When people complain about games, especially big, popular new releases, their gripes usually fall on deaf ears. That isn’t the case with Resistance 2, a sequel that many felt didn’t measure up to its original. Resistance: Fall of Man was a pretty standard people-vs-scary-aliens shooter, but as one of the first killer apps for the [...]
No matter what you think of the guy, you gotta admit, Peter Molyneux is a mover and shaker in the games industry. As an innovative force in gaming, Peter Molyneux understands and appreciates when a title bucks the established conventions and boldly breaks new ground. Only a select handful of games in the history of [...]
My, my, if the blogopshere isn’t alive with critics these days! All over the place, gamers are questioning long-held beliefs and calling out inane or dated traditions in the medium. With all this healthy debate, I daresay our industry must be in the middle of a virtual Renaissance!
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I might be a little biased, but I tend to think gamers are pretty great people. They’re witty and creative, with a hearty dose of culture-sense and a focus on goals and objectives. Unfortunately, they’re also notoriously unlucky in the love department. The stereotypical gamer is a basement-dwelling loner whose closest female friends are probably [...]
The Tokyo Game Show is on everybody’s mind right now. It’s one of the biggest expos of the year, and it’s a chance for the world to look at a massive cultural center for gaming. Still, there’s a lot more going on than just demos, interviews and panels. TGS is a battleground for the two [...]
When you’re at the helm of a massive FPS dynasty, every decision counts. For the most part, Bungie has handled the responsibility pretty well. But with the upcoming release of ODST, a game that’s been through multiple revisions, marketing strategies, and price changes, some are looking back on Bungie’s strategy with a more critical eye. [...]
No doubt about it, my friends: the autumn chill is in the air, and that means the holiday season will soon be upon us. In preparation for the coming storm, the Sony war machine–black, shiny and newly slimmed-down–is pulling out all the stops. One of its best assets in the console war is Uncharted 2, [...]
Team-ups are quickly becoming a theme of the day, so I figured I’d throw this juicy glimpse of the future your way and see what you thought. Check it out:
Bungie.net reports that Mega Man creator and Capcom R&D head, Keiji Inafune, stopped by the developer’s office in the wake of PAX. Apart from getting his [...]
I think the folks at Bungie might be reading my mind. The day after I go off on a long series of posts about the role of narrative in video gaming, they go and create a story-tastic trailer for the upcoming Halo game, ODST. The ad is two and a half minutes long and, surprisingly, [...]
Everyone has an origin story, even the greatest of us didn’t come out of the womb fully-formed. There were diapers, history lessons, puberty, and of course, senior yearbook photos. Now, thanks to Pwn or Die! (via Joystiq), we now know what Master Chief was like before he became a Master, and was just [...]
