Rare restructuring its “current approach,” might involve layoffs
With the current world economic issues affecting the game industry, Microsoft has now begun to clean its own house by trimming some of the supposed fat from its developer portfolio. Microsoft has already shut down several of its first-party studios including FASA, ACES and Ensemble and now it appears Rare… Continue Reading »
Fallen Earth alpha test begins, beta testing to follow
The massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) Fallen Earth‘s alpha testing game is going to begin this week, on August 14, 2008, and People who stop by GameSpot and sign up may have the chance to participate. So far, over 130 people have posted to apply for an alpha or beta… Continue Reading »
Terrorists use Bethesda game image, fool a few pros
In the global fight against terrorism numerous government and private organizations have kept their ears to the ground, trying to prevent the next 9/11. Now it seems that Bethesda Softworks, a Maryland based developer which created the Elders Scroll series, has unwillingly become part of terrorists’ war on the Western… Continue Reading »
THQ pushes back Saints Row 2 release
Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking success of Grand Theft Auto IV, THQ said in an interview with Reuters that they are pushing back the release of Saint’s Row 2 from August 2008 to October 14, 2008. THQ’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Bob Aniello, told Reuters that… Continue Reading »
Rumor: Metal Gear Solid 4 probably not the end of franchise
With the June 2008 release date of the next installment in the Metal Gear Solid series just, there has been a lot of assumption that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots will be the last in the series. That might not be the case. In a recent interview with… Continue Reading »
CBS acquires CNET
And the corporate consolidation of media continues - Kotaku is reporting on CBS’ acquisition of CNET networks cache of sites, including gamespot. Apparently, CNET’s board of directors unanimously agreed to the merger, and the transition is slated to occur by the third quarter of this year. From the post: “Upon… Continue Reading »
Bully: Scholarship Edition needs a fix
It looks like Rockstar is finally getting wise about releasing its games with numerous bugs and serious glitches. After years of putting out titles such as Grand Theft Auto, which always came along with a series of major technical problems; from frequent crashing, visual glitches or simply that entire levels… Continue Reading »
New Gamespot Editor-in-Chief determined to win back readers after Gerstmanngate
On Thursday (January 31, 2008), Gamespot anointed Ricardo Torres as its newest Editor-in-Chief, a position that hasn’t been filled since previous EIC Greg Kasavin left to work at Electronic Arts in January 2007. Upon taking the job, Torres told GameDaily, in an interview, that he wants to win back the… Continue Reading »
Gamestop to target casual customers
According to a recent ars technica post, game retail giant Gamestop will be changing its focus to court mainstream consumers. The chain will now devote sections of its stores to casual and “family” gaming, and indicated that the interest in casual gaming (brought on primarily by the success of the… Continue Reading »
Fanning the Fire: Critic leaves GameSpot, cites Gertsmann’s dismissal
Further fanning the flames of the firing of Gamespot’s Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann, freelance writer Frank Provo is calling it quits from the site Here’s his open post about it, grabbed right from the site before it’s noticed and likely removed: Farewell, GameSpot It’s true, I’m no longer contributing to… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
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