Uncategorized Archives - Page 2931 of 5479

What the Hell These Game Developers Did with Your Kickstarter Money

The folks at War Balloon Games thought that they had it made. After asking for 20 grand on the web’s most popular crowfunding site, backers shoveled all of that and 16,000 more to help make the dev studio’s Star Command mobile game a reality. Smooth sailing from here on out, right? Not exactly. In a…

By Evan Narcisse Published April 16, 2012

Crysis 3 Transforms New York City in 2013

This morning EA and Crytek have officially unveiled Crysis 3, the third installment of the high-tech military shooter franchise and the second set in New York City’s lush rainforests and teeming swamps. Wait, what? The first Crysis took place on a tropical island. The second Crysis took place in New York City. The third mashes…

By Mike Fahey Published April 16, 2012

Let These Beautiful Fantasy Images Kick You in the Face

And they’re not just sci-fi. As you can see in the above image, there’s fighting game Tekken, too. Whether it’s World or Warcraft or Avatar, photographer Michelle Monique mixes photos and art for her wildly vivid pictures. “I wouldn’t call myself a ‘traditional’ photographer because I like to create not interpret,” Monique wrote on her…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 16, 2012

The Decline of the Chinese Gaming Industry. One Dude’s Opinion.

China’s game industry to many, is nothing more than copy and pasting Western and Japanese games. China knows it, the world knows it. A Taiwanese game developer named “Marco” came out and talked about the possible death of the Chinese gaming industry. The following are excerpt explains Marco’s change from Taiwan to the Mainland, and…

By Eric Jou Published April 16, 2012

EA Says “There Are no Lay-Offs as Such”

Responding to an earlier report on website Startup Grind, which claimed between 500-1000 employees would be laid off soon, EA has said “There are no lay-offs as such, we always have projects growing and morphing”. More at the update in the original story

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

It’s People Like This That Make me not Want to Play Battlefield 3 Any More

I mean, what’s the point? I hide in tanks to stay away from guys like this, but the more they level up, the more tools they get to pry me out and do terrible things to my corpse. Seriously, if you play Battlefield 3 – or even can appreciate a skilled player of first-person shooters…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Team Fortress 2 Meets One of the Greatest Films of all Time

Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, a masterpiece of both comedy and propaganda, is rightly regarded as one of the most important motion pictures ever made. Meaning it’s well worth watching in its own right. If you’re put off by all that black and white, though, maybe ease yourself in with some Team Fortress 2 machinima?…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Report: EA About to Lay Off 500-1000 People [Update]

According to a report on Startup Grind, a site that normally deals with tech companies and their founders, publisher Electronic Arts will very soon lay off as many as 1000 employees. Originally planned to take place last week, the lay offs have reportedly been slightly postponed, though may now take place ” as soon as…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Sub Zero Seeks Revenge for The Matrix: Revolutions

Sub Zero, in whose head it’s always 2003, plugs into the Matrix just to kick Neo’s ass. I don’t know about you, but it took me at least ten minutes before I could pull my head away from this. [via The Best Fun Site]

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Iron Man vs Mass Effect vs Everybody Else

With our little trip around the world in pursuit of the best individual purveyors of the art of cosplay now at an end, this weekly feature returns to business as usual. Namely, highlighting the best damn cosplay photos of the last seven days. OK, so that’s a slight stretch in this case, as we’ve got…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Dead Space’s Isaac Clarke Comes to Life as This Amazing Custom Action Figure

Forget NECA’s official Dead Space figures, which make Isaac look like was born disfigured. Remember the Dead Space hero as he should be remembered, with this intricately-detailed, custom-made action figure. A Korean fan the series’ official Facebook account only calls “이호갑” is to thank for it, and included alongside the finished shots some images of…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 16, 2012

Someone Actually Wants to Make That Call of Duty: Police Warfare Game

In February, an entertaining, if “fake” concept video did the rounds, in which the Call of Duty franchise was re-imagined from the perspective of law enforcement It looked pretty cool. And turns out it wasn’t fake. Turns out it was from a team of experienced developers who actually want to sit down and make the…