This week IGN Entertainment laid off four members of its editorial department. Dana Jongewaard, IGN’s Editor in Chief in “expanding audience” posted on Facebook on Thursday that she has left the company. Dana worked on IGN’s Greenpixel site and the Girlfight podcast. Fellow Co-host of the show, Nicole Tanner was laid off by IGN. The future of the popular podcast is unknown at this time.
Witness as Travis Willingham and Troy Baker, the voice talent behind the English translation of the upcoming Xbox title Catherine, discuss the backstage hijynx involved with dubbing a sexy Japanese game.
Tired of people calling you an uncultured lout because all you do is play video games? Sure, we know that video games are art, but you know what else is art? Theatre! As in hip, intellectual cutting-edge New York City off-off-Broadway theatre. If you want a little culture in your life, but don’t want to have to actually learn anything about Shakespeare, then head to the Brick Theater’s third annual Game Play Theatre Festival, which is a month-long extravaganza of live performances about video games.
In a recent interview Miyamoto gives an impression of the
technical capability of the Wii U console. While Nintendo have never been one
for going hardcore into specs, information on this was certainly due, even
though we still don’t know anything really specific. Speaking with Gamespot,
Shigeru Miyamoto talked about a lot of things and Nintendo’s thought process, when
asked about the importance of hardware power he had the following to say…
Sega intends to publish Kinect’s first M-rated game with the
upcoming Rise of Nightmares. Players will fill the boots of an
American tourist
whose wife has been capture by a crazy scientist who has a thing for
resurrecting
the dead like all respectable scientists. The game will be played from a
first-person perspective and the emphasis will be on melee combat
rather than
traditional firearms (just think of House of the Dead meets Condemned and you’re
pretty much there). The game will take place in mansion-esqué environment and you’ll be
fighting zombies and other types of monsters (sounds a little familiar doesn’t it)
that you can dismember to your heart’s content.
The unofficial rumor that The Goddamned Robin would be playable in The Goddamned Batman: Arkham City has been verified by Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. As rumored, you can only get him with a pre-order from Best Buy (Right now, but don’t be the tiniest bit surprised if he turns up in a post-release DLC pack).
At the moment, when you buy an Xbox 360 with Kinect from Amazon, you’ll get a $100 credit. Plus all of their Lightning Deals” today will be on video games. This is the 4Gig model which means that you’ll probably need to spend some of that $100 credit on a bigger hard drive, but still the Kinect bundle costs $299, and with the credit, you’ll essentially be paying $199 for it, which also includes the Kinect Adventures game.
Crytek has always been at the forefront of modern gaming technology, with graphical pioneers such as Far Cry and Crysis. Therefore, it was almost believable when a rumor linked the German developer to Microsoft’s new next generation console last week. The report cited a “high ranking” source at Crytek as saying that the successor to the Xbox 360 would most likely be revealed at E3 2012, and that it would feature DirectX 11 integration. However, Crytek has stated that this rumor is not true, and that they have no knowledge of Microsoft’s future technology.
Remember that awesome Fallout fan film last year, Nuka Break? No? Well, do you remember a short film where cutie actress Tybee Diskin was strutting aoround the desert in really tiny shorts? Aha, I thought you’d remember that. Well she’s back, along with the film’s Creator/Director/Lead Actor Zack Finfrock and co-star Aaron Giles and they’re looking for funding to turn it into a web series, with some help from fans. Take a look at their pitch.
Mass Effect 3 has its fan excited and
eagerly awaiting its arrival. Exploring and saving the universe with an
arsenal of futuristic weaponry… could it get any better? As a matter of fact it
possibly could! There are some major rumors circulating about a possible four player co-op mode
being added.M
