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XBLA screeny blowout: Rez, Tron and Poker Smash

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2008-01-08 13:00:00 by Dustin Burg in Xbox 360 Fanboy
Filed under: News , Xbox Live Arcade After sniffing through the deep, dark and musty bowels of Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade marketing materials, not only did we get a nasty sinus infection, but we came across spiffy new screenshots from a few upcoming XBLA games. What Arcade games? Well, you're jumping the gun there stallion with all your...
 
Tags: poker smash, xbox live arcade, xbla screeny blowout, tron, xbla games, rez, galleries, nasty sinus infection, sinus infection worth
 
 
 
 
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Trade Your Personal Info For A Free Copy Of Rez

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2008-01-22 11:39:45 by Earnest Cavalli in Game | Life
The official site for the Xbox Live Arcade redux of Rez is giving gamers a chance to win a copy of the game simply by registering at the title's website by Jan. 27, 2008 According to the site, the 50 lucky winners will be announced within 72 hours of the sweepstakes' end Presumably the information entered into the site will be used for...
 
Tags: rez official site, site, rez, official site, copy, free copy, panzer dragoon clone, extra pieces, lucky winners
 
 
 
 
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Massively's exclusive tour of Hi-Rez Studios and Global Agenda

2008-10-27 10:00:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
 
Filed under: Sci-fi , Screenshots , Game mechanics , New titles , Previews , PvP , Reviews , Opinion , Hands-on , Spy , Global Agenda Last week, we did a story on the growing game development scene in Georgia, and how government tax incentives have worked to get more digital entertainment companies into the state. Georgia's legislators...
 
Tags: hi-rez studios, global agenda, game development scene, government tax incentives, hands-on, digital entertainment companies, hands-on time, global economic future, atlanta
 
 
 
 
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Transfixing

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2008-01-29 21:13:12 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
One of the many newspaper features I would like to write if I had the time would be entitled something like "Little Known Treasures": a compilation of all the fantastic games that didn't get anywhere near the sales or attention they deserved 2001's Rez for Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 would be one of the first games on the list However,...
 
Tags: discover tetsuya mizuguchi, tetsuya mizuguchi, sega rally, rez combines light, rez, sega, artists, game artists, game
 
 
 
 
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PvP theorycraft, and the lessons MMOs need to learn.

2008-04-22 16:01:47 by syncaine in Hardcore Casual
 
Playing as much DoTA as I have lately, its got me thinking about the general idea of PvP, and why most MMOs cant seem to get it right. We have seen what happens when you make it too extreme in games like Ultima Online, with full corpse looting and setting the loser back hours if not days. We also know what the opposite of that looks like in WoW,...
 
Tags: individual honor, honor, personal honor gain, pvp, honor gain, team impact, team, team honor, personal
 
 
 
 
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Hardcore Casual: PvP theorycraft, and the lessons MMOs need to learn.

2008-04-22 15:32:30 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
Playing as much DoTA as I have lately, its got me thinking about the general idea of PvP, and why most MMOs cant seem to get it right. We have seen what happens when you make it too extreme in games like Ultima Online, with full corpse looting and setting the loser back hours if not days. We also know what the opposite of that looks like in WoW,...
 
Tags: individual honor, honor, personal honor gain, pvp, honor gain, team impact, team, team honor, personal
 
 
 
 
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AoC Open Beta final thoughts (Lvl 20+)

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2008-05-11 00:25:28 by Keen in Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog
Funcom was kind enough to lift the level cap on the Open Beta servers and boost everyone up to level 20 during the last day of testing. In addition to the level boost all servers were transformed into FFA pvp servers and characters were given a set of stock blue items. I have been playing for most of the day and wanted to give you all my...
 
Tags: open-world pvp, world, pvp, ffa pvp, issues exist, issues, fix performance issues, main city, city
 
 
 
 
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Keen and Graev's Gaming Blog: AoC Open Beta final thoughts (Lvl 20+)

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2008-05-10 20:29:30 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
Funcom was kind enough to lift the level cap on the Open Beta servers and boost everyone up to level 20 during the last day of testing. In addition to the level boost all servers were transformed into FFA pvp servers and characters were given a set of stock blue items. I have been playing for most of the day and wanted to give you all my...
 
Tags: open-world pvp, world, pvp, ffa pvp, issues exist, issues, fix performance issues, main city, city
 
 
 
 
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AoC is to WAR what EQ2 is to WoW

2008-05-13 15:11:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
Would you trust my opinion on a PvP MMORPG? I can only advise you to take anything I say about PvP-centric games with a large grain of salt, because it is no secret that I don't like PvP. Thus my dislike of PvP could possibly prevent me from recognizing good PvP over bad PvP, because I'd always tend to prefer carebear PvP à la WoW to any form...
 
Tags: impact, impact pvp, pvp, pvp-centric games, aoc, likes pvp, bad pvp, pvp system, war
 
 
 
 
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog: AoC is to WAR what EQ2 is to WoW

2008-05-13 09:56:09 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
Would you trust my opinion on a PvP MMORPG? I can only advise you to take anything I say about PvP-centric games with a large grain of salt, because it is no secret that I don't like PvP. Thus my dislike of PvP could possibly prevent me from recognizing good PvP over bad PvP, because I'd always tend to prefer carebear PvP à la WoW to any form...