An
article on Kotaku about Mortal Kombat discusses post-launch plans for the next installment in the
Mortal Kombat series of fighting games (thanks joao). In addition to discussing DLC and post-release game rebalancing, the conversation with MK co-creator Ed Boon also touches on the possibility they will follow the lead of Street Fighter IV and release a PC edition. "We're definitely considering it," Boon says. "I've thought 'How many fighting game players are PC guys?' Apparently there seems to be a market for that in Europe. Since we're on the Unreal Engine, I guess it's not that much of a change from the console versions." Thanks joao.
VG247 has a follow-up on the
recently announced delay of Brink, Splash Damage's shooter that's now expected next year. At QuakeCon, Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgwood explained the game needed more time for testing and balance: "We’re not adding any additional things to it. Essentially, we’re gonna spend longer in the Beta phase," he said. "Because it’s a really ambitious game, and now that people can see what we’ve done with weapons – the number of weapons, the number of weapon modifications, the number of abilities, the number of items and gadgets – they can see the interrelations between those many components sets up some very specific balancing challenges. And for Brink, we want to make sure people enjoy playing months after they’ve started playing – or years after they’ve started playing! I think in order for us to achieve that well, we want to have the best possible period of balancing and polishing."
Guild Wars 2 Walkthrough video on GameTrailers.com is a nine-part ShakyCam trailer of ArenaNet's presentation of their MMORPG at GamesCom, showing the game being played as the Elementalist. The remaining eight parts in the series are on the menu on the right side of the screen, or you can tick the convenient "continuous play" box in their media player. Thanks
Guild Wars 2 Slovenija.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Website has details on starships in the upcoming Star Wars MMORPG, as the
Starships Holonet entry now has info on two ship classes in an array with room for four additional ships. There's also a
new Developer Blog for the game with details on advanced player classes besides those already revealed for the Sith Warrior and Jedi Knight.
Here's Valve's report of the ten bestselling titles on
Steam for the past week:
- Borderlands
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Weekend Deal Bundle
- Mafia II: Digital Deluxe Edition
- Mafia II
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
- Borderlands: The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
- Worms Reloaded
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
Computer and Video Games - Ban 'tasteless' Medal Of Honor, demands MP.
I am disgusted and angry. It's hard to believe any citizen of our country would wish to buy such a thoroughly un-British game. I would urge retailers to show their support for our armed forces and ban this tasteless product.
Hellmode - Video Games Are Undeniably Art.
Video games are art.
It’s boring, it’s been said, and it’s been argued against. But it’s true. Game developers are this generation’s unnamed Ansel Adams and Andy Warhols. The video games they work to create are their own unique worlds imagined and they bring to life these visions with precise direction and immense effort. By any definition, the entire process is an art form; writers weave a story out of nothing, artists turn barren worlds into illustrated societies, and coders bring it all to life in an interactive formation.
Cliffski’s Blog - Re-thinking the lineage court case.
I don’t think the case has merit, and I agree with a lot of the criticism of it, but in these days where companies show adverts to test-subjects inside MRI scanners, and people get better every year at crafting more elegant skinner-boxes dressed up as facebook games, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see judges mandate that all MMO games need to have systems in place to prevent people getting this bad.
There are a lot of iffy holidays and commemorations out there, but today is not one of them, as it's hard to find fault with
Go Topless Day (thanks Acleacius).
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