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Industry follows Nintendo as gaming goes casual
Publishers acknowledge influence of the ‘Nintendo effect’, retail praises appeal to diverse customer base.
Retail has this week hailed the rise of casual gaming as key to a lucrative peak period with ‘the Nintendo effect’ continuing to reverberate across the industry.
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Poll shows Dutch women are gamers too
The polling agency TNS NIPO Technology in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, released these results of a study among 8,000 people:
* Dutch women like to play computer games just as often as men do.
* Almost one-fifth of the 10 million Dutch internet users spend about 15 minutes per day playing a game.
* Among female [...]
CliffyB Talks ‘Gears of War’ Movie
While Master Chief’s path to the box office may be stalled at the moment, another one of Microsoft’s ‘killer apps’ on Xbox 360 is on its way to Hollywood. GameDaily BIZ chats with Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski about the upcoming movie adaptation of his blockbuster game.
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Level Up: Adam Tierney Explains How Hypnotizing His Very Own Big Daddy Transformed BioShock Into Art
In regard to Michael Dirda’s notion that games may approach art when they become able to depress their players, Bioshock depressed Adam Tierney deeply and in a way that many players might not have encountered.
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The Worst Video Game Box Art of All Time
GamerHelp wrote an article on "The Greatest Video Game Box Art of All Time" and now it’s time for the worst. There is no talking here. Just look at these covers.
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Sony’s Big Mistake: Launching PS3 One Year Too Early
Maybe they realize it by now, and maybe they don’t, but Sony has managed to play right into Microsoft’s hands. When you look at the PlayStation 3, it’s hard to tell what is wrong. Microsoft’s early success caused Sony to get trigger happy. The PS3 was ready from a hardware design standpoint, [...]
The Greatest Video Game Box Art of All Time
In this article, GamerHelp talks about and shows some of the best video game box arts from 1980 to 2007. From Atari 2600 games to the upcoming next-gen games like Jericho.
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Halo 3 better than everything?
Gamers love Halo. Gamers also love to hate Halo. More than anything, however, gamers love to argue about Halo. Is it overrated or underrated? Is it the best shooter ever, or the worst? Is it better than Shooter X and Shooter Y? Or does Shooter Z totally blow it out of the water?
GamesRadar get [...]
Is Hollywood about to Ruin Your Favorite Video Game?
Let’s face it; film adaptations of video games are generally terrible. Hollywood has a long reputation of turning excellent video games into mediocre to horrible movies (See: Super Mario Brothers, Bloodrayne, Doom). Here is a list of video game-based movies currently in development that most likely will be stinking up theaters for years to come.
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Writers Guild Announces Gaming Award
Today, the Writers Guild of America announced the creation of a Videogame Writing Award. This was created at the guild’s New Media Caucus "to encourage storytelling excellence in videogames, to improve the status of writers, and to begin to encourage uniform standards" within gaming and so that the contributions of gaming writers may be better [...]
Video Gaming is the New MTV
In this article entitled ‘Video Gaming is the new MTV’, Gameplayer explores the notion that video gaming is set to play as important a role in establishing new artists and bands as MTV did back in the 1980s.
"By the time the average punter had played SingStar ten times over they had thirty songs etched [...]
Five Most Common PC Gaming Myths
If you’re a long-time PC gamer, you’ve heard it all before. Your favorite gaming platform is dying, and it’s all about the consoles now. After all, gaming on the PC is too expensive. It’s too complicated and unreliable. The sales just aren’t there. All the cool games are on consoles. PCs are fine for World [...]
Producers Talk Violence in Video Games
Violence in video games is a hot topic in the industry today and a subect of heated discussion in the media, consumer base and government.
Gamasutra has an interview with some of the top producers in the gaming industry on violence in video games, legislation and responsibility. Former Thrill Kill and current Sony producer [...]
Robots and Japanese schoolgirls appear in San Andreas
While certain other Grand Theft Auto mods may have caused Rockstar a degree of aggravation in the last few years, you can’t help but admire the talent that’s gone into this anime-themed job. Not only have the modders managed to change the lead character into a saucer-eyed, gun-toting schoolgirl, there’s robots! Suddenly the oft-rumoured GTA [...]
G4TV: We’ve Got Something Big to Tell You
This Thursday, September 27th at 7:20 pm ET during Attack of the Show, G4 has some really big news to share with all of you.
What is it? You’ll have to tune in and hear it for yourself, but trust us when we say G4 has never made an announcement this BIG before!
So be [...]
MIT hackers prank Harvard statue with Master Chief’s Helmet, Assault Rifle
MIT and Harvard University, both situated in the same city Cambridge, have a century-old amicable rivalry. MIT and Harvard students are known for pranks, known as "hacks", against their rival schools.
In honor of Halo Day, MIT’s latest hack today decorates the John P. Harvard statue in Harvard Yard with a Master Chief’s [...]
O Bungie, Betrayer of your Brothers and Sisters in Development
Jeez, Bungie. Releasing Halo 3 and muscling out the other worthy releases of September 25th without even a thought as to the lives you’re ruining and the families you’re destroying. Good thing Mega64 created a dramatic re-enactment to bring to light the terrible truth of Bungie’s Halo 3 9/25 release, originally aired on last night’s [...]
Olivia Munn Loves Master Chief
G4 loves it when Olivia Munn licks things, but when she licks Master Chief’s head, they need to share it with you.
Check out the grand unboxening of the Halo 3 legendary edition, straight from Attack of the Show.
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Uwe Boll snaps up unreleased game again: Zombie Massacre is the next victim
Okay, remember a few weeks ago when Destructoid covered an upcoming Wii game that sounded absolutely awesome, Zombie Massacre? Well, President of 1988 Games and producer of Zombie Massacre Benjamin Krotin has just emailed Destructoid with thanks for their coverage and an attached press release that contains some facepalming news — 1988 Games is teaming [...]
Halo 3 Launch Event in NYC (video)
Video from the big Halo 3 launch event, at Best Buy in New York, covered by Major Nelson.
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