BioWare Applies A (Broken?) Patch In Yet Another Off-Cycle Server Takedown
BioWare took down their servers again last night to apply another patch, this one intended to fix a bug in the PVP system but it seems the patch may not have worked.
Oh well, at least they didn’t take them down on a Friday night again.
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With Double Fine Funded, What Can’t Kickstarter Do?
Tim Schafer’s company hasn’t exactly lit up the charts with game sales. The former LucasArts game designer (the Monkey Island series, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango) founded Double Fine in 2000 to create quirky games that only his imagination could generate. Their first game, Psychonauts, was batted from Microsoft to Majesco where it failed to gain an audience. Its Jack Black-starring follow-up, Brutal Legend, also failed to make money for EA. After a few Xbox Live Arcade releases, Tim really just wanted to make an adventure game like the good old days. So he went to Kickstarter.
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Can Jeremy Renner Carry The Bourne Legacy?
Wow, so I remembered this thing. After The Bourne Ultimatum, the incredibly successful third movie in the espionage thriller series, director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon left the series for greener, uh, grass (which became the cool-ly received Green Zone). But Universal was leaving money on the table by not following up, so here comes The Bourne Legacy, sans an actual Jason Bourne. Instead, Jeremy Renner (you may remember him from the recently released Mission: Impossible flick) takes up the role of a Bourne-alike who now has to do devilish things for James’ old employer. And Ed Norton’s a bad guy? That’s cool.
But what about Jenner as the new Bourne? Hrm.
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The Woman In Black Review: Back To Basics
Hammer Films re-emerges with a picture reminiscent of the studio’s own glory days and classic Universal horror films of the 1930’s but carrying a few nasty habits gleaned from contemporary Hollywood productions. On the whole, director James Watkins and screenwriter Jane Goldman have forged an effective, traditional haunted house movie replete with gloomy atmosphere and spine-tingling chills. The Woman in Black may not break any new ground in the genre, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do.
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Curt Schilling Released A Video Game?
Curt Schilling, most notoriously known for winning a handful of World Series, is now known for pushing video games out of his own studio. Talk about a complete 180 in career changes. His baby, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, is the first game developed by 38 Studios (that’s his jersey number, heyo!) Can Curt and his studio survive in an already heavily populated industry?
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Microsoft Throws Down the Gauntlet Against Google
In lieu of the controversial Privacy Policy change that Google has recently come under fire for, Microsoft has decided to step up and strike while the iron’s hot. There were newspaper ads taken out last week that boldly pointed out Google’s troubles, the users concerns, and an alternate product conveniently made by Microsoft. However, it appears Microsoft is removing both gloves as they attack Google and more specifically GMail, in a video published by Microsoft, on ironically, the Google owned Youtube. Check out the video after the break.
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SWTOR Strategy Guide – Alderaan Civil War
Ahhh, Alderaan.
It’s as if million of n00bs cried out in terror and were suddenly steamrolled by a pair of 4-man pre-mades.
Wanna know how to slow them down, if not stop them all together?
Good!
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Google Chrome Beta for Android Available Now
Let me clarify that it’s only for Ice-cream Sandwich users and no one else. Until today I had no idea that Android was not using Chrome but instead a weird version of Webkit and the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. That seems so weird to me and the fact that this may not work with older versions of Android baffles me also. Read the rest of this article…
Xbox Live Indie Game Of The Week: Tacticolor
If you’ve been paying attention, you know I’ve been dying for a cool strategy game. It’s unfortunate that Microsoft doesn’t show more love to their XNA-powered indie developers, who toss games out at smartphone prices. The first title we want to show love for? Tacticolor.
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Finally, The Death Of Used Gaming
You already know which side of this you’re on, but one side’s definitely going to win and the other side is definitely going to lose. Accessing games at any time via digital download is something that music — and to a shorter extent, movies — have had in their arsenal to instantly gratify customers. But unlike songs or movies, which are linear forms of entertainment that can be streamed second to second, games have always had a hurdle to conquer in that they must be (mostly) acquired locally in order to be run. With the PlayStation Vita allowing for downloadable games at cheaper rates over their pressed-plastic cousins on store shelves and Microsoft’s new Xbox rumored to have anti-used game tech (whatever sort that may be), it’s obvious that the days of used gaming are going to come to a crashing end soon. It could not come any sooner.
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