It is no secret that Microsoft’s achievement system has been a rousing
success. You only need to look at the imitators to see the massive
impact that it has had on the gaming community and gaming culture.
Playstation 3’s trophies, Steam Achievements, and even World of Warcraft
achievements are all born out of the success of Microsoft’s service.
It can’t be argued that one of the biggest things going on around the gaming world and the internet in general these days is Minecraft.
It’s a game that began as a side project by a Swedish Java developer,
but now has taken over the lives of almost 1.5 million gamers through
almost entirely word-of-mouth advertising. Minecraft has been
praised for the freedom it gives players and how it inspired hundreds of
YouTube videos showcasing the constructions of players around the
world. It’s definitely worth looking at the man behind this incredible
game.
Markus
‘Notch’ Persson began programming when he was 7 years old. He produced
his first text adventure game when he was 8 years old using his father’s
Commodore 128. Much later he worked professionally as a game developer
for King.com, developing web games using Flash. During this time, he
founded an MMORPG called Wurm Online with another designer by the name of Rolf Janneson.
Both
Eidos Montreal and Square Enix have announced that the game will be
on North American store shelves on August 23rd. Retailers have also
announced that Human
Revolution
will be available in the UK and Australia on the 25th and 26th of August.
The action RPG Dungeon
Hunter: Alliance will be heading for PSN this April. The
game is set in the world of Gothicus where you fight the destructive ambitions
of a tyrannical Queen on your own or with friends, both locally and online.
Via the official PSN Blog,
Jen Kye, of the games publisher Gameloft, said: “Our dev team is quite focused
on making sure the gameplay is engaging enough for the hardcore audience, while
still accessible to newcomers.” “Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is focused on providing a real quest
to complete either solo or with others. This unique campaign experience spans
over 30 levels with an immense world of dungeons, villages and forests to
explore, including areas that are randomly generated. You’ll be able to choose
your class, optimize your hero’s development by assigning experience points.”
The internet has been abuzz with talk of the trailer for Dead Island, which showed up a month ago. While that was a spectacular piece of filmmaking, it didn’t actually show any footage of the game. Since then a few screenshots and snips of concept art have slowly rolled out. This week a new batch appeared which will give us a better idea of just what we’ll be doing on this island of death.
Spring Training may be in full swing, but you can jump right into games that matter as MLB 11 The Show is here! How does it stack up to previous iterations of what has become the premiere baseball franchise on the market though?
Quite simply, this is the biggest and best version of The Show yet. It’s hard to one-up yourself every year with a sports franchise, but even if all of them don’t quite work as well as Sony’s San Diego studio would like, it’ll give them something to work on perfecting then for next year.
Now that the weather is finally starting to ease
up for most of us, Sony is having a Spring
Fever Sale on PlayStation Network. The sale will feature discounts on a number of popular PS3 and PSP titles.
