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Real ID furore “kind of a side thing”.
World of Warcraft and StarCraft II creator Blizzard’s recent kafuffle with its fans over the use of Real ID in its forums has taught it a valuable lesson: gamers like anonymity because it ties into their desire to suspend reality.
“That’s been a very interesting thing for us to wrap our heads around at Blizzard,” Battle.net project director Greg Canessa told Gamasutra.
Weeks before StarCraft II was released Blizzard about-turned on its plan to force gamers to use their real names when posting in its forum.
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Didn’t think Capcom would work with rival.
Keiji Inafune was “80 per cent certain” that the company would refuse Level 5’s request to collaborate on a crossover Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright game, the Capcom producer has revealed in an interview.
“I thought it would be impossible,” he said in an interview in this today’s Weekly Famitsu, translated by Eurogamer, in which he spoke alongside his Level 5 compatriot Akihiro Hino.
Inafune said that he didn’t expect veteran Phoenix Wright director Shu Takumi to agree to the project because “Phoenix Wright is handled very carefully within Capcom” – also joking that he expected it to be difficult since Takumi is someone who “doesn’t listen to what people say”.
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Britain’s Independent newspaper reports that a new study has proven a link between violent imagery in games and movies, and desensitization of teenage boys to actual violence. The study, which has been widely re-reported in news media and gaming sites, is being positioned as the “smoking gun” that links videogame violence and angry young men, which naturally scares a lot of gamers and makes moral grandstanders happy. The problem is that it actually does nothing of the sort… …
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BioShock is a critical darling that continues to be played and adored by roughly all of mankind, whereas Minecraft is a java-based creation game played by a niche cabal of super geniuses with either very boring desk jobs or tons of free time to kill. What happens when these two worlds collide? A fan made video that can only be described as scumtrulescent. Take a look… …
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Now that Fallout: New Vegas has been finished, released, and is making its way around homes across the country, it’s time to start messing around with it to make it even more interesting. Enter GECK… …
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Publisher has no plans to tweak design.
Capcom has admitted to deliberately courting controversy with Dante’s much-maligned new look in its recently announced Devil May Cry prequel.
VP of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson told IGN, “I will argue that any changes will bring about a knee-jerk reaction from fans.
“We know that; we knew that going into it. To be fair, I think some of the strategy here was to create that discussion and dialogue, and I think it drastically raises the visibility of the title versus if we had just done another Dante.”
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Compilation of Kratos’ first two outings goes downloadable for PS3 alongside November 2 launch of Ghost of Sparta.
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“God of War Collection rages on PSN” was posted by Brendan Sinclair on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:11:58 -0700 -
Microsoft Europe confirms Xbox 360’s no-cost option for online content given name change, all features remain intact; Gold subscription unchanged.
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“Xbox Live Silver rebranded ‘Free’” was posted by Tom Magrino on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:07:52 -0700 -
US retailer produces and releases its first title, a 2D platformer for iOS.US videogame and entertainment software retailer GameStop has released Buck And The Coin Of Destiny on Apple’s App store. It’s the first title to be developed and published by GameStop. The game is an auto-running side-scroller similar to Canabalt.
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Two more games headed to PSN and XBLA as part of “ongoing effort” to resurrect Dreamcast catalogue.Sega has announced ‘digitally re-mastered’ versions of Dreamcast games Space Channel 5 Part 2 and Sega Bass Fishing for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services.
The games follow Sega’s release of downloadable HD versions of Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi this year.