Gamasutra posted an article from the Hollywood and Games Summit on The Art of Pitching. It is an interesting read because it shows just how far the divide between games and film remains, partly because the gaming industry still hasn’t matured enough to create great stories that could stand on their own. Our industry’s greatest [...]
What’s Going on at MDIAG! Right Now…- Netflix Streaming Better Than Physical Disc? August 8, 2010
- MDIAG! PSA: The Land Before Time on Netflix Streaming August 7, 2010
- SDCC: Hasbro’s Marvel Booth Walkthrough August 6, 2010
- MDIAG! PSA: Get Ghostbusters: The Video Game for $14.99 August 6, 2010
- SDCC: Hasbro’s Star Wars Booth Walkthrough August 6, 2010
Month: June, 2006
Party Like It’s 1996
Next Generation has posted the Ten Greatest Years in Gaming. Among them is the best year of my life, 1996. Everything about that year was awesome. The PSX. The Saturn. WipEout, NiGHTs, Virtual On! and Saturn Bomberman (on the Saturn). Still playing Snatcher on my Sega CD (and being able to buy it for $30 [...]
Hey Cool, Someone Agrees with Me!
I just wanted to give props to myself for having the foresight to request a next-gen continuation of the Colony Wars franchise. 1UP’s 1UP Yours Podcast this week said the same thing. Next time I’m in town, you guys are buying!
Will Oblivion Make A Difference?
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion has lit up the sales charts this year, and has received heaps of praise from the press. It is, quite frankly, the greatest thing since slice bread to hit your game console or PC. But in five years, or even two years time, will it matter? Will the success of the [...]
A Post Mortem Worth Living For
If anyone wants to get into the game industry, the best place to start would be reading post mortems in Game Developer. Generally written by the game producers, these post mortems offer a glimpse of what it really takes to create a game, from idea to implementation. Next Generation has started to get into the [...]
Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox 360
So we’ve all read by now Peter Moore’s comments that Microsoft may be done with backwards compatibility, as well as the damage control official response from Microsoft. And there was a heated debate about BC on the latest 1UP Yours podcast, which got me thinking. It’s not about getting rid of the original Xbox to [...]
The Best Xbox Games You Never Bought – OXM
Just as I was coming down hard on OXM, and upon receiving my final issue before I let my subscription run out, the editors of the magazine finally came up with an article worth reading: The 20 Best Xbox Games You Never Bought. I’m not going to list them here, because I encourage even non-Xbox [...]