Dave Perry announced, during last week’s Game Developers Conference, that the cloud-streaming game service Gaikai has gone live to public beta. The service has debuted with five PC demos for Dead Space 2, Spore, Mass Effect 2, The Sims 3, and Linden Labs’ Second Life. The network claims to be “the fastest interactive proximity network […]
Every so often, we come across a development studio that is working on a title that may very well revolutionize a genre that has been stagnant or disregarded for years. Unfortunately, these projects don’t always work out exactly the way we hoped they would.
We recently reported on a supposed collaboration between Electronic Arts-developers Maxis and Bioware on the upcoming Spore spin-off, Darkspore. While indeed a former Bioware staff member – Mass Effect fiction writer Malcom Azania – is working on the project, that is the extent of any collaboration between the two studios. The original report used for […]
…Unsurprisingly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to .torrent file trend analysts TorrentFreak, Activision’s blockbuster shooter’s records weren’t just limited to launch sales, as the game 4.1 million copies of the PC version game were illegally downloaded on BitTorrent alone. The Xbox 360 version saw the second largest plundering with 970,000 copies reportedly swiped. […]