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Guitar Hero’s next step? Gene Simmons and power-ups.
When Activision was the publisher for Brutal Legend , they apparently wanted to hook it into the Guitar Hero franchise, making it playable with a guitar controller. Fortunately, that didn't happen and Double Fine's fantastic open-world saga emerged unscathed and published by Electronic Arts. So it's not terribly surprising that Activision has enlisted... »
Deus Ex: Human Evolution trailer introduces the new bionic man
The latest teaser for Deus Ex: Human Evolution is mainly (entirely?) cinematic footage instead of game -- what are they hiding?!?!?? -- but it does show off cloaking, bionic arms that turns into a gun or sword, conspiracies, social unrest, stylin' sunglasses, and a soundtrack worthy of John Carpenter »
Lord of the Rings Online makes fees optional. Or does it?
Lord of the Rings Online will undergo quite the shake-up this fall by making subscription fees optional. LOTRO will introduce Turbine's innovative new pricing model that allows players to download the game and play for free, purchase expansions, quest packs, items, and account services a la carte from the new LOTRO Store, or... »
Why Brutal Legend was a year and a half late
Gamasutra has published online the postmortem for my favorite game of last year, which was originally slated to be my favorite game of three years ago. Our first schedule revision extended the project by ten months, the second by another seven. Initially scheduled to be released in May 2008 under the Vivendi Universal... »
Free this weekend? Break the world videogaming record!
The El Paso Video Game Examiner (the what...?) has a brief blurb about a kid at a university in Austin with a dream. His dream is to break the world record for longest continuous time spent playing a video game. He wants to do it to raise money for a new pool for... »
Have music games reached their saturation point?
Reuters takes a look at the declining success of music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero in 2009 . According to data from market analyst NPD Group, sales of these games haven't met expectations. The Beatles game, while selling a respectable 800,000 units of its various versions so far, missed the 1... »
When World of Warcraft meets a real-world death
Someone who identifies himself as "Sebastian H" writes about how he was affected by the death of a another World of Warcraft player . »
December 7, 2009: wallet threat level green
Electronic Arts dumps The Saboteur by the side of the road this week. It is the last gasp of 2009's releases and it's really not worth the bother. As far as open-world games go, it's no embarrassment like Godfather II »
Is there anywhere Just Cause 2 can’t go? See for yourself.
Just Cause 2 looked great at E3. It was as if the developers had made a valiant first attempt with Just Cause 1 and now they were figuring out how to make it into a great game. For instance, one of the most important elements of an open-world game is that you need... »
Brutal Legend in glorious folded 2D
Yeah, that's about the cutest thing I've seen this side of a Harvest Moon game. »