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Rolling Stone’s “Agents Of Change” List Full Of Game Developers
Rolling Stone magazine have taken a little side-trip away from rock n’ roll, and done a more Time magazine-like list of the “100 People Who Are Changing America”. Four (well, five) are developers. First up is Will Wright, at #84. Sure, The Sims and Spore are big sellers, but they’re seen by Rolling Stone as…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009 -
This Is How You Film A Super Robot Taisen K Commercial
Previously we brought word of a new Super Robot Taisen ad from Japanese geek princess Shoko Nakagawa. From the making of pictures, we gathered there was saluting involved. We just didn’t know how much saluting. Watch the actual ad and making of in the above clip. The ad is super short. And the making of?…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009 -
PC Gaming Market Worth $11 Billion (And Other Fun Facts)
The PC Gaming Alliance (in conjunction with researchers DFC Intelligence) have released their report on 2008. How the year went down, in their eyes, for the PC market. And while you’ll find many of the numbers and facts here carefully cherry-picked to paint the PC industry in as glowing a light as possible, you’ll also…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009 -
Marvelous Entertainment Asks 17 Percent Of Workforce To Quit
Japanese anime, music and game company Marvelous Entertainment has asking for a number of its employees to retire. The exact number, according to Marvelous, is “in the range of 20” workers (about 17 percent). Those who voluntarily retire between March 23 and April 3 will receive a special severance payment. Their retirement would commence on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2009 -
Left 4 Dead Downloadable Content Due Next Month
Left 4 Dead’s first sizeable piece of downloadable content – the “Survival Pack” – is due for release next month, Microsoft have confirmed. Speaking with CVG, Microsoft PR say the Xbox 360 update will be out on April 21. No official word on the PC version, but you’d expect it to hit on the same…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 -
Curt Schilling Retiring From Baseball, Focusing On Game Development
Pitcher Curt Schilling has announced he’s retiring from Major League Baseball. During his career, Schilling posted a win-loss record of 216-146 and chalked up 3,116 strikeouts. In his official blog, Schilling wrote: “The game always gave me far more than I ever gave it… The game was here long before I was, and will be…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 23, 2009 -
First Peek At Madden NFL 10 Is Full Of Big Ben
EA Sports meister Peter Moore has a Madden challenge for you. What game improvements can you detect in the first screen shot from Madden NFL 10? If you don’t know, the answer is forthcoming. Mr. Moore proudly touts that this year’s edition of the two-decade-old footballer is hitting the “real sweet spot of development for…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2009 -
Tour Aion’s Lovely Ishlagen Zone
At this point I am relatively sure NCsoft just enjoys teasing North American and European online role-playing game fans, releasing another clip of a place we won’t soon be able to go in Aion. Until we have a solid date on when we’ll be able to step foot in the lovely places displayed in videos…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
Wii Rock Band Has Eminence Front Put On It
Wii owners, your weekly, downloadable Rock Band music library catch up is here and it’s full of The Who. Well, the press release is here—you’ll have to wait ’til Tuesday for all this Who. The eight tracks from The Who, which include “Eminence Front,” “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Who Are You,” join four more bonus…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2009 -
DSi To Get Virtual Console For Game Boy Games?
The Wii has a Virtual Console. Lets you download games from the NES, SNES, Master System, etc. No Game Boy, though. Why? Maybe because they were saving those for the new Nintendo DSi. A rumour on game site Kombo says that, at a recent event for Club Nintendo members, it was announced that the DSi…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 -
Left 4 Duty: World At War
Activision’s trailer for the zombie-slaying Verrückt map from the first Call of Duty: World at War map pack is more survival horror than any World War II shooter has a right to be. At first the zombies in Call of Duty: World at War were merely a novelty, but the more I see of them…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
Tell The Guards To Stop Aiming At Me
To: Bashcraft From: Fahey Re: The Magic of Fax Machines So apparently Crecente, McWhertor, Amanda, and Adam are far too busy dealing with the Game Developers Conference to come online and scribble down some notes for the day, so the task is left up to me, the lone wolf, left guarding Kotaku Tower with nothing…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
New Screens Capture The True Essence Of A Bash Party
Finally a set of screenshots for EA’s Boom Blox Bash Party that accurately portray what a true Bash Party should look like. Mind you, most of the images are just colored blocks with various colorful characters interacting with them, but the last one in the gallery completely nails it. It’s hard to believe they managed…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
First Footage Of New Crytek Engine
Earlier in the month, Crysis developers Crytek announced the latest version of their in-house game engine, CryENGINE 3. With no footage. They were saving that for today. Like those Crysis bits? Bet your wallet doesn’t. Click to view
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2009 -
EA Mobile’s Lessons Learned on iPhone: “Keep It Simple, Keep It Sexy”
EA Mobile Associate Producer Mike Pagano is a good panel speaker to have right after lunch — he’s very loud, very animated and likes to swear a lot. And he’s got lots to be swearing about, having captained many of the major mobile games that have come through EA. From Yahtzee to Spore Origins, Pagano…
By AJ Glasser Published March 23, 2009 -
Rock Band Classic Rock Track Pack Rushes To Retail
Harmonix packs twenty classic tunes from the likes of The Who, Rush, Steve Miller Band, and The Police into the Classic Rock Track Pack, a standalone disk hitting store shelves in May. The Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock is the latest retail expansion for the Rock Band series, with 20 classic rock tracks playable…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
BioShock Mobile Going Live – BioShock iPhone To Follow?
The 2D and 3D versions of the BioShock cell phone ports are “hopefully” going out to mobile providers as we speak, said developer IG Fun head man, Sean Malatesta. Here at GDC, Malatesta hosted a panel on the myriad challenges of bringing BioShock to cell phones. Those challenges include only having a single audio channel,…
By AJ Glasser Published March 23, 2009 -
Castle Crashers Is The Xbox Live Game Of The Year
Microsoft has announced the winners of the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade Awards, with The Behemoth’s Castle Crashers walking away with Game of the Year. Castle Crashers actually won three categories in the Xbox Live Arcade Awards, the annual awards voted on by the players themselves. Along with Game of the Year, it was also awarded…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
Screens From A Killing Floor
Following last Friday’s announcement of their upcoming PC shooter Killing Floor, Tripwire Interactive sends along a handful of screenshots to help identify what we’ll be killing on the floor, and how we’ll be killing it. There’s an awful lot of rust and green in this set of screens, which I am sure has something to…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2009 -
GDC Panel: Why The iPhone Just Changed Everything
Neil Young, founder of iPhone gaming guru ngmoco:), kicked off GDC’s iPhone gaming panels with a talk on how Apple’s little monster has revolutionized the game-making and game-playing process. Of course most of what he said was a summary or reference to announcements made last week at Appel’s 3.0 firmware summit. But in case you…
By AJ Glasser Published March 23, 2009