Reviews: Puzzles, Hair Metal, and Transforming Metal
Posted by inpheaux on August 21st, 2007 at 12:15 amQuick review post, as I need to get to sleep so I can wake up bright and early to play Bioshock when it arrives on my doorstep tomorrow morning.
Picross DS - Highly Recommended - This is easily one of the best values out there right now for the DS. There are potentially hundreds of hours [...]
Valve launches Steam Community Beta
Posted by inpheaux on August 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pmThe new Steam Community site, which we covered earlier, has just gone into beta.
Here's how you get in:
From Steam, click File -> Settings -> "Settings" under "Beta Participation" and then choose "The Steam Community" from the dropdown.
Restart Steam and you're there. Just click on the new "Community" tab and start messing with it. You [...]
QuakeCon Keynote Wrapup: Quake Wars release date, Quake Zero & Steam deal announced
Posted by inpheaux on August 4th, 2007 at 7:40 amWell, it looks like the guys from id had a bit more up their sleeves than just naming Rage. Actually, they had a whole lot more.
First up: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars got a release date. 2 OCT 2007, on PC, PS3, 360. There's also a new build playable right now at QuakeCon, which will hopefully [...]
Activision and Neversoft confirm Metallica’s “One” will be in GH3
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:51 pmAnd it'll be a Master Track, naturally.
Unfortunately, this is another one of those news items where everything you need to know is going to be in the post slug. Activision just sorta tossed it in as part of a corporate conference call. There just isn't much else to say.
So here's a video from the field [...]
id’s new game gets a title, hints of a release on all platforms
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 pmThe product previously called "id Technology 5" has got a name now, as announced at Quakecon. That name is "Rage". Before ragging on this name, please remember that this is from the company that brought you such creative names as "Doom" and "Quake", and look how those turned out.
During the Quakecon keynote, John Carmack stated [...]
Blizzard announces World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 pmAs expected, at this year's BlizzCon, the big story is the announcement of the second WOW expansion: Wrath of the Lich King. Also as completely expected, Wrath opens up the region of Northrend, and pits players up against the Lich King Arthas.
There is, of course, more than just that. Here's the rundown of what new [...]
EA drops online support for tons of games
Posted by inpheaux on August 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pmEA, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that if you haven't upgraded your yearly sports games in the past two years, that you must not care about playing games online. So they don't need to support you anymore.
In one month, on 1 SEP 2007, EA will drop online support for the following games on the [...]
GTA4 slips to 2008
Posted by inpheaux on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 pmThis is why as a developer you NEVER set a release date for a product that's more than a year in the future. Similarly, this is why as a consumer you NEVER believe a product release date set more than a year in the future.
October 17th was just too good to be true. We should [...]