A new
Call of Duty: Black Ops "Tune In" Trailer teases a longer commercial for the military shooter sequel that will debut on ESPN on Tuesday, May 18 during the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. An embedded version of the 15 second clip follows.
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There's a video interview on
FPSadmin.com where EA's Greg Goodrich discusses the upcoming modernized reboot of the
Medal of Honor series of military first-person shooters. The MoH executive producer discusses this history of the franchise, the motivation for retooling it, working with the tier one operatives who consulted on the game, and the benefits of having two full developments teams on the project. Thanks
Joker961.
The
ArcaniA: Gothic 4 interview on Hooked Gamers chats up DreamCatcher Interactive producer Kamaal Anwar about the next installment in the Gothic series of role-playing games. Topics include the 75 names the game carried prior to
ArcaniA: Gothic 4, differing RPG tastes in Europe and North America, the switch in developers from Piranha Bytes to Spellbound, a now quite familiar promise that the new game will not ship with all the bugs of its predecessors, gameplay changes, and more.
Steam News has word that a new patch is now automatically available for
Portal, Valve's first-person platformer. The change log lists three fixes, which follow.
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GamesRadar - How to fix what's wrong with PC gaming. Thanks Mike Martinez.
In many ways, the PC is the most important gaming platform on the planet. It’s the platform almost everybody has in their home. It defines videogames by pushing the technology forward more rapidly than consoles. Yet it’s also riddled with hurdles that get in the way of its greatness. Unless changes are made, we may see it becoming increasingly marginalized within the gaming industry. Here’s how to make it the baddest gaming platform around once again.
G4tv.com - "Game Together Or Die Alone" -- Issues And Expectations With Capcom Co-Op. Thanks Joker961.
If Capcom had communicated, "Look, these games have a single-player component because it'd be insane to leave it out, but you're going to have trouble playing the game solo, since we designed the whole experience for multiple people," there would be less of an issue. It didn't. You don't realize the problem until the game begins. The issues in both games could have been easily lessened with better partner A.I. As it stands, much of the frustration in each game comes from your A.I. teammates not being able to do their job correctly, enforcing an unnecessary You're Doing It Wrong mentality. Required co-op is understood when engaging multiplayer-only games or an online experience like World of Warcraft. There, you're signing up for gameplay that requires other players to fully engage in.
I was listening to some sports radio in the car this morning, and it is a sad commentary on the state of New York basketball in post-Ewing era that LeBron James' free agency is the biggest hoop story in town in the past decade. Then
Ant sent a link to the
"We Are LeBron" Video that has me sympathizing with Cleveland more than ever in this situation. And while I don't know if he will join the Knicks, I think it's likely he's gone from Cleveland, or he would have signed a contract extension a while ago and avoided all the distractions. Anyway, the video is very funny, and while I bristle at the characterization of New Yorkers as "unbearable," I can't disagree with their point that "the Knicks and Nets are terrible."
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