With Roger Ebert finally conceding that yes, games can be art, a new hater has emerged to take his place. That dubious distinction ironically goes to Prince of Persia director Mike Newell. In an interview with CVG, Newell offered basically unqualified opinions on how video games cannot convey human emotion the way film can.
Nintendo today announced their first quarter financials and things didn’t look so good for the Big N. On the plus side they did announce a number of release dates for hotly anticipated hardware and software in their second quarter forecast.
Time for something completely different. Sort of. The English city of Derby has just opened a new ring road that will hopefully improve traffic flow. The good citizens of Derby took a vote on what to call this new road, and the winner was Lara Croft Way.
Dragon Age is the game that keeps on giving. Bioware announced today a new downloadable adventure arriving August 10, Golems of Amgarrak. This quest will cost a mere $5.00.
Yahoo! Games reports that President Obama will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Madden 11. This year’s entry into the pigskin franchise will feature lengthy post-Super Bowl victory celebrations along with team specific commentary.
When Nintendo makes a mainline, non-sports related Mario title, one thing has almost always been a certainty. It’s not a sequel. At least not in the classical, “more of the same, but more awesome” sense. When Nintendo announced Super Mario Galaxy 2, many feared that Nintendo has finally fallen into the sequel trap. Thankfully, that’s not entirely the case.
Hell, I’m declaring the rest of this month and August as backlog month! We’re seriously not getting a damn thing other than Madden, which I know is a lot of you but I’m not one of them. At least this week isn’t entirely completely devoid of anything though. Take a look.
This year’s Comic-Con was definitely the place to be. A panel called “Street Fighter IV and Beyond” with SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono was interrupted by Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada on Saturday. Thankfully the two rival producers didn’t get into a brawl, but instead announced their most exciting collaboration: Street fighter x Tekken, reports Kotaku.
Sony will launch LittleBigPlanet 2 on November 16, Edge reports. The PS3 platformer is the sequel to 2008′s original LittleBigPlanet, which has gone on to sell over 3 million copies.
According to this Forbes article (via Yahoo! Games), video games can teach valuable leadership and strategy skills. Yeah, anyone who’s picked up a tactical shooter or an RPG knows that to be true. Elliot Noss, CEO of domain provider Tucows trains six to seven hours a week to improve his leadership skills by playing World of Warcraft.
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