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Police Blotter: Magic: The Burglaring
Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them — sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves.
Here’s A Look At One Of The iPhone’s New Game Controllers
With Steve Jobs no longer around to tell us these things aren’t elegant enough for his device, it appears we’ll finally get a proper gamepad for the iOS this year. This will be one of them, made by Logitech.
Caught Flatfooted By Xbox 360, EA Sports Vows It Won’t Happen Again
Few sports video games are truly timeless. Even the best — MVP Baseball 2005, NFL 2K5 — show their age and shortcomings immediately, and more than their contemporaries in other genres. It’s the special burden of sports titles, tasked with reflecting both the state of the art and the state of reality inside a one-year snapshot.
Though 4J Studios, Which Is Handling Minecraft’s Xbox One Edition, Said It Is Trying To Allow Import
Though 4J Studios, which is handling Minecraft‘s Xbox One edition, said it is trying to allow importation of gamesaves from Minecraft on the Xbox 360, Microsoft studios’ Phil Spencer said it won’t happen. “Bigger worlds don’t translate between the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.”
Have Some World Of Tanks With Your 360
World of Tanks is coming free-to-play to Xbox 360 later this winter. If you want to get in on the beta preceding it, developer Wargaming.net is taking applications right now.
NBA Live’s E3 Demo Doesn’t Sound Much Better Than NBA Elite’s
In 2010, EA Sports brought NBA Elite 11 to E3 as a shootaround demo only. I remember this vividly. You played as one player in a practice setting, learning the timing of the new stick-shooting controls. If you still have the ill-fated NBA Elite 11 demo, go to its practice mode, that’s what we saw three years ago.
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