Should You Buy An Xbox 360 Or PlayStation 3 At This Point?
The future looms, but should you regret your purchase today?
With new consoles due out by the end of the year, there’s a lot of anxiety around spending in upwards of $500 on a current-generation console. It’s understandable. I was at the center of it all when it happened in 2001 and again in 2006, back when I worked retail, so I get the question a lot. People feel like they’re regretting a great experience by investing now instead of a year from now. Here’s a hint: you’re not.
Why Won’t David Cage Admit He Wants To Direct Long, Awkward Movies Already?
“What do you mean you don’t want to talk to any of these people?”
I don’t get the David Cage hype. The crazy French mind behind Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), and Heavy Rain is hailed for his attempts to transcend the genre and create more emotional gaming experiences while brow-beating his colleagues to ‘advance the art’. Notice I said ‘attempts’, because while Cage has a problem with being called a frustrated would-be director that Hollywood wouldn’t have a second interview with, that’s exactly what his work casts him as.
IllumiRoom For Next Xbox Unveiled, But Can It Beat Oculus Rift?
This coffee table projection offers extended reality, but is it enough?
Originally unveiled at CES behind closed doors, IllumiRoom is Microsoft’s big new living room accessory for their next generation Xbox. The footage that leaked out, featuring splash damage and other, minor details breaching the boundaries of the TV, seemed unimpressive, but in full motion, the coffee table projector seems pretty neat… if you have the stadium-sized living room that Microsoft assumes you have.
‘EVE Online’, Meet Oculus Rift [UPDATED With Video]
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All we really need are gaming pods at this point, right?
EVE Online is a pretty fun game if you can fall in the right crowd. Well, maybe fun is too strong a word considering at its most actionable, the game keeps you a relative distance from the actions involving your ship. It’s an emotional gulf that puts you at odds with a lot of the game’s universe, which has kept the player population down to its most hardcore. So how do you resolve that? Well, I guess you can play Dust 514, but what you really want is some Oculus Rift action, of course!
‘Thief’ Game Unveil Was Smoke And Mirrors, Development Extremely Troubled
Scary.
Thief 4, once a sequel, now a fully rebooted Thief game, has been in development for five years and will come upon six when it finally releases next year. When a game is in development for that long, one can expect that the game’s development was troubled, or at least misguided and meandering for a time. As it turns out, Thief‘s development at Eidos Montreal has been so hampered that their Game Informer reveal last month was out of panic, not of pride.
‘The Bureau’ Is The ‘XCOM’ Shooter Reborn… Again
It’s finally for real!
Today the leak regarding the XCOM shooter’s transition to The Bureau was confirmed, although the game will still sling the XCOM name as a byline. The game’s ultra-secretive development comes to light, putting you in charge of an ultra-secretive development within the government responsible for taking out strange alien threats. Also, there’s a new trailer!
‘Eador: Masters Of The Broken World’/’Fallen Enchantress’ Hands-On: Fantasy RPG-Strategies, Just For You
You can have it this, or you can have it that.
I’m not sure how two eerily similar PC-based fantasy-themed RPG/strategy games with weird and clunky names wound up in my hands within such a short window, but I was obliged to give both a gander! Seriously, if any of that sentence sounded even slightly enticing
Bethesda Reveals The Art And Science Of Their Level Designs In ‘Skyrim’, ‘Fallout 3’ And Beyond
Yo, man, don’t get all geometry on me!
Guys, I understand level design, I just don’t want to ever design levels. Is that too much? Bethesda is known for massive, curated worlds in their Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, but few realize how much work goes into creating a large amount of levels through use of modular systems. In a very, very lengthy read, you too can understand how Bethesda gets its artists and designers on the same page when it comes to shaping worlds.
EA Facing Massive Layoffs Today [UPDATED]
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Cuts are getting deep.
Kotaku is getting word that to save the good ship Electronic Arts, the company is laying off as much as 10% of its work force. It sounds absolutely terrible, but it may also be what EA needs to get back on track.
‘Minecraft’ Meets ‘Star Citizen’ In Super Indie ‘Xeno Galaxies’
Pew pew!
Okay, obviously this one-man show isn’t gonna beat the pants off the complexities of Star Citizen, but this game does a little dream fulfillment all its own. As a space dude in Xeno Galaxies, you’ll get to build and fly your ship across the galaxy to do all kinds of stuff. He needs your help, though. With 58 days remaining, Xeno Galaxies‘ Indiegogo drive is still a few dollars shy of its $90,000 goal.
