baldur’s Gate, you might want to wait til this fall. The classic role-playing game will see new life on September 18, when developer Beamdog releases Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, an enhanced remake with new characters and a new adventure that the company says will take you six…
Did you know that Aeris’s death was inspired by the death of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s mother? Or that the name Final Fantasy came from the sense of desperation Square felt back in the 80s? Okay, maybe you did. Still, this is an interesting, well-produced set of trivia from Square Enix’s ubiqutious role-playing game…
Square Enix has completely rebuilt Final Fantasy XIV in a project that has now been rebranded “A Realm Reborn,” the publisher said today. Previously called “Version 2.0,” this will be the next incarnation of Square’s massively multiplayer online game, which has been modified quite a bit since it first came out in 2010. Square Enix…
Here’s the launch trailer for Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time, a new strategy-role-playing game that Atlus will bring to the U.S. next week for PSP. Yep, PSP. The Vita might not get new games, but the PSP does. And this one is looking pretty good. Rockin music! This is the fourth game in the Growlanser series,…
Looks like Microsoft has laid off quite a few people at its Vancouver-based studio that was responsible for developing a core Kinect shooter Update: Microsoft has informed Kotaku that they have not shut down the studio but it has ended development on flight simulator Microsoft Flight and Project Columbia, a Kinect interactive TV project designed…
The man who wrote movies like Charlie’s Angels and Big Fish has written an interesting blog post about Diablo III‘s narrative failures, calling its story “pretty damn weak.” John August, a Hollywood screenwriter with a rather lengthy resumé, has a few gripes about Blizzard’s action-roleplaying game. He says the story fails because your character has…
Zynga’s stock has suddenly dropped 41%. This is surprising news for the FarmVille maker, which has been facing difficulties on the stock market since it went public late last year. Shares fell to $2.99 a pop after hours today and have been fluctuating around there since. When Zynga went public in December, shares sold for…
The head of Valve says his company is working to develop for Linux, calling Microsoft’s Windows 8 a “catastrophe” that will lead product manufacturers to abandon the platform. At a gaming event in Seattle last night, as reported by AllThingsD, Valve CEO Gabe Newell said the one thing holding back Linux is video game support.…
Like its nameless protagonist, Planescape: Torment might come back from the dead. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an interview posted today, Obsidian co-founder and Planescape: Torment creator Chris Avellone said he’s “very tempted” to start a Kickstarter to revive his beloved classic role-playing game. Although he’d ditch the D&D—and maybe even the setting, too. “I think…
Mario on rails? Some stages in the newest Mario game will borrow the auto-run mechanic found in many mobile games like Temple Run and Jetpack Joyride When you enter one of these stages in New Super Mario Bros. 2, which is out for 3DS on August 19, Mario will start dashing like there’s no tomorrow.…
The next World of Warcraft expansion will be out on September 25, developer Blizzard said today. In addition to new zones and dungeons, Mists of Pandaria adds the playable pandaren race and monk class to Blizzard’s massively multiplayer online RPG. It also raises the level cap to 90 and adds some new challenge modes, prestige…
The random car engine vrooms are the best. Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
It only took a week for Gamers Against Bigotry to be defaced by bigotry. The website, started by comedian Sam Killermann in late June as a way to fight against offensive slurs and hate speech in the video game community, was almost immediately attacked by bigots (or one single, dedicated bigot). They painted racial slurs…
This is Ys Celceta: Sea Of Trees (also known as Ys Celceta: Foliage Ocean), the next game in Falcom’s Ys series of action-roleplaying games. No word on U.S. release yet, but it’ll be out this September in Japan for Vita. Boutique publisher XSEED Games has localized many of Falcom’s other games—including several in the Ys…
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Delightful puzzler Quantum Conundrum will receive two new downloadable content packs this summer, publisher Square Enix said today. Pack one, The Desmond Debacle, sticks you in a new wing of the Quadwrangle Manor to solve puzzles that center around the drinking bird Desmond. Pack two, IKE-aramba!, tasks you with rescuing the adorable Interdimensional Kinetic Entity…
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