August 2011
7 posts
GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free game... →
Aug 25th
Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service →
Aug 23rd
The patent system isn’t broken — we are →
Aug 15th
1 tag
“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
Aug 14th
Spoilers Don't Spoil Anything →
Aug 12th
“Diablo isn’t not really focused around a PVP experience; if you’re playing with...”
– Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade) on the Diablo II DRM
Aug 8th
Twitter Introduces "Promoted Tweets To Followers" →
Aug 2nd
July 2011
5 posts
Sheikh's Name Written In Sand Visible from Space |... →
Jul 31st
Star Wars Heavy Metal Medley [Video] →
Jul 21st
Activision files complaint over ModernWarfare3.com →
Jul 17th
What Gamers Want: Researchers Develop Tool To... →
Jul 6th
2 tags
“MMORPGs tend to be based on a very simple formula: time = progression. Most...”
– Simon Ludgate, The F-Words of MMORPGs: Fairness
Jul 5th
May 2011
7 posts
Kindle book sales overtake print at Amazon →
May 25th
Activision Turns MW3 Asset Leak Into Marketing... →
May 19th
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...
May 18th
3 notes
New ESRB Ratings System Quietly Goes Live →
May 12th
Analysis: Investors slam Microsoft's Skype deal →
May 11th
Ubisoft Launches Motion Picture Studio →
May 7th
Back fire: TomTom sold user data to police,... →
May 3rd
April 2011
10 posts
Blizzard talks a bit about patch 4.2 and the... →
Apr 30th
Patch 4.1 Content Preview: Rise of the Zandalari →
Apr 29th
Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity →
Apr 28th
Steam Success Holding Up Half-Life Development?... →
Apr 13th
Amazon Kindle... Now with SPAM! →
Apr 13th
Jerry Lawson, Inventor of Modern Game Console,... →
Apr 12th
Games are number one use for tablets - survey →
Apr 11th
BioWare: Mass Effect MMO “makes sense” →
Apr 11th
Gabe Newell Sends Out Portal 2 ARG Email Blast →
Apr 10th
BioWare writer accused of negatively portraying... →
Apr 2nd
March 2011
9 posts
High-Tech Flirting Turns Explicit, Altering Young... →
Mar 29th
3 tags
“However, we are cautious that people might be expecting things from the game,...”
– Vincent Kummer, Dead Island’s brand manager
Mar 26th
4 tags
Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The... →
Mar 25th
GameStop 2010 Sales Rise To $9.47B →
Mar 25th
AMD: DirectX Holding Back Graphics Performance On... →
Mar 24th
1 tag
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”...
Mar 19th
Steam user violates subscriber agreement, loses... →
Mar 15th
Northwestern University defends after-class live... →
Mar 3rd
2 tags
ListenAnalog Hole Gaming Episiode 186, in which we...
Mar 3rd
February 2011
2 posts
Analog Hole Episode 185 - 2/7/11 →
Feb 8th
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?
Feb 5th
January 2011
4 posts
Analog Hole Episode 184 - 1/29/11 →
Jan 29th
Gamasutra - News - Duke Nukem Forever's U.S.... →
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
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...
Jan 24th
Analog Hole Episode 182 - 12/31/10 →
Jan 1st
December 2010
15 posts
Bard's Tale Co-Creator Heineman Lays Out Series'... →
How licensing killed a franchise.
Dec 31st
Dec 22nd
4,014 notes
Blizzard Confirms Titan As Studio's Next MMO... →
Blizzard hopes that its next generation MMO will co-exist with World of Warcraft.
Dec 19th
Hot Failure: Tuning Gameplay With Simple Player... →
Playtesting mobile games isn’t as easy as you might think.
Dec 17th
Analog Hole Episode 181 - 12/13/10 →
Dec 14th