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Dragon's Dogma: The Kotaku Review That’s right – the ABC’s Good Game and the Australian Film Commission want to make a game, with the help of a willing developer and Good Game’s audience.
According to the release, it won’t be a matter of a developer just walking up and throwing in its hat – Good Game and the AFC are asking for interested parties to apply first. Then they’ll decide who’s worthy.
The game itself will be designed by the Good Game audience, or “crowdsourced”, as the release puts it. Good Game will then push the communal concept through to the developer, who will transform it into a finished game.
Good Game and the AFC also see the potential for internships and giveaways as part of the initiative. I think the most promising aspect from the developer’s point of view is that Good Game and the AFC will fund development of the title. That’s my interpretation of the release anyway.
There’s no other details about the content of the game, other than it will be playable online – which could mean anything from a full-blown multiplayer FPS to your average Flash game.
Sounds like a great opportunity for all involved, but I’d like to see some solid details on how the whole thing will go down.
Full release after the jump.
Boy, George Broussard sure loves Shacknews. He loves it so much, in fact, he prefers to post updates about Duke Nukem Forever in the site’s comments section, rather than the 3D Realms website where, you know, people might actually read it.
I don’t think he’s done that in a while though. Actually, going by this more formal Q&A with Shacknews, old George might be getting back into the swing of doing proper publicity and promotion of his company’s games.
3D Realms’ George Broussard Tosses Out Duke Nukem Forever Information Scraps [Shacknews, via Blue's News]
p>A few days ago, some SOE devs were accused of “cheating” in Everquest 2 by moving a guild from the game’s test servers to its “live” servers. Sony Online Entertainment have since responded to these allegations, with Bruce Ferguson, EQII’s senior producer, saying: [the move was made]to show kindness to some valued members of our testing community who have been working diligently to improve EverQuest II for the last three years.
How sweet! Sony also say the characters have been stripped of their superior test server equipment. Thing is, MMO site Massively have a long, long list of what they believe is evidence saying that, no, they did a lot more than move some guys, and that yes, foul deeds have indeed been committed. All very juicy, we agree, it’s just a shame nobody cares about Everquest 2. SOE confirms allegations of developer misconduct in EQII [Opposable Thumbs]
Calling upon both the law and common sense, a federal judge has told The Romantics that, no, they can’t have the cover version of their song “What I Like About You” removed from Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. Why? Because Activision did every single thing they legally needed to do in securing the song for the game. Better luck next time, you mugs. Judge denies Guitar Hero injunction [GI.biz][Image]
Industry news site Next-Gen have settled on their “Man of the Year”. Their criteria? Whoever “made the most positive, resounding contributions to the industry and gaming itself in 2007″. Selections were based on editorial opinion as well as reader nominations. In the end, emerging bloody but victorious from the steel cage that was 2007 was Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. [2007]was the story of Satoru Iwata, a man Barron’s listed as one of the world’s best CEOs, and how he led his company back to market leadership. He is the obvious choice for Next-Gen’s person of the year.
Obvious schmobvious. We’re outraged, and we’re staging a sit-in protest. 2007 was all about Patrice, not some bloke who works for Nintendo. NEXT-GEN’S TOP 25 PEOPLE OF 2007 [Next-Gen]
N+ may ultimately lead to my PSP being smashed against the wall in frustration, but that can’t stop the frothing demand I feel when I see the former Flash game in action. It may have been a bit too gussied up during the conversion, but N+ will definitely find its way into my PlayStation Portable and my Xbox 360 whenever Atari gets around to releasing it.
Reuters put Microsoft’s VP Global Marketing Jeff Bell in front of a microphone, and gave him a chance to speak his mind. What’d he say? Aside from promising Microsoft will fight Sony on the beaches, dude took the chance to take a little dig at Nintendo, and in particular the difficulty third-party publishers have in making money off Nintendo consoles: Clearly, we have a competitor where they win and no one else wins. That is not sustainable, it’s never been sustainable
For third-party publishers, maybe. Seems awfully sustainable for Nintendo and their fat, fat bank balance. Microsoft sees Xbox 360 sales growth in ’08 [Reuters]
To: Luke From: Crecente Re: Pumpkin Soup
We left this afternoon for South Georgia. The total drive will take us about 24 hours, we decided to cut down on the two days of driving by picking Tristan up a bit early from school this afternoon and driving about four hours to Kansas. The van is packed. Like pack, packed. In fact, I bought a luggage holder for the roof and that’s packed with presents. I spent most of this short leg of the trip getting comfortable, blogging and checking in on the rest of the family.
Trish has always volunteered to drive when we do our road trips, to let me blog from the road. Very sweet of her. I actually love driving, but blogging and driving at the same time probably isn’t a good idea. Man, the drive from Denver to the middle of Kansas is flat and brown this time of years, just lots of rolling hills and plenty of dead grass. It’s still pretty in its own way. Every time I hit the road, from the when I was 16 and drove across country by myself to these family trips, I always end up thinking about Jack Kerouac’s America and how drastically its changed.
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Kotaku reader Greg sent in word of his own handmade holiday creation, arguably the best Super Mario Bros. 3 Christmas stocking we’ve been sent yet. What isn’t up for debate is that Kuribo’s Shoe is my favorite Mario power-up of all time, for some strange reason. Kudos to you, sir. Someone get this man a proper license to mass produce these next year—stat!
