Microsoft’s PC initiative, Games for Windows Live, hasn’t exactly been a smashing success. Actually, calling it anything close to that would be the first sign of insanity. The service has been plagued with complaints of pricing structure, user-interface issues, and cries of “Steam rip-off”. Well Microsoft’s attempting to reverse the ship now by completely redesigning [...]
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Epic Games President Mike Capps has recently been interviewed by GamesIndustry.biz and has given some newsworthy information about his and Epic’s stance on the used game market. He called the secondary market “a huge issue in the United States”.
We all know Epic has been making steps to curb used game sales, namely putting an unlock [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2008 in Editorial, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PC, Sony PSP, Sony Playstation 3
If you don’t know by now, I love numbers. So, I decided to introduce a new segment that I’ll run a few days before the NPD releases for the previous months. Basically, I’ll just give my predictions of the top selling games and consoles of the previous month. Then we can compare my predictions to [...]
Today, on ClickZ, writer Kevin Carney has caused some disturbance in the gaming market by proclaiming that the “consoles are facing extinction” because of the casual market and the lack of innovation in the current consoles. In fact, he goes so far as to say that this generation was a “giant leap backwards”.
Well, first of [...]
Posted on November 09th, 2008 in Microsoft Xbox 360, Review
The original Gears of War was absolutely great in my book. Sure the story wasn’t very classy, but the gritty graphics and addictive gameplay really made that game in my opinion. And good news for Gears fans: Gears of War 2 keeps the great things about the original Gears and tries to improve upon some [...]
The latest issue of EGM should be hitting mailboxes and shelves in the next couple of days and in it, there’s some juicy new rumors from EGM’s rumor-finder, Quartermann. This month, the mysterious Quartermann has the scoop on Cliff Bleszinski’s next game after Gears of War 2 and what Sony is planning to do with [...]
Most games enter the “gold” status about a month before the release date. At this time, the game has been finished and polished to a sheen (usually) by the developers and they’re ready to ship the game to manufacturers and start ramping up advertising. Most publishers and developers need a month to complete this process [...]