What part did Microsoft play in Realtime Worlds’ fall?
In case you’ve been distracted by megashow GamesCom, Realtime Worlds, the studio behind Crackdown and APB has been placed in administration. 170 staff were shown the door this week, with more on the way. Meanwhile local and foreign publishers circle, trying to pick up the remains at a bargain price. Insiders are pointing their finger [...]
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Review: How StarCraft II Met The Hype
StarCraft II has big shoes – 12 long years of them since StarCraft – to fill. We think it does.
Ice-T taking gaming to the final level
Unlike many celebrities who sign on for gaming/voiceover work, rapper, author and actor Ice-T knows his way around a game controller. The man who bought us everything from seminal 90′s rap album Original Gangsta through to the subversively brilliant The Ice Opinion book spends a fair amount of his time smashing on people online, in-game. [...]
Jersey Shore season two kicks off
The fake tan, the steroid-induced rage, and the Situation’s abs return to television tonight as MTV’s Jersey Shore hits season two.
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What part did Microsoft play in Realtime Worlds’ fall?
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What part did Microsoft play in Realtime Worlds’ fall?
In case you’ve been distracted by megashow GamesCom, Realtime Worlds, the studio behind Crackdown and APB has been placed in administration. 170 staff were shown the door this week, with more on the way. Meanwhile local and foreign publishers circle, trying to pick up the remains at a bargain price. Insiders are pointing their finger [...]
Blizzard adopting WoW-style paid services for SC II
Screwed up your StarCraft II in-game name? Salvation is coming…for a brief period.
Call of Eastwood: the inspiration for Black Ops’ RC car
It’s a killstreak reward with a difference: a RC car that you don’t want to have near you. Where did Treyarch get the idea from?
Handgun fellatio: what Scarface could have been
Don’t be fooled into thinking game designers are all rogues who need to be held back by conservative managers. A developer who worked on Scarface: The World is Yours gives a totally different angle.
MTV reduced to giving away Beatles: Rock Band
How the mighty have fallen – MTV is now giving away Beatles: Rock Band as a hotel bundle.
