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Bethesda Guy: Here’s Who Can Afford Bungie’s Non-Halo IP
Ashley Cheng, the production director at Bethesda Game Studios, posted on his personal blog a back-of-the-envelope guess at which publishers might take up Bungie’s next, non-Halo game. Hint, one of the candidates rhymes with “Shmesmesda.” Based on recent reports, Cheng says, “Bungie only owes Microsoft two more games and they’re done. Halo ODST and Reach…
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ECA Form Letter Asks Obama to Stop Picking on Games
If President Obama’s rhetorical flogging of video games has you in high dudgeon, the ECA’s built a form letter enabing you to point out to the White House how “video games can empower and educate.” The Wii’s exergaming influence and the industry’s overall sales and market figures are both cited as examples of video games’…
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Newsflash: Most Profitable Games Movies Were, Actually, Terrible
Let’s remember, in a year when folks are talking optimistically about a Gears of War movie, the history such franchises are up against. Game adaptations might make money. But as films, they suck without exception. Industry Gamers examined the highest grossing game movies and found that, while most made millions of dollars, their average Metacritic…
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Arche Looks Delightfully Cheap In These Tales of VS. Clips
Fighting games featuring characters from various Japanese role-playing games within a series are so vogue these days. Even better than being in fashion, though, it means I can blast Lloyd with lighting from space. Arche from Tales of Phantasia kind of reminds me of Pikachu from Super Smash Bros. what with her ability to call…
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