IGN now offers the
promised first part of the online Portal comic that bridges the gap between
Portal and
Portal 2. The stylized 14-page comic is titled "Lab Rat," and word is part two will be released on Monday.
IndustryGamers has news that video games are now included in the descriptions of four Grammy Awards, and word is this may be paving the way to a separate video game Grammy. "I think this could be viewed as a first step in the direction of video games getting their own category," said Bill Freimuth, Vice President, Awards, The Recording Academy. "Many people from the game community have been asking us to create a special category for games over the years, but the main reason we haven’t is because we have received very few entries from game publishers." Here are the four amended award descriptions:
The Music for Visual Media (Motion, Television, Video Game Music, or Other Visual Media)
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Motion, Television, Video Game Music, or Other Visual Media)
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Motion, Television, Video Game Music, or Other Visual Media)
Best Song Written for Visual Media (Motion, Television, Video Game Music, or Other Visual Media)
The
Star Wars: The Old Republic Website has an update from Georg "I'd Like to Buy A Vowel" Zoeller where the Principal Lead Combat Designer on BioWare's upcoming MMORPG explains how their advanced class system has evolved over the past few months based on gameplay testing and focus groups. He outlines the importance of a player's advanced class choice, how class abilities are gained, skill trees, and more.
The
RAGE Website notes a new
Arsenal Gameplay Montage trailer on GameTrailers.com showing off the weapons in id Software's upcoming first-person shooter. Included are a couple of machine guns, an unattended turret, a boomerang dealie, a shotgun (of course), and more. There is also a warning to watch your back in the sewers, followed by footage of nothing but frontal assaults from the sewer denizens. Thanks Bill.
A new
Behind the Scenes Trailer for
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine features the developers at Relic discussing the setting and gameplay in their upcoming sci-fi action/RPG. The clip is embedded below.
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The
ArmA: Armed Assault Website offers a new patch to update Bohemia Interactive's military first-person shooter to version 1.18, which Bohemia says is the final update to the game. Word on the patch is: "The most important fix is compatibility with Windows 7 64bit." The download is mirrored on
AtomicGamer,
Gamer's Hell, and
WorthPlaying.
IncGamers - 'Over-appreciated' Games of Our Time.
Like Angry Birds, Black Ops’ sales figures may be mind-boggling but its content is most certainly not. At least, not in a positive sense…
The single player is hideously uninspired and fails to innovate (or even iterate) on what was present all the way back in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the plot is told in a sloppy, incomprehensible manner and if I have to put up with another round of poorly (and stereotypically) voiced Russians I vow never to play the series again.
I'm pretty sure my warning about hiding your Scotch yesterday went unheeded by the amount of fun I had last night, and the amount of pain I'm in today. Oh well, no pain, no gain... or something like that.
R.I.P.:
Sidney Lumet, 86, Director of Modern Film Classics, Dies.
R.I.P.:
Software pioneer and ENIAC programmer Jean Bartik dies at 86. Thanks
Ant.
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