August 2011
7 posts
GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free game... →
Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service →
The patent system isn’t broken — we are →
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Nintendo’s financial health depends on a world where they can keep selling many...
– Marco Arment, writing about pressure on Nintendo to build games for iOS
Spoilers Don't Spoil Anything →
Diablo isn’t not really focused around a PVP experience; if you’re playing with...
– Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade) on the Diablo II DRM
Twitter Introduces "Promoted Tweets To Followers" →
July 2011
5 posts
Sheikh's Name Written In Sand Visible from Space |... →
Star Wars Heavy Metal Medley [Video] →
Activision files complaint over ModernWarfare3.com →
What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To... →
2 tags
MMORPGs tend to be based on a very simple formula: time = progression. Most...
– Simon Ludgate, The F-Words of MMORPGs: Fairness
May 2011
7 posts
Kindle book sales overtake print at Amazon →
Activision Turns MW3 Asset Leak Into Marketing... →
4 tags
Initial Impressions: L.A. Noire
I’m two and a half hours in and I wanted to jot down a few notes about Rockstar’s latest offering. The post-World War II Los Angeles setting is gorgeous, and the character and vehicle design is spot-on. So far, everything the developers promised about the character facial animation (based on motion capture by 32 cameras surrounding the faces of live actors) is true: these are some...
New ESRB Ratings System Quietly Goes Live →
Analysis: Investors slam Microsoft's Skype deal →
Ubisoft Launches Motion Picture Studio →
Back fire: TomTom sold user data to police,... →
April 2011
10 posts
Blizzard talks a bit about patch 4.2 and the... →
Patch 4.1 Content Preview: Rise of the Zandalari →
Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity →
Steam Success Holding Up Half-Life Development?... →
Amazon Kindle... Now with SPAM! →
Jerry Lawson, Inventor of Modern Game Console,... →
Games are number one use for tablets - survey →
BioWare: Mass Effect MMO “makes sense” →
Gabe Newell Sends Out Portal 2 ARG Email Blast →
BioWare writer accused of negatively portraying... →
March 2011
9 posts
High-Tech Flirting Turns Explicit, Altering Young... →
3 tags
However, we are cautious that people might be expecting things from the game,...
– Vincent Kummer, Dead Island’s brand manager
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Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The... →
GameStop 2010 Sales Rise To $9.47B →
AMD: DirectX Holding Back Graphics Performance On... →
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Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm
Developer: People Can Fly (subsidiary of Epic Games)
Assume, for a moment, that what you really want in a first-person shooter is solid gameplay. great graphics, and a plethora of dick jokes. If so, then Bulletstorm may be the game for you. And it delivers.
The marketing executives for Bulletstorm clearly believe that the “incredible new ‘skillshot’ system”...
Steam user violates subscriber agreement, loses... →
Northwestern University defends after-class live... →
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February 2011
2 posts
Analog Hole Episode 185 - 2/7/11 →
EA: Old Republic MMO To Show Profit With 500,000... →
Seems doable, but does this mean that the estimated development costs are exorbitantly high, or that Riccitello didn’t study math?
January 2011
4 posts
Analog Hole Episode 184 - 1/29/11 →
Gamasutra - News - Duke Nukem Forever's U.S.... →
More Matrix movies?
According to an e-mail sent to Ain’t It Cool News by a reader who claims to have heard Keanu Reeves speak, Reeves says the Wachowski brothers are working on “a two picture script treatment that would see [Keanu Reeves] return to the world of the matrix as Neo,” which Reeves would do because he “still has an obligation to the fans to deliver a movie worthy of the title The...
Analog Hole Episode 182 - 12/31/10 →
December 2010
15 posts
Bard's Tale Co-Creator Heineman Lays Out Series'... →
How licensing killed a franchise.
Blizzard Confirms Titan As Studio's Next MMO... →
Blizzard hopes that its next generation MMO will co-exist with World of Warcraft.
Hot Failure: Tuning Gameplay With Simple Player... →
Playtesting mobile games isn’t as easy as you might think.
Analog Hole Episode 181 - 12/13/10 →