Sunday, July 5, 2009
LucasArts Announcing New Old Game For Old IP Monday
10:49PM Brian Crecente | LucasArts Games promsies to unveil a new and exciting game based on an existing franchise on Monday. More »
Sunday Supplement: “We should have been doing other things”
9:00AM David Wildgoose | Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain.
Chewing Pixels: Lest We Forget
Simon Parkin ponders what it means to make a realistic or authentic military game.
Suicide Girls: Brutal Legend And The Worlds Of Tim Schafer
PixelVixen argues that our favourite Tim doesn’t just design games, he builds entire worlds.
GameSetWatch: Plotting, Emergent Narratives, and ‘Story Spaces‘
Tom Cross explores how games abdicate authorship to redefine what a narrative actually is. Part 2 is here.
The Escapist: Designing Religion
Alan Au examines how Sid Meier’s Civilization series has handled religious matters from game to game.
The Brainy Gamer: The Darkness
Michael Abbott inspires me to revisit Starbreeze’s disturbingly well-conceived shooter.
InFamous Defeats Prototype In Cross-Dressing Playoff
9:00AM Owen Good | In a recent Zero Punctuation review, Yahtzee couldn’t declare which blockbuster game “about super-powered assholes” was better, but would give the honour to the studio that best drew the rival game’s protagonist in drag. More »
Valve: PS3 Orange Box Players “Got The Stepchild Version”
8:00AM Owen Good | In an interview with CVG, Valve’s Doug Lombardi says the experiences of putting Half-Life on PS2 and Orange Box on PS3 have put them off Sony development for the near future. More »
Bank Heist Causes Bank Run In EVE Onlne
6:00AM Owen Good | Last month, the swindling of more than 200 billion ISK resulted in an actual run on a virtual bank in EVE Online. The best part? The loot was sold IRL – just $US5,000. More »
