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Sep
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[As mentioned before, the latest issue of Game Developer has a creator-written postmortem of Metanet’s N+ for Xbox Live Arcade, and here’s some excerpts from Raigan and Mare’s article for the mag, revealing how the team dealt with planning issues, focused on a clean and simple design, and ran into certification snags.]
The latest issue of […]
Sep
30
Games I Demand: Mechassault 3
Category: Xbox 360, General, Microsoft, mechassault, shooter | 
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If there was one game that defined my early life as an XBox Live gamer, it was Mechassault. I spent countless hours on Live playing the game. I even belonged to a clan for a short while. Damn, that was a long time ago.
Mechassault 2 was supposed to be a bigger and badder […]
Sep
30
Column: ‘Homer in Silicon’: The Courage to End It
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[’Homer in Silicon’ is a biweekly GameSetWatch column by Emily Short. It looks at storytelling and narrative in games of all flavors, including the casual, indie, and obscurely hobbyist. The latest column examines a Flash-based RPG for lessons on story.]
Krinlabs’ Sonny is a Flash RPG which consists of a lot of tactical battles interspersed […]
Sep
30
Ah yes, time to try a more conversational style for select GameSetLinks, just because I realized that there were some things I wanted to witter on about in a little more detail - tragically for you..
This time, it’d be the Blizzcon PPV-ing, Mirror’s Edge pre-prod goodness and Scrabulous history that deserve microscoping more than […]
Sep
29
Mega Man 9 Demo Impressions
Category: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Capcom, Game, Mega Man | Leave a Comment
Mega Man 9 recently came out and I thought I’d give the demo a spin. How could I not? The game was made to look, sound, and play just like a classic NES game! I downloaded the demo on my PS3 to spite my crappy Xbox 360. Speaking of which, I need to complain for […]
Sep
29
[So, Leigh Alexander did a good job of sorting out this contri-Spore-cial story on big sister site Gamasutra, and myself and Chris Remo gave it a final edit for spice, thanks to Remo’s Penny-Arcade editorial on a similar subject.]
Embattled over the SecuROM digital rights management controversy regarding Spore, Electronic Arts is now challenging assertions […]
Sep
29
[It’s not often that game critics get interested in offroad racers — since we’re all snobs, obviously — but Black Rock’s Pure is getting some notable buzz, and so Brandon Sheffield (with a write-up assist from Leigh Alexander) chatted to the UK-based former Climax-ers about development on the just-debuted game. Neat.]
The well-received offroad racer […]
Sep
29
It’s perhaps a little surprising to see former ESA lynchpin Doug Lowenstein popping his head back into the game industry, following his escape to the just-as-tricky Private Equity Council.
Though the credit crunch must be almost as painful to Lowenstein as state legislation was in his stint forcefully leading the Entertainment Software Association, he still […]
Sep
29
Driving a Bus and Playing Games
Category: PSP, The Funnies, Video Game, idiot | Leave a Comment
There’s a lot of things you shouldn’t do while driving and playing Hot Shots Golf ranks right up there as one of the worst. If you think doing the combo is bad enough, then how about driving, playing a game, and driving a city bus around full of passengers?
The bus driver had been […]
Sep
29
GameSetLinkDump: September 29th, 2008
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Trying something slightly new - alternating ‘linkdump’ posts, which are our traditional GameSetLinks ‘10 of the best’, with some slightly more drawn-out round-ups which have commentary on a few of the more interesting posts I’ve run into. Or at least, that’s the idea. We’ll see how it goes!
This first link dump has some fun, […]