Monthly Archives: January 2011

In Stardock’s second high profile hire for the week, the developer has employed author Dave Stern to provide creative direction to ongoing Elemental: War of Magic development as well as future projects.

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Season two of Sony’s PlayStation-Network distributed TV show The Tester has wound up, with one lucky contestent not walking home with prizes, but instead staying on at SCEA San Diego as a quality assurance tester.

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Ghost Mania is a WiiWare falling blocks puzzler that distinguishes itself by being manic, and full of ghosts – and by being upside down. The first gameplay trailer demonstrates this startlingly disorienting shift with a generously lengthy look at the game’s opening levels.

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Amazon is an increasingly serious contender for the games retail crown, but its demographic rarely overlaps with other retailers’. Nowhere is this more evident than in the online outlet’s sales charts, where titles like Just Dance 2 reign supreme and Call of Duty: Black Ops sulks somewhere down at the bottom.

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What the world needs now is jobs – sweet jobs – and in Texas, they’ve got them. Having poured USD $234 million and 3,400 permanent positions into the Lone Star State, the games industry is being hailed as a success story of economic incentives schemes.

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The Sims medieval adds a number of new features to the phenomenally popular sandbox series, including quests, combat and magic abilities. More to the point, it adds in some seriously fancy duds and pimpin’ cribs. See the latest trailer and screenshots through the cut.

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US-based games industry market research firm, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR), has appointed as “director of editorial insights” former IGN staffer Erik Brudvig.
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What might have been! Concept artist Charlie Wen went through several designs before settling on God of War’s distinctive protagonist, as revealed by a stash of concept art.

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The North American ratings body ESRB has completed their assessment of Two Worlds II, describing the RPG as including NPCs who protest their dismemberment, indirect references to prostitution, and a pair of “seductively” exposed buttocks.

The full blurb is below.

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Swedish strategy-specialist publisher Paradox Interactive is on its way to New York for its annual convention, and is promising seven new reveals to liven the two day game-a-thon in late January.

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Notoriously conservative activist and constitutional attorney Phyllis Schlafly has composed a New Year’s resolution list for state legislators, including a suggestion of banning the sale or other exposure of violent video games to children.

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Korean-language interviews have sparked speculation that Bluehole’s fantasy MMORPG The Exiled Realms of Arborea – commonly known, thankfully, as TERA – will again miss its supposedly international release, opening doors in Japan well before North American and European beta testing begins.

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Tropico 4 designer Boian Spasov has spoken out on some of the new features to be found in the follow up to last year’s topical island dictatorship sim.

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Rock Band 3′s ultimate accessory, the Fender Squier Stratocaster, is now available for pre-order in the US.

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Stardock has revealed that it’s hired Civilization V lead designer Jon Shafer to design and implement mod support for Elemental.

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Konami has sent over some new screenshots for No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise, which feature Travis Tochdown’s massive sword.

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A series of studies has demonstrated that no matter how hard you waggle your Wiimote, you’re unlikely to reach the moderate activity level required to increase your health and fitness.

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Rovio has announced Angry Birds is now available through Intel’s AppUp center for netbooks and laptops.

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Back in October, EA announced Dead Space 2 was hitting iDevices January 25 and that it would bridge the gap between the first and second game in the series.

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Alain Quinto, one of the community managers at EA Sports, as posted some information regarding the controls for Fight Night Champion over on the US PS Blog.

Apparently, the developers removed “the need for all the quarter-circle or half circle gestures on the analog stick” this time out.

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