No sooner than two 70-year-old FPS enthusiasts pop up than we also find, in the journal Psychology and Aging, a study suggesting that older folks might benefit from playing strategy-intensive video games.
No TUD for a while, so I’ll reopen the raging debates. And we had one going around the tower lately about the meaning, and utility, of video game awards. I’d like your opinions on this.
Meant to post this last week, forgot, sorry. Someone went rooting around through a PC copy of Pure and found what has been described as Disney’s standard wirty-dord list.
Earlier we posted rumours that Factor 5 laid off half its staff. Now comes word the whole studio just closed. I guess everyone’s answer to the economy is just to give up.
Alert reader KilOMisFiT spotted a Bungie update on Halo 3, accompanied by holiday wishes and this new screenshot.
While not saying it has an offer to do Crackdown 2, Realtime Worlds says it is in “ongoing” discussions with Microsoft about the sequel. Rumours yesterday said startup studio Ruffian “may” be working on it.
Researchers at two different institutions in the UK have identified an injury, and an increase in its incidence, associated with playing the Wii.
An admin over in Europe’s Official PlayStation Community says Sony will in fact patch a bothersome trophy-related bug that, in worst-case scenarios, borks certain games completely until one does a console backup-restore.
A few months before Free Radical Design cratered, founder Steve Ellis set up a new studio and parked the domain for “Pumpkin Beach.” Well, he and 20 former FRD coders now have jobs there.
The researchers at Electronic Entertainment Design and…Research have been looking at console game sales patterns. Looking at how long it takes a game to enter “price protection”, which is a term used for when a publisher – having noticed a game isn’t selling very well – lowers the wholesale cost of a game so that retailers can keep it on the shelves at full price, even when the public are ignoring it. What they’ve found is that this practice occurs for 7.5% of 360 games. And 9.09% of PS3 games. But the Wii? It happens for 15.1% of titles.
