by Nike Okami Will Wright (co-founder of Maxis, which is now a part of Electronic Arts) has been feeling the pain lately, but it’s not over the recent Chinese earthquake or the World Food Crisis. The sultan of Sim has lived through the ultimate Grand Theft Auto experience — that of butchering an innocent in [...]
by Nike Okami It has happened several times. Developer makes a telling comment, departing from the earnest etiquette of public relations. Someone retaliates. Developer subsequently apologises with proverbial hat in hand. Case in point: Laurent Fischer, marketing director for Nintendo of Europe, being reprimanded by none other than famed God of War creator and designer [...]
by Nike Okami Metal Gear Solid, directed by Hideo Kojima and developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan, is one of the most successful and stylish franchises ever in gaming. However, come June 12th and it’ll all be over.No, the end of the world is not imminent (unless Jack Thompson takes a sudden interest in Patapon). [...]
by gSathe The first thing to do, we’ve got to stop calling it piracy. Piracy sounds cool, piracy is Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley. Piracy sounds sexy. So let’s just call it what it is – stealing. Don’t get me wrong. We’ve all bought pirated discs, we’ve played games and watched movies [...]
by ess-see My name is Sunaina. If that isn’t enough of a tip off, then let me add that I’m a girl. Actually I suppose that woman is the right word by now, since I’m 26. But I haven’t started using that word for anyone else I know yet, so I’ll be damned if I [...]
by gSathe Now we all know that gaming is good for us. Okay, so not too many people would actually agree to that out there in the big bad world, but if you’re here and reading this, then you’ve likely got a better idea about games, have probably seen an Xbox 360 and a PS3, [...]
by OZ Brian opened his eyes, and blinked. He looked at the stark landscape in front of him. Giant, crumbling blocks of stone lay in front of him, once perhaps beautiful, but decayed now, into twisted shapes and rotted into grotesque colours. The looming stacks of stones, lined up in row after jumbled row like [...]
by gSathe The recent controversy over Mass Effect, the purveyor of alien pornography, has shown us one thing. We gamers are all under thirteen years of age, and we clearly need to be saved from the vicious and pernicious evils of digitally rendered breasts because lets face it, we can’t be nearly as mature as [...]
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