Acclaim Games no longer with us
Acclaim is gone again. Or at least the reborn version of it. The Acclaim we knew as a publisher in 90s went down in 2004, but the company’s IPs and [...]
20% Of US Population Play Social Games
20 per cent of the US population over the age of six has played a game on a social network in the past three months, equating to 56.8 million consumers, [...]
Resistance 3 from Insomniac Games Coming Exclusively to PS3
Marcus Smith here. I was the Project Manager of Resistance 1 and 2 at Insomniac Games, as well as a co-host of Insomniac’s “Full Moon Show” podcast during our Season [...]
“No cheering in the press box” and other rules games journalism needs
Today at QuakeCon, developers speaking on a “Building Blockbusters” panel took issue with “stone-faced” games journalists at product demos, as if the absence of emotional displays in a journalist is [...]
Culture Club Podcast — Rocking out with this year’s music games
The yearly rivalry has grown to epic proportions–in one corner is the realistic guitar and in-depth teaching tools of Rock Band 3, and in the other is Guitar Hero: Warriors [...]
Two Worlds 2 Dev: Patching 360 Games “Really, Really Difficult”
When the original Two Worlds came out in 2007, the open world RPG was largely written off as a shoddily crafted Oblivion clone. While the sequel is looking much better, [...]