Month: September 2012

Klei Entertainment founder, Jamie Cheng, talks about the studio’s just-released ninja stealth game ‘Mark of the Ninja.’

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By handing over content creation to the players, Neverwinter could breathe new life into a stale MMORPG market. When I last wrote about Neverwinter, the upcoming MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Entertainment, it was basically my way of bemoaning the plight of the single-player RPG. Too much money and too many developers are chasing the […]

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Ubisoft Montreal has announced The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot – a game that has already won the “Best Video Game Title 2012″ award (from me.) The game pits players against one another in a top-down style action-RPG setting, but with a twist: It’s not just an action-RPG, it also has a fully fledged tower defense […]

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Please note: this is a satirical piece, not “real news.” Fake CEO, Jus Sumgai, has come out with a bold new plan for the developer’s classic hit title, Solitaire. “We have been reviewing industry trends closely,” Sumgai said recently in an interview with Notta Real News Company. “It appears almost everyone is moving their games […]

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I’ve said before that I have a hard time with MMORPGs in which everyone is a hero. Maybe this will be less of an issue with a Marvel-based comic book MMORPG. With the closed beta for Marvel Heroes beginning October 1st, I’m going to don once again my MMO skeptic’s hat. While the game is being billed […]

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Will EA’s single-player games survive the company’s transition to cloud-based, always-online gaming? Will single-player gaming survive an industry hell-bent on making that leap?

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Comments made by the creator of Dark Souls about adding a possible Easy Mode were a translation error according to Namco Bandai. Metro has posted an update to their interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki. In the original interview Miyazaki said he was considering adding an easier difficulty mode to the next Souls game. This, Namco Bandai now asserts, […]

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In its annual report, Capcom made this statement: “Although will release the new game console Wii U and the market will be continue to be invigorated by the increase of DLC, time is required before the next generation console cycle begins in earnest.” Damien McFerran at Life writes: “It would appear that the creator of Monster […]

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Spoilers galore for all of Breaking Bad in the following post. It has come to my attention that various denizens of the internet are claiming the copy of Leaves of Grass found by Hank in Walt’s bathroom was not, in fact, a gift from Gale Boetticher but rather from his old lover and business partner Gretchen […]

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Violinist Lindsey Stirling and singer Peter Hollens return to the world of geek videos with a lovely rendition of the ‘Game of Thrones’ title song.

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