On Friday morning, Gearbox Software and 2K Games dropped a bomb on gamers and industry alike at Seattle's Penny Arcade Expo. Not only was Duke Nukem Forever alive once again, it was playable. On Sunday, they dropped another one. 3D Realms, the company that gave birth to the cigar chompin', ...
[In this analysis, Gamasutra writer Jeffrey Matulef examines the silent protagonist through video game history, looking to games including Half-Life 2, Okami, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Deadly Premonition for prominent examples or surprising deviations.] "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than ...
Brian R. Wood, 33, a lead designer on Relic Entertainment's Company of Heroes real-time strategy game series, was tragically killed in a Seattle-area car accident on Friday night. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Wood was driving his Subaru Outback along the Whiteby Island area of Highway 20 when his car ...
Independent MI-based developer Stardock is laying off staff after a rocky launch for its PC fantasy strategy title Elemental: War Of Magic, according to comments from company CEO Brad Wardell. The title, which has received mixed ratings on MetaCritic due to what some reviewers considered the unfinished nature of the ...
Maxis surprised gamers by announcing action RPG Darkspore as its next title after years of Sim games and the sprawling Spore -- but in this interview, executive producer Michael Perry explains how the project came about.
Take-Two's Mafia II reached the top position on the all-platform UK sales charts for the second week in a row despite a 23 percent week-on-week drop in sales for the week ended September 4, Chart-Track said Monday. Take-Two said in a recent earnings call that it expects Mafia II, developed ...
More fun than a Stattenheim Remote Control? Good news for budding Doctors: there will be a sonic screwdriver-style remote out in time for upcoming Wii title Doctor Who: Return to Earth.…
Though the announcement of action-RPG Darkspore was a surprise, Maxis executive producer Michael Perry says that it was a natural outgrowth of the technology the studio developed for Spore. "When we built Spore, we built a lot of great things. It's groundbreaking in many different ways..." says Perry, as part ...
Dr. Richard Marks, senior researcher for Sony Computer Entertainment's R& D department, has been talking about Sony's Move motion control device versus Microsoft's Kinect, suggesting that Move's controller/camera combo is 'flexible' compared to the "set of experiences" the body-capture based Kinect offers. When asked in the new issue of Edge ...
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