Coming out of GDC today was the release of playable XNA games for the Xbox 360. After over a year, Microsoft has finally brought the software to the public in an easy-to-access download via Xbox Live Marketplace, and while the content is currently limited to trials of seven games, the quality of them shocked us [...]
Continue reading...20. February 2008
Microsoft announced that Xbox exclusive franchise, Gears of War, will get a sequel in November. The announcement came from Microsoft’s GDC keynote, where Epic Games’ Tim Sweeny showed off the Unreal Engine 3, and Cliff Bleszinski unveiled a brief teaser trailer. No gameplay details were revealed at the conference, although the teaser does hint at some hot-as-hell [...]
Continue reading...20. February 2008
Toshiba officially announced Tuesday that they’re pulling the plug on their suffering HD-DVD business. Sony’s competing Blu-Ray format is now the last one standing in the high definition format wars. Production of HD-DVD players will come to a halt at the end of March, in what Toshiba’s President, Atsutoshi Nishida, describes as “a heartbreaking decision.” There has [...]
Continue reading...18. February 2008
The Game Developers Conference started in 1986, when a group of developers came together to collaborate and share ideas. The conference is the biggest annual gathering for developers, where the industry’s best rub shoulders under one roof. This year’s GDC is being held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. It is estimated that 16,000 [...]
Continue reading...18. February 2008
There are few things more frustrating than dealing with the extraneously overcomplicated repair process for an expensive console. Xbox 360 continues to suffer more than its share of hardware issues, but Microsoft retains that the failure rate is within the industry standard of 5%. A new study - with a sample size of 1000 consoles - from warranty company SquareTrade , claims [...]
Continue reading...17. February 2008
Burnout Paradise developer Criterion has given you the key to Paradise City, where traffic is appropriately paranoid and nitrous boost is the primary export. While initially slapped behind the wheel of a “beater” for a muscle car, you’ll work your way up the racing ranks through a series of events that stray from traditional three [...]
Continue reading...16. February 2008
Activision has announced that the next interation in the popular Guitar Hero franchise will feature music exclusively from Aerosmith. The game is titled Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and will be released for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii at an unconfirmed date in the month of June. The game will feature a narrative that follows Aerosmith’s real career from [...]
Continue reading...13. February 2008
Electronic Arts president Frank Gibeau has confirmed that the next installment in the Burnout series and a sequel for this year’s Skate were in the lineup for the fiscal year of 2009, which runs from April 2008 until March 2009. Gibeau cited the significant dent Skate made in the credibility of Activision’s long-running Tony Hawk franchise [...]
Continue reading...12. February 2008
Will Wright, the acclaimed brain behind The Sims and Sim City, has had a rough couple of years. His long-time-coming creature feature sim game, Spore, has had the eye of the PC gaming crowd for too long The PC crazies have been clamoring for it, demanding it and violently responding in message boards and blogs regarding [...]
Continue reading...10. February 2008
Where Cherry was hypnotized by a mere e-mail, prompting her to research like a mad-woman, Professor Layton and the Curious Village has me in a trance as well. Five puzzles in to the 2D adventure and I am losing my mind, figuratively and literally. The Studio Ghibli visual style blends with a Tim Burton’s The Nightmare [...]
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20. February 2008
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