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An Associated Press article gives props to those of us who buys lots of game, and read and write about them, and consume them as a form of entertainment on par with television and movies. The article hints that core...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Tech blog Venture Beat has a story on the success of World of Goo, which is almost as indie as indie gaming gets.It's the product of two guys, no money, and lots of hard work. The ex-Electronic Arts designer-developer duo,...
POSTED Monday, January 5, 2009
In light of recent closures and layoffs in the videogaming industry, Garnett Lee at 1up re-examines the conventional wisdom that videogaming is recession proof:...with installed hardware numbers hitting critical mass, you expect publishers would be putting their foot on the...
POSTED Monday, December 29, 2008
That cool intro to Left 4 Dead isn't just for kicks. It's the game's version of a tutorial. From a blog entry by Valve's Jason Mitchell:We decided that it would make sense to begin the game experience with a non-interactive...
POSTED Monday, December 8, 2008
One of the my favorite games this year is Far Cry 2. Unfortunately, it's published by Ubisoft, who's never met an ingame ad they didn't like. I'm a bit worried what's going to become of all the billboards strewn around...
POSTED Thursday, December 4, 2008
Everything about the Nintendo Wii is just so goshdarn cute. Even it's profit! From an article in Forbes:Unlike its competitors, Nintendo has figured out how to make money from its console sales. Sony loses money on each Playstation sold. Microsoft...
POSTED Tuesday, December 2, 2008
A great way to get attention is to invent facts. It doesn't matter if the facts are wrong, because by the time people have figured that out, they're already looking at you. Objective achieved! For instance, Games Radar published a...
POSTED Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Oh thank heaven for a copy of WWE Smackdown at four in the morning!This month, participating 7-Eleven(R) stores introduce a line-up of seven of the top video game titles for sale as well as...prepaid gift cards [for MMOs]. "Video games...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
The monthly NPD figures for videogame sales are like weekend box office returns or the price of a barrel of oil: wonky numbers that you don't have to care about, since you can read about other people caring about them....
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
The date for the promised downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV was always the subject of confusion. Take Two would say one thing, Rockstar would say another, and Microsoft would say yet another. They...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
The nominees have been announced for Spike TV's Video Game Awards, also known as the "Oh God, I Hope No One Who Knows I Play Videogames Accidentally Sees Any of This" Awards. Last year's award winners were announced by being...
POSTED Friday, November 14, 2008
As a special thanks to loyal fans, five favorite Gears of War maps have been updated and made available to download and play in Gears of War 2 through this exclusive offer.That's the text on a card you'll find in...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The difference between user-content for console games and user-content for PC games was sharply illustrated over the weekend. PC mods are traditionally the stuff of the unregulated internet, where on occasional cease-and-desist is known as "getting Foxed", based on Twentieth...
POSTED Monday, November 10, 2008
Lukewarm on the heels of the critically panned and commercially disappointing Lost game, Ubisoft quietly mentioned they've canceled their Heroes game. "Oh, that thing?" they told MTV's gaming blog, "Yeah, we're not really making that thing anymore." After dwindling ratings...
POSTED Friday, November 7, 2008
Variety went ahead and announced Electronic Arts' next videogame for them. The trade publication reported a bidding war on film rights to an EA game tentatively titled Dante's Inferno. The game seems to be loosely (?) based on that thing...
POSTED Monday, November 3, 2008
I don't keep up with the Spyro the Dragon games, even though I probably should. If there's one thing worse than cute, it's cute and purple But there must be a reason they sell enough copies that they've been going...
POSTED Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A blog called Patent Arcade that tracks videogame related legal issues has dug up details on a spat between THQ and Activision. THQ contends that Activision is muscling in on its copyright by imitating the box cover of its Baja...
POSTED Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I don't know about you, but if I found a hellgate, my first priority would be to close it. That's what they do in movies. That's what it seems like I spent all my time doing in Oblivion. So there...
POSTED Monday, October 27, 2008
Sometimes I think this site has a terrible name. Then along comes a new site like Green Pixels and I don't feel so bad. Green Pixels is a new arm of the IGN mega-corporate Fox-owner-owned gaming site that thinks squids...
POSTED Friday, October 17, 2008
Los Angeles Times writer Alex Pham has written an article about how gaming companies fared last week. Whereas the conventional wisdom is that entertainment is relatively recession proof, that's not the case with the dramatic upheaval on the stock market.The...
POSTED Monday, October 6, 2008
Dell announced a deal with Paramount to sell new PCs with the summer blockbuster Iron Man pre-installed (but only in standard definition, ha ha!). This clearly signals Dell's intent to get a piece of the content action, which has long...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Mike Griffith is the CEO of Activision Publishing (pictured above taking a flamethrower to your discretionary income). He doesn't make the company's games, but when he talks about ways to get more money from you, you better sit up and...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Rock Band 2 comes out this Sunday. Just like Spore came out last Sunday. And Mercenaries 2 the Sunday before it. Also this Sunday, the head start program for pre-orders of the Warhammer Online Collector's Edition begins, meaning the game...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
In a press release titled "EA's Madden NFL 09 Tackles Top Movie Releases in August", Electronic Arts boasted that fake football beats real movies.Madden NFL, the best-selling sports franchise in videogame history, launched on August 12 and registered approximately $133.5...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Microsoft will shut down Ensemble Studios, which they acquired in 2001, as soon as Halo Wars ships early next year. In an official statement to Gamespot, the company called it "a fiscally rooted decision that keeps [Microsoft Game Studios] on...
POSTED Wednesday, September 10, 2008
This topic has already been covered extensively in the media. This new story repeats old information, and contains rumors and innuendo from anonymous sources, attempting to create a new sensational angle, and is highly irresponsible. This was Microsoft's response to...
POSTED Monday, September 8, 2008
Wait, hold on! Don't buy an Xbox 360 today! Phew, that was close. Did I get you in time? I just wanted to make sure you knew the Xbox 360 gets $50 cheaper tomorrow. The one with the big hard...
POSTED Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sales data, like math, is hard. So bully for the new Top Global Markets Report, which will come along and simply announce the winners of the world*. This new report assembles figures from sales data in various countries and lists...
POSTED Friday, August 22, 2008
In case you were worried that Electronic Arts hadn't learned anything from its ongoing attempts to balkanize The Sims 2 with eight expansion packs, nine "stuff" packs, and online micropayments for meaningless shreds of content, fret no more! They have...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Scrabble clone Scrabulous, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, shut down service in North America. Now the official version of Scrabble is the only way to match vocabularies with your friends on Facebook. This appears to be the...
POSTED Thursday, July 31, 2008
Variety's '08 Impact series details the most, well, impactful folks in the world of videogaming. You know some of them: Miyamoto, Will Wright, Ken Levine. But what about Martin Zerogsek, Jamil Moledina, Sandi Isaacs, and Eunice Dinwiddle-Tutweiler (I made one...
POSTED Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Microsoft has announced its first round of original programming for Xbox Live. According to the Hollywood Reporter, a series of comedy shorts, each under 10 minutes, will be created by a half-dozen directors known for horror movies. It sounds like...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
To clarify the situation with Atari's legal threats in response to 4Players' review of Alone in the Dark, I spoke with 4Players editor-in-chief, Jörg Luibl. I also attempted to contact Atari but have yet to hear back from them. It...
POSTED Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Atari really tries everything, in order to darken our reporting: Only they ignore our inquiries in the early phase to alone into the Dark, then they cancellation advertising campaigns already booked after our preview, then bemustern them us despite inquiry...
POSTED Saturday, June 21, 2008
Brian Farrell, the CEO of THQ, discussed Saints Row 2 during a conference call with investors this week. He specifically mentioned how it's going to be distinct from Grand Theft Auto IV. We're always concerned about GTA as a competitor....
POSTED Friday, June 20, 2008
VG Chartz "exclusively reveals" that Metal Gear Solid 4 sold 1.3 million copies on its first day. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee, as they say. They also say "good enough for government work", "close...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The conventional wisdom about the Wii is that it's an awesome platform for Nintendo, but not for third-party developers trying to cash in on its popularity. In laymen's terms, it comes down to all the soccer moms and grandparents buying...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
It was a big news day! Xbox Live is getting new Mii-style avatars (pictured blurrily above); Forza 3 will ship on two discs and have a hundred tracks; there are sequels coming to Marvel's Ultimate Alliance and Transformers; Jimi Hendrix,...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
During the development of a game, sometimes publishers will throw fans a bone by letting them have a say in the process. Activision, for instance, drove traffic to the Call of Duty 4 web site by letting fans vote on...
POSTED Monday, June 16, 2008
You might not know Darwinia. So I don't blame you if you don't recognize the Darwinian in the mock-up magazine cover above. But you're missing out. Those little guys are great, and their game was aces. In Introversion's Darwinia,...
POSTED Monday, June 16, 2008
Ben Fritz at Variety reports that Ken Levine's contract is being renegotiated in the wake of the success of BioShock, for which Levine served as creative director. Fritz notes that Levine has been strangely silent as news of BioShock's sequels...
POSTED Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Electronics Entertainment Exposition (aka E3 (aka E3 Media and Business Summit That You Can't Come To Anymore)) is a month away. And it's looking a little anemic. IGN has posted a list of all the games to be shown....
POSTED Friday, June 13, 2008
When it comes to the online aspect of videogaming, Nintendo has been consistently and notoriously two steps behind. So it's no surprise that its fledgling online distribution service, WiiWare, isn't getting the love it deserves. An Edge article critical of...
POSTED Thursday, June 12, 2008
We here at GamePlasma Fidgit are continually asked to review a bevy of different titles. Occasionally, we run across games from smaller developers that just blow us away with their new and creative ideas. Sometimes we even notice strange things...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Midway's underrated Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is available as a free download from Fileplanet, but with some sort of built-in ad support (alternatively, you can get an ad-free version from IGN's Direct2Drive service for $15). Psi-Ops got a fair bit...
POSTED Wednesday, June 11, 2008
When Apple makes an announcement, people think "Games!" So it was no surprise that at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference, they listed some exciting [sic] new games coming to the iPhone. First, there's Super Monkey Ball. But not the cool...
POSTED Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV publisher Take Two announced yesterday in an investor conference call that the downloadable content for the game has been delayed. Instead of being a part of the company's fiscal fourth quarter, it's now a part of...
POSTED Saturday, June 7, 2008
If you're playing Call of Duty 4 on the PC, you have yet another reason to make fun of the poor saps playing on their 360. Not only do they not get to use a mouse to aim, but they...
POSTED Thursday, June 5, 2008
Curious how your favorite band is doing when it comes to downloadable songs for Rock Band? The guys at DLC Stats have come up with one of those 'that's so ingenious/obvious...why didn't I think of it?' ideas. They simply...
POSTED Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The free-to-play online shooter Kwari (pictured above) is no more. It enjoyed a few short months of preying on places like France, Lichtenstein, and Vatican State, but it never made it to the US. With the company going into...
POSTED Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Variety reports that Bruce Willis is in talks to play Kane in the movie adaptation of Kane & Lynch, an infamous Gamespot review. I think it's also a game or something. Here's the elevator pitch from the Variety article: [Kane...
POSTED Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Metal Gear Solid 4 has really really long cut scenes – lots of them! – and a really really long installation time! At least that's the implication from the game's publisher, Konami. They made it a pre-condition that any...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Everyone knows that Starcraft is wildly popular in South Korea. But will it last? Ratings are falling on the Starcraft television channels, teams of professional Starcraft players are disbanding, the military is canceling its special arrangements for kids who...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
Chris Faylor' at Shacknews posted a hands-on with Guitar Hero On Tour, the Nintendo DS version of Activision's guitar games. Faylor describes how it plays, which isn't anything you can't figure from, say, an awful video of On Tour...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
The embargo on Capcom's recent press event lifts today, so you'll be seeing all sorts of Resident Evil 5 info popping up. Last night at midnight, Gametrailers posted the most recent trailer. Capcom took some heat for their last...
POSTED Monday, June 2, 2008
Dig this new trailer for the upcoming expansion/console port of World in Conflict, the superfast, supergorgeous, supermultiplayer action RTS from Swedish developer Massive. To quote John Carpenter's The Thing: "Hey, Swedes!" The first thing you might think is, 'Whoa,...
POSTED Saturday, May 31, 2008
There have been some interesting Ubiannouncements from Ubisoft's Ubidays over in UbiParis. The twist in the new Prince of Persia: Assassin's Creed (not its real title) is that it will be a lot like Assassin's Creed, but with a...
POSTED Thursday, May 29, 2008
MMO launches are a lot like NASCAR races and high-wire trapeze acts: many of the people who show up secretly hope to witness a disaster. Norwegian developer Funcom obligingly supplied a glorious trainwreck when they launched Anarchy Online in...
POSTED Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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