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In: Culture| Gaming News
25 Feb 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.
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With all of the furor around the StarCraft 2 beta going on this week, you might actually have forgotten that there are actually two major, big-budget RTS sequels due out in 2010. Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is arriving in just a few weeks on March 16, and, to remind [...]
In: Gaming News
12 Feb 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
There is a lot to digest in the above developer diary for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Not only does it show the benefits of each class in the game, but it also reveals the new mission and player progression system. This time around, players will not only unlock things [...]
In: Gaming News
12 Feb 2010Coinciding with the info avalanche at X10, Bungie has released a new Halo: Reach video documentary (aka “ViDoc”). There’s something for every Halo fan here: Spartan customization, new weapons, huge maps, new music, and plenty of human-on-alien warfare. A few things to look out for include a grenade launcher, stealth kills and a Spartan actually [...]
In: Gaming News
3 Feb 2010They say time heals all wounds. Then why does it still hurt to think about Duke Nukem Forever? Even its apparent demise failed to bring closure to the big hole in our heart. And now this:
The latest video remains to be found (resting — in one piece — after the break) seem unmistakably to be [...]
In: Gaming News
3 Feb 2010If you’ve been jonesing for your second hit of ADAM, you won’t have to wait a moment past 12 a.m. on February 9th; 2K has announced that BioShock 2 will get a midnight launch at Best Buy and GameStop stores. It’s great news for us, but bad news for the clerks who have to [...]
In: Apple| Gaming News| iPhone
28 Jan 2010We told you about our experience with the just-announced Apple iPad yesterday; this morning, we’ll show you, by way of the above video. You’ll note that both Need for Speed Shift and NOVA are the same non-iPad versions available on the App Store today – the enhanced versions shown during the keynote are works-in-progress and [...]
If you’re as intrigued as we are by Splash Damage and Bethesda’s co-operative FPSRPG Brink, you’ll probably want to check out the video above, which shows the many options you’ll be afforded when customizing your personal freedom fighter. For instance, what kind of full-torso tattoos would like? And how many mohawks do you want [...]
In: Gaming News
17 Jan 2010It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about GRIN’s “unreleased masterpiece” — a collaboration with Square Enix (and assumed Final Fantasy off-shoot) titled Fortress. An anonymous report released last September claimed the title was currently in the hands of another, unnamed developer. Yesterday, some tech demo footage purportedly displaying the fruits of said studio’s labor [...]
In: Culture| Gaming News| Music
23 Aug 2009 “8-Bit Trip,” according to its Swedish creators took 1,500 hours to animate. They pay respect to everything from International Karate on a tape drive to Tetris on the NES, with Pong and Pac-Man in between.
The music was written by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, of the Swedish electronica duo [...]