Posted on : 26-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Used game sales are not popular with publishers who only see profits when new copies of games are sold. Increasingly, games are now sold with one-time use codes that give customers extra content or features; those buying the game used will have to pay that same fee to access this content. GameStop is facing legal action due to this practice for one simple reason: the game box advertises the content, but the stores don’t disclose the fact that the content costs extra for those who buy used.
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Posted on : 26-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Games
The classic Playmobil toys get the medieval treatment in a comprehensive and affordable all ages Nintendo DS game.
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Posted on : 26-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Our Nintendo DSi XL showed up at the office the same day news of the Nintendo 3DS began trickling out of Japan. That system will be out before March of next year, at least in Japan, and Nintendo wants us to buy a system this weekend without knowing what’s going to replace it in a little under a year? There is confidence, and then there is hubris.
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Posted on : 26-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Games
Not a home run, but we’ll call it a sacrifice and give it an RBI.
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Posted on : 25-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Microsoft sent over the invitation: Project Natal to be fully unveiled on June 13, before E3 officially begins.
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Posted on : 24-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Split-screen gaming is having a hard go of things these days. At GDC the co-op play of Transformers: War for Cybertron was talked up… but you’ll have to be online. Hunted: the Demon’s Forge was likewise a co-op heavy game, but we were told that you can only play with a friend online. Developers are simply not willing to give up the graphical fidelity to split the screen in two. One game that is excited about split-screen? Sony’s ModNation Racers.
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Posted on : 24-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
SteelSeries made the case that DPI is a worthless measurement for the quality of a high-performance gaming mouse. Some of you agreed, others didn’t. One person with a strong opinion was Robert “Razerguy” Krakoff, the President of Razer. His company makes some very nice gaming mice, and he has some thoughts on the DPI debate.
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Posted on : 24-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Games
EA’s attempt to cash in on Modern Warfare 2 is a meager one.
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Posted on : 23-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Mobile analytics firm Flurry has attempted to measure Apple’s influence on the portable gaming market, and its analysis concludes that iPhone games now account for about one-fifth of all revenue for portable game software in the US.
Using sales figures compiled from market research firm NPD, Flurry estimates that the slice of revenue pie going to iPhone games has increased from 5 percent in 2008 to 19 percent in 2009. In that same time period, revenue for Sony PSP games dropped from 20 to 11 percent, while market leader Nintendo dropped slightly, from 75 to 70 percent.
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Posted on : 22-03-2010 | By : Admin | In : Video Games
Portal was something of a perfect storm. Game mechanics that felt new, a story that tied into the world of Half-Life, a length that didn’t outstay its own welcome, and to really drive the point home the end credits featured the instantly memorable song “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton. The song and the game built on the success of one another, creating one of the most memorable moments in modern gaming.
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