Geoff Keighley’s stoking buzz for tonight’s Video Game Awards on Spike (8 p.m. U.S. Eastern). Since we already know of Halo: Reach, the new Medal of Honor and others, it sounds like a total wildcard will open the show.
Parting with one’s treasured game collection can be an unthinkable proposition for many. But having a baby absolutely transforms your life, as one long-tenured Kotaku US commenter writes. And that makes such decisions not only possible, but downright necessary.
Faced with a challenge, people are largely motivated by one of two processes – either the opportunity to demonstrate their talent, or the opportunity to improve it. Game genres also appeal to these processes, and their rewards
When we last left Sensory Sweep, the Utah studio that just stopped paying employees, it cut a deal with the government to pay back nearly $US1 million by September. That hasn’t happened, and its founder is facing tax evasion charges.
Scapegoated by its ownership and sandbagged by both declining sales and declining reviews, MLB 2K is a seriously troubled franchise. Flawed though it is, the title’s biggest problems going into 2010 are not entirely of its own making.
Bravely revisiting his childhood typecasting, Jeff B. Cohen – “Chunk” from 1985′s the Goonies, and now a high powered Hollywood lawyer-mans – dispensed solid legal advice to the gaming community, going far deeper than the usual can-you-trademark-edge questions.
You know, a gracious bow and a sincere apology go a long way in this world. So while this week’s PAL PlayStation Store update is, once again, a little bare, at least SCEE are apologetic about the whole thing.
Next year, GameStops across the US will begin testing a new service whereby gamers can buy DLC not online, but in a store, then take it home with them. It’s called the “Missing The Point” program.