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Today, several former Electronic Arts employees, in the form of industry veterans Phil Weeks, Russell Rice, Steve Tolin, Ryan Bedard and Brian Tolinc, announced the creation of a new game development company: Deep Fried Entertainment.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 30, 2005

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The Messiah of all racing car games is coming. More anticipated than Doom 3 and Duke Nukem, it has been in production like... forever. It began with two men and a very ambitious project.

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Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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Taito and Valve have at last restarted talk about the arcade adaptation of Half-Life 2 that was first announced back in November of last year. The arcade version of last year's PC hit has been given the name Half-Life 2: Survivor and is expected to appear at the upcoming JAMMA arcade show, set to kick off on Thursday in Japan.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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Is playing a villain in a game a good thing, especially in today's hot political climate? We get some varied opinions from game developers.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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Over the years there have been various efforts to create a Bill of Rights for game players. Someone named PeterB, in a blog called Tea Leaves, wrote a PC Gamer's Bill of Rights about a year ago. Noah Falstein's 400 Project is an excellent ongoing effort to find 400 rules about game design, and even better, to document how those rules relate to one another.

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Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit.

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Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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As reported on On the Media and Business 2.0, Google appears to be purchasing dark (unused) fiber optic cable across the United States with the intention of building its own alternative parallel internet that would presumably be called GoogleNet.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 29, 2005

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Spark Unlimited, developer of Call of Duty: Finest Hour, has filed suit against Activision Inc. over the terms of its contract with the publisher. Spark is demanding $10 million in damages over Activision's alleged breach of contract in hiring other developers to work on sequels to the game.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 27, 2005

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Gamers in China are facing new limits on how much time they can spend playing their favourite online game.

The government in Beijing is reported to be introducing the controls to deter people from playing for longer than three consecutive hours.

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Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 26, 2005

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If you play the online game "EverQuest II" and happen to have an extra Iksar (Fury)/Level-50 Sage character you don't need, you could soon be $2,000 richer.... [ There's more ]

Posted by PleaseMYOB in Gaming News on Aug 26, 2005