Archive for November, 2010 - Page 15

Kinect Not Doing That Badly In Japan After All, 26K Units Sold

Japanese Bought More Kinects Than There Are Xboxes In The Country
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

We don’t know what’s harder to believe, that there were even 26000 Xbox 360s owned by the Japanese or that there are 26000 Japanese living spaces that can accommodate nine feet of Kinect space.  There’s only one explanation, the Japanese have started tearing down the walls to their apartments, effectively [...]

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Crytek Boss Says That Home Consoles Are Holding The PC Back

Crytek's Cervat Yerli Says That PC Games Suffer Because Of Home Consoles
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

Crytek’s Cervat Yerli doesn’t seem to like Microsoft and Sony’s current gen consoles – in fact, he think they’re limiting his “creative expression.” The PC, he says, is already “a generation ahead” of current home consoles, and as a result, home consoles are holding PC titles back. “As long as [...]

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Bioware Co-Founder Says "There Are Too Many Games Today"

Bioware's Ray Muzyka Says He Can't Keep Up Despite Gaming Three Hours Every Night
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

Anyone who’s ever been a part of game development knows you have to constantly play every and any new release that even smells like a half-formed idea you wanted to propose to your team two SCRUM sprints ago, because you need to see both how those other guys did it [...]

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Super Mario & Twitter Brought Together By Super Twario In iPhone Mash-up

iPhone App Super Twario Gets Twitter In Your Super Mario
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

You’re a small bunny and you hop between clouds of words, stopping to send them forth into the ether or to make one of your own. Heroin dream, right? Close, but no cigar. iPhone app. And those words in the clouds? Tweets from all your acquaintances, which you can jump [...]

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Capcom Announcing New Resident Evil Title At Spike's VGAs?

Rumors Circulating That Capcom Will Announce New Resident Evil Title At VGAs
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

This one little image sure is causing some people a lot of grief. Originally, the picture was hidden in a VGA ad, where it flashed on screen and was gone in less than a second. This, of course, is leading people to think that there’s more to this than just [...]

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Batman Arkham City Won't Have Batmobiles Driving Around

Batman Arkham Asylum Sequel Not Featuring Batmobile, Batman "Best Vehicle"
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

Sometimes even a game as anticipated as Rocksteady’s sequel to the uvula-bruising awesome that was last year’s Arkham Asylum can disappoint. We’re willing to bet vital parts of our anatomy it won’t, we’re just saying it can, in the same way the Large Hadron Collider can make tiny but civilization-gobbling [...]

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Windows Live Writer Helps Users Make Even Better Blogs

Windows Live Writer Can Help You Offline, Make Better Blogs Online
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

If you happen to be looking to start a blog or even just make the one you are already running look a bit better than Microsoft has just released a tool that might be right in your wheelhouse. Microsoft Live Writer is a free program that can boost your blog’s [...]

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BLACK FRIDAY: Namco Bringing Massive iPhone, Android, Blackberry Game Discount List

Namco Game Price Cuts Coming To All Major Mobile Platforms
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

If you’re all done playing Family Guy or fed up of waiting for Dr. Who, Pocket Gamer have this enormous list of games that Namco has seen fit to mark down almost into oblivion on a global scale and now, courtesy of us, you have it too. We’re not just [...]

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Microsoft Issues Warning To Australian Customers Of Phone Scam

Phone Scame Tries To Convince Microsoft Customers Something Is Wrong With Their Computers
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

Microsoft has had to issue several warnings to customers in various countries about phone scammers that purport to be working with Microsoft. These scammers find ways to get the users to give them money for fixes of problems that didn’t exist and are popping up more and more in Australia.

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Square Enix's First Final Fantasy XIV Patch Is Now Live, Fixes Litany Of Problems

Square Enix Releases First In A Series Of Patches That Will Fix Problems Within Final Fantasy XIV
Filed by on Saturday, 27. November 2010

The first patch for Final Fantasy XIV has been released, and it fixes a lot of things. Seriously, I can’t list them all here because I want to be able to do things this weekend, but trust me when I say that the fix list may as well be released [...]

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