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State of the Game Address: Why can the media not stop blaming videogames for shooting sprees?
\ April 20, 1999 Columbine High School As a former educator I know that date and place very well. I think for a time many of those who worked with youth or with troubled teens, that the fears that ... -
State of the Game Address: The Evolution ( and death?) of home videogame consoles.
Many people credit the Atari with being the true grandfather of videogame consoles. Certainly there existed other home console based games but the Atari supported inter-changeable hardware to actually play the games, the cartridge. Console attempts before it had either ... -
Trailer for Avengers: Battle for Earth coming to Xbox 360 and Wii U this fall
Avengers Assemble! Feel free to go ahead and yell that by yourself in your room with excitement because a cinematic trailer for Avengers: Battle for Earth has dropped like honey from that little convention everybody has been talking about. Something ... -
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge Wii U preview
In this current gaming generation, titles that have appeared on all three consoles have typically found their weakest link in the Wii version. Inferior graphics, usually tacked on motion controls, and lackluster to zero multiplayer additions. The Wii U ... -
State of the Game Address: What are Development Costs Doing to the Game Industry?
Gran Turismo: Over 60 Million Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Over 50 million (and probably more for MW3 because two other studios were involved) LA Noire: Over 50 Million Those numbers that I have listed for ... -
Doom 3 BFG Edition coming to PS3, Xbox 360, and PC
There is no doubt about the impact, and controversy, that the Doom series has had on videogame and pop culture. The lonely meanderings of the lone marine in the first game, to the darkened (maybe too darkened) hallways of ... -
Nintendo Rumored to Unveil New Castlevania 3DS Game at E3
Nintendo rumors have been hopping around the internet lately and one such morsel suggests that producer David Cox and director Enric Alvare, the pair that sired the excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow game, are hard at work developing a ... -
Max Payne 3 and Diablo 3 releasing midnight tonight!
As of this writing, central standard time, we are mere eight hours away from Diablo 3 hitting PC’s and effectively ending the rest of the week for tons of geeks across the country. I wager that this is easily ... -
Ubisoft Registers Domain Name for “Avengers: Battle for Earth”
According to internet sources Ubisoft has registered a domain name for a possible game based on the Avengers movie titled “Avengers: Battle for Earth”. You didn’t expect the movie to come without a terrible videogame tie in did you? I’m ... -
June Issue of Game Informer will reveal Elder Scrolls Online
Remember all those times when you were playing skyrim and you stopped and thought, man, I’d really love to see a hundred other characters jumping around and shouting internet memes and racial slurs all around me. Well guess what sports ... -
If I could fund a game on kickstarter…..
The recent talk of www.kickstarter.com funded games from the last podcast has my brain churning at an unusually fast pace. I mean, the sky really is the limit! Think of all the great old games you want to see ... -
EA project manager says black ops 2 is “tired”
EA project manager Kevin O’Leary has stated on twitter that Black Ops 2 looks “tired” and that it should “take a rest”. This is exactly what EA is doing with the battlefield series this year as they are content to ... -
Harebrained Schemes LLC has a kickstarter to raise money for a new Shadowrun game!
Kickstarter, a website allowing folks and corporations to ask for donations for projects and business ideas, has become a bit of a hotbed of game projects. Tim Schafer raised an absolute ton of money to create a new adventure styled ... -
Dead Space 3 and Army Two 3 spotted on Game Designers resume.
A report over at Playstation Lifestyle points out a few big name titles on the projects section of a game designers resume. Other leaked sightings have already been floating around for dead space 3 so im not surprised there, but ... -
Fire Emblem Awakening should be coming for North American 3DS owners
The popular strategy rpg series Fire Emblem, always a big hit across the Pacific, has gained a sizable fan base here in the west. As such, Nintendo of America has registered a domain name for a website of the game ... -
Diablo 3 beta is open to all battle.net account users this weekend!
Attention! All battle.net account holders (you remember battle.net right? Its that thing you log into to lose at starcraft) may access diablo 3 beta areas this weekend only. This will surely be the last time to do so before the ... -
New God of War IV Rumor Fires Raging
A store window display from a BT games in Johannesburg, South Africa reveals a possible preorder sign for the new god of war. The remote area of the store, the fact that logos for the game have already circled around ... -
Legend of Dragoon coming to PSN May 1st.
The valuable JRPG LOD will be sword swinging it’s way to playstation network the beginning of next month which is great news for fans of ps1 rpgs. Copies of the original game can easily top 200 bucks on ebay, and ...