June 2012
9 posts
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50% off Ultima and Wing Commander Series →
For $27 you can get ten Ultima and five Wing Commander games though Monday, June 4 at 11:59 PM EDT. Purportedly runs on Windows XP/Vista/Win 7.
I am so tempted.
CNN: Man Turning Airplane into Dream Home →
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Blizzard offices raided over Diablo 3 refund... →
I did not see this coming.
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The 20-Year Estrangement of the Two Guys from... →
Leigh Alexander interviews Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, better known as Two Guys from Andromeda, the creative team that brought the Sierra Space Quest adventures to life. The Two Guys have launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a new “SpaceVenture”—the Space Quest intellectual property is owned by Activision these days and Activision isn’t ready to do anything with it yet.
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The Brainy Gamer: High Noon for Shooters
Great comparison by Michael Abbott, a.k.a. The Brainy Gamer, of the modern shooter genre to television Westerns of the 40s–60s. Abbott asserts that while Rockstar seems to be trying to move the shooter genre forward in its most recent games (Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire, and Max Payne 3), the developers seem unable to escape the current expectations of the FPS genre:
[I]t’s Rockstar’s Max...
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“[P]eople choose to buy an iPhone. No one chooses to go to prison. And if you...”
– John Gruber on the EFF’s Crystal Prison article
Exactly.
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May 2012
4 posts
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“Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak called for Apple to jettison all its existing...”
– The Macalope on Steve Wozniak’s call for a more open Apple in “The Macalope Daily: And now a word from some kooks”
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EFF: Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open...
On May 29, the EFF published an article calling for Apple to make its iOS and Mac OS operating systems more open. The quotes below are from that article.
Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices,
are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of
restrictions imposed by the OS, the hardware, and Apple’s
contracts with carriers as well as contracts...
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Tim Cook on Video Games
I view that we are in gaming now in a fairly big way. One
of the reasons people buy an iPod touch is gaming. Some buy it
for music. I realize that is not the big screen you are
talking about. Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people
play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future,
we’ll see. Customers love games.
I’m not interested in being in the console business...
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“I don’t have anything against Android. The thing that’s frustrating is that...”
– Eric Hautemont, CEO of Days of Wonder, on why there isn’t an Android port of Ticket to Ride.
March 2012
1 post
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“When it comes to Mass Effect 3, certainly they have the ‘right’ however vaguely...”
– Tycho (Jerry Holkins) at Penny Arcade
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... →
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“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... →
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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... →
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“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... →