Chatting to us all in his weekly podcast podcast, Xbox Live’s personal legend Major Nelson has said that the next system update will make the dashboard fast, and is due out later this year. “We are making the guide faster,” he said. “The team has done some really good stuff around making performance enhancements,” he added. “[However,] ‘Performance enhancements’ doesn’t sound right because it sounds like we’re going to give [...]
Brutal Legend boss Tim Schafer believes that more games with humour at their focus could bring a wider audience of people into enjoying video games. This is one gamer who would have to agree. “I think it’s a subject matter barrier,” the developer told GI on reasons people are put off gaming, “Not everybody wants to get into these super violent worlds and yet here I am making a game [...]
Modern Warfare 2 is shaping up to be both bigger and longer than its predecessor, Call of Duty 4. Though all Infinity Ward cares about is making the game the best game ever. “It’s really hard to say, because it’s not done yet, it’s not balanced yet,” Infinity Ward’s Mark Rubin said at E3. “We don’t go into it saying we need to build a 20-hour experience or a ten-hours [...]
This just in: playing Wii games that require phsyical movement is better for you than playing games where you simply sit in front of your computer or holding a controller in front of your TV. I’ll just give you a moment to facepalm. This shocking news comes from a recent study posted on The Hindu. From the article: “The study found that playing virtual sports such as boxing and tennis [...]
EA’s Patrick Söderlund said during E3 that a small development team over at DICE in Sweden is currently working on the sequel to their parkour action platformer; Mirror’s Edge 2. Söderlund said he was “excited” over the plans for the sequel. “Mirror’s Edge was a risky move. It was a bold move, a very innovative and inspiring move,” the VP told VideoGamer in an interview. “The game wasn’t perfect by [...]
According to Shane Kim, VP at Microsoft, the company feels they’ve taken a win with Metal Gear Solid Rising coming to the Xbox 360. “I still think exclusive content is really important. First of all, in games, we’ve said for a long time that a key part of our strategy with Xbox 360 was a level third-party playing field. Now we’ve effectively done that with Metal Gear Solid [Rising] coming [...]
Talking to CNBC recently, Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot said that he believes big action games will continue to be played on traditional controllers. Why? Because gamers don’t like to move around, basically. “The current pad for gamers is giving them a lot,” he said regarding whether or not games like Assassin’s Creed or Splinter Cell could possibly ever use motion sensing technology. “They play for hours, so they don’t want [...]
Halo ODST has, for many months been tooted as an expansion of sorts to Halo 3. Shorter campaign, less overall content, and with the Halo 3 multi-player mode built in. As you’d would expect, an expansion would normally cost less than a full price game. Apparently, this won’t be the case with Halo: ODST. “At the time of those statements, the overall scope of Halo 3: ODST was not yet [...]
This is news that will no doubt frustrate PS3 fans looking forward to the game, but Ubisoft has confirmed today that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake, Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, will be an XBLA timed exclusive. TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled will be part of Xbox Live’s yearly “Summer of Arcade” promotion, and will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace on July 22nd The PSN version is slated [...]
It’s a good day to be European, it seems. A few months ago we reported that the European release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game was going to be released as a timed Playstation exclusive. Being European and an Xbox 360 owner I was, obviously, pissed. But like I said, today is a good day to be European, because Destructoid has confirmed with Atari that the North American version of Ghostbusters [...]
