Gamasutra is reporting that Ninja Gaiden developer Tomonobu Itagaki has resigned from Tecmo and is suing for damages in the neighborhood of 148 million yen ($1.42M USD). “In recent press interviews for the just released Xbox 360 exclusive Ninja Gaiden II, Itagaki had repeatedly stated that it would be the last game in the series […]
Movie and Game writer Justin Marks has written an impassioned plea for the industry to concentrate more on artfully story-entwined gameplay, exploring what he thinks major titles are missing these days. “But for the most part, we as an industry are stuck in the same trap that GTA exemplifies. We value narratives in games, we […]
VonGuard writes “Earlier this year, I spoke to Mark Rizzo, the man who manages the people who run Sony’s online game servers. Rizzo learned the ropes of MMO hosting back on Ultima Online, and we chatted about where the tough problems were then versus now. Rizzo compares the operation to a 24/7 scientific simulation, albeit […]
Tovok7 writes “Free software instant messengers have long been lacking the support to play games with your friends. The waiting is finally over, because today Pidgin Games was released. It comes as plugins for the popular Instant Messenger Pidgin and is running under Linux and Windows. The special thing about Pidgin Games is that it […]
Erik J writes “In a fairly bold (and quite possibly stupid) move, the Sci-Fi Channel has announced plans to use missions and campaigns of players in their own developed MMO to shape and guide a new ‘ongoing’ television show. They hope to have the project up and ready to air by 2010, as they work […]
Ant writes “GamePro.com says the path to Wii Fit’s success was paved with a slew of failed foot-based controllers. Here are seven particularly awful ones that are currently collecting dust in the attics of gamers worldwide.”
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Erik J tips us to news of Valve’s announcement that their content distribution system, Steam, will receive an update “in the near future” called Steam Cloud. The new service will allow users to save games and configuration settings online. According to MaximumPC: “This system will be completely transparent to the user. The files cache locally, […]
longacre writes “With the gaming industry now spending more to develop user interfaces than the Pentagon, the Army has begun putting all that R&D to good use in weaponry and training. Reversing the traditional role of games attempting to simulate real life killing machines, it is now the weapons makers using gaming technology to make […]
NASA MMO Team writes “Due to the additional time required to respond to the number of questions that were raised during the NASA Massively Multiplayer Online Educational Game RFP Briefing held on April 21, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, we have decided to extend the RFP Proposal response date to Monday, July 21, 2008 at 12:00 […]
Kotaku is just one of many to have captured a recent showcase of Guitar Hero World Tour by Activision’s CEO, Bobby Kotick. They have a nice video highlighting gameplay on the fancy new drumset. Looks like Guitar Hero is really turning up the heat in the ongoing war with Rock Band for dominance.
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