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07.20.09Evolution 2009 Tournament ResultsThe 2009 Evolution Fighting Game Championships rocked The Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend, as fighting game players from around the world showed up to compete in arguably one of the largest and most densely high-level player packed tournaments ever. Continue Reading...
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07.08.09Site NewsThe image galleries were slightly broken, and now they're not. Blame Wordpress for any trouble. Also note that I have applied liberal amounts of php duct tape to fix the problem, so if the site eventually cracks a gasket and breaks, oh well.
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06.30.09News News News – Morning EditionGame Designer Brian Reynolds has joined Zynga as Chief Designer. In other news, what the hell is Zynga? Oh look, there's a StarCraft II LAN petition. Battle.net be damned. Look, an interview with Terminal Reality Executive Producer Brendan Goss. Obligatory, "Who you gonna call?" joke goes here. The PS3 will emulate PS2 games,
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05.26.09Cities XL: SimCity MMO Style!I'm so lazy today, here's the press release! Paris, France – 26 May 2009 – Independent developer Monte Cristo today revealed the content details of their genre-defining city-builder -- Cities XL. The game, which is playable in both single- and massively persistent multiplayer modes, offers a unique experience for both, as detailed below - In solo mode, Cities XL will offer - ● 25 maps featuring varying landscapes - from canyons to grassy hills and snowy mountains ● Around 500 buildings based on various architectural styles (European, American …) ● Diverse citizen structure: Four levels of wealth, four main different needs (Services, Environmental, Prices and ...
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05.18.09Champions Online DelayedSo it looks like September 1st is the new launch date for Champions Online. Apparently this is 'critically important', you know as opposed to just important or just critical. From Cryptic: It is critically important for an MMO to be as good as it possibly can be at launch. Through our constant dialogue with our vocal and supportive community of beta testers, we quickly realized that in order to implement certain features that we all considered important the development of Champions Online would require more time. So that's what we're going to give it. Cryptic has a proven track record of ...
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05.14.09Alan Wake to Have Animation RedoneRemedy announced that it is going to be working with Imagination Studios for motion capture and character animation on their upcoming title Alan Wake. Any sort of update on the status of Alan Wake is a good thing seeing as how it was announced way back at E3 of 2005 and we still know very little about the game. This new tid bit of information is especially welcome considering the group they are working with for mo-cap and animation. Imagination Studios has a pretty impressive track record from working with several different studios. They worked with DICE for Battlefield: Bad Company ...
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05.11.09Modern Warfare 2 – No More Call of Duty?Maybe I am just reading into this too much, but it would seem that the new title from Infinity Ward will not be considered part of the Call of Duty series. The studio is responsible for creating the series as well as one of the most successful games of this generation, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Treyarch is the other studio responsible for titles like Call of Duty 3 as well as Call of Duty: World at War. Most of the people I talk with don't like the Treyarch developed titles as much as the main Infinity Ward titles. It ...
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05.07.09Call of Duty 4 Sales Hit 13 MillionThat is a lot of copies. I guess Mike Griffith, publishing CEO of Activision, said something about it earlier today. It has been about a year and a half since the game first released. In comparison, that is more than any Halo game, more than GTA 3 and very close to GTA Vice city sales. I don't know the specific details but I assume it is across the PS3 and Xbox 360 with the GOTY editions as part of the number as well. I would guess that the DS version of the game isn't included in the 13 million since it ...
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05.07.09Activision Announces Everything HeroIt doesn't surprise me that Activision is coming out with more Guitar Hero games but this is getting ridiculous. Today Activision confirmed the release of both Guitar Hero 5 as well as Guitar Hero: Van Halen. On top of that they also announced Band Hero and DJ Hero. The naming difference between Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero confuses me a bit. Activision says that Guitar Hero 5 "gives players an unprecedented level of control over the way they play the game with the ability to drop in and out of songs and change band members, instruments and difficulty levels on ...
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05.06.09Garriott sues NCsoft for $24 millionRichard Garriott, the creator of Ultima and Tabula Rasa, is suing former employer NCsoft for 24 million buckaroos. Of course any further detail is not known as it is an ongoing suit, but it looks as if the nature of the suite is related to, "Torts - Property - Other Fraud". Wikipedia helps us out explaining what Tort law is: Tort law is a body of law that addresses, and provides remedies for, civil wrongs not arising out of contractual obligations. The rest I'm going to steal from GameIndustry.biz, that's where the original article is anyway. Garriott (aka Lord British) famously left ...
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We get our news from Destructoid- Kick pigs in Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition because you canZeno Clash developer ACE Team knows us all too well. Apparently, we let the latest trailer for Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition slip into inbox obscurity, which is unfortunate. We were informed that the video features hot pig-on-foot action, which is not unfortunate. Hence this write-up of said trailer. Jump straight to the one-minute mark if you […]
- GDC 10: Move: The Shoot has me spinningOn-rails light gun action is what you're getting with this PlayStation Move game called The Shoot. It's called The Shoot because you'll find yourself traveling through mock movie sets. Think of an updated Virtua Cop that takes you through generic film lots and you'll be on the right track. We saw a science fiction-based […]
- GDC 10: Quantic Dream designed its own motion control device for Heavy RainWith the reveal of PlayStation Move, the question on everyone's minds is whether or not Heavy Rain will be updated to take advantage of the motion controller. While Quantic Dream is quiet on the topic, we do know that the developer had originally designed Heavy Rain with a motion controller in mind. But taking it a step further, David Cage […]
- GDC 10: Hands-on with Bit.Trip RunnerLawsuits aside, I'm a huge fan of the Bit.Trip series. I may wish nothing but destruction on Gaijin Games, but hell if they don't make some fantastic stuff. Bit.Trip Runner, Gaijin's newest game, was playable on the GDC expo floor. As the first Bit.Trip platformer and the first game in the series to not consist entirely of abstra […]
- GamesMaster to return to UK TV?The majority of UK gamers will look back fondly on the year 1992 as it saw the start of the cult gaming show, GamesMaster, air on television. 12 years later, the classic show is rumoured to return by Q4 2010. GamesMaster was the very first television programme aired in the UK exclusively involving videogames. The original show was marketed i […]
- GDC 10: The best (and sexiest) Move game ever: SliderI've played a few Move games, but the one I just played (above) is the best so far. It's called Slider, and it is the only Move game so far from SCEJ. Slider is set in Hong Kong. A poor office boss and his lovely secretary are holed up in their office. The bills are overdue and the mafia is out to get them. Their only escape? Offi […]
- Uncharted 2: 'moving away from QTE's was the way to go'When not conveying Naughty Dog's production process in intricate detail, Uncharted 2 co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand also talked about the team's larger design goals during his postmortem today. At least one of those goals was to further increase the scale and intensity of Uncharted's cinematic experience: this meant focusing […]
- GDC 10: GAMMA 4, by cactusEach year, Gamma entrants are asked to make games under certain constraints. This year, all Gamma4 entries must be controlled with a single button. I'm going to write up my impressions of all six Gamma4 games. Yeah, that's what the actual game looks like. At his IGS talk earlier in the week, cactus called Mark Essen his "hero. […]
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- Uncharted 2 designer concedes story lags in final actDuring "Among Friends," Richard Lemarchand's Uncharted 2 postmortem at GDC 10, the co-lead designer admitted that the macro-design of the story and gameplay beats early on in production resulted in a mechanically exciting, but narratively lacking final act in the mythic city of Shambhala. "There aren't really enou […]
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