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Dec
30
Over at Bill Bishop’s ‘billsdue’ blog, the Beijing-based head of Chinese online world creator Red Mushroom has been pointing out a fascinating Chinese MMO-related news story, involving a tabloid newspaper, NYSE-traded online game firm Giant Online, and an apparently spiked story.
As Bishop explains: “Giant Online’s (NYSE:GA) ZT Online MMORPG has almost 1,000,000 peak […]
Dec
30
Screw plushies! Check out the actual weighted Weighted Companion Cube
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I’m a blasphemer, I suppose. Everyone was telling me of how bad of a raging clue they’ve suffered towards Portal. Thing is, I had owned The Orange Box for three months before finally playing through Portal about two weeks ago. It wasn’t until then that I finally understood the whole Weighted Companion Cube phenomenon. Granted, […]
Dec
30
Games of the week for 12/30/07: Screw Call of Duty 4 on Veteran edition
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Seriously, who was the crackhead who decided that Veteran mode was even remotely fun to play? It’s not even worth completing the levels for 40 gamerpoints a pop. In fact, I’d rather cut out my own eyes and shove them up my arse, that is what I’d rather do. You see what I did there? […]
Dec
30
Xbox Live Now up & Running
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After some time of being down due to technical difficulties, Xbox Live is now up and running with no lingering issues. According to Major Nelson, the entire Live team has been working “day and night” to get things sorted out and fixed.
[Via Major Nelson]
Original post by Jeff Nilges and software by Elliott Back
Dec
30
As 2007 draws to a close, we say our goodbyes to what has arguably been one of the greatest years for videogames ever. With so many amazing releases, this year has been absolutely stunning, and we can now definitely say that the new generation of games has finally arrived.
From BioShock to Super Mario Galaxy, the […]
Dec
30
RetroforceGO! recording episode #30 tonight: 2007 Top tens and the year in retro
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The year’s just about over (thank God) and your friends here at RetroforceGO! are ready to close it out in the coolest way possible: with lists. You guys like lists, right? C’mon, everybody loves lists. Well, we like lists, anyway. So we made a bunch of them.
Tonight we’ll be taking a look back at the […]
Dec
30
[Just wanted to repost this, in the quiet time before New Year, for the benefit of game developers who read GameSetWatch and haven’t voted yet. The nomination deadline cutoff is around January 4th, I believe.]
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards, the eighth annual presentation of the most prestigious […]
Dec
30
Destructoid Network: This week’s finest 12/30/07
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This awesome little Destructoid Toy was made by Dtoider ekoala2002 who has a rather nice little custom toy collection worth checking out.
On Destructoid, we announce our game of year as well as picking the best YTMNDs of the year. On Japanator, giapet gives us a preview of the upcoming winter animes. On the C-Blogs, Mix […]
Dec
30
COLUMN: The Amateur: Angband & The Game Development Arms Race
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[’The Amateur’ is an irregular column from Australian-based IT manager Andrew Doull, discussing the perils and rewards of being an unabashed non-professional creating games. This installment deals with how making an Angband game variant can inform how all game developers look at game scope.]
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Nick McConnell, creator of […]
Dec
30
Wii hardware ’surprisingly stable,’ nunchuk’s manliness not so much
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Wii-a-phobia continues to run rampant amongst the hardcore gaming community. There is a new hate-rant about the Wii written almost every day, and not just by random members of the Internet, but often by paid journalists as well. Despite all of this bad press, the Wii continues to be the darling of the mainstream gaming […]