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  • 25 best smartphone games – part two Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 1:13AMThe second part of our bumper mobile gaming roundup, with all the best titles from 2011 – so far. Following the first part of our collection of smartphone gaming treats , here's the concluding batch, rounding up the very best titles of the last six months. Again, I sought the help of brilliant handheld game site Pocket Gamer , and its writers have lent their considerable wealth of miniaturised ...
  • The Problem with PC gaming. Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 1:48AMI recently sold my Gaming PC, It cost me about $1500 to custom build it. I've always been into PC and console gaming. Being that I am a computer engineer I work with High-End PC's all the time. You see my problem with PC gaming lately is that it's so MMO and RTS oriented. Not that MMO's and RTS's are bad it's just that when you walk into a store and look at their PC section it's always soo ...
  • Yes, You'll Be Able to Play Diablo III This Summer Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 10:16AMKhazras and dune threshers and fallen ones, oh my, but you won't need a pair of ruby slippers or a scruffy black terrier to make action-RPG Diablo III happen this year—it sounds like Blizzard's planning to unlock its demon-butchering bonanza sometime this summer. During a recent earnings call, Activision-Blizzard revealed the game is already in [...]
  • Blizzard Targeting Q3 2011 for Diablo 3 Beta Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 2:46PMHang tight, as Blizzard may announce the Diablo 3 Beta in a few hours.
  • Saling The World: Mortal Kombat Overtakes Portal 2 Stateside Friday, April 29, 2011 @ 3:44AMGamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from April 28th, 2011, find Valve's NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat reboot outselling Valve's Portal 2 in North America, as El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron ...
  • Diablo III Delayed Indefinitely? Friday, April 1, 2011 @ 1:32PMNot many developers can boast three hugely successful franchises, but with Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, Blizzard can do just that. Unfortunately, the popularity of the first two series may be why the highly anticipated third entry in the latter is being delayed . Diablo III was announced way back when the fate of World of Warcraft 's future and Starcraft II 's success was uncertain. But with ...
  • The Best of Big Download: March 21 - 27 Sunday, March 27, 2011 @ 11:03PMIt was a big week for PC gamers, with the long-anticipated debut of Crysis 2 , as well as a number of games that are not Crysis 2 . Let's look back at the past seven days of stories on Big Download, be they Crysis 2 -centric or otherwise. Continue reading The Best of Big Download: March 21 - 27 The Best of Big Download: March 21 - 27 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:59:00 ...
  • Gameloft Puts 3 Adventures On Sale Friday, March 25, 2011 @ 3:38PMStarting tomorrow morning, three Gameloft games are going on sale for just 99 cents. Adventure fans can nab Eternal Legacy, Gameloft's Japanese RPG homage, and the Zelda-ish Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden for a steal. StarFront: Collision the StarCraft-like real-time strategy game is also under a dollar...
  • Saling The World: Homefront Launches Alongside Pokemon Black And White Friday, March 18, 2011 @ 7:22AMGamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from March 17th, 2011, find THQ's Homefront competing with Nintendo's Pokemon White and Black in North American and UK multiplatform sales, while Shin Sangoku ...
  • Interview: Blizzard COO Sams Says 'Many Years In Front' Of WoW Tuesday, March 8, 2011 @ 4:19AMWorld of Warcraft has 12 million subscribers, StarCraft has a massive following and is virtually a national sport in Korea, and Diablo is firmly implanted in PC gamers' memories as one of the best action RPG experiences ever. So while past performance is no guarantee of future results, it's easy to see why Irvine, CA-headquartered Blizzard is supremely confident that it can continue to deliver ...
  • Saling The World: Just Dance 2 Tops Charts in Killzone 3's Debut Week Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 2:36AMGamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from February 24th, 2011, find Just Dance 2 outselling the recently released Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm in North America, as Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity ...
  • Set Sail in Star Traders RPG for Android Monday, February 21, 2011 @ 4:03PMA few writing blemishes aside, Star Traders RPG is an enjoyable strategy game with plenty of depth.
  • A lot of expectations Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 4:25AMI had a lot of expectations for Dungeons, having played the Dungeon Master series. The dungeons look very pretty, so credit must be given to the artists working on the game. Yet, similar to the reviewer, I find that injecting random RPG game elements in all new games is actually counterproductive. I had research trees in Starcraft 2, plus mercenaries. Now who needs that?
  • Analysis: Stop Making Sense - Why Video Games Don't Have To Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 4:04AM[In a column originally published in Game Developer magazine, former lead designer on Firaxis' Civilization IV and current EA 2D staffer Soren Johnson encourages game developers to embrace absurdity.] Some of our industry's most beloved games make precious little sense. Why, for example, do players battle the trolls, goblins, and skeletons of Puzzle Quest by challenging them to a two-player ...
  • Diablo 3 out by end of 2011? Blizzard president says, "That's our goal" Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 1:43PMFiled under: RPG , Diablo III Diablo 3 was the subject of some internet buzz earlier this week as publisher Activision Blizzard hedged its bets on predicting when Blizzard' s long awaited action-RPG sequel would finally be be released. The company announced on Wednesday that its financial predictions currently don't include a release of Diablo 3 by the end of 2011. However, when asked by Kotaku ...
  • Mass Effect 2 and StarCraft 2 winners in 2011 Interactive Achievement Awards Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 8:42AMFiled under: RPG , RTS , Mass Effect Series , Starcraft II Mass Effect 2 was the winner of the Game of the Year award at the 2011 edition of the Interactive Achievement Awards , held last night at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. BioWare's sci-fi RPG sequel also won in the catagories of Outstanding Achievement in Story and RPG/MMO Game of the Year. Blizzard's RTS sequel StarCraft II also picked up ...
  • News: Mass Effect 2 is AIAS game of the year Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 3:27AMBut game Oscars dominated by Red Dead. Red Dead Redemption was the most prolific winner at this year's AIAS (Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences) Interactive Achievement Awards - gaming's equivalent of the Oscars. Rockstar's cowboy game scooped best action game, best game direction, best art direction, best gameplay engineering and best character performance. But it was Mass Effect 2 that ...
  • The Future is Now: Mass Effect 2 Takes 14th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards' Game of the Year Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 11:58PMRed Dead Redemption Rides Off into the Sunset with Five IAAs, Angry Birds Snags Casual Game of the Year
  • Blizzard to celebrate 20th anniversary throughout 2011 Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 10:12AMFiled under: MMO , RPG , RTS , Starcraft II , World of Warcraft , Diablo III Blizzard Entertainment celebrates its 20th anniverary this week and for fans of PC exclusive game titles there are few developers who have had as much influence over the industry as the team in Irvine, California. Blizzard have had. This week Blizzard launched a special web site to celebrate its 20th birthday. At the ...
  • News: Two Blizzard games due by end of 2012 Wednesday, February 9, 2011 @ 4:56PMBut which ones? Blizzard plans to release at least two games by the end of 2012, the publisher has announced. Speaking at an investor call, Activision-Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl announced that in the event that the World of Warcraft developer didn't release a game this year, it would expect to launch "a minimum" of two titles in 2012. He didn't confirm which titles those would be, but long ...
  • Diablo III not yet on Activision Blizzard's 2011 release schedule Wednesday, February 9, 2011 @ 4:42PMFiled under: MMO , RPG , RTS , Starcraft II , World of Warcraft , Diablo III Diablo III fans who were hoping that the long awaited action-RPG sequel from Blizzard would be released in 2011 will not be happy with today's news. During Activsion Blizzard 's conference call with investors today, execs said that projected earnings for the publisher don't include the release of Diablo III during 2011 ...
  • The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Sequence Tuesday, February 8, 2011 @ 5:01PMBeing a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, we're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week we talk with former DS ...
  • Age of Empires... Wednesday, January 26, 2011 @ 8:20PMA few of us at GR are huge RTS nerds, and a few of us are MMO nerds, and yes, there is some crossover.
  • 7 Ways Gaming Has Changed Us Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 8:03PMThe rise of gaming has had tremendous effects on our society and the world at large. Its impact on the global economy and culture have been documented before, but no one?s really taken the time to talk about how gaming?s immense popularity has affected the very people who helped make it the biggest, most profitable form of entertainment on the planet: us gamers. What started out as a small rebel ...
  • 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards finalists announced Wednesday, January 12, 2011 @ 11:12AMFiled under: Contests , Culture The 2011 edition of the Game Developers Choice Awards has just announced the finalists for the award's various categories and as usual a number of PC games found their way to being nominated. The PC game with the most nominations was BioWare's RPG Mass Effect 2 which received five nods, including Game of the Year. The indie game hit Minecraft got three nominations ...
  • Open Design Launches Midgard Worldbuilding Project Sunday, January 9, 2011 @ 11:11AMThe fires of creation burn hot Today, Open Design is launching its most ambitious design project to date: a collaborative game design project to build the fantasy roleplaying campaign world of Midgard. Using Open Design's crowdsourcing model, gamers and designers who fund the project by becoming patrons will work with lead designers Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, and Brandon Hodge over approximately ...
  • Insomniac’s Favorite Games of 2010 Wednesday, December 29, 2010 @ 9:09AMAs part of our fantastic year-end takeover of the PlayStation.Blog, we wanted to share with you some of Insomniac’s favorite games from 2010. At first, we got a wide variety of responses… as you’ll see below. ModNation Racers My choice would have to be ModNation Racers. I played that game all night long, collected all [...]
  • The Year that was in Gaming: 2010 Monday, December 27, 2010 @ 2:16AMAnother year has passed and to those that struggle between work and play did have a really hard time balancing the two this year. For the most part, 2010 was a stellar year for gamers and gaming in general. This has been a year of record breakers where these records have literally been broken just months after the last record has been set.
  • Video games: the best and worst of 2010 Sunday, December 26, 2010 @ 2:32AMHigh: Downloadable titles revived a leaner and meaner focus on gameplay, delivered sans the hype of disc-based counterparts. Low: Four years into the current generation and we're back to looking at hardware, whether it'...
  • Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: The Top 10 Games Of The Year Thursday, December 23, 2010 @ 2:18AM[Gamasutra's look back on 2010 culminates in our staff's list of the top 10 games of the year, from a small PC gem to a great big Western and beyond -- plus personal choices from each of our writers. Previously in our end-of-year round-up: Top 5 Cult Games, Top 5 Handheld Games, Top 5 PC Games, Top 10 Indie Games, Top 5 Developers, Top 5 Trends, Top 5 Major Industry Events, Top 5 Surprises, Top ...
  • New Diablo III screenshots come forth along with more "encounters" Tuesday, December 21, 2010 @ 8:42PMFiled under: RPG , Screenshots , Diablo III On the same day that Blizzard decided to give us a StarCraft II demo the developer also updated its Diablo III web site for what is most likely the last time in 2010. The site gave us a bunch of new screenshots for the long,long awaited fantasy action-RPG sequel (we have put them in our ever growing gallery of shots from the game) along with a new ...
  • Gamasutra's Best Of 2010: Top 5 PC Games Monday, December 20, 2010 @ 1:48AM[Continuing Gamasutra's 2010 roundup, here are our top 5 PC game selections, including the terrifying Amnesia, the refreshed Civilization V and a certain sci-fi RTS. Previously in our end-of-year round-up: Top 10 Indie Games, Top 5 Developers, Top 5 Trends, Top 5 Major Industry Events, Top 5 Surprises, Top 5 Disappointments, Top 5 Controversies, and Most Anticipated Games Of 2011.] The ...
  • My Top Ten Video Games of The Last 10 Years Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 8:15AM  Well I decided it is almost 2011. The end of an era, so to speak. I decided to make my list naming my favorite games of the past decade. Ten years of amazing games to choose from and no easy task to narrow the list to just ten, but I feel satisfied with my list. I hope everyone likes what I picked and if not tell me what should have been one the list. Until then I present to everyone Cody ...
  • App review: Infinity Blade (iPhone) Thursday, December 9, 2010 @ 5:00PMAww, would you look at that, the iPhone's trying to play big boy games ! Following in the well received footsteps of Rage HD , today marks the debut of Infinity Blade , the second in what's hopefully a wave of gorgeous-looking iOS games boasting advanced 3D graphics, if not 3D gameplay. Epic Games has put aside the chainsaw-equipped projectile weaponry of its wildly successful Gears of War ...
  • Rumor: StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Ending Leaked? Thursday, December 9, 2010 @ 8:48AMStarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm , the second in what will be a StarCraft 2 trilogy (if it's possible for a sequel to be a trilogy in itself...) won't be out for over a year . And yet somehow, a video has hit YouTube that's purportedly a very early rendering of the game's ending cinematic. The video was first reported by Kotaku , and to be clear, there's no telling how legitimate this is ...
  • Gameloft announces Apple iOS Winter lineup Saturday, December 4, 2010 @ 12:40PMGameloft , a leading game developer for the iOS, unveiled on Friday its 2010 winter lineup.
  • 55 Things To Be Thankful For Thursday, November 25, 2010 @ 1:06PMThanksgiving is a time to eat until you feel greasy then zone out with football and video games. That’s how the pilgrims did it after they fled Europe and the tyrannical rule of King Koopa. However, the holiday is also a time you spend with your family so you can be thankful you don’t have to do that the other 364 days of the year. So in honor of our Grecian ancestors we figured we’d come up ...
  • Diablo III Could Also Come To Video Game Consoles Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 12:12AMCould the Diablo series make a return to consoles? A handful of new jobs seeking fresh Blizzard talent with console experience sure makes it look that way.
  • News: Diablo III heading to consoles? Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 4:26PMUPDATE: It's a "Diablo-related concept". UPDATE: Blizzard has posted a clarification on Battle.net. "As some of you may have seen over on the Diablo III home page, we're currently exploring a Diablo-related concept for consoles. As we've said in the past, with proper care the gameplay could suit the console platform, and we're interested in seeing what talent out there might be interested in ...
  • News: Diablo III heading to consoles Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 4:11PMBlizzard job ads let cat out of bag. There's a console version of Blizzard's action RPG Diablo III in the works, according to job adverts posted by the developer. The listing on Blizzard's site, spotted by Gamasutra, calls for a lead designer, lead programmer and a senior producer for a console version of the game. The senior producer role calls for "Experience with shipping or porting multi ...
  • News: Blizzard plans huge office expansion Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 3:41PMRamping up new MMO development? World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has just bought up a huge 100,000 square feet of new office space. According to the Orange County Business Journal, the studio has signed a lease on two new buildings adjacent to its current site in Irvine, California. Its current set-up houses 235,000 square feet of space, so the new real estate represents a 40 per cent ...
  • Back to board games at the Open Gaming Meet Wednesday, November 3, 2010 @ 1:19AMIf you miss playing good ol' board games and interacting face to face, the Open Gaming Meet gathers gamers of all ages who share a love for role-playing, cards and tabletop fun.
  • The Best Video Games Right Now [Games] Saturday, October 30, 2010 @ 10:10AM# games Fall is here and the weather is slowly getting colder. What does that mean? It's time to stay inside, get warm and play some video games. Here are the best video games available right now. More »
  • Blizzard's Canessa Talks Potential For Activision Titles On Battle.net Thursday, October 28, 2010 @ 3:40AMGame franchises like World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo weren't the only factors in the 2007 marriage between Activision and Blizzard Entertainment. In an interview with Gamasutra earlier this month, Battle.net project director Greg Canessa says Activision Blizzard president and CEO Bobby Kotick knew that Blizzard's turnkey expertise in online game communities, customer service and ...
  • News: Xbox Live policy slows 360 KUFII release Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 11:31AMDeveloper blows open MMO sequel. MMO Kingdom Under Fire II works on Xbox 360 but still won't be released until - at the earliest - Christmas 2011, Eurogamer can reveal. Why? The same reason Champions Online struggled on console: the closed Xbox Live platform. "Our initial plan was we wanted to develop the console version first - the Xbox 360 version," KUFII game director Sang Youn-Lee told us ...
  • Diablo 3 Updates Unveiled at Blizzcon Monday, October 25, 2010 @ 4:45PMNew information about Diablo 3 was unveiled last weekend at Blizzcon 2010, the annual convention held by video game company Blizzard. The convention announced that the cult RPG game would be receiving a fifth class: the demon hunter, who will be joining the ranks of the monk, wizard, witch doctor and barbarian. Fans, which swarm the Convention Center in Anaheim
  • BlizzCon 2010 round-ups at WoW Insider and Joystiq Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 10:11PMFiled under: Culture , Multiplayer , RPG , RTS , Starcraft II , World of Warcraft , Diablo III It's all over until, hopefully, next year. BlizzCon 2010 is history but the biggest fan devoted to one game developer will stick with the over 20,000 attendees and the approximately 100,000 people who bought and watched the streaming internet-DirecTV video coverage. Of course the only place to go for ...
  • BlizzCon 2010: Diablo 3 Q&A panel highlights Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 5:16PMOn the second day of the BlizzCon , a handful of members of the Diablo 3 development team, lead by game director Jay Wilson, sat down to answer questions from BlizzCon attendees. There were a lot of questions asked, and a few nuggets of useful and intriguing information gleaned. Let's take a look at some of the highlights. Continue reading BlizzCon 2010: Diablo 3 Q&A panel highlights BlizzCon ...
  • Blizzcon 2010: Diablo 3, WoW Details Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 3:03PMBlizzard Entertainment kicked off its annual BlizzCon expo with a bang and some rumbling with news on Diablo III and the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm.
  • Diablo III's status from Blizzard: "Way over half-way done" Sunday, October 24, 2010 @ 10:11AMFiled under: RPG , Diablo III At last year's BlizzCon (held in August 2009) the release of StarCraft II was just under a year away. At BlizzCon 2010 this weekend the release date of Blizzard 's next full game, the action-RPG Diablo III , is less clear. VG247.com quotes the game's director Jay Wilson as saying that Diablo III is "way over half-way done." However he added that the game is still ...