I wonder if they could do a single character sandbox game about World War 2. It would be unorthodox but I think it could be done.
Wouldn't be suprised to see something set in Medieval times, or a pirate world.

The Saboteur.

What we really need is a caveman sandbox game. Hunt dinosaurs, be hunted by dinosaurs, tribal warfare, discovering fire, the wheel and other inventions etc as you expand your tribe threw good health (plenty of food, water, warmth, safety etc) and mating. Meanwhile merging, enslaving or wiping out other tribes.

Imagine RDR, Populous and Monster Hunter all rolled into one. Fighting a T-Rex with just your spear and a couple of AI tribesman where you have to scale the Rex "Shadow of the Collosus" style and take him down to provide meat for the tribe and reduce the threat of attack by T-Rexs' to the tribe.

I could go into so much more detail because I have a bunch of ideas but you get the point. Throw out "minor" details like humans never actually lived in caves or when dinosaurs were about and you could have a pretty awesome game.

Lionhead had plans for a caveman game called B.C. but scrapped it.

Pitch it to Kalyx

Fuck. Yes.

Since Rockstar hit the home run with RDR and brought out pretty much what I wanted out of it, this would be AMAZING under Rockstar development.

Zombie Cavemen

How is this not a movie?

Only a day after CoD Black Ops gets released Activision is already spilling the beans on what the next future Call of Duty game might be about. Since Activision is now on a 3 studio rotation for the series, its either going to be from Sledgehammer Games or another studio they own.

Plan is for the game to take place farther in the future than Modern Warfare series into the sci-fi/space warfare range. Won't go as far as Halo in the future but at the same time might not be a pure FPS. Activision wants the series to branch out into the Action-Adventure genre with the new game.


http://kotaku.com/5685668/report-cal...-space-marines

So no MW 3 next year?

No but it should arrive in 2 years since its now unknown studio, then IW, and then Treyarch for Call of Duty series rotation or at least Activision's plan for the series.

lol ridiculous

Call of Duty: Future Warfare.

http://www.pwgaming.co.uk/?p=1328

K2Networks has purchased defucnt MMO All Points Bulletin.

Interesting move by them, APB was a game with a good concept behind it but unfortunately the game itself was... well for lack of a better word crap. Balance issues, performance issues, gameplay issues it seemed rushed and with the exception of the customisation needed a hell of a lot of work.

Not really sure what K2 can do with it but there might be life in it yet.

Edit:

http://www.pwgaming.co.uk/?p=1340

Harmonix has also been put up for sale by Viacom.

Apparently some companies think Valve and Steam are killing the PC market mostly because of how efficient and good Steam is. Some retailers and Digital Distributors in the U.K. are already telling some gaming publishers they will refuse to carry games that require Steam or be playable on the service (ex. Steamworks).

This was one of the actual reasons given to why they hate Steam:
Its assumed most of the "hate" is coming from Direct2Drive and other distributors and are actually willing to kill their sales if it means they can also kill off sales for Steam. Retailers threatening to drop PC games makes no sense since they make the money off of the game sold and not Valve if its a boxed copy.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...0/11/steam.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5687187/valve-is-k...ket-apparently

Wait what? I don't understand. So because Steam is good to their customers, other companies won't sell their game discs? Huh?

Someone help me here, I think this is actually breaking my brain.

Ok, the article itself is clearer, but it's common sense. If you want to sell better than Steam,be better than Steam.

As for the brick and mortar guys, it makes sense in a way, but some people (like me) prefer to actually have physical media. Thus when the option arises to buy digital or physical, I opt for physical.

LOL

Love the free market 'system'.

I dunno. Steam is gonna end up being a monopoly, but not by underhanded tactics. They just do really good at what they do. It's kinda scary, because that's how google got so big too.

If they're good, they're good. Instead of bitching, as people have already pointed out, perhaps competitors should cowboy the fuck up and provide better service. It's not like Steam's crooked and a public option is needed for the people.

Its similar to what iTunes did for the music industry when it was in a slump and Napstar was dominating downloads. Apple changed the idea of buying music to buying songs cheap and it ended up helping the music industry. Years later the music industry started to hate iTunes dominance and Sony tried to create an alliance to take out iTunes and increase music prices per song.

Valve did something similar in helping the PC market when a lot of developers and publishers moved to consoles. Over time, Valve improved Steam and managed to prove the PC market can be strong enough to survive. Now since the model worked out very well, their competitors want to knock out Steam even if it means weakening the PC market again.

Gran Turismo 5 re-dated: Nov. 24, 2010.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/113/1133328p1.html

Nah, dude that's a typo. It's Nov 24, 2100.

After 5 years of the $60 price tag being the new price for "HD" games, THQ realized maybe it isn't such a good idea to make every game cost $60.

After having a bad year, THQ noticed most of their sales came when their games were $40 or less (ex. Red Faction) with only their best games getting good sales at $60 (ex. UFC 2009).

THQ's problem is every game they make, they assume its a AAA-quality game so they charge $60 regardless if they didn't spend much to make or made no effort for quality. Before they just blamed the Wii or handhelds for lack of sales but this year their "HD" systems are loosing sales as well.

Now THQ thinks $40 might be the real sweet spot but also said they can easily make up the $20 "loss" on DLC without having to change their thinking on making games.

http://kotaku.com/5688119/a-publishe...games-any-more

That is completely and utterly unnecessary.

Actually feel pity for achievement whores if there is some sort of "use every car" achievement.

I'd be like fuck this game if it were like that, and I am only a part time whore.

What's wrong with choice? Fuck getting them all, but if some guy wants to use a Clio ahead of my Civic, then more choice is more power to us.

500 variants are Nissan Skylines, I'm sure :shifty:

Can't wait to drive the Top Gear Test Track, btw.

The new Need for Speed, Hot Pursuit is getting damn good reviews already. Might be picking it up next week.

Developers of Angry Birds planning to release the game on Xbox Live Arcade and Wiiware but haven't decided on a release date. They also plan to release the game on PSN and the handhelds at a future date but for now XBLA and Wiiware is getting the game first.

Also announced was no sequel is being developed although they hinted the next game might take on the role of being the Pig in the current game.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...rybirds_01.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5688964/angry-bird...e-wii-releases

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In other news, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood's manual is only 1 page long since the rest of the manual is inside the game itself and also assumes you owned previous Assassin's Creed games.

It is very similar to EA Sports manuals that are short but assume you've played previous games in the series.

Hate EA sports manuals for that very reason. 23486723576239456935 million things that never get explained.

Blizzard rumored to be bringing Diablo III to Xbox 360 and PS3 based on rumors of them starting to hire more console-specific programmers and staff. PC and Mac versions still expected to be released first.

Currently the game is being developed for the PC and Mac but Blizzard has ported their RPG games to consoles before in the past although nothing since the PS1/N64 days.

It is expected that Blizzard will either use the PC version and downgrade the game on consoles to make it work or less likely "water-down" the PC version to make all versions as identical as possible.

http://kotaku.com/5690583/blizzard-s...le-development

otification of Temporary Suspension: Inappropriate content in your profile [ DO NOT REPLY to this email address. It is not monitored. ] This email is to notify you that your Xbox LIVE account privileges have been temporarily suspended due to inappropriate content in the profile for your gamertag. The inappropriate content was discovered in the Motto, Bio, Location, Name and/or Personal Picture. The following content for the gamertag associated with this Windows Live ID was brought to our attention and was determined to have violated the Code of Conduct and/or Terms of Use: Motto DispensingAnErection Your profile was brought to the at

Well that didn't copy/paste correctly.


I was banned

Somebody ratted you out.

I'm guessing because it had the word "erection" in it. Although, technically, the erection you were dispensening could have been a statue or monument. :shifty:

The motto is only rude if the person reading it has such a mind. It's not like it said "Dispensing a RAGING boner".

Suddenly have the urge to play Sims 3 on PC. Did a test and my pc just falls short of the requirements. The website that tests the pc came back with all this stuff I don't even understand. My pc failed in just two areas.

RAM
Minimum: (XP) 1 GB RAM; (Vista/7) 1.5 GB RAM [If built-in graphics then add 0.5 GB additional RAM]
You Have: 895.2 MB

Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 or above / ATI Radeon 9500 or above / Intel GMA 3-series or above)
You Have: GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a

Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
------- -------------Required-- --You Have
Video RAM:-----------128 MB---- 512.0 MB
3D:--------------------Yes---------Yes
Pixel Shader version:----2.0---------3.0

Now I understand the RAM issue and how to fix it but I don't understand how my video card can be insufficiant when it has more RAM tham required, has 3D and has a higher version of Pixel Shader.
I must be missing something here. Can anyone let me know?

It says I can run Spore without any issues but Im put off by the things I've read about Spore installing monitoring software on your PC. Is that true or false?

What you mean DRM?

Yeah, I looked it up and I think that's what I meant. Not sure why I read it was a monitoring software. It's actually some kind of rootkit.

Is the graphics card on-board, as in not seperate? I'm guessing it is judging by the amount of RAM you have (as the video card will be hogging some).

I'm guessing your video card fails in terms of model number, as on-board cards can be clocked a lot slower than dedicated ones.

A Marvel Comics pinball table is coming to Pinball FX 2. :cool:

Yeah, it's definitely an on-board card.

I like The Sims as I am a massive sociopath and enjoy killing members of a family in pools of their own urine after breaking up said family by sleeping with everyone in the neighbourhood.

Playing a game that simulates you being a god or having complete control over peoples lives doesn't seem girly to me.

Running around in muddy arenas full of sweating macho musclemen with large over compensatory weaponery on the other hand, sounds like something a girl would enjoy or maybe a gay man. Gears of War being the biggest example. Plunging your red hot "chainsaw gun" into another mans sweaty, quivering body doesn't exactly gain it any hetero points either.

No idea if you play GoW at all but just saying Sims games are no where near the gayest games in the mainstream.

Activision willing to get rid of Bizzare Creations after owning them for 3 years. Lack of sales and reception to both Blur and James Bond: Blood Stone made made Activision want to drop the studio.

Before the move to Activision, the studio was responsible for Geometry Wars and Project Gotham Racing series on both the Xbox and Xbox 360.

Activision's current plan is to sell the studio but if no buyers appear, they are willing to shut the studio down for good.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...11/bizaare.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5691455/bizarre-de...may-get-closed

In other news, i bought the new xbox controller

Congrats.

Its pretty good actually. The D pad is very passable for fighting games. My gf had a habit of knocking my controller off the couch, so both of my old controllers RB's went to shit.

So i figured why not. That, and Amazon is selling it for $51, plus i had $20 credit with them.

Want to try the dpad. KoF2002 bitches.

And Street Fighter.

Just finished my file of Final Fantasy 9 that I started maybe a year ago where I got everybody up to level 99 and did pretty much everything. I ended up getting almost exactly 100 hours total.

Bullshit. They were making hit games before Activision came along, and then suddenly they put out douchebag shit like Blur ("hurr hurr, it's the big boy's Mario Kart") and a movie game that doesn't have a movie and they're all surprised about low sales.

I happen to like Blur. Another victim of the "_____-Killer" type marketing. You just don't do that.

I played the demo. Seemed like a decent game, but it's not better than the game it claimed to be better than. It's not mind blowing, but I'd bargain bin it. Seems like Activision killed off what made them great by making them do things outside of the way they do things. I'm sure if BC were left to their own devices they'd have more interesting shit to offer.

Not really just the marketings faut, it wasn't bad but it sure as hell wasn't good either.

Also the timescales wouldn't have helped. Think Blur was the first game they released on time, every PGR and MSR were delayed.

Blur was feature rich and more strategic than Mario Kart. It actually played closer to Diddy Kong Racing, which I personally preferred to Mario Kart... so it was my cup of tea right off the bat. I also find the online community pleasant compared to the Reach and CoD fraternities. Overall I think it was well made, hearkened back to good times.

Bad marketing, I say again, because most complaints I heard referenced the anti-Mario Kart promotion.

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, that marketing played a part, I just feel it wasn't the only reason for it failing.

And most small communities online seem much more pleasant if there's no guns involved.

I guess yelling "Tetris, bitch!" and being a jock over the more casual fair would make you look silly.

That's a YouTube parody video in the making.

Codemasters: Pre-Owned games could lead to piracy.

Yeah, fuck off with that

http://www.destructoid.com/codemaste...y-187879.phtml

Hell may have forzen over though, I'm totally agreeing with Kotick here:

http://www.destructoid.com/bobby-kot...s-187795.phtml

To be fair, he did try to come up with a way to have all future Activision games be on an online subscription or pay-to-play model regardless of consoles. It wouldn't have been as bad as the online pass since he wasn't as upset over used sales as EA and THQ were.

Only reason it didn't occur was due to every studio Activision owning being against the idea.

Frankly, Rock Band, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Burnout Paradise have it right. Support your fucking games. Keep that DLC coming until you've got the next game out.

Oblivion and Fallout 3 have plenty of DLC supporting the games and keeping them interesting after the initial sales window closes. Then long after the games have come out but far before the next one hits, you get the game of the year edition with the DLC included. That is a friendly way to combat the used market.

Rock Band (meaning the series here) and Burnout Paradise are prime examples of how you treat the consumer:

"Thanks for buying Rock Band 2, here's 20 free songs."

"Oh, changing discs sucks? No prob, Bob. We can't make it free, but here now all your RB1 songs are in RB2. Don't worry we'll keep it cheap"

"So glad you like all our DLC you spent money on, here now it carries over to the next game"

"Glad you like our cars. Oh, btw, here are bikes FOR FREE"

"Not enough? Here's some massive tweaks and a free car pack from time to time mixed in with these paid DLC additions"


Yeah, and don't get at me with the expensive horse armour or the paid local multiplayer. Local MP was never intended for this shit, considering how much they poured into online. And it's fucking horse armour. You don't need it, so don't lose sleep over it.

Tony Hawk Shred Bombs:

dunno how old this is, but lol



http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...77350/340x.jpg

wtf

Gamestop leaks out plan by Sega to release a compilation disc of Dreamcast games. Its expected to include the games released on XBLA and PSN with a potential for a few unreleased others.

The article and picture is mostly about the collection coming to the Xbox 360 but other places have confirmed it also planned for PS3.

Expected price is about $29.99 and a Feb. 15, 2011 release date.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...mestop_dcc.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5692792/theres-a-d...-says-gamestop

Gotta say, I like the 'console' controller. Wings are kinda fat but I love the dpad.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...onlinepair.jpg

For $30, that's a ridiculously good price. Will probably pick it up if only for Crazy Taxi.

id Software or more specifically John Carmack (Doom series creator) wants to create a game for Kinect but also hints it might be better as an XBLA type and a non-shooter.

Ideally, they would develop the game similar to how they develop games for the iOS platform instead of being a full-blown Xbox 360 or PS3 game.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...M6OtqAjDt15V8g
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/18/carmack-kinect-xbla/

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In other news, former president of Sony of Europe division hints that its possible in the near future (10-15 years), Microsoft and Sony might merge their video game companies together or at least co-develop a console as a way to reduce rising costs in hardware and gaming development.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=276488

Just turned on my 77 hour file of Pokemon Red that I hadn't played in a while, probably 75% of those hours were spent in the Safari Zone trying to catch Tauros. Anyway I beat the Elite Four just now, not sure if it was first time in this file mates

Gran Turismo 5 optional install range anywhere between 256 MB and a few minutes for the basic installation to around 10 GB and 50 minutes for a full install.

The benefits for the 10 GB install is mostly to speed up waiting for an online race and quicker loading screens. Both benefits can be negated if other racers in a track don't install before racing online since the installation is not mandatory.

More space is needed due to the game installing/unzipping itself while you play since the initial install only uses up 6GB and then does the rest while playing.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...1/gt5delay.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5694720/gt5-instal...-hour-to-spare

Fuck. Gotta admit, though, after seeing the difference in Halo Reach after installing it - I'm gonna install just about every game in my 'Box.

Feels like I should play a JRPG, but I have none. Except FF9, which I am missing the first disk to.

Go get Lost Odyssey.

Some Capcom news later today...

Take it to the Videogame Announcement Of Upcoming News thread.

Listening to Eminem on YouTube while looking at movie trailers right now.

BUT NOT WATCHING FRINGE

omg

That reminds me, gonna go catch some X-Files.

It's rumoured to be more characters for SSFIV AE.

I was thinking a proper announcement that AE will be DLC but we'll see.

Hopefully it's of Rainbow Edition. Need fireballs coming from my lightning kick.

Super Famicom is 20 years old. I repeat, the SNES is a 20 year old console.

http://www.the-king-of-games.com/kog...t0042r-001.jpg

I want this shirt so bad

From 1UP:

http://www.1up.com/media?id=3862499&type=lg

With Electronic Arts' new NBA Jam receiving critical and commercial success, it now appears that they may be planning to revive another classic Midway over-the-top arcade sports franchise: NFL Blitz.

Giant Bomb reports that a "trustworthy" tipster told them a new Blitz is in development at EA Tiburon, the same studio behind the Madden NFL series. Besides the fact the studio has tons of experience making football videogames, this would also make sense since Mark Turmell, one of the original creators behind the Blitz series, is currently employed there as a senior creative director. The game is reportedly very early in development, and likely won't be ready until 2012.

While this is completely unconfirmed by EA (so far they've only given a "we don't comment on rumor or speculation" response), it's worth noting that it is at least possible -- EA didn't just pick up the NBA Jam license from Midway, but a few of their other defunct sports franchise licenses, including Blitz.

Speaking of licenses, if it turns out EA is indeed making a new Blitz, then that likely means the series will once again be able to actually use the NFL license. Since EA has had exclusive rights to the NFL license for videogames since 2004, the last couple of Blitz games from Midway were forced to use generic teams and players.

:y:

I actually love what they've done with Jam, so I'd love this.

I thought the NFL didn't want the brutal hits, taunts, or over-the-top action Blitz was known for which is why there hasn't been a Blitz in years.

NBA, NHL, and MLB didn't oppose the "Blitz" style in their arcade games which is why Midway was allowed a lot of freedom in making them.

It might still just be Blitz, which I wouldn't be opposed to. NBA Jam needs real players, Blitz has dudes in helmets!

Fucking TV-PG NFL...

What happened to you not liking sports

I love the "Bone Breaking X Rays" in Blitz the League. Probably won't be in the new one. :(