Your daily mainstream videogame news, made easier to swallow! -The War of the Worlds game needed epic voice acting: Patrick Stewart made it so. –Gears of War design director Cliff Bleszinski crushes our dreams of the franchise ever coming to the PS3. – Double Fine employees tweet happily about re
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Earlier this month a teaser for the feature-length Starcraft II documentary, My Life for Aiur, was released. The film, whose title borrows its name from the game’s contested Protoss planet rich in biodiverse minerals, follows the massive subculture surrounding one of the world’s most popular online
TIME lends its cover to Activision to promote Call of Duty PAGING KILL SCREEN BIZ DEV. (j/k)
This is from two weeks ago, but still quite neat. Kotaku looked at the roots of Pokemon through the lens of creator Satoshi Tajiri. Of note, the games “catch ‘em all” ethos stems from Tajiri’s particular psychological diagnosis: If that sounds a little…different, that’s because Tajiri is unlike most
-Zynga ‘throws bodies at problems, not thought.” –Homefront developer Kaos dries up. –Minecraft sales top 2.5 million. –Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima unloads on the original Metal Gear for NES. -Videogame sales dip to record lows in May. -A wild Galaga 30th Edition appears. –Cut the Rope tak