Saturday, December 13, 2008
MGS Theme Left Out Of MGS4 Due To Legal Issues
3:00PM Kotaku US Edition | An interview in the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly reveals why the familiar theme went missing in Konami’s latest Metal Gear Solid offering. More »
Super Mario Bros. Room, Not Game, As Art
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Games as art? BORING QUESTION. Rooms as art? Much more sensible. And appropriate, when you consider the faithfulness of this Super Mario Bros. installation art. More »Happy Holidays From MadWorld
2:00PM Kotaku US Edition | Sega released a new trailer for their upcoming Madworld game for the Wii. They also sent along their over version of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas. More »
NPD Top 20 Shows Where Fable II, Animal Crossing Landed
1:30PM Michael McWhertor | You’ve already seen the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. from November, but what about the top twenty? Surely there were some titles you’d expect to be represented — and some you might not. More »
Rumours
Rumour: Kojima Working On First-Person Shooter, Calls On Infinity Ward
12:00PM Michael McWhertor | According to an anonymous poster on the popular but perennially sketchy 4chan board, Metal Gear Solid series director Hideo Kojima visited the offices of Infinity Ward today. Why? “To learn” about first-person shooters, allegedly. More »
Metro Social Discomfort Simulator
11:30AM Stuart Houghton | In the annals of largely pointless Flash games with something to say about the hidden rules that govern social interaction… well those annals pretty much start and end with Metro Rules Of Conduct. More »
Steam Hardware Surveys Relaunched, Makes You Smarter
11:00AM Michael McWhertor | Valve announced today that it was relaunching its hardware survey, publishing its findings for the month of November and giving the public a look at the Steam-enabled PC gaming hardware landscape. More »
Does Gaming Make You More Productive?
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | PC World Business Centre has an interesting article up about gaming in the workplace that looks at the way some companies are using games as team building tools, rewards and incentives. More »
