Sunday, November 30, 2008

Requiem for a Console

10:00AM Owen Good | A gamer’s fourth Xbox 360 red-ringed, and a veritable who’s-who of consoles turned out to pay their respects and show their anguish that so many are dying so young, and so senselessly. Tiggerboy, who keeps a blog on the UK GameSpot, brought in all the hardware dignitaries to bid the 360 goodbye. You can see the 360 packaged in his foam coffin (aka the Peter Moore Catafalque), ready to to be ferried by the Boatman of the Dead Consoles (aka the UPS guy) on his way back to Microsoft, where his remains will become part of the circle of console life. There’s a gallery of the proceedings on the jump, including an astonishing, last-minute appearance by a disowned relative that will leave you heaving up great sobs. More »

Outgrowing Games: The Rebuttal and Challenge

7:00AM Maggie Greene | A few weeks ago, designer Brice Morrison talked about how a game designer outgrew games; since kicking off a flurry of discussion, he’s returned to GameSetWatch with some in-depth answers to common questions and a challenge. More »

Good Games That’ll Work on Your Relatives’ Crappy PC

6:00AM Owen Good | Visiting family for the holidays? You know what an antisocial faux-pas it is to bring along a console, and if you’re a PC gamer, hell if you’re dragging along that rig. More »

NBA Teams Scout and Evaluate Talent Using Video Game

4:00AM Owen Good | Electronic Arts must have been pleased as hell to read, in the Los Angeles Times, that front-office types are using NBA Live 09 to help in making some of their decisions. More »

Tale of Tales’ ‘Graveyard’ Postmortem

3:00AM Maggie Greene | Gamasutra has a fabulous postmortem up — easily one of the best I’ve read — on Tale of Tales’ The Graveyard. More »