And it was all going soooooo well… After generating huge amounts of positive hype following the salvation of both Riddick: Dark Athena & Ghostbusters from the murky depths of development purgatory following Actizzard-gate, Atari seemed to be on track to score two successive hits. Only, as usual for Atari, they fucked it up… again!
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If there was one story that took the GDC by storm, it was OnLive. The streaming game service from one of the guys behind Quicktime that aims to end the console wars by, well, ending them alltogether and offer even the most basic laptop the opportunity to play Crysis with all the settings ramped up […]
Don’t worry, Microsoft hasn’t bought Valve (*phew*). Rather, Microsoft have used the GDC to announce a shedload of functional changes to their red-headed stepchild of a PC games platform. Basically aping what others have been offering for a while now, hit the jump to find out just what can be had on other services!
The PC has been largely free of the blight of the monetised morsels of gameplay that is Downloadable Content. Largely down to the lack of a standardised platform with which to distribute (and collect payment), ala. the current games consoles, nobody has really managed to get a firm grip on the masses who prefer to […]
Gameindustry.biz carries the unfortunate news that Nintendo are too raise the trade price for the Wii in the UK to the order of £18-20 (from its current RRP of £179.99), despite the console making a profit from day one and selling more boxes than, well, boxes of boxes! The excuse? The collapsing value of the […]
In what could be considered a characteristically common move, Johnathan Ross has once again said something he probably shouldn’t have. The loud-mouthed chatshow host (and avid gamer) has frequently let slip potentially litigious banter through several Web 2.0 outlets. Whilst participating in a bit of post-BAFTA Twittering, the chatterbox star let slip something he ‘probably’ […]
Rock Paper Shotgun recently had a chat with Christian Svensson, vice president of strategic planning @ Capcom. Whether this chat involved Meer & Rossignol drawing up alongside Svensson in a van with blacked out windows, leaping on him with a potato sack and bundling him away into a dark dank room is, as yet, unknown. […]
GameIndustry.biz has a very interesting editorial article on how the dire economic situation™ might stifle creativity in the industry following the risk associated with commercial failure of products based on newly developed IPs such as Dead Space & Mirror’s Edge. Luckily, there’s light at the end of the tunnel as, with the avenues for distribution […]
Dell have curiously jumped feet-first into the online digital market, bringing Software, Games & Music (the latter for EU customers only) via a NEXWAY-powered portal. Albums can be purchased for what I can only assume are sensible prices (the site seems fairly schizophrenic, offering prices in either Pounds Sterling or Euros as it sees fit), […]
Despite everyone’s misgivings and apathy towards Haze, I don’t think anyone was happy to see Free Radical go to the wall. The company was one of the first victims of the economic downturn and has been operating in administration on a skeleton staff whilst a buyer was sought. Well, now one has, and it’s everyones […]