harry potter
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8:00AM AJ Glasser | It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? More »
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince Review: Almost Half-Good
8:00AM AJ Glasser | It’s a movie tie-in game for a film based on a blockbuster book series, so really, what did you expect of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince besides visual fan service? Originality? More » 
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Daniel Radcliffe Aided By Gaming
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Harry Potter’s Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe (aka Harry Potter), currently showing his dong in Broadway’s Equus in an effort to break character, suffers from dyspraxia. The actor explains how it overcame it. More »
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Next Lego Game? Try Harry Potter
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Having heard from “sources”, CVG are reporting that the next franchise to be given the Lego game treatment will be…well, whaddya know, Harry Potter.
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Delaying Harry Potter Has Cost Electronic Arts *THIS* Much
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | Just like the movie, the latest Harry Potter game has been pushed back. How many tears that’ll cost the youth of the world, sadly, we’ll never know. What we do know is how much the delay cost EA in missed revenue for the year. While it’s ultimately pointless trivia – they’ll just make the money next year instead – it’s still interesting to see the kinds of bets the company put on their games prior to release. Seems EA were counting on the Half-Blood Prince to do around $US 120 million worth of business across the 117 platforms it’ll be shipping on, a figure so great it represents around 2.5% of the entire company’s revenue for the year. Those wizards. They big business. Form 8-K for ELECTRONIC ARTS INC. [Yahoo, via Variety] More »
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Something Wicked This Way Comes, A New Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince Trailer
9:40AM Adam Barenblat | I am sure I will get a lot of flak for this, but I like the Harry Potter movies. It’s my guilty pleasure. Hell, I even have a playlist in my iTunes called “guilty pleasures” filled with 80’s hits and the Harry Potter soundtrack. With the film recently delayed to 2009, we don’t know when the game will come out. However, in the meantime we have this trailer to keep you guys busy. More »I Beat Harry Potter’s Executive Producer In A Wand Duel
7:20AM Leigh Alexander | Okay, so I like Harry Potter. I checked out the Wii version of EA’s upcoming Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, slated to drop alongside the film, mainly because I was interested in seeing what kind of magic wand a Wii remote made. I had it demoed for me by executive producer Jonathan Bunney and producer Justin Manning, and it came down to a fight. Actually, the first part of the demo let me try out the potion-mixing minigame; you’ve got a bubbling cauldron and a desk full of ingredients like little vials, bottles, leeches and caterpillars, and symbol-based instructions for each step of the potion-making scroll up in a little wheel to the screen’s right. A potion-making sim was a first for me, and I exploded the thing a few times, but it was mostly pretty fun, especially when you can tilt the Wii remote to spill a beaker’s contents into the cauldron and then make a stirring motion to whirl it up until the colour changes. It’s all timed and ranks your precision, which was pretty fun. More »
The Unlicensed Harry Potter Shoot ‘Em Up
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Pirates have brought gaming some good things. Make that, some interesting things. Take this unlicensed Famicom Harry Potter… shmup? Yep! Young Harry rides about on his broom, shooting floating dog heads and bats. According to game site Siliconera: More »
Textfyre – The Comeback of the Text Adventure?
1:00PM Maggie Greene | Interactive fiction is a hot hot hot subject these days (at least in some circles), and plenty of independent takes have cropped up relatively recently. But David Cornelson, CEO of Textfyre, Inc., is setting out to see that interactive fiction gets a commercial resurgence, and has goals like getting a licence for Harry Potter IF game (hey, it would probably be better than the Wii version of the last game). Targeting reading-aged kids with an episodic format, Cornelson says to Gamasutra: I think I will be able to sell hundreds of thousands of games in a year and we’re going to expand into educational, subject-matter, library, and other markets and we will be the market leader in high quality text-based interactive educational entertainment. I have to wonder how successful text-based games are going to be when aimed at a generation raised on CGI, but stranger things have happened (though it’s certainly ‘an eyebrow-raising prospect,’ as GameSetWatch says). It’s an interesting interview and an interesting concept – we’ll see how it pans out in the future. Could it be that interactive fiction is no longer going to be the pet project of PhDs across the country? Though I really have a difficult time imagining this as a truly commercially viable concept. Textfyre’s Cornelson On An IF Resurgence [Gamasutra via GameSetWatch] More »
PlayStation Store Update: Demolicious
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | This week’s PlayStation Store update will be one of its biggest, with the already announced duo of PixelJunk Racers ($US 6.99) and High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition ($US 9.99) leading the assault. Fortunately for fence sitters, a demo for PixelJunk Racers will be available to try for free. Four other playable demos, including ones for Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, NHL 08, FIFA 08 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will also be available for download tonight. In addition to those playable options, a healthy portion of video content, wallpapers and even a track from the Lair score will be available. Here’s the full list: Everyday Shooter trailer Warhawk trailer Lair Behind the Scenes video Feel the Noise trailer Juiced 2 trailer High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition trailer Soul Calibur IV trailer High Stakes: Poker wallpaper PixelJunk Racer wallpaper Folklore wallpaper More »
