Sunday, May 10, 2009
Duke Nukem Forever Gameplay Footage
8:04PM Luke Plunkett | This clip is currently being hosted on the site of a now-former 3D Realms employee (though it can no longer be accessed publicly). It’s full of, supposedly, Duke Nukem Forever gameplay footage. More » 
SF Flowchart: All Roads Lead To Shoryuken
9:00AM Owen Good | This incredibly deep flowchart nails the entire spectrum of decision-making Ken presents to 98.7 percent of those who play Street Fighter – especially jump backwards-Hadouken! More » 
Sunday Supplement: “Videogames are wish fulfillment power fantasies”
8:00AM David Wildgoose | Today’s round-up of the best games writing takes in three very famous game designers, one bonkers beat ‘em up and a critically marginalised genre.
Gamasutra: Peter Molyneux: The Essence of Interaction
Great interview that reveals much about how the mind of one of the industry’s most famous designers works.
Designer Notes: Game Developer Column 5: Sid’s Rules
Maxis designer Soren Johnson discusses the five rules he’s learned from working with another of our industry’s most famous designers, Sid Meier.
NowGamer: The Making of OutRun
Our third famous designer, Yu Suzuki recounts to Retro Gamer magazine how he created a video game icon.
OffWorld: One More Go: God Hand, or why hardcore games ring my bell
Margaret Robertson celebrates the sheer lunacy of Capcom’s cult classic brawler.
The Brainy Gamer: The sports game ghetto
Michael Abbott questions why game critics don’t feel sports games are worthy of closer examination.
Gears Screenwriter Wants The Rock
8:00AM Owen Good | Chris Morgan just finished the Gears screenplay and knows who’d be a perfect Marcus Fenix. “A really f’ing good actor” who can blend silent toughness with humanity. AKA Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson! More » 
Gametap Partners Up With Microsoft
7:00AM Owen Good | Age of Empires 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Mech Warrior 4 are on the way to the game portal GameTap, following an agreement reached with Microsoft Game Studios, announced last week. More »
Scout-Chop: You’re Gonna Love His Ball
6:00AM Owen Good | YouTube user CastingOutTheSelf mined the Scout soundfile and came up with, lo and behold, a dead-ringer script for everyone’s favourite hooker-beating pitchman. How the hell did we go a week before seeing this? More »
PlayStation Home Offers Affordable Housing
5:00AM Owen Good | What’s more affordable than free, anyway? Beginning Thursday (May 14) you can get some new digs in PlayStation Home if you’re tired of the standard-issue harbourside apartment. “Chamber Apartment” is free, but only for a week. More »
Eidos: Sequels, And Sequels To Sequels
4:30AM Owen Good | Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed. More »
Mod Makes L4D Survival Into Versus Mode
4:00AM Owen Good | Playing survival mode as special infected kind of defeats the purpose, IMHO. But some guys at Left 4 Dead mods say they’ll drop configs for that soon – if Valve doesn’t spoil the fun first. More »
