Creeping along ledges in stealth games is the slowest, most utterly f**king boring mechanic you can imagine in a video game. - Maxime Beland, Splinter Cell: Conviction
Earth week has kicked off with a set of green gaming initiatives, as well as cool portable gaming prototypes, some of which may actually may be available to the public someday. These stories and more are today's daily stale bread.
While Joker has remained at the center of the early revelations regarding Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, another one of the caped crusader's primary villains may share the spotlight, if a recent reveal from a voice actor is to be believed.
I spend most of my work day in front of a computer or a TV screen with a console hooked up to it, so I tend to forget how much real life events impact my job. Then a volcano erupted the week before Earth Day.
The fluffy clouds and light pastel color scheme are the last things you'd associate with Bionic Commando Rearmed, but that may be the developers' intent with the website design behind their new studio, Might and Delight. Wonder what their first game will be.
7-Eleven, the international convenience store chain, is making another large step into the used gaming market by announcing a program to sell value-priced used games in half of its U.S-based stores.
A four-part interactive series will be released this June to complement the new Doctor Who on BBC. Produced by the BBC, the game is being developed by Sumo Digital with the help of adventure gaming auteur Charles Cecil.
Fast Company reports this morning that starting with Shaun White Skateboarding this fall, Ubisoft no longer prints paper manuals for its games. Ubisoft's Vice President of Operations, Rich Kubiszewski, says the paperless approach will save "180 tons of paper, 360 tons of wood, and about 2,300 acres of small forest."
As of this morning, Game Informer and TheBeatlesRockBand.com are just about tied in popular votes for a Games-Related Webby Award. Guitar Hero, BioShock 2, and GameFly round out the top five nominees in the category.
Left 4 Dead 2's first DLC campaign, The Passing, is due out next week on the Xbox 360, allowing gamers to see the characters of the two zombie-killing sims interact with each other.
Plenty of Wii games look good, but a little imagination and a homemade high definition makeover can make them look even better. Witness No More Heroes 2, MadWorld, Super Paper Mario, and Dead Space: Extraction come to HD life.