Aieee. American game retailer GameStop has acquired Impulse, StarDock Systems’ digital distribution service. This means Stardock is getting out of the digital-distro game, essentially succumbing to Steam, and handing their infrastructure off to a brick and mortar retailer.
Read more »I’ve been dreaming of Love for days now. There’s an insatiable desire to stay in the surreal world I’ve come to inhabit. I find myself distracted, eager to return to the moving picture of fantasy, colour and light. To star gaze as the night draws in and to revel in the spectacle…
Read more »Review by Mat C Killzone 3 Developer Guerrilla Games Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Released February 2011 Available for PlayStation 3 Time Played Finished Verdict: 2/5 Rotten Egg “To be honest, it’s all a bit of a mess. By the time you’ve done trying to care about the characters or grown weary of being shunted from …
Read more »In late March of 2011, Tap-Repeatedly’s Lewis B sat down for an exclusive interview with Daniel Dociu, the formidable creative force behind Guild Wars 2 and its stunning art direction. Daniel is the creative director for the highly anticipated MMO, and one of the most talented and respected concept artists in the business. As …
Read more »Where to begin? Stupidest game ever? Most obnoxiously altered voiceover? Highest quotient of clicking? If the open beta available on Steam is any indication, DarkSpore – the pathetic grasp at success so profoundly failed with the medicority of Will Wright’s original Spore – this is not one you’ll want to spend your Galleons on. Why? …
Read more »Well folks, it looks like somebody at Capcom finally woke up and decided to leverage the Resident Evil brand in a way that doesn’t suck decomposing donkey dongs. The series that gave birth to (and then started eating) the survival horror genre celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this past week, and to celebrate Capcom have opened the doors to a whole …
Read more »In a bid to shake off the weariness induced by Grim Fandango, Hailey and I decided to play the first two available chapters of Cockroach Inc.’s The Dream Machine, a gorgeous point and click browser-based adventure game split into five chapters. The Dream Machine tells the story of Victor and Alicia, a young couple who …
Read more »This weeks sales chart is in from GFK and it’s not surprising to see Crysis 2 head to the top spot. I’m still getting over Homefront actually achieving number one last week (people really must be desperate to spend their money). Anyway, EA can be proud that Crysis 2 enjoyed a bigger opening weekend than Bulletstorm and …
Read more »At this years EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, CCP in their keynote speech have once again shared their ‘future vision’ of EVE. It’s impressive stuff, and the prospect of intertwining planetary combat in a massively multiplayer first person shooter (Dust 514 is CCP’s console shoot-em-up based on the EVE universe) that physically impacts on EVE Online is a bewildering technical …
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And lo, Steerpike reappears on the front page of his own website. I’ve been super-busy! Thank heavens for Lewis and Mat and Gregg keeping stuff alive in my absence.
This month’s IGDA Culture Clash column was whipped up in a hurry. I had a whole other one done, but realized it wasn’t really going anywhere. And as it happened I’d just read an article I wanted to comment on. So while I had no intention of discussing the Dead Island trailer, I did. I do. Here.
Special Bonus Content! Just now a good friend of mine wrote a beautifully crafted email to me, reacting to the trailer. I’m including that at the bottom of this, because it’s worthy of discussion. Check it out!
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