How does one celebrate “Embrace Your Geekness Day” when you work in the video games industry? We’re not sure, but Microsoft’s Major Nelson and PlayStation Network Qore host Veronica Belmont want us to try.
Turns out “Embrace Your Geekness Day” is a trademarked holiday of Wellcat Holidays. The description on the official site reads “Into dungeon [...]
The TEDGlobal 2010 technology conference hosted Lionhead Studios frontman Peter Molyneux today who brought a second helping of his Kinect title, Milo. Snail squashing and room cleaning were a big part of the demo.
The TED News Twitter feed described the demo, which Molyneux began by saying “This talk is going to be a little bit [...]
Though the next major video game-related convention is Gamescom in Germany next month, both Tokyo Game Show and the Game Developers Conference are still on the radar. Tickets for TGS 2010 are on sale nowish and GDC just opened the call for submissions.
Advance tickets for TGS 2010 go on sale July 14 at 10 AM [...]
Following Square Enix’s lead, Namco Bandai is asking fans to suggest games for their Game Archives on PlayStation Network. No guarantees this will make any difference to North American or European fans, but you may as well try.
All you have to do is Tweet your suggestion with the hashtag #nbgi_archives. Original PlayStation and TurboGrafx-16 titles [...]
Ubisoft made some announcements while results and announcements from the year’s biggest fighting game tournament started spilling out onto the internet. Oh, and there was also a big soccer game or something. The rest of the names and games making news can be found in today’s daily stale bread.
07/12 — VIVA ESPANIA
Dave: Eh, I still [...]
Evolution Championship Series–the biggest fighting game competition of the year–took place over the weekend, with world champions being crowned in some of the most popular games, and major announcements coming from show organizers and Super Street Fighter IV’s producer.
Famed Japanese gamer Daigo Umehara pulled off another championship victory. After notching 2009’s biggest prize by taking [...]
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Simon Benson, a senior development manager at SCE’s Worldwide Studios stereoscopic team, has said that 3D can make gaming experiences more accessible for novice players and also give core gamers a competitive advantage online.
Speaking at a recent 3D event, a Sony marketing manager told attendees that gamers who play online titles in 3D will have [...]
Sony has announced that its PlayStation Minis range has cleared one million downloads across PAL, Asian and US territories.
Bite-sized downloadable PlayStation Network titles that launched for PSP last October and for PS3 before Christmas, Minis were first announced at E3 last year.
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UK culture minister Ed Vaizey was incorrect when he said at Develop today that the games industry had failed to present a compelling case for the introduction of development tax breaks, according to TIGA CEO Richard Wilson.
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Triple A development too risky for most developers, says vice president of Bioware.
"Striving to do triple A game development right now is the wrong goal for most developers," said Bioware vice president and group creative officer Greg Zeschuk, during his keynote speech at Develop in Brighton. “For my generation it was the one thing we [...]
