Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Sierra Online vets Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy, best known for their creation of the Space Quest adventure game franchise, have created a new studio, Two Guys from Andromeda. The newly founded developer will focus entirely on the adventure game genre, their first announced project – Two Guys Spaceventure – looking to keep in tune with the duo’s 25-year old habit of self-reflexive parody.

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Friday, April 13th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

IGN reader ‘tyrant_PSN’ (via MCV) was the first to notice Nintendo’s rather direct domain registration for a “supermario4.com”. And unlike most other publishers, Nintendo isn’t trying to hide it. The Big N did announce that a new 2D Mario game was in development at its  presentation to investors this past January, but the company has remained mum so far on any direct correlation between its production and the domain registration. It may not be exactly what fans are expecting; Super Mario Bros. 4 already exists as the Japanese title for Super Mario World.

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments

GamesIndustry.com reports that Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, passed away at the age of 83 on April 8th. More information is included after the jump.

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments

According to a recent report by Gamasutra, several major publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Activision-Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Apple, Warner Bros., and Disney, have teamed up and banned over 3,500 known sex offenders from their services. More details are included after the jump.

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

The social media version of Gaikai’s cloud streaming application is now available on Facebook in the US and Europe. Currently, only demonstration builds of Farming Simulator 2011, Magicka, Sniper – Ghost Warrior, Orcs Must Die! and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings are available in both territories, with Saints Row: The Third and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record for play exclusively in the United States. Streaming of the full versions of the aforementioned games – among others – is planned for the near future, with MMO streaming also promised.

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

The stigma of an “Adults Only” rating – and the subsequent ban many top retailers have on all products that achieve said rating – have kept most publishers from producing anything that could go beyond “M for Mature”. It’s a stigma that Patricia Vance, President of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, wants to see diminish.

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

AllOut’s “Electronic Arts: Keep Fighting the Dark Side” petition, created in response to letters sent to the publisher by groups angry with the inclusion of homosexual characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic, has been reportedly hacked. The interest group confirmed that the bots inflated the amount of signatures on the petition (68,678 at time of publishing) by between 3000-5000. AllOut posted an update stating that they are currently looking for the source of the spammers (they also insist they had reached the 60,000 signature mark before the attack).

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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

A direct follow-up to People Can Fly’s arcade shooter Bulletstorm had made it into production before the project was canned by Epic Games. The Polish team has since been moved to a different, unannounced project. According to Epic Games President Mike Capps, the original Bulletstorm wasn’t enough of a success to merit the budget for a sequel. Speaking to Gamespot UK at PAX East this past weekend, Capps is quoted as saying, “From a sales perspective it was good, but not amazing. I think EA was hoping we’d do better”.

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Friday, April 6th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

A fan-created poster for the San Francisco "What Would Molydeux?" Game Jam

What began as a parody twitter account has resulted in a global push of creativity, now responsible for literally hundreds of game prototypes designed from Twitter messages. Peter Molydeux, an account lampooning the lavish ideas and proclamations of Peter Molyneux, offhandedly mentioned the idea of creating functional game builds out of the account’s messages with only this past weekend to work with. What followed were livestreamed events around the world (the one in London attended by Molyneux himself) as teams and solo designers got to work over the two-day period.

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Friday, April 6th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

The Consumerist’s public reader poll of the “Worst Company In America” ended with Electronic Arts being sent the Golden Poo Award. Firms like Comcast, Ticketmaster and Walmart were all considered, but the ultimate face-off was between Bank of America and EA. The latter walked away with 64% of the 250,000 votes cast.

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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Robot Entertainment proudly announced Orcs Must Die! 2 on their official website earlier today. The sequel will follow the real-time action/tower defense formula of the original, while adding a new story campaign and upgrade system. A Sorceress companion, a former War Mage, will play heavily into the events that pit you against hordes of new enemies. A host of new defense options and weaponry have also been promised.

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Saturday, March 31st, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

Sony has confirmed last week’s rumor of a closure of Zipper Interactive (M.A.G., Unit 13). In a statement released to IGN, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios confirmed the studio’s dissolution, while promising to continue to support the company’s currently active online servers and content.

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Friday, March 30th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

However you find the fan debate on the endings to Bioware’s Mass Effect 3, it’s hard to argue how amusing and overall beneficial its been to sit back and watch all parties involved try to out-charity one another. The latest offensive in the “Retake Mass Effect 3” campaign’s effort to draw attention to their distaste for the final chapter of the space opera saga – which should now be known as the “Cupcake Offensive” in its own Mass Effect codex entry – sent 400 green, blue, and red cupcakes numbered 1-3 to Bioware’s Edmonton offices at a cost of $1,005 (reportedly raised in 1 hour on ChipIn).

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Friday, March 30th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

After being hospitalized earlier in the week after his physical condition had reportedly “heavily deteriorated” following a Street Fighter x Tekken event,  Yoshinori Ono has announced via Twitter page that he is temporarily stepping down his work at Capcom. Not directly relating the break to his unspecified illness, Ono stated that “I’ll be out of the limelight… for a while…Another person [will be] in charge of the Street Fighter series for a while. Of course I’ll constant support to it.” No less than the “the new future of fighting games” will be Ono’s next task upon his return.

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 | Posted by Gavin Greene | No Comments

Mode 7, the designers behind Frozen Synapse, have temporarily changed the ending to their turn-based strategy game to (according to the developer) parody the fan reaction to Bioware’s endings to Mass Effect 3 experiment with the concept of changing a game ending post-release. Proudly declaring that “This is the ending to a computer game…We don’t care if you like it”, the new ending boasts future utopias of dinosaurs and trolling ponies. The new cutscene will remain for seven days before the original ending is restored and, given it’s timing, it’s hard to not associate the change with the internet backlash against Bioware’s RPG.

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