Gameplay Video Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
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Mvern78
Posted March 8th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Today Ubisoft released a Gameplay video, along with the developer comments, from Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. In the video the Development team discuss the back story of the game, some of the new features and level designs as well as the battle engine used (originally designed for Assassins Creed). From the videos appearance this looks like a great rebooting of the franchise, heading back to the roots of the game and building on the success of the Sands of Time.
Video includes co...
Ubisoft Announces: Shaun White Skateboarding
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Mvern78
Posted March 5th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Stand back Tony Hawk there is an new kid in town, XGames Gold Medalist Shaun White. After the success of the Shaun White Snowboarding franchise Ubisoft will take Skateboarding to a new level with Shaun behind the wheels.
How does Shaun feel about all this:
"I can't describe how excited I am about the skateboard game,” said Shaun White. “We've been working on it for a while now and it's ready to melt minds."
No info yet on which systems we will see this on but stay tuned for de...
Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer
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Mvern78
Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
New From the team over at Bungie - the Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer. Showcasing some of the new features and moves your going to gain access to in game - Jet packs, assassinations look amazing. New game play types; Head Hunter, Spartans vs. Elites and Invasion all look amazing.
Remember Halo: Reach multiplayer beta starts on May 3. Got your invite code yet?...
SCEA Announces Acquisition of Media Molecule
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Mvern78
Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Today Sony Computer Entertainment announced that it had acquired game developer Media Molecule, creators of LittleBigPlanet for the PS3 and PSP.
Quote from the release by Alex Evans - Co-founder of Media Molecule:
"Since Media Molecule's inception, we've had a uniquely close relationship with SCE. Over the years they have consistently shown their dedication to Creative Gaming and Media Molecule, not only through their support of the company, but their willingness to take risks and embra...
The Revolving Door of Game Development
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Andrew
Posted February 28th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
For those of you interested in getting into the game industry, I have some good and bad news: The good news is that positions are opening up left and right. The bad news is that they're going to be filled by someone more qualified than you, sorry.
According to Develop's Salary Survey, nearly 30% of industry workers will be changing jobs in 2010. If you look 2-3 years into the future, over 70% of employees will have changed jobs at least once.
Why the shakeup? The biggest reasons are that e...
Civilization V Announced
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Mvern78
Posted February 25th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Firaxis Games recently announced the upcoming release of Sid Meier's Civilization V. Talk about exciting I grew up playing Civilization and have played every single version since, along with (almost) all of the Expansions packs available.
Based on this trailer it's time to begin a PC upgrade again...
Stay tuned we will bring you more info as we get it. In the meantime check out the official Civ V site.
Coming Fall 2010...
The Bobby Kotick You Don’t Know
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Andrew
Posted February 18th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
The gaming internet loves having a good target to funnel its hate and Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision has been at the barrel of the gun for some time. Kotick has taken the chance to speak about himself and Activision in his DICE 2010 keynote and he showed us his geeky gamer inside that has been locked away in the cold shell of a very expensive suit for years. Please take this with a grain of salt as it is coming from the man himself, but you should know that his gaming cred runs deep.
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The Future Face of the Industry?
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Andrew
Posted February 12th, 2010 at 9:46 am
There is an old saying, "Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't". Many people will complain about EA and their yearly Madden installments, or about Ubisoft and their imagine gamez, or about Activision's Bobby Kotick being, well, himself. Although we do have our beef(s) with all the big name publishers out there, they're our big name publishers, and they're better than what might be coming.
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