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Dungeons and Dragons Online comes out tomorrow, for all five of you who aren’t playing World of Warcraft and aren’t satisified with your meatspace d20 experience. The New York Times has an article on the thinking behind the game and reminds everyone that Vin Diesel is a big nerd.
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Awhile back a patch for the PC game SWAT 4 added streaming ads:
While playing the latest version of SWAT4 with a friend, we noticed something was rather different. The particular level we were playing was modelled on a random gas station and convieince store.
In the game, the player can [...]
Everybody else is up to their armpits in hot coffee while things are downright chilly around these parts. Instead of doing real work I’ll just point you to Fail Math’s eloquent overview of the ESRB rating system.
Marketwatch has an article about the games women play and the companies marketing to them:
But a respectable foundation on which the industry can build the ranks of female customers appears to be in place, as 43% of all gamers now are female, according to the Entertainment Software Association. The average female gamer over [...]
In the New York Times’ HDTV Is a New Reality for Game Developers:
All this complexity costs money. Mr. Goodman estimates that today’s $5 million to $10 million in development costs will rise to $7 million to $15 million with the new generation of games.
To compensate, publishers can be expected [...]
Major Nelson, otherwise known as Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb, has a post up about the flight to E3:
Could he really be with Nintendo? Or is he a fertilizer salesmen from Tacoma that happens to have a DS computer case? Yea, that’s probably it. But what’s with the black equipment case [...]
1UP has some (almost) unbridled enthusiasm about the Xbox 360 from developers, except for a little trepidation at the prospect of a Microsoft-mandated online component and some other features. Words like “shoehorn” may have been thrown around. Naturally everybody’s really happy with Microsoft since their jobs depend on the 360 doing well but it will [...]
The June issue of Wired has an article on J Allard, the Xbox 360, and the big picture. Learn all about the method and the madness, the enigma that is J:
Allard is not exactly your typical Microsoft employee. Spend a bit of time with the man and you begin to see him as [...]
The New York Times has an interesting article on Christian video games today. This is the kind of article that I find really fascinating: a profile of one slice of the industry, the people within it and what’s driving them. Some Christian developers are shunning any sort of violence while others are embracing the “one [...]
The two become one and we’re all the worse for it:
GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME; GME.B) and Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq:ELBO) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger. The combined company, to be named GameStop Corp., will be a leading global video game retailer with annual revenues [...]
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