My article on Monday about Respawn Entertainment’s first post-Call of Duty game, a sci-fi multiplayer shooter, coming exclusively to the current and next-gen Xbox consoles, turned some heads. So did the part of the piece about Microsoft falling behind with their next-gen machine. That latter bit has become a thing of its own, separate from…
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon may be a violent, gleefully-stupid video game, but it also has a Serious Message about violent video games. Here’s a chat between two of the game’s characters, captured above if you want to watch, transcribed below if you don’t want anyone nearby hearing this profane insight: Doctor Elizabeth Darling: Rex,…
A well-argued post over at the r/games subreddit laments the supposed “wasted potential” of Minecraft‘s survival mode. You know, the part with monsters. Agree to disagree or disagree to agree. Or… just read it.
I snapped this from the new Trevor trailer for Grand Theft Auto. I spy a Rockstar Games version of a Juggalo. You know Juggalos? The devotees of the Insane Clown Posse? This can only lead to amazing things. Juggalos, you see, are fascinating. (No word on whether the game will include magnets and rainbows.) I…
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Outspoken game director Hideki Kamiya’s Tweet about prioritizing fun over game length have stirred enough of a response to provoke a follow-up from his long-time producer. A day after Kamiya said this… His Platinum Games colleague and producer on the upcoming Wii U game The Wonderful 101, Atsushi Inaba, Tweeted this: So it looks like…
The long-awaited first game from Respawn Entertainment—the studio helmed by the creators of Call of Duty—will be exclusive to the next-gen Xbox, according to two unrelated sources familiar with the game. One of our sources indicates that there will also be an Xbox 360 version, but no versions for rival PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. Oh,…
There’s a new Scientology-ish bit of hype for Grand Theft Auto V, and there’s a contest attached. What can you win? The fine print indicates you could appear in Rockstar’s big fall game: Rockstar Games is holding a “casting call” event giving Grand Theft Auto fans an opportunity to be cast as one of five…
I visited family down south this past weekend. Hung out with my niece and nephew. Even went to their grade school to have lunch with them (their request!). I also chatted with some of my wife’s friends. As always, I got some intel about what regular people think about video games. First-graders? Well, first of…
The ever-colorful Twitter feed of top Japanese game developer Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and the upcoming Wonderful 101 for Wii U) imparted some wisdom this weekend. I believe in this wisdom as well. Game length is over-rated. Game fun should be paramount. Sadly, I think the padding of games is still widely accepted.…
We’ve heard from a couple of sources that EA is cutting jobs today with estimates of as much as 10% of the workforce. EA won’t comment on teams affected or the headcount, but this means that fewer people are working at the company that brings you everything from Madden to Battlefield to The Sims. Here’s…
The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a story about what he did while he was here. This is a story about Sean Smith’s life—about what he did in the so-called “real” world and what he did in a virtual galaxy…
Monaco is out now. It’s a co-op heist game. It’s great …so far! I’m halfway through it. You should get it now on PC (or later on Xbox Live Arcade.) Not sure? Then watch this video. I’ll play the game for you. Ok? If you have questions, fire away. I’ll answer as many as I…
Are you planning to steal the wonderful new co-op heist game Monaco? Please consider the above message. It appears in the $15 game’s credits. (UPDATE: Though it’s not actually directed at pirates!) Pirating games is a dubious past-time as is, but if there was a spectrum of games that might be kind-of-sort-of not scummy to…
In the first three months of this year, Nintendo sold a mere 200,000 Wii U’s in North America. Microsoft sold more Xbox 360’s than that in March alone. But, uh, that’s the good news? In Japan, since January, Nintendo sold 90,000 Wii U systems. And in the rest of the world? 110,000. These numbers come…
The award-winning indie co-op heist game Monaco won’t be coming out tomorrow on Xbox Live Arcade after all. It’s been delayed “a little,” its creators say, to fix some unspecified problem. They’ve already submitted a fix. In happier news, it’ll still be out for PC on Steam tomorrow, and we’ll have video of me playing…
A gaming series that’s been around for a quarter of a century winds up in a predicament. Change? Or don’t change? There’s only one answer, of course. Do both. Classic games are not classic music albums or classic novels. The audience for a great old game isn’t satisfied with reprints. They’d like a sequel, please.…
E-mail I received last night, referencing this article: Subject line: Dicks in Games Hello, I was in the process of finishing up an Android based game when you wrote the article about dicks in games and whatnot. My ‘hero’ is adick in a Hawaiian shirt. The enemies are pussies. You’ll probably get a chuckle out…
Never write a question in a headline if you don’t really want people to answer the question, but there it is. I’m wondering how stupid I should feel for playing the new SimCity day after day last week—while I was on vacation! Especially since I was getting angrier about the game day after day. The…
I used to think it would take maybe 50 years until we reached the day people would laugh when reminded that human beings of the year 2013 had television sets. Lately, I’ve been expecting that laughter to come even sooner. Maybe in a decade. Maybe not even that long from now. Do you see it,…
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