Thursday, June 14, 2012
Microsoft is not participating in Gamescom or the Tokyo Game Show this year.
Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson on XBL) announced this morning that Microsoft is skipping Gamescom and the Tokyo Game Show this year in order to focus on other events. Here is Hryb's full statement:
As you saw at E3, we have a solid line-up of games launching this holiday, along with other entertainment experiences. We've changed our approach a little, though. This year, Xbox will be focusing on smaller, more localized promotions and experiences for press, partners, retailers and customers around the world. Which means that as you might have seen on some of the news sites today, we won't be taking part in gamescom or Tokyo Games Show this year.
Both are still important shows for the industry, and we do wish the organizers well.
Gamescom and TGS are two of the largest video game events each year. Hopefully Microsoft makes up for their absence in both events.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
More hype to satisfy hungry fans!
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 29, a brand new Diablo III commercial will air. Be sure to be watching Family Guy on Fox at 9:00PM (8:00PM Central), so you don't miss it. The commercial will give a cinematic look at Diablo III, and hopefully send fans off into the short wait until the Diablo III release.
Diablo III will arrive on May 15 this year.
Source: Battle.net
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
And the winner of the Golden Poo is...
The website Consumerist.com recently opened a poll up for their readers to vote on the worst company in America for 2012. The final round of voting consisted of Electronic Arts and Bank of America. In the end, EA took home the Golden Poo Award Companies that were in the poll included: AT&T, Walmart, Comcast, PayPal, and many others.
Gamers must be truly upset with EA's actions recently. For a video game publisher to beat out a popular bank like Bank of America is sort of a big deal. 250,000 people voted for this poll, so calling this a "fluke" would not be accurate. For the gamers asking, "How is EA a bad company?" The Consumerist does a good job of summarizing gamer's thoughts:
"There have even been numerous accusations that EA and its ilk deliberately hold back game content with the sole intent of charging a fee for it at a later date. It's one thing to support a game with new content that is worth the price. It's another to put out an inferior and occasionally broken ח product with the mindset of 'ah, we'll fix it later and make some money for doing so.' "
EA puts out a lot of games each year as a publisher. Some of the games are very popular releases. With this recent wave of bad-reputation, they may have to change some things to keep their fans holding on.
Source: Consumerist
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
It's raining awards in a galaxy far, far away
Star Wars: The Old Republic has been acknowledged by Guinness for a " Largest Entertainment Voice Over Project" award. The game features several hundred voice actors binding together to add a impressive 200,000+ lines of dialogue in the game. These statistics have never been reached by another video game or feature film as of 2012. Congratulations to EA, BioWare, LucasArts, and anyone else involved in the making of Star Wars: The Old Republic.
You can also purchase the complete Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer's Edition book today.
Source: Guinness World Records
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Warner Bros greenlit hybrid live-action/animated feature film in a world of building blocks.
Warner Bros, the studio behind Harry Potter and Batman franchises that have also had individual Lego video games is banking on Lego now being the next big movie tentpole.
Australian-based firm Animal Logic (Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole) will handle the animation for the film, which the trade says will be 80% animation and is slated for a 2014 release.
"Plot details for Lego -- an action-adventure set in the Lego world -- remain under wraps," according to Variety. "Casting for the live-action characters is set to begin in January."
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" will write and direct the movie. Along with, Robot Chicken's Chris Mckay, Co-directing.
More details are expected at a press conference in Australia next week.
Source: IGN.com
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