EA Conference E3 2009 Live Blog

EA’s live blog should be interesting – odds are we’ll see quite a few IPs, though maybe not as many as tonight’s (today’s) Ubisoft conference. Note: This is now over, you can see below the tons of words that would… Read More »

For all those missing the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood and friends, the Monkey Island franchise is being revived. LucasArts have just announced plans to not only graphically revamp the original title, complete with new voiceovers and new musical compositions, but… Read More »

  Trion World Network has just announced its first MMO fantasy-based IP, Heroes of Telara. Based in a dark fantasy universe, four rival factions struggle for supremacy (similar to EVE‘s four and twice the amount of WoW, though whether it… Read More »

Microsoft Conference – E3 2009 Live Blog

It’s that time again, and I’ll be blogging like crazy to keep you up to date on the latest happenings in the Microsoft 2009 press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA. There have been many predictions, but only… Read More »

Rejoice, you muggles. Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 has just been confirmed by developer Traveller’s Tales as one of the various new Lego titles they’re working on, and are expecting to release it to the wizard-loving public in 2010. The game… Read More »

Crysis 2 announced for Xbox, PS3, PC

A nice little note to start off this year’s E3 – EA have announced Crysis 2 for the above three platforms, notably using the new CryEngine 3 for the best possible gaming experience. Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli spoke about the… Read More »

Eddie, Christos, and Jason talk about E3 and more in the podcast that couldn’t stay on topic. Episode 3 of vs. Node breaks from the normal format in a number of ways, as Eddie Inzauto and Christos Reid welcome GamerNode… Read More »

To represent the complexities of mixed martial arts in videogame format is no easy task, and successful translations of realistic fighting have mostly evaded developers, despite their best efforts. With UFC 2009: Undisputed, however, developer Yuke’s has leapt into the… Read More »

OnLies

Earlier this week, Matt Richtel of the New York Times published an interesting article entitled Videogame Makers Challenged by the Next Wave of Media. Industry growth is deceptive, suggests Richtel. Many publishers are having a hard time recouping increasingly large… Read More »

What's In The Box

Taking the surge of GDC coverage hitting the internet this week, let’s take a look at an interesting panel that came out of South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin last week. During the interactive media segment of a largely film… Read More »