In March 2006, Nintendo released the DS Lite. The portable kicked a wave of Apple comparisons. Here’s why:
This is the last picture I took of my PSP Go before selling it on eBay for $US200. Is anyone still holding onto theirs?
So, Halo creators Bungie are working with Activision on a new piece of IP. For the next ten years. I hope for everyone’s sake it’s not a first-person shooter!
Dear Mr. Ebert,
I’m writing regarding your recent post “Video games can never be art”. This of course is ground you have touched upon before. Your site is currently being inundated with comments from those eager to defend video games as art.
Former Kotaku contributor Alice Taylor responds to Game Developer magazine’s choices for The Game Developer 50, which highlighted gaming’s “important accomplishments of the last year (give or take)… in the categories of art, design, programming, business and evangelism.”
Seeing Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski on Jimmy Fallon the other night got me thinking, about two things. One, how great it was seeing a developer on international television. And two, how few other devs there are like him.
In spring 2009, the Western media caused a brouhaha over computer game Rapelay. The game was released in 2006, and CNN is now covering the controversy. Why?
Two jackasses baiting an Xbox Live moderator and getting banned isn’t worth much outrage. But when they doctor a video and expect everyone to believe it on the knee-jerk faith that mods are fascists, that just insults your intelligence.