Only enough time for a blurb here, but after just the first big day of nothing but E3 coverage, I’m already E3′d out. I haven’t heard any bombshells I didn’t already expect. Maybe the Final Fantasy XIII going to the 360 in the U.S. was kinda big? I don’t know.
Either this is [...]

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Some friends of mine pointed me to an article about a 45 year old Japanese man who worked at Toyota who died from overwork. It’s such a pervasive phenomenon in Japan they even coined a word for it: Karoshi.
At first I thought “oh wow, they must have really overworked this poor [...]

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A co-worker challenged me to write something about the current trend of motion control/gesture game controls, but I figured there wasn’t much meat there, or that I was just chasing flame bait. But after thinking about it on my drives home, I’m wondering, are motion controls all that we were promised?
I think we all [...]

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Word has it that Guitar Hero IV has a rumored pirce point of $179, and one has to wonder if they’re not shooting themselves in the foot here. Guitar Hero has dominated the rhythm music genre for the past two years, milking their poor cash cow past Dance Dance Revolution to the number one [...]

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Just heard that Lucasarts is cutting some heads today. Some folks who were working on Unleashed and another title.
Evidently they’re calling people into an office, asking them to sign a contract stating that they can’t ship the game without everyone signing the contract (and don’t give you any time to read it), and when [...]

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I was surprised Saturday night by two things:

MMA fight series EliteXC airing matches on CBS in primetime on Saturday night
Gaming advertising not only finding its way into the sport, but it was the primary sponsor

First I sat there scratching my head wondering how Capcom would allow someone to co-opt their Street Fighter brand from them, [...]

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Someone’s finally done it. Guitar Hero for the DS has finally made a commercial more awkward than the Westwood College gaming commercial. It’s like some kind of cable-access version of a bad Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius rip off.
I mean, this isn’t even good-bad. It’s hella bad:

And here’s the [...]

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At first I was full of righteous indignation about Michael Hollick’s story in the NY Times the other day about his “less than stellar pay.” I mean, come on, you poor baby, you didn’t get royalties? Get in line, dude. You got a hundred thousand dollars for part time work over 15 [...]

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I really, really want to get my hands on some kind of Euphoria demo, in order to either support or assuage my fears regarding the “better than rag doll” solution that Natural Motion has come out with, but I just can’t get over all of the tiny voices in the back of my head that [...]

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Randall Munroe over at the always kickass and occassionally deep webcomic xkcd posted some interesting stats over on his blog last month, where he asks his readers to quickly name a recent popular movie that had two female leads as the top billed stars of the movie.
Naturally, it’s a trick question, as the stats reveal [...]

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