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Final Fantasy XIII-2?
Yes, it hasn’t even been a week since Final Fantasy XIII’s western release date. But who doesn’t love rabid, fan-inspired, forward-looking speculation? In a recent <a href="http://.schrijversblok.nl/?p=261″ target=”_blank”>interview, FFXIII producer Yoshinori Kitase spoke of many aspects of the game, including its global response, early sales results, and some pointed criticisms at the game’s largely linear play [...]
No platform “superior or inferior” in Brink
Though it’s scheduled for release on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, developer Splash Damage won’t be playing favorites for any specific platform when it comes to their upcoming title, Brink. CEO of Splash Damage, Paul Wedgwood, talked to IncGamers of the studio’s objective to “set out from the very beginning wanting to [...]
Swanky new Medal of Honor trailer shows some cold efficient killing
There’s been a fair amount of media surrounding Medal of Honor, but even so, it’s a big mystery. We know DICE, the dudes behind the solid Battlefield: Bad Company 2 are doing the multiplayer, and EA Los Angeles is heading up single-player, and that the two components are on different engines. And… well besides some [...]
OnLive announces subscription-free service
While OnLive plans to launch solely with a subscription-based service, a subscription-free service called “OnLive Game Portal” is scheduled to follow the initial release. The service is, to simply put it, for people who just want to play the available on the service.
“The OnLive Game Portal is for gamers looking for direct access to [...]
Square Enix is looking for “the highest level of talent” to create their next generation engine
Final Fantasy XIII is quickly becoming one of the more divisive in recent memory, but no matter if you love it or hate it, everyone who has played it can agree on one thing: It’s really, really pretty thanks to Square’s proprietary Crystal Tools engine. This engine cost Square a lot of time and a lot of money, [...]
Red Steel 2 Leaked On Torrents, Nintendo Still a Winner (Red Steel 2)
O.G. writes "Over a week before it’s release, Red Steel 2 is showing up on torrent sites. Nintendo, however, won’t have that much to worry about."
VGC: Metroid Other M Hands-On Preview (Metroid: Other M)
VGChartz writes: "The game looks really impressive in the cutscenes and pretty slick in-game as well. I didn’t know what to expect walking in, but I came out wanting to play more. I’d like to see some to start focusing more on story (without sacrificing gameplay, of course) and Metroid: Other M is doing [...]
Nintendo Would "Happily" Make Kid Icarus Wii (Kid Icarus – Virtual Console)
Yoshio Sakamoto, one of the creators behind popular Nintendo platformer Kid Icarus, says Nintendo hasn’t ruled out bringing a new title in the series to the Wii, they just haven’t yet figured out how to.
"I don’t know personally about any project underway regarding Kid Icarus, but if so many of those people are interested [...]
GDC: Will Wright Peels Back Layers Of Entertainment, Games
When Will Wright looks at the world, he sees it differently than most people. He observes systems, he analyzes layers and he notices patterns in the most seemingly normal, every day things. “It’s an affliction,” he said at Game Developers Conference 2010 in a secret talk originally billed as by ‘Phaedrus’ on Saturday. “Every time [...]
GDC: Jason Rohrer Talks Diamond Trust’s ‘Knowledge Chains’
Independent designer Jason Rohrer is one of the gaming industry’s few radicals. It makes sense that he fears people will assume his next project, a DS title ostensibly about the diamond trade in Angola, will be a quintessential “serious game,” a grave lecture on the brutalities of that business. “It’s not a finger-wagging game at [...]
