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Programming Note
Ordinarily, I don’t like to announce when I’m skipping town for 10 days, as the meth-heads tend to come over and borrow shit. Permanently. However, as all of said shit is in that truck you see above, and I’m going to be in the cab, I don’t have much problem telling you I am on…
By Owen Good - Culture
Action is His Reward
The adaptation of the new Amazing Spider-Man movie swings onto shelves this week, joined by the brooding military drama Spec Ops: The Line In downloadables, Skyrim‘s first expansion debuts on the Xbox 360. Monday • Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 (360) • Dungeons & Dragons Online: Menace of the Underdark (PC)…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Xbox Live Takes Down Fez‘s Game-Breaking Patch
No sooner than they released a patch for Fez, the game’s creators discovered a game-breaking filesave corruption and warned everyone not to accept the title update. Microsoft has now taken the step of removing the patch altogether, meaning people who didn’t get the memo about the patch won’t find their game bricked by it. Polytron,…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Longtime Final Fantasy Producer Stepping Down, Health Reasons Cited
Hiromichi Tanaka, one of the earliest members of Square, with producer credits on Final Fantasy XI, Xenogears and Chrono Cross, will be leaving Final Fantasy XI and Square Enix altogether, reports Famitsu. An interview at Vanafest 2012 revealed that Tanaka has a “major illness” (this according to Tanaka himself) and that led him into his…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Packing Up the Pantheon
Tomorrow I’m hitting the road for a cross-country move, the sixth time I’ve driven the width of the nation since 2001. As I was boxing up my video games it occurred to me that some of them will have made five of those journeys by the time I reach North Carolina on Friday. All of…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
An Advocate Who Believed in His Community, not Just the Games They Bought
Seth Killian’s last day at Capcom was Friday. Community managers and PR types become well known to our readers because they’re so frequently quoted, but their departures typically don’t rate a news item because it usually amounts to no more than insider talk. Seth, whose title was “Strategic Marketing Director, Online & Community” wasn’t really…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
A Postmortem—or an Autopsy—on Steel Battalion‘s Failures
Kirk Hamilton, the Kotaku features editor, appeared with Anthony Carboni on revision3’s New Challenger to discuss the shambling pile of fail that is Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, why scathing reviews differed so much from optimistic previews, and what this means for core games development on Kinect. The segment is about 10 minutes long. [YouTube]
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
PC Code Points to Five-Deck DLC Plans for Magic: The Gathering
PC gamers inspecting the game code for Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, which released this week, found references to five additional decks that seem likely to be released as downloadable content later. Top Tier Tactics has all of the details. [h/t WiNG]
By Owen Good - Culture
New Skylanders “Sidekicks” Arriving in Frito Bags in Two Weeks?
This rumor has bubbled on enthusiast sites and message boards since about April, but an official-looking PowerPoint floating out there in the wild suggests a promotion this July will combine Mike Fahey’s two greatest loves: Skylanders and snack foods. The four Sidekicks, pictured above, appear to be in-game characters only (no figurines). They’ll be claimed…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
America Scared of Iran’s Video Games, Says Iran
Iran’s mastery of the Unity engine may not have gotten the attention of the United Nations Security Council, but games like Gando (pictured above) sure have spooked ‘Murica, according to Iranian government sources quoted in a report published by Iran. Mokhber Dezfouli, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, said video games became…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves
Reader ak-blanc is back taking Sunday TAYpic honors for the second straight week. Good morning and welcome to Weekend Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is your space to discuss anything on your mind about the subject of video games. Want a piece of the TAYpic action atop this six-day-a-week post? Grab the base image here, provide…
By Owen Good
