Monthly Archives: March 2011
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 04:51 GMT
Taylor: Age of Empires Online transition “a true pleasure”
Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor has commented on his studio’s take over of Age of Empires Online development, reiterating the message that the transition was amicable.
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Posted in: MMO, Microsoft, PC, Strategy
Tags: age of empires online, AoE Online, chris taylor, Gas Powered Games, Robot, robot entertainment
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 04:06 GMT
Quick Shots: Tomb Raider Trilogy HD compared with PS2 originals
Crystal Dynamics has released a number of comparison shots showing the startling upgrade in graphics for the PlayStation 3′s Tomb Raider Trilogy Pack.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, PS3, Square Enix
Tags: Crystal Dynamics, tomb raider, Tomb Raider Trilogy, Tomb Raider Trilogy HD
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 03:41 GMT
Catherine difficulty patch nearly done
A much-requested patch to lower the difficulty of Atlus’s tense puzzler Catherine is nearly ready for roll out.
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 13:04 GMT
Japanese charts, February 21-27: 3DS launch in figures
Media Create has released its Japanese software and hardware sales figures for the retail week of February 21 – 27, showing the 3DS stroming it in at the last minute behind a surprisingly strong PSP.
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 01:46 GMT
Trion Worlds: RPG mechanics are like getting one piece of Lego at a time
Trion Worlds content developer William Cook has said Rift’s character creation system differs markedly from traditional RPG progression, which he compared to a useless dribbling of construction pieces.
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Posted in: MMO, PC, RPG
Tags: Rift, Rift: Planes of Telara, Trion Worlds
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 01:18 GMT
Good Old Games: DRM scares off customers
Lukasz Kukawski of Good Old Games has said DRM treats legitimate customers like criminals, and discourages customers.
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Posted in: PC, Piracy, Trade
Tags: drm, gog, gog.com, good old games, Lukasz Kukawski
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 01:00 GMT
Quick Shots: Battle Los Angeles screens show city in ruins
Come through for a couple of screens for Saber Interactive’s adaptation of upcoming sci-fi flick, Battle: Los Angeles.
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 00:24 GMT
Rumour: Strider and Frank West still on for Marvel vs Capcom 3
File this one under “extremely dubious” and “probably shop’d”, but an image has appeared apparently showing Strider and Dead Rising’s Frank West in Marvel vs Capcom 3.
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Posted in: Capcom, Fighter, PS3, Rumour, Xbox 360
Tags: marvel vs capcom 3, Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, MVC3, MvC3: Fate of Two Worlds, yeah right
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 00:05 GMT
Shift 2: Unleashed’s Pagani Huayra gameplay footage
You will never, ever get to drive the Pagani Huayra. You’re not even allowed to play Shift 2: Unleashed for a few more weeks. But you can watch a couple of minutes of it in action.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Racing, Xbox 360
Tags: Need for Speed: Shift 2, Shift 2, Shift 2: Unleashed, Slightly Mad, Slightly Mad Studios
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 23:36 GMT
Sim City began life as an Apple II tool
Will Wright has said his classic Sim City series evolved from a tool for placing assets into games.
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Posted in: Development, Simulation
Tags: Sim City, will wright
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 23:22 GMT
Developers: If you want a games job, make games
At a GDC panel called “Breaking into AAA Game Development”, a number of noted developers said the best way to get a job in the games industry is to start making games.
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Posted in: Development, GDC 2011, Jobs, Trade
Mon, Mar 07, 2011 | 06:24 GMT
It’s true – Killzone 3 did max out all of PS3′s SPUs
Killzone 2 famously used only 60 percent of the PlayStation 3′s latent power, but when Guerrilla finished with Killzone 3, they were hard pressed to fit everything in.
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Posted in: PS3, Shooter, Sony, hardware
Tags: guerrilla, Guerrilla Games, Killzone 3, Michiel van der Leeuw
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 22:00 GMT
Age of Empires Online video blog plays dress ups
The first Age of Empires video blog since Gas Powered Games took over development doesn’t impart a great deal of information, but it does feature Chris Taylor in a skirt. And gameplay footage.
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Posted in: Microsoft, PC, Strategy, Videos
Tags: Age of Enpires Online, AoE Online, Gas Powered Games
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 21:49 GMT
Infinity Blade more successful than Shadow Complex
Epic Games’ Mark Rein has said iPhone hit Infinity Blade has been more successful than Xbox Live Arcade favourite Shadow Complex.
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Posted in: App Store, Mobile, RPG, iOS, iPad, iPhone
Tags: chair, chair entertainment, epic, Epic Games, Infinity Blade, mark rein, Shadow Complex
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 21:39 GMT
Blizzard: StarCraft II’s eSports features were “worth it”
Blizzard designer Dustin Browder has said StarCraft II’s final form was drastically confined by the need to make it eSports-friendly, but that it was “worth it”.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, GDC 2011, Mac, PC, Strategy
Tags: blizzard, Dustin Browder, sc2, starcraft 2, starcraft II
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 00:22 GMT
Saturday Shorts: GDC nuggets, game sales, Yakuza 4, Angry Birds
It’s Saturday. There’s loads of tiny stuff to fill the empty spaces inside your brain below.
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Posted in: GDC 2011, Saturday Shorts
Tags: Angry Birds, anthony mundine, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, billy the kid dib, call of juarez: bound in blood, Dead Nation, death cab for cutie, Depeche Mode, Far Cry 2: Fortune's Edition, Fight Night: Champion, harmonix, Hideki Konno, iNiS, Lego Star Wars III, ncaa football12, Night of the Sacrifice, om Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, popcap game sale, rock band 3, sales, starpoint gemini, steam sale, THQ GDC talk, University of SoCal, yakuza 4
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 00:21 GMT
Digital Extremes sheds a bit of light on The Darkness II
The Darkness II’s project director, Sheldon Carter, hinted around a bit about the storyline in the game to Destructoid during GDC this week.
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Posted in: 2K, Action, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: Digital Extremes, the dakrness II, the darkness
Sun, Mar 06, 2011 | 00:09 GMT
DICE doesn’t plan on making a FPS MMO
DICE GM Karl-Magnus Troedsson has said the firm doesn’t have plans to create a FPS MMO, so what this means is no BFMMO.
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Posted in: EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: battlefield 3, bf3, dice, Karl Magnus Troedsson
Sat, Mar 05, 2011 | 23:57 GMT
Yoshida “excited to see what kinds of games,” small developers create for PS Suite
Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has said that not only as NGP been in development since “beginning of 2008,” right around the time rumors starting trickling out, but that both triple-A “short form games” are in the works for the new handheld.
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Posted in: Development, NGP, Sony, hardware
Tags: PlayStation Suite, PS Suite, Shuhei Yoshida
Sat, Mar 05, 2011 | 23:39 GMT
Guild Wars 2 demo videos show off the Norn
NCsoft was at GDC this week, showing off Guild Wars 2 and its Norn to media outlets, and GameTrailers has posted the demo in four-parts for you.
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Posted in: MMO, NCSoft, PC
Tags: arenanet, guild wars, Guild Wars 2
The Binding of Isaac DRM-free Unholy Edition hitting retail March 16 with Steam key