Oh wow. The bomb has just dropped, folks. With this year’s Comic-Con in full swing in San Diego, lead producers on two of the industry’s most revered fighting franchises have just announced what must surely go down as one of the most exciting collaborations of well, ever really. Tekken? Street Fighter? There’s only way to find out! Fight!
Review by Mat C Alan Wake Developer Remedy Entertainment Publisher Microsoft Game Studios Released 14 May 2010 (EU), 18 May 2010 (US) Available for Xbox 360 Time Played Finished Verdict: 5/5 Gold Star “That said however, Alan Wake is still an incredibly well put together package. From a technical stand point the game is perhaps a year or two outdated and it’s hard to see where more than five years of development time really went …
I went to see the mind bending Inception the other night and came away with the same feeling I had after seeing The Matrix back in 1999. Inception is bold and exciting, and has an intensity only exasperated by Hans Zimmer’s unremitting score which seemed to be going full tilt for the entire duration of the film. The soundtrack is every bit as obnoxious as DiCaprio’s other 2010 film Shutter Island, and I love it.
It has been a lifetime since I contributed to Tap, but Steerpike’s/Matt’s latest IGDA article called “The Facts of Life” got my blood boiling. It had little to do with what Steerpike said, but a whole lot to do with the philosophy so current in our marketplace. The article pointed out a series of glitches and faux pas in Obsidian’s latest, Alpha Protocol, while indicating that he was able to “overlook its many, many, many, …
Microsoft have gone announcement mad, ladies and gentlemen. Having officially unveiled and named Kinect as a live and working (well, sort of) consumer product at this years E3 conference in June, the company have finally made their intentions clear with regards to pricing. I’m sure Microsoft’s PR department would like you to be surprised by the official $149 price tag, although in typical fashion, every retailer in America has already leaked this figure at some point …
Review by Mat C Modern Conflict HD Publisher ClickGamer Released 09 July 2010 Available for iPad Time Played Finished Verdict: 3/5 Middlin “Modern Conflict HD certainly isn’t the RTS experience that many will see as the perfect fit for the iPad’s gorgeous 9.7″ multi-touch display. The simplistic gameplay and lack of true tactical depth will leave enthusiasts of the genre disappointed, while the omission of a multiplayer component does seem like something of a missed …
To my horror, I’ve discovered that I write like the late David Foster Wallace. I do not like David Foster Wallace, but the internet doesn’t lie. I Write Like is a prose analyzer developed by a Russian software engineer. Paste in some of the stuff you’ve written and it humiliates you by telling you that you write like David Foster Wallace. I did get “Kurt Vonnegut” once, and “Douglas Adams” once, but I got David …
Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions is a stud. I mean, this is the guy who gave us Psychonauts! Grim Fandango! Day of the Tentacle! Full Throttle! If I ever meet him I will kiss him. He probably wouldn’t appreciate it, but still. But I don’t think Tim will kiss Bobby Kotick, Activision/Blizzard CEO and asshole. There is no love there. But Tim is a nice guy and has apologized for calling Kotick a “prick,” …
I swapped Ikaruga for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. There. I said it. And here’s another thing: I had more fun with Double Dash!! than Ikaruga, despite the Treasure shoot ’em up being a thing of beauty. So what made me swap it? Because as much as I love an indiscriminately difficult game I wimped out. I couldn’t do it. I didn’t have the patience to learn the bullet patterns or have the perseverance to wield …
Platform exclusivity is nothing new for major publishers. We live in an era where multi-million dollar deals are a regular occurrence in the constant quest to get one over the competition, whether that be to keep a franchise solely on one platform or even tempt one away from another; as demonstrated by the rather high profile “theft” of Final Fantasy XIII from it’s traditional PlayStation home at last years E3. For a development studio, the …
This is actually A/B vs. 40FIWE, Round 2, but that would just make for a confusing title card. Since we’re already world-famous for our exclusive, hard-hitting coverage of the ongoing saga between Activision/Blizzard and its former trophy studio Infinity Ward, we’ll stick with the title we know. 40 Former Infinity Ward Employees have also filed suit against the publishing giant, alongside former studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella. The day before yesterday, they revised …
A while ago, Blizzard announced that their Battle.Net and World of Warcraft forums would include the real, full name of the user on every post. And the whole world exploded. According to Blizzard, this is to promote community and friend-making. According to the forumites, this is an unforgivable act of stupidity. And not for the reasons you might think – usually when forum-employing gamers bitch about something, their reasons are foolish. But in this case …
Playdead Games’ Limbo has been given a release date! It will finally see the light of day via Xbox Live Arcade on July 21, launching off this year’s “Summer of Arcade.” The asking price is 1200 Microsoft points, that’s $15 or £10.20 in real world currency. If you don’t know anything about the game, which was a winner at IGF 2010, you owe it to yourself to take a look. Email the author of this …
I… I… i agree with something bobby kotick said. This must mean the end is nigh, people. The world is about to be torn asunder. Stock up on canned goods.
Of my living years, 1994 is the first I remember as An Epic Year For Gaming. Up until this point I had dabbled in a handful of computer adventure games that my parents bought and the limited pile of NES games I had: Super Mario Bros., Jeopardy!, The Empire Strikes Back and Blades of Steel to name a few. My horizons were about to expand on Christmas of 1993: I received a Sega Genesis. As …