It seems department heads from publisher and developer alike have gotten more comfortable with speaking their minds. The latest in candid commentators is Gearbox’s (Brother’s in Arms: Hell’s Highway, Borderlands) own Randy Pitchford, who has some choice words for the popular Steam digital download service on PC. Speaking to Maximum PC, Mr. Pitchford also forsees […]
With the going controversy of the MA15+ rating for Left 4 Dead 2 resulting in a ban of the game in Australia, Valve has taken initiative and made an exclusive edition dubbed ‘edited version’. Through agreement with the Australian government, the edited version will “no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles […]
With still a month let to go until the release of their anticipated dark-epic RPG, Bioware is further baiting gamer’s appetites with several new Dragon Age: Origins commodities. First, the game is the latest Electronic Arts production to receive a supplementary comic-book adaptation, penned by science-fiction legend Orson Scott Card (“Ender’s Game,” “Ultimate Iron Man,”) […]
In one of the strangest moves to the silver screen, the rights to the creature/society-maker Spore have been optioned and purchased by Twentieth Century Fox for film adaptation. Working with Electronic Arts, the game’s publisher, Fox plans on making Will Wright’s latest god-game into an animated feature, directed by Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Robots.) The […]