Ever have one of those days at work? You know, the kind of day where someone ties you up and steals $10,000 dollars from your place of employment? An employee at GameStop in Philadelphia had one of those today. The specifics are a bit vague, but apparently during a shift this morning a man walked into the GameStop with a gun, tied up an employee, stole 10 grand and walked out with around 50 videogames....
Gearboxmonarch Randy Pitchford has revealed that his studio was, at one point, planning to make aBlade Runnergame, but had to stop itself because such a project would have killed the company. “Blade Runnerwas on [the list],” he said inOfficial PlayStation Magazine. “We had it too and we were like, ‘No, we can’t.’ That game would’ve cost like $40 million to make and sold about 600,000 units — and that would have been the end of us....
It’s really important to know the people whom you live among. Neighborhoods should operate like support systems where individuals can seek assistance from people who live in the vicinity, trading services and resources. By building this sense of community, we can all learn to live in peace and harmony. Take Steve and Frank ofGotham City. Here’s a pair of next-door neighbors who play pivotal roles in one another’s lives though unaware of how much they mean to each other....
Grasshopper and Digital Reality have joined forces forSina Mora, a new shooter coming to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. It features music by Akira Yamaoka, and it looks really nice. Here’s the very first trailer for the game, complete with absolutist philosophical yammering and pretty graphics. Seems like this’ll be quite a nice game. What do you reckon?
Can’t get enough of those wonderful special editions? We at Destructoid can’t. We won’t eveneatunless the food is a limited edition in some way, shape or form. Y’know, things like endangered bird eggs or kids with terminal illnesses. To be more pertinant though, we only play special editions of videogames, which is why the fact thatGrand Theft Auto IV’s getting one is such a delight. Want to know what your bloodstained, ill gotten money is buying on October 16?...
To say Deep Silver is being stingy withDead Islandscreenshots is putting it lightly. The studio appears to be releasing images in pathetic batches of three, but it’s not like we can do anything but grumpily moan about it while posting them all the same. In any case, here are three screens for you. Frankly, they look like all the other ones, which I hope isn’t a sign of things to come....
Seriously!Dragon’s Dogmaproducer Hiroyuki Kobayashitook to Capcom-Unityto ask for your hand in naming the in-game allies, The Pawns. They are looking for 300 names across three distinct categories: Follow that first link to see how you’re able to submit your ingenious character name. The contest is open until May 29, so you can take your time with this one. On an unrelated note, I’msocalling my next pet Coco. As in, the comedian — not Ice-T’s special lady....
Clive Barker is sort of a love him or hate him type of guy. For instance, I love his books, hate his movies. And by “his” movies, I of course mean the Hollywood bastardization of his works. But listening to this man speak was interesting, highly entertaining, and surprisingly empowering as a gamer. It was a truly amazing privlege to have him spill his thoughts on the industry and the future potential of gaming....
I don’t know about you, but I see people playing games on their phones all the time. I see plenty of non-gamer types in lines, at the airport. and everywhere else — all gaming. So this data from comScore does not surprise me. There’s a 60 percent increase in the number of smartphone gamers. They say that these people are three times more likely to game on their device than non-smartphone people....
It looks like id Software is looking to start work on an unannounced title. In a recent interview, Bethesda Software’s VP of marketing Pete Hines said id is looking to create a third development team and will be able to do that more quickly thanks to that ZeniMax Media acquirement thing. This magical third team will likely begin work on an unannounced project. The other two are currently working onRageand theDoom 4— two titles we can’t wait to touch....
So,Modern Warfare 2won’t have dedicated servers when it hits PC, the PC gamers are pissed off, anda petition has arisenin order to try and make Infinity Ward change its mind. As with nearly all online petitions, I was cynical, but it seems that there is a smallglimmer of hope, with Infinity Ward community man Robert Bowling promising that the protests will be considered. “[It] definitely made a big wave, and the response will not be ignored....
BioShock Infinitedesigner Ken Levine has declared that Irrational Games has no plans to develop titles forWii U, even though he quitepublicly embraced motion controlat Sony’s E3 press conference and praised Nintendo’s console during its own show. He remains very positive about the system and says that, along with PlayStation Vita, the new console represents something important. “Just to be clear, there are no plans. I’m not saying it can’t happen, but we have no plans to do any games for that platform,” he said....
Nexiusis designed to be an homage to those arena shooters we all know and love, but have seen a decline in over recent years asHaloandCall of Dutyhave replaced games such asUnreal TournamentandQuake Online. The game originally started life as an Alientrap Software open-source joint, which has been remade and will be coming to PSN and XBLA. In the interview we talk about the game itself, the difficulties of making a game with a development team of only 10 people and discuss some of the extras the development team are working on to attempt to makeNexiusthe ultimate console arena shooter....
