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Archive for February 2006

February 23rd, 2006

FPS Games Bring Home the Bacon

According to Gamasutra, analysts had a peek at the four “super-genres” in the gaming industry (sports, racing, FPS, crime-based action), and have descended from the heavens to inform us that FPS games are, in fact, the most profitable sort of title for a publisher to pursue.
Jason Kraft and Chris Kwak, co-editors of the ‘Video Game [...]

By Erin -- 2 comments

February 23rd, 2006

The Women in WoW

Came across a fascinating blog entry that features comments from female gamers in WoW. The source of the comments comes from a survey that the author of this post held at an all-women’s WoW LJ community.
The topic of the comments range from general opinions on gender in-game, to harrassment, to feminism and oppression. [...]

By Ingrid -- 17 comments

February 22nd, 2006

Hypnosis: The Future of Video Game Reviews

And again, because the world isn’t weird enough when Jesus endorses the Xbox 360, hypnosis is now being used as a viable way of reviewing a video game.
Mark Robbins, the Deputy Editor of The Official Xbox Magazine, agreed to be put under hypnosis in order to regress back to age ten. The point? To [...]

By Ingrid -- 1 comment

February 22nd, 2006

Retro Video Game Scenes in Legos

Too cool! The New Gamer has recreated several video game scenes with Legos. This Duck Hunt main screen recreation is my favorite, but the Excitebike one isn’t far behind. I loved that game.
See the rest at flickr or visit the maker’s blog
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By Ingrid -- 1 comment

February 22nd, 2006

Xbox 360 Controller Costs $11 to Make

According to the EETimes, the $50 Xbox 360 controller costs approximately $11 to make. Actually, they don’t just tell you, no. David Carey, the president of Portelligent actually breaks the controller down into all of its many pieces and outlines what they are and what they do.
And after three pages of words like “capacitor” [...]

By Ingrid -- 13 comments

February 21st, 2006

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Confirmed

Once upon a time (like a few weeks ago), Valve announced that Half-Life 2: Aftermath would be renamed and broken down into a series of episodes. The first of which would be titled: Episode 1. And the second of which would be titled … oh I don’t even have to say it.
So.
Robin Walker [...]

By Ingrid -- 1 comment

February 21st, 2006

Legislations Tracked via Google Map

If you’re like me, then you don’t really give a howdy doody about all of the game legislations threatening to slam into place all over the US (me being Canadian and all). Thousands of precious internet words a day are wasted trying to keep track of which state said what and how porn is [...]

By Erin -- 0 comments

February 21st, 2006

Take-Two Takes It Up The…

Some times you just have to feel sorry for massive corporations. Sure, they wrench our hard-earned money from our clenched fingers with their addictive, over-priced wares, but they’re people too! Or at least their employees are.
No company, save for maybe the creators of the doomed Gizmondo, has faced so horrific a sting of [...]

By Erin -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2006

Games of the Future

I have very odd thoughts first thing in the morning, and today, one of my first thoughts was, “How long will WoW go on?”
Theoretically, the game can probably go on forever. It will just evolve with time and technology. It will introduce more Expansion Packs, and the world will continue to grow and expand [...]

By Ingrid -- 3 comments

February 20th, 2006

Play Feed Interviews Outpost Kaloki X Creator Steve Taylor

Fellow gaming site, Play Feed got a chance to interview Steve Taylor who is the president of Ninjabee and Wahoo Studios. If you don’t know, they are the folks behind the game Outpost Kaloki and Outpost Kaloki X (for the Xbox 360).
It’s a great interview, even if you’ve never heard of/played Outpost Kaloki (X). [...]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments