Archive for July, 2007
Can You Handle ‘THEY’?
In a refreshing turn, by at Newsweek’s LevelUp blog N’Gai has some suitably chastising commentary on the newly-announced FPS entitled simply THEY. that overly-simplistic name is accompanied by a nearly informationless press release, and reinforces the concept that whatever THEY is, it’s not worth lo…
Retail Ads tip At $50 360 Price Cut
Following closely on the heels of Sony’s $100 cut in price for the PlayStation 3, retail ads seem to indicate an upcoming $50 price drop for the Xbox 360. Gamespot investigates the rumour: “It’s clear that a number of retailers are expecting an Xbox 360 price cut next week, so much so that they’re w…
Mainstream Audience ‘Noticing’ Games Again
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Shigeru Miyamoto makes it plain that he’s extremely pleased with the way the Wii has changed the face of gaming. He says that he gets the feeling that ‘because of the Wii, public … are finally taking notice of videogames again.’ The interview goes on…
Molyneux on the Vanity of Gamers
Fable 2 is turning out to be a fantasy game unlike any other, with a new feature announced nearly every instance Molyneux opens his mouth. At a games industry event in Brighton, he sat down for a chat with Gamasutra to discuss using vanity as an incentive. “Fable 2 will take a similar dramatic appro…
Mark Rein downplays DX10 expectations
Speaking in an interview with gaming site CVG, Epic boss Mark Rein downplayed the impact of DirectX 10 on the PC market. Speaking on the matter of better experiences in PC games with the latest DirectX release, he said:
To be honest, and I’m going to cast a small pall on the industry here, I d…
Catholics asked to look for converts in Second Life game
It’s possible the next date you are wandering the realm of the massive online environment of Second Life, you may be approached by another avatar asking the question, “Got Jesus?” It may not happen precisely like that, but an exposition written by academic Antonio Spadaro in the Ro…
Ad scans show $50 price cut for Premium Xbox 360
In what seems like a repeat story of leaked store circulars foretelling the price cut of the Sony PS3, now the printed pages are once again making us aware of another price cut, but that moment for Microsoft’s Premium Xbox 360. As first speculated in “The Hollywood Reporter (see previous…
Review: Alien Syndrome– Wii versus PSP
Alien Syndrome is–as its name suggests–sci-fi through and through–from the quirky bloops of a space symphony to the alien critters you’re tasked with destroying. It’s a sci-fi RPG based off the original SEGA arcade title. As Earth Command Trooper Aileen Harding, you fig…
The Completely Fair Scheduler’s Impact On Games
eldavojohn writes “We’ve heard a bit about the completely fair scheduler previously, but now Kernel Trap looks at the implications that new scheduler has for 3D games in Linux. Linus Torvalds noted, ‘I don’t think any scheduler is perfect, and nearly all of the duration, the RightAnswer(tm) ends up …
Firm Sues Sony by Cell Processor
An anonymous reader writes that earlier that month, Sony received word of a lawsuit from a Newport Beach company called Parallel Processing. They’ve filed against the electronics giant alleging that the Cell processor, used in the PlayStation 3, infringes on a patent they own. They’ve made the somew…
