Buzzin Games

This won’t be as long a piece as this announcement deserves I’m afraid – I’m absolutely shattered, but I shall do my best to cover the bare bones of the story. You can read more about it here.

OnLive is a technology some seven years in the making that promises to do for gaming what [...]

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When the gaming BAFTA winners were announced, I said it was a shame that there wasn’t a category for the downloadable games where the greatest innovation was occurring. Well, Microsoft have made their own competition on that front, though of course that does mean we miss out on Lost Winds, World of Goo and Nobi [...]

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Here’s an interesting news piece for you. The German Social Affairs Minister in Lower Saxony – Mechthild Ross-Luttmann has asked for an investigation into the sale of inappropriate games for children. So far, so mundane, except that she is considering requesting an age restriction on “addictive computer games”.

This is a strange concept for a [...]

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Speaking as a former marketer myself, I can confirm it’s a tough and thankless challenge trying to big up the potential of a product that just isn’t selling as well as its competitiors, and that’s the very task that Sony America’s marketer Peter Dille had to do in an interview with Game Daily.

The [...]

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Is this the beginning of the twilight years of the PS2’s impressive lifespan? Eurogamer reports that NHL 10 (this is the trouble with making a new sports game every year – the names get ridiculous) won’t be getting PS2 or PC ports.

There was a time when EA would have been porting every one of [...]

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