Archive for October, 2008

Distilling the Chaos of the Tokyo Game Show

Taking what was shown and not shown at this year’s Tokyo Game Show and wrapping it up into a neat little package. Also a game about garbage!

Starcraft II Splits into Three

Starcraft II has a split personality. Taking a chapter out of the book of Valve, Blizzard announces that their upcoming sequel to the wildly popular RTS will have episodic based single player. One game for the price of three!

Fired the Co-op Store – News Wrap-Up

Silicon Knights sends off some staff to Valhalla, Sony IS working on a video store and Fable 2 is getting online co-op on launch after all. Breaking News!

LittleBetaPlanet – The Levelcide

The beta for LittleBigPlanet is in full swing, and with the full game coming out soon, all the content could be wiped out. It’s a moral dilemma; it’s your vote.

Molyneux Asks for Fair Review of Fable 2

We all want to be treated fairly, right. We all want our children treated fairly, right? Peter Molyneux just wants you to treat his child, Fable 2, fairly. Asks critics to withhold judgment until they’ve played with someone else.

Final Versions and What’s Up

Final version of UGTV is coming down the pipes, a couple of reviews, too. Hey, new people!

Re(tro)spectus – A Fallout of Empires in 1997

Music games, violent games and post-apocalyptic games that all had their humble beginnings in the year 1997. Let’s go back to the world ruled by the Spice Girls and see what they were playing.

Credit The Creators

With a recent feature in Gamasutra outlining giving credit for game creation, we take a look at the different ways it could be done and what would work best.

The Fall of Wii

It’s not actually falling, but it certainly is rising in Autumn. Nintendo announces their definitive holiday line-up, and we quietly nod in approval. Wii Speak, Animal Crossing, and other stuff you know about. Club Nintendo? That we didn’t know!

NintendOntario – News Wrap-Up

Nintendo’s BIG press conference has come and past and brought lots of news with it. We wrap it up! Also, Ontario wants people to make games there, which is nice of them.