Monthly Archives: March 2010
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 10:57 GMT
Cage “not sure” if Wii Fit crowd would play Heavy Rain
Quantic Dream boss David Cage has said to IG that he isn’t sure if anyone from the Wii Fit massive will come and play Heavy Rain on PS3.
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Posted in: Action, Casual, Fitness, Hot, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Wii
Tags: david cage, heavy rain, quantic dream, wii fit
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 10:12 GMT
Xbox Game Room has 56 achievements to unlock
The achievements list for Xbox Game Room has appeared online, showing you’ll get a full 1000 point achievement list for your troubles.
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Posted in: Arcade, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: xbox game room
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 09:52 GMT
Interview – Star Wars: The Old Republic producer Jake Neri
We got the opportunity to visit Lucasarts for hands-on time with Star Wars: The Old Republic last week in San Francisco, and the MMO, in all honesty, looked and played great.
As we ran our female Trooper around killing badies and shooting drones, all actions were smooth, the UI organized yet simple to understand, and the response time was fantastic for a game that is not even complete. We didn’t want to stop playing it, but GDC shuttles wait for no woman.
From what we saw, all bodes well for fans dying to get their hands on the game next spring, but playing it raised more questions than answers.
Luckily, the game’s producer, Jake Neri, was there to answer them.
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 08:40 GMT
Japanese hardware charts – That PSP, eh?
We’re running out of things to say on PSP running out as the hardware winner week-after-week in Japan. But it’s topped the billing once again.
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 08:40 GMT
Sega wants to do Bayonetta 2
Sega president Mike Hayes has revealed the company is very much keen on doing a sequel to Bayonetta.
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sega, Xbox 360
Tags: Bayonetta 2, Mike Hayes, platinum games
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 08:21 GMT
Secret God of War website pops up – what’s it for?
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Posted in: Action, Hot, PS3, Sony
Tags: god of war, god of war III, Sony Santa Monica
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 07:30 GMT
Toriyama would like to remake FFVII
Of all the games in the Final Fantasy series, what game would Final Fantasy XIII director Motomu Toriyama like to remake?
Guess! You’ll never, ever get it.
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Posted in: Hot, PS3, RPG, Square Enix
Tags: final fantasy vii, Motomu Toriyama
Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | 07:26 GMT
StarCraft II friends invites get posterised
Blizzard’s reportedly sending out extra StarCraft II beta keys to existing players so they can get their friends involved; looks as though a boost’s needed to get up to that 10,000 concurrency target.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, Hot, PC, Strategy
Tags: beta, starcraft II
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 22:19 GMT
Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart talks about the studio’s history, his start
A developmental feature with Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart, has been posted up on Bethesda Blog.
In it, Urquhart chats about starting the company, what his highlights were, and how he got into the business of making games.
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Posted in: Bethesda, Development
Tags: feargus urquhart, obsidian
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 21:58 GMT
GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City sees slight delay on PC and PS3
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Posted in: Europe, Hot, PC, PS3, Rockstar, Take-Two
Tags: gta iv, gta iv episodes from liberty city, the ballad of gay tony, the lost and damned
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 21:47 GMT
University of Indiana professor switches out grades for XP
Assistant Telecommunications Professor at the University of Indiana, Lee Sheldon, has decided to switch out the traditional grading program in his two classes, and has replaced it with experience points.
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Posted in: America, Education, Politics
Tags: lee sheldon, university of indiana
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 21:11 GMT
News for Battlefield 1943 PC port coming “shortly”, says EA
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Posted in: Development, EA, Hot, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: battlefield 1943, digital illusions
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 21:35 GMT
Jane McGonigal feels gaming can save the world
Jane McGonigal feels that through gaming, we can save the world and in order to do that, we need to go from spending 3 billion hours a week playing online games, to 21 billion hours a week gaming online.
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Posted in: Development, MMO, Stuff
Tags: Jane McGonigal, society
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 20:16 GMT
Sony’s make.believe video is very inspirational
Sony has put up a video featuring a message from thatgamecompany, as part of the make.believe project.
The mantra of the video is “Believe that anything you can imagine, you can make real”, which has led to the development and release of games like flOw and Flower.
Check out the inspirational video of it below, or through the US PS Blog.
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Posted in: Development, Sony
Tags: flOw, flower, make.believe, thathamecompany
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 19:50 GMT
Ex-Ensemble staffer roasts Bettner on closure reasoning
Ian Fischer, once a lead designer at Ensemble Studios, has blasted manager Paul Bettner over his claims at GDC earlier this month that the outfit was inefficient and prone to crunch.
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Posted in: Development, GDC 2010, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: ensemble studios, Ian Fischer, paul bettner
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 19:50 GMT
BioWare: DLC is not “lunch meat”
BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka told UGO at GDC last week that since the company is no longer independent, it has a better idea of how to handle and distribute DLC.
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Posted in: EA, Hot, PC, PS3, RPG, Xbox 360
Tags: bioware, dlc, dragon age, grag zeschuk, mass effect 2, Ray Muzyka
Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | 19:19 GMT
Bungie reveals Halo: Reach social and matchmaking details
Bungie has been a bit quiet regarding multiplayer features in Halo: Reach, but Shack twisted the development team’s arm and got some information on Active Rosters, Queue-Joining, and the Arena system.
Ace Attorney 5 in the works, original trilogy getting HD brush up