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• Sony: "our primary PSN audience is indeed more adult"

• Freek 08/05/2012

  Don't Feed The Trolls, also aplies to developers. Reply -1

• Ex-Call of Duty dev Robert Bowling founds new game studio

• Freek 24/04/2012

  @JamesDSidious Since the press changed the meaning of the word from: "person who knows how to program games and/or aplications", to "any person who works at software company". Reply +1

• Prey 2 developer hasn't worked on the game since November - report

• Freek 20/04/2012

  @darkmorgado that isn't legal trolling. You have to defend your trademark from generic use or you loose it. It is the law. That is why it was settled with a free of charge one time license to use the name. Nobody was trolled. Reply +1

• Cliff Bleszinski defends on-disc DLC

• Freek 11/04/2012

  It's not how you get the extra content, it's the pricing that's the issue. People paying 60 Euro for a game are rightfully anoyed at the fact that they then get additional costs trown at them for trivial content.
  So the buisiness model for making and selling games is broken. Fix it. You already know what does not work: full price game with extra hidden costs, the consumer dislikes that intensly. So figure out something else. Reply 0

• Fable: The Journey Kinect criticism "unfair", say Fable's creators

• Freek 04/04/2012

  @mrmonkey101 the exception that proves the rule and even that wasn't worth full price unless you were a massive Rezz fan. Reply +2

• Freek 04/04/2012

  Outside of dancing games, there hasn't yet been a good Kinect game. So far the control system has proved itself not as precise as required for a decent game. So the criticism is perfectly understandable.
  And to take up the position that an opinion is only valid if it is a positive one, is absurd.
  
  If your product is actually any good, the feedaback and opinions post release will reflect that. But if you do something that hasn't yet shown any hint of being good, you have to earn that. You don't like that? Then don't work with experimental control schemes. Reply +17

• Fez creator Phil Fish declares: modern Japanese games "just suck"

• Freek 07/03/2012

  Why is this contraversial? Japanese developers themselfs are aware that there is an issue. As this article even quotes Keiji Inafune saying the same thing. Not to mention all the japanese publishers looking for Western influences for their franchises or even going so far as to make games with Western studios directly. Reply +2

• EA: Syndicate reboot as FPS "the right choice"

• Freek 27/02/2012

  Fallout 3 was also still an open world RPG, it changed the camera angle but still had the gameplay everybody wanted from a Fallout game.
  
  If Syndicate was a squad based tactical game instead of straight up action, the reaction would have been verry different and you would have also had a game that stood out from the crowd allot more. Reply +16

• Double Fine Adventure raises $1m in less than 24 hours

• Freek 10/02/2012

  Keep in mind that DoubleFine and Tim Shafer proved themselfs with decades of traditionaly published and funded games slowely building up a fanbase that had enough faith in them to give money without any sort of demo or further proof of concept.
  Enough money to fund a smaller scale game like a point and click adventure but a far cry from a big budget game.
  So we won't see the end of publishers just yet and that's not even a bad thing. Sure, you see allot of yearly sequels and chash in but you also still see allot of quality and original IP. Crowd funding just adds a new way of funding less tradional games. Reply +1

• Ubisoft apologises after online server switch snafu

• Freek 08/02/2012

  Activly make the illegal version of your product better then the legal version, that's genius!
  But seriously, there's an easier way to go about this and cheaper too, just release a statement to the press that says: "please do not buy our games.".
  Simpel and to the point. Reply +6

• Notch offers to fund Double Fine's Psychonauts 2

• Freek 07/02/2012

  Does he actualy have that much spare cash laying around?? It's a nice sentiment, sure, but to fund a game like that you need allot of money and a big marketing budget on top of that to make it work. Reply +4

• Next Xbox GPU based on £50 Radeon HD 6670 card - report

• Freek 25/01/2012

  I verry much doubt this is true, they'd look silly next to what Sony would do. MS is in the buiseness of making a cutting edge console. It has served them verry well, no reason to think they would change and compete against Nintendo directly. That would be a loosing battle. Reply 0

• Amy developer responds to critical mauling

• Freek 18/01/2012

  They should talk to the Hydrophopia guys. Same situation; broken game and a developer in denial about it.
  Eventually they came to realize that it's better to fix the game then get angry at your customers for "playing it wrong" and "not getting it". Reply +1

• Kid Icarus: Uprising bundled with 3DS stand in Japan

• Freek 12/01/2012

  Yes it's dumb, but it's the fault of the game design, not the hardware. Using a control scheme that requires you to use both the slide pad and touch screen at the same time is an ergonomic dissaster.
  
  You either use traditional controls or the touch screen, not both. Reply +7

• Visceral "nerfed" tough Dead Space 2 levels

• Freek 09/01/2012

  Yeah, Dead Space 2 is definetly not an easy game. So I would say they got the balance just about right, it chalanges you but doesn't go nuts. Reply -1

• The truth behind retailer-exclusive pre-order extras

• Freek 22/12/2011

  Making the customer hate you with anoying extra shit is never going to be the way to get more sales. It's just one more reason to go digital. Wait till one of the many crazy Steam sales and get the game on the cheap.
  Fuck retail. Reply +3

• Duke Nukem Forever: The Doctor Who Cloned Me Review

• Freek 20/12/2011

  @TrentTech i'd rather have a new dev team, who are fans of the original, make a totally new Duke game. Rather then an out of touch dev team who have done nothing but get stuck in 10 years of development hell in DNF make another game. Reply +11

• Saturday Soapbox: Bring On The Next Generation

• Freek 17/12/2011

  Technology isn't going to help here. If you want to make something verry high end you can already do that on PC.
  The problem is that it has gotten super expensive to make games. Huge teams and long production cycles. Espcially if you are starting something new and do not have an engine or concept to itterate on.
  Look at The Last of Us, already 2 years into development before they were even ready to show it for the first time and probably won't see a release date any time soon.
  Make the hardware more advaced and the problem just gets bigger; even larger dev teams, even longer dev times and an even bigger budget. That sort of thing means publisher are less likely to take risks with new concepts and prefer to stick with proven franchises and genres. Reply +30

• Skullgirls artist responds to sexism controversy

• Freek 13/12/2011

  @TheLastProphet only if you exclusivly consume grindhouse media and ignore everything else. Reply +1

• Kojima doesn't have enough staff to make Zone of the Enders 3

• Freek 13/12/2011

  He's just being polite, that game will never be made, but endlessly teased because they can't just say "NO" to their fanbase. Reply +1

• Activision: MW3 made $1bn a day quicker than Avatar

• Freek 13/12/2011

  When ever they throw around these numbers it isn't about how much profit they made, it's boasting about how culturally relevent they are. "We made more money then star wars/avatar/insert pop culture refrence point here".
  Wich is simply not the case due to the, repeatatly mention, price difference in the products.
  More people go to see movies then play games, that might change, but it hasn't happend yet. Reply 0

• Naughty Dog wants to "change the f***ing industry" with The Last of Us

• Freek 13/12/2011

  It's all relative really, the games that win writing awards win them because they are the best told stories in games, not the best across every medium availebel.
  
  And only verry, verry recently have games got technologicly sophisticated enough that story telling and acting has started to matter, so to just slate an entire emerging technology as "sub par and not trying hard enough" is really unfair. Reply -2

• Kojima explains Metal Gear Rising switch to Platinum

• Freek 12/12/2011

  The verry first thing people asked when that first trailer launched at E3 was: "Well, that looks cool, but how would that work in a game?" To wich the answer is aparently: "it doesn't, so we had to make a different game".
  That doesn't seem like a bad thing. They wanted an action game and went to a studio that knows how to do that, so they can focus on making stealth based metal gear games in house. Reply +2

• Skullgirls sexism complaints are "misplaced and shallow chivalry"

• Freek 07/12/2011

  If a cartoon has a sexy style it's sexist??? That holds no water, infact from the rest of that interview they seem to have thought this out quite carefully to avoide the overly "sexual" fighting moves. Reply +2

• Purple dildo kills 2 million in Saints Row: The Third

• Freek 30/11/2011

  G.O.T.Y , atleast for me it is. Reply +5