Aww yeah. Check out more images from the new stuff here: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/142/14251204/imgs_1.html Spyborgs, baby. Buy two.
Steam Strategies
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/16/unreal-tournament-3-and-the-new-lazarus-effect/ This is an interesting phenomenon: Now, traditionally it’s the case that when a multiplayer game stumbles, it doesn’t get back up again. UT3 seemed destined to go gently into that good night… and yet, as we coast into the Spring of 2009, a game released in 2007 is suddenly the talk of town all…
Day One DLC
Capcom Releases 5$ Multiplayer DLC for RE5 Capcom released a multiplayer mode as Downloadable Content for the recently released Resident Evil 5, and of course the intertubes are aflame with hate. Although I have no problems with it personally, I can understand the argument against it — by releasing the multiplayer patch so soon after…
Game Story Seed
So there’s this story today about a US satellite and a Russian Satellite colliding. US and Russian officials yesterday confirmed that the satellites – an Iridium communications spacecraft and a Russian Kosmos-2251 military satellite – collided at about noon GMT on Tuesday. The first known example of a satellite collision in space occurred about 800km…
Eduardo the Samurai Toaster – This game looks awesome
http://www.semnatstudios.com/screens.html Another reason to get me some WiiWare gift cards — take notice, potential gift-givers! Eduardo the Samurai Toaster is a 2D sidescrolling run ‘n gun action game featuring frenetic combat spread across 13 diverse landscapes. Up to four players can fight alongside each other to defeat their foes or just to annoy each other….
Communication and Games Development
A few year-end musings: I’m hoping someone in another industry might be able to help me out, here. In any collaborative endeavor, communication is of the utmost importance. But it’s becoming clearer and clearer to me as the years go by, and as I do this more and more, that people don’t really want to…
An interesting side note to my Used Games post
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171878 A few interesting points in this article: “those who do buy used games have a good deal of their purchasing power soaked up by GameStop and other specialty retailers — to the detriment of both conventional electronics outlets and new game sales in general.” Interesting. Not very surprising, but interesting that there’s data that points to…
What the… Spyborgs news?
http://gonintendo.com/?p=66227 This is the first Spyborgs-related story I’ve seen in a while. I guess Nintendo power has a little tidbit on it’s hands. I can’t say for sure either way, but at least it’s a mention of the project I’m working on. I gotta get my hands on the January edition. I don’t think it…
Wii Stats: It’s stories like this…
That make me glad I’m developing for the Wii. Sheesh! http://www.gamespot.com/news/6202243.html?part=rss&tag=gs_news&subj=6202243 TOP-SELLING HARDWARE – NOVEMBER 2008 Wii–2.04 million Nintendo DS–1.57 million Xbox 360–836,000 PlayStation Portable–421,000 PlayStation 3–378,000 PlayStation 2–206,000 Of course, then there’s the very next paragraph: TOP-SELLING SOFTWARE – NOVEMBER 2008 Title / Publisher / Units* 1) Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) /…
My View on Used Games
There’s been a lot of huff in the enthusiast press recently about used game sales, how the industry hates them, and how the “working man” hates the industry for hating them. The argument FOR them usually goes something like this: If I sell my car the manufacturer doesn’t get a cut. If I sell my…