More PR bullshit from Sony. Now we know that God of War 3 will probably be battling it out with Final Fantasy XIII sometime in 2010. Hope the PS3 is still around!
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Excessive PlayStation gaming causes weird hand-related skin condition
I’ve actually heard the same thing about people who masturbate too much. Perhaps these are the same people?
50 Cent to produce Saints Row movie…
…what, because the Grand Theft Auto clone game was so good?! Quick rundown of early movie title ideas:
Saints Row: Massive Failure
Saints Row: Race Relations Setback
Saints Row: Lowest Common Denominator
Saints Row: Grand Theft Auto
This movie is so bad it’s already in the Netflix Watch Instantly streaming section, alongside the 90′s TV shows that execs don’t care about anymore.
Idiot PSP Marketing 101
How do you market your fledgling handheld to girls? Just add a dash of color!
Echo chamber
Remember that recent quip about video game blogger irrelevancy? Matt Casamassina over at IGN takes back the crown with this gem about MadWorld:
“Usually, lack of 480p support can be credited to developer laziness,” writes Casamassina. “No way such a claim can be leveled at Platinum Games for MadWorld… I’m wondering, then, if the studio simply wasn’t aware that 480p is ‘kind of a big deal’ for a chunk of Wii owners”
Remember when a “chunk” of console owners cared about having fun with their games, and not progressive or interlaced bullshit statements like the one above? Oh, they still do, and this is just another out of touch games journalist with a shrinking audience? You don’t say.
And, maybe the developers were too focused on, I dunno, making a good game than worrying about the inflated self-importance of the “HD movement.” Just a hunch. It’s also in black and white. So, there’s that.
Dante's Failure
Did the folks at EA even bother to read Dante’s Inferno? Or did they just see Sony’s God of War and think, “gee, that game needs to be skinned with a loose interpretation of a literary classic so we can fake our way into connecting with a larger audience”? What a complete and utter embarrassment.
Innovation
FPS game developers could save themselves time and money by following a few simple steps. First, get every FPS developer in a room. Second, come up with a universal platform that each can freely access and modify. Third, do the same with weapons. Lastly, merge into one giant FPS-creating conglomerate because they’re all starting to look the exact fucking same.
Bye bye birdie
If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear the relevancy of today’s “popular” video games blogs and publications slowly slipping away.
Spinning the wheels
Lars Gustavsson, creative director at DICE, argues that the video games industry is at some kind of crossroads.
While I agree with the words he uses, we part ways on their meaning. He seems to think innovating on the status quo is, well, innovating, whereas I believe it to be game developers putting lipstick on a pig or spinning their wheels in place to save their unsustainable interactive movie machismo business models (see, I can use cliches too).
I mean seriously. He talks and talks of new innovation and then springs another Battlefield title on us. Please. The real innovation will come when developers realize how small their hardcore audience really is, and start focusing on creating games and fantasy worlds, as opposed to attempting to recreate reality on my television screen.
Cheap shot
GameIndustry.biz’s James Lee looks like Harry Potter. And that’s a British pub, too! Double Word Score!