Remember last month? Remember how very few worthwhile games were
released? Well, if you needed a reminder, all you need to do is look
over the depressing numbers coming out of this month's NPD sales data.
Last week a blog appeared accusing Crysis developer Crytek of poor
working conditions and a "hire and fire" mentality. Earlier this week,
Crytek co-founder Avni Yerli responded to these claims.
Did you know that Cave Story+, an enhanced version of the Wii port of
Cave Story, is headed to the Mac App Store? Me neither, but apparently
it's already available now!
Tea Party Zombies Must Die sends players through a Doom-like gauntlet of Tea Party supporters, Fox News personalities, and Koch Industries businessmen.
Along with this morning's news
of a release month and new multiplayer modes for Max Payne 3, Rockstar
also announced that the original Max Payne game will be coming to mobile
devices.
Following in the vein of classics such as last year's
Call of Duty: Black Ops unboxing, rap artist and original gamer Ice T
has posted an awesome Gears of War 3 special edition unboxing video.
Last night on the Steam forums, a Dead Island player revealed that he'd discovered a shockingly offensive skill name when digging through the game's code.
This week marks another busy and productive round of community
blogs, including perhaps the best blog you didn't read from one of Game
Informer's newest members, ThrawnOmega.
Legendary game creator Eiji Aonuma has been producing and directing
Zelda ever since the N64 classic Ocarina of Time. Despite this pedigree,
would you believe that he never much cared for the game that kicked off
the whole series? It's true.
Starting
today and running through September 11, anyone with access to PSN can
download the Assassin's Creed Revelations multiplayer beta and participate.
Activision didn't find the modernwarfare3.com stunt very funny, and filed
a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum over the site, which
recently ruled in the publisher's favor.
If you thought Dragon Quest X was just Square Enix riding the current
wave of MMO trends, think again. The project has been in the works for
six years, according to a former employee.
Over the years, controllers have refined the number and location of
joysticks and buttons. From the sparse beginnings to the glut of
controllers in the early '90s, this image shows how your gamepads have
influenced each other.
Battlefield 3 won numerous awards at E3 and Gamescom, so no one should
be surprised that it's a highly anticipated shooter. How highly
anticipated? Apparently it has 1.25 million pre-orders and counting.
