Posts Tagged ‘Game Industry’
Monday, November 3rd, 2008

With the US presidential elections kicking off tomorrow, November 2nd, it is important for all gamers to not just look at the issues that concern them but the issues as a whole. But for those that have no idea what…
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Tags: Censorship, Game Industry, Net Neutrality, Obama
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

With the autumn game release floodgates all but fully opened it can often be a daunting task (believe me, I am in the same boat) to afford and play all of the triple A releases that are populating store shelves…
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Tags: Amazon, eBay, Game Industry, Holiday Gaming
Monday, October 27th, 2008

By putting the tools to develop games into the hands of anyone with enough time and gumption to teach themselves coding has given the opportunity for unique and innovate game design to invade the industry over the past few years.…
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Tags: DS, featured, Game Design, Game Industry, homebrew, Interview, Lone Wolf, Nintendo
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

While it seems that piracy and issues of DRM management continue to grow with each passing year, the emerging trend of offering games for free could eventually become a way to ultimately eliminate both problems. With high profile developers like…
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Tags: Battlefield Heroes, DICE, DLC, Free To Play, Game Design, Game Industry, Korean, MMO, Predictions
Monday, October 13th, 2008

I have recently been questioning the reasoning for why I play video game, and no matter how many answers I run through my head, the singular truth has evaded me for quite some time. I find myself thinking about the…
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Tags: featured, Game Industry
Friday, October 10th, 2008

Did something look out of place in that video? You guessed it - the insurance ad!! Google has introduced Adsense for games. The program allows developers of browser based games to insert text, image, and video ads into their games.…
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Tags: ads, adsense, browser based games, Game Design, Game Industry, in game advertising
Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The hiring of movie directors to be part of the game making process is becoming a growing trend among US based video game publishers. With acclaimed directors Peter Jackson, and Steven Spielberg dabbling in the industry will the games industry…
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Tags: Boom Blox, Directors, EA, Game Design, Game Industry, Predictions, Steven Spielberg, Zach Snider
Thursday, October 9th, 2008

We’ve drafted what we believe to be the first gaming DRM Bill of Rights. We’ve done so with the sincerest hopes that gamers and industry reps alike will look at it, and use it as a measuring stick to determine…
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Tags: DRM, featured, Game Design, Game Industry, piracy
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

UPDATE 4: It is confirmed that the beta keys mentioned in update 3 were definitely from GS. In the end, they did make good on their promise, and that’s a good thing. At some point along the way they may…
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Tags: beta, fans, featured, Game Industry, gamespot, Little big planet, scandal
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I remember a far off time long long ago when beta software was for testing, and not used to generate hype for a product. See, software goes through different phases in development. The first build of a video game that…
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Tags: beta, Game Design, Game Industry