Strap On the Hockey Pads: Impressions of the Gotham City Impostors Beta
Well folks, I’m a little stunned. The beta for Gotham City Impostors went live on Tuesday for Xbox Live and PSN, and it’s… really quite good. I downloaded it with an air of obligatory apathy, expecting to play a match of this oddly-propositioned DLG just to see what the fuss (if any) was all about before expunging it from my hard drive. Instead, I’ve come away with a couple of hours under my belt and a firm resolution to continue playing until the beta meets its end. Allow me to share the particulars with you.
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Game Rental through Netflix Finally Put to Rest
Netflix has been having a bit of a weird year, what with their decision to spin out mail rentals into its own service coming and then cancelling the idea after everyone said responded with “what?” and a cancelling of their accounts. With that announcement, though, also came the announcement that game renting was coming, and then we promptly didn’t hear a single thing about that.
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The Witcher Hunts the Xbox 360 on April 17
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings garnered my game of the year last year and it may very well be the only game to get it again this year. Why? Because Warner Bros. announced today that an Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2 will be released on April 17. While The Witcher 2 was previously PC-exclusive, members of the CD Projekt Red, the team behind the game, have repeatedly said that this is not simply a port of the PC version. It is an adaptation and that console players should expect the same quality of game that PC gamers experienced last year.
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California Ordered To Pay ESA $950K
How much does it cost to defend video games in a court of law? According to the Electronic Software Association, $950,000. That is how much the state of California is ordered to pay to cover legal fees after the bill Leland Yee put forth to the Supreme Court that proposed stronger government-enforced regulations on the sale of video games failed to pass. Thankfully the ESA has no intention of using the money to build a Scrooge McDuck-style money bin to house their new-found wealth. Instead, they are donating a portion of the amount to after-school programs in Oakland and Sacramento.
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Games As Art: At A Distance
At A Distance isn’t really a game you play for fun; hence, I’m not going to do a review of it. It’s also not really a game you play for fun- while I definitely enjoyed my experience as I worked my way through the game, it’s a game that heavily uses the gameplay to advance its themes and the tone it’s going for. It’s also not really a game you run through multiple times, since it’s so short that once you figure it out and beat it, you can go back through in maybe 20 minutes. Rather, this is a…
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Nintendo Experiences Big Losses in 2011, Promises Wii-U by the End of 2012
- 26 Jan 2012
- Apple, News, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Wii U byNick
As if we need further proof that the handheld industry is in the middle of an upheaval, Nintendo experienced its first revenue loss in 30 years. Today, Nintendo expanded their 2011 total loss forecast to 65 billion yen. They were expecting to lose 20 billion yen. Ouch. If you’re wondering how much that is in US dollars: it’s a lot. In Nintendo’s announcement today, they laid the blame squarely on the under-performing 3DS. Outlets like Bloomberg are going further and drawing correlations to the absolutely jaw-dropping quarter Apple had.
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Tiny Tower Dev Calls Out Zynga In Passive Aggressive Masterstroke
Zynga has long been regarded as the Thomas Edison of game publishing; culling successful ideas of the Teslian indie-mindshare and re-purposing them for their own gain. And they’re shameless about that. The hardcore community has been fairly open about its distaste for Zynga’s practices, but rarely has criticism of Zynga translated to diminished profit margins, separated as their games are from hardcore tastes. That all could (hopefully) change this week, thanks to NimbleBit, developers of iOS’ extremely popular Tiny Tower. For the last several weeks, the three members of this team have been sipping Game of the Year champagne for…
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Mass Effect 3 Action Figures Contain DLC Codes
Revealed originally on Neo GAF, and now confirmed on Bioware’s store, the new series of Mass Effect action figures will contain DLC codes for the multiplayer mode of Mass Effect 3, but they will only work on the Xbox and PC versions of the game. The codes could be new weapons, character boosters, or weapon modifiers. Each figure will cost $20 or you can purchase a 4-pack for $75. This may seem like a lot of money, but it is actually a pretty standard price for these kind of collectible toys.
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Is PC Gaming Dead? Part 1
These days, it’s common to hear that PC gaming is dying, and depending on who is saying it, it may seem completely true. There’s only one problem with thinking this: it’s not true. The misconception that PC gaming is dying is an easy assumption to make though considering that console game sales beat their PC brethren each month. Also, given the limelight piracy has been thrust into with SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act) you’d think that everyone and their next door neighbor pirates everything and no games actually sell. Then throw in tablet computers and sure, PCs seem like they’re on the way out.
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Blizzard Job Posting Suggests Product Placement in “Project Titan”
Blizzard Entertainment has been long at work on their Massively Multiplayer follow-up to World of Warcraft, codenamed Titan. While there still haven’t been any details released about the game officially, a recruitment posting on Blizzard’s webpage suggests that there will be ads and product placement in the game. Blizzard is looking for someone who can not only coordinate licensing for merchandise in the real world–action figures, comic books, t-shirts, etc.–they also want someone who can coordinate product placement in the world of their game. Some are using this information to claim that Titan will have a modern setting, but given how easily Blizzard put motorcycles and flying rockets in their fantasy game, I don’t think this is indicative of anything game-related.
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