Posts

To say I amliving, breathing and fantasizing aboutBioShockevery waking moment of my day is probably a bit of an understatement at the moment. That is the only reason I can justify being obsessed with every tidbit of information that comes out about the game, from glitch videos such as this to the design of the Big Daddy’s boots. Still, this is a pretty cool glitch. It actually allows you to break out of Rapture and wander around in the ocean a bit....

As you may have heard by now, a couple of BioWare sites —Mass Effect 2andDragon Age: Origins, but notStar Wars: The Old Republic— now show a timer counting down to next Monday. Okay, so what’s this all about then? Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. It’s likely going to be some sort of announcement for new downloadable content. I’ll go ahead and speculate that it’ll be related toMass Effect 2, and the countdown is only onDragon Age‘s site for promotional reasons....

Those of you who’ve been suffering through the seemingly endless wait for the release ofHeavy Rainnow have someone to blame for your misery, and that individual is none other than the diabolical Santa Claus. Developer Quantic Dream’s Guillaume de Fondaumiere tellsGamesindustry.bizthat the reason the company’s highly anticipated project won’t be hitting store shelves until 2010 is so that it isn’t lost in the busy Christmas season game flood. “Most publishers today realize that it’s not ideal to release a new IP or a new genre just before Christmas....

Blizzard has releasedthree custom gamesforStarCraft II, which some of you might remember first seeing back at BlizzCon. For those wanting to get right into the work-in-progress mods, simply make your way to the custom games section of the multiplayer channel. Makes sense, right? First is “Aiur Chef,” a free-for-all game where players scrounge up ingredients to make recipes. There’s also “StarJeweled,” a take on PopCap’sBejeweledin which you match gems to ultimately destroy your opponent’s base....

No, its not what you’re thinking either. Frank Pearce, Bilzzard’s senior vice president of product development told Gamasutra that the company has created a ‘third team’ to work on a new title – something totally seperate fromWorld of WarcraftorStarCraft II. The comment slipped when the discussion moved into ‘workforce’ territory: “Our global headcount is 2,700,” said Pearce, “And most of that is customer service forWorld of Warcraft! In terms of development staff it’s probably around 350....

The first of many details surroundingStarCraft II: Heart of the Swarmhave come out, courtesy of MTV Multiplayer. WhileWings of Libertyis still eating up much of our free time, it’s never too early to ask — especially when it comes to the design philosophy of Blizzard — what’s ahead of us. Executive VP of game design Rob Pardo has the answers. “It’s hard to imagine doing a Zerg-based campaign the same way [as the Terran story] or, for that matter, doing a Protoss one....

Why in the world did we not post this yet? Destructoid alum Anthony Burch, now a writer for Gearbox, helped to make this video starringBorderlands‘ Claptrap for Ben, a fan who wanted to propose to his girlfriend in an extra special way. It’s cute and it’s funny. Oh, and she saidyes, if you were curious.

Capcom Unity and Dtoiders alike came out to Dolores Park in San Francisco this past weekend where many confused hipsters witnessed the lot of us playingSuper Street Fighter IVon the 3DS. We teamed up with the king of fighting game franchises because we’re all about bringing communities together. Plus the thought of free pizza was way too enticing! We had a great turnout for the afternoon of fighting, all of which was captured on ourJustin....

Capcom has announced the “Kill Big for Charity” event. Simply put, Capcom will donate $20,000 to a good cause once one millionLost Planet 2multiplayerdemos are downloaded between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Capcom will donate an extra $5,000 if 1.5 million demos are downloaded by May 5. So what charity is Capcom donating to? Well that all depends on the people playingLost Planet 2at the pre-launch party in Los Angeles on May 6....

It’s never too late to do an open beta. Atari announced this morning that FilePlanet has secured the exclusive right to host theChampions Onlinebeta client. Starting now you can head overto the Web site, member-up, and get a sneak peek at the superhero MMO. No word on when the beta will end, but logic tells us “soon.” The game is slated to hit retail on September 1st. Also, in case you were worrying, the MMO went gold....

While the MMO market is wonderfully saturated on PCs, creators of pay-to-play experiences have given home consoles a wide berth. Hubert Thieblot, CEO of Curse, views this as a huge opportunity, and fully believes that consoles could open up the market and expand it threefold. “I’m personally really looking forward to console MMOs, because when you think about it, if 50% of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners are online, that means that there are nearly 35 million next-gen consoles able to run an MMO now,” he said, trying to wipe the drool from his mouth....

So, yesterday Page Fletcher and I were shooting the breeze. He was right in the middle of finishing his story about how he killed his career by playing Robocop when my phone caught on fire. I shot out of my lawn chair — we were outside on the patio — and pounded on my thigh to suppress the blaze that threatened to crawl up my shirt and harm my beautiful hair....

After seeing the style of the trailer however (especially the voiceover in the beginning), it makes me thnk that it may turn off some gamers because it seems so specifically aimed at kids. Are you a fan of the first and looking forward to this, or does being talked to like a three year old make your face hurt?