A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has dismissed what remained of Axl Rose's
lawsuit against Activision over Slash and
Welcome to the Jungle appearing in
Guitar Hero 3, reports
The San Marino Tribune. Rose objected to the way this associated Slash with Guns N' Roses, even though Slash played guitar for the band for 11 years, including on that song (
most of his comments on the situation were hard to understand). An earlier portion of this suit was dismissed because Rose filed his court papers too late, which may not come as a surprise to fans who waited 15 years for the release of
Chinese Democracy. Thanks TheWeaponeer.
Here are the 10 bestselling games on Valve's
Steam service for the past week:
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn
- Borderlands 2
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Anitchamber
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Arma II: Combined Operations
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- Far Cry 3
A
new podcast for
Rise of the Triad discusses Environmental Art and Design in the upcoming shooter remake, hearing from some of the artists involved in the game's production. Podcast #3 is accompanied by
Developer Blog #3 which covers the same topics, and offers some concept art as a visual aid. The main topics include the concepts behind modular environmental design, and the challenges of recreating classic ROTT maps for the modern remake.
Continue here to read the full story.
Happy Chinese New Year! That's right, today is the first day of the Year of the Snake, though knowing myself, I'll still absent-mindedly be writing Year of the Dragon on my checks for a couple more weeks.
A clue that a new installment in the
Wolfenstein series of supernatural World War II shooters is underway was discovered by
Polygon, making a case that the game is in the works at Machinegames, a developer
acquired by ZeniMax in 2010. They report a cache of
Julian Beeston's website where the composer's résumé lists "ADR Engineer, Production Sound" on a Wolfenstein project in development at Machinegames. They also note that it has
already been announced that Machinegames, a Swedish developer formed by vets of Starbreeze, "is working on an unannounced project for ZeniMax publishing subsidiary, Bethesda Softworks, that is being built on id Software's revolutionary id Tech® 5 engine technology." Thanks
Gamer's Hell.
A
new Kickstarter update #23 for
Wasteland 2 is titled "Without Further Ado...," as it unveils the
first gameplay trailer from Wasteland 2, inXile entertainment's upcoming RPG sequel (thanks Techie714 and nin). They provide a very detailed outline of what's in the clip and how it represents the current state of the project. Here's the introductory paragraph:
Without Further Ado... Update #23 · Feb. 09, 2013 · 190 comments We are very proud to provide the first gameplay video of Wasteland 2, which will allow our backers to see how far we've come and how everything is coming together. The usual way of doing things in this industry would see us create a demo specifically for displaying to the press or at game shows, but we're very glad to have been allowed the freedom to create a demo video from an actually playable area, which ensures there's no wasted code. This is a straight video capture of Development Director Chris Keenan playing the game. The only element that is not running in code is the sound effects, as it was faster to do in post, but as you will hear, there is nothing being done audio wise that isn't easily replicated in engine. In fact, we plan to have many more sound effects in the final game than what is heard here.
Ars Technica - Rethinking how we give out gaming’s “academy awards”.
Take the "Best Downloadable Game" award. This category might have made sense once, when downloadable games were generally the smaller, less ambitious cousins to the AAA games getting retail release. But things have changed. Two of the games in this category this year, The Walking Dead and Journey, were up for Game of the Year, proving downloadable games don't need to be set aside to get recognition anymore. And while Journey was named the best game of the year, somehow The Walking Dead was the best one you could download. Figure that one out.
Well, we got the promised storm, and they were not exaggerating, we got well over a foot of snow. And heavy, wet snow at that, made all the worse by how the snowplows pushed a lot of it from the streets onto the sidewalk. I dug out the walk and had to take a break before clearing the car, there was that much of it. I would love a shovel that could tell you how much weight of snow you've lifted, as I estimate it must have been more than a ton today, and I'd love to know whether that's completely crazy or not.
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