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• Pretty new Wolfenstein: The New Order screenshots stamp in

• Smoped 14/05/2013

  Wolfenstein: Joy Division would have been something else... Reply +11

• Windows 8.1 will revive the Start button, reports suggest

• Smoped 23/04/2013

  After a couple of months of using Windows 8, I am ready to call Gabe Newell a disaster. Not sure what that means though. But I'm okay with Windows 8, and if I was going to get a tablet, I would certainly be getting the one with full Windows 8 as opposed to an Android or i-device. Reply 0

• Microsoft creative director Adam Orth no longer with Microsoft

• Smoped 11/04/2013

  Of course it didn't exactly require a visionary, but told you so. Reply +1

• Homesick dev Chloe Sagal successfully crowd-funds life-saving operation

• Smoped 10/04/2013

  I wonder, if she is a transgendered person looking for money for a sex change operation, how would she have fared if she'd started an Indiegogo project to fund a sex change operation. Reply +2

• Smoped 09/04/2013

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• Microsoft creative director dismisses "drama" around always-online consoles

• Smoped 05/04/2013

  If I didn't know any better, I would say Sweet Billy is having problems #dealingwithit... Reply +3

• Smoped 05/04/2013

  Countdown to Adam Orth moving on to "new challenges" outside Microsoft starting in... Reply +76

• See Unreal Engine 4 on PlayStation 4

• Smoped 29/03/2013

  So will we finally reach the point where we can say we have enough polygons, light sources, etc, so we can concentrate on making the games not shit? Reply +16

• Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million copies, failed to hit expectations

• Smoped 26/03/2013

  @Zomoniac I'm not stupid, just really busy with a sizeable backlog of games I need to clear before buying any new ones. Reply +1

• John Riccitiello out as CEO of EA

• Smoped 18/03/2013

  It's the end of the financial quarter, I have to agree with people who say this has very little to do with SimCity, Dead Space 3 or any other single game. His overall performance, as far as moneymaking is concerned, was lacking, and that is all shareholders care about. Now they'll be wanting somebody who's better at making money than Riccitiello was. Which might not necessarily be a good thing for gamers. Reply +14

• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City dev releases Windows 8 game

• Smoped 13/03/2013

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• Xi3 Piston maker counters Valve claim over unofficial Steam Box, issues stark message to Gabe Newell

• Smoped 13/03/2013

  I said it at the time, but I'll say it again: Valve probably weren't serious about entering the hardware business, but rather were using the threat of doing that to put the pressure on Microsoft to remove the embedded app store from Windows. They needed to make it convincing, so they needed somebody with real hardware to show off. Reply -1

• Zynga: "all games are derived from other games"

• Smoped 11/03/2013

  To make a music analogy, it's a bit like saying that since there have been loads of heavy metal bands since Black Sabbath, it's alright for me to record my own version of 'Paranoid' and claim that it was composed by me. Reply +3

• Spec Analysis: PlayStation 4

• Smoped 21/02/2013

  So did we get a price already? Because with that addition of 8GB of GDDR5, I'm getting the feeling this won't be any cheaper than the PS3 was at launch. Not a problem for many of us, but depending on what Microsoft comes up with, could be a problem for Sony. Reply +7

• Sony tells Eurogamer: PlayStation 4 will not block used games

• Smoped 21/02/2013

  I've said this before, but this is all very silly. We already have the technology to prevent used game sales this gen. It is up to the publisher whether they want to implement it. It would be a bit odd for Sony, Nintendo or MS to actually force a publisher to prevent their game from being resold. Reply -1

• Aliens: Colonial Marines' demo looked much prettier than the final game

• Smoped 19/02/2013

  @Typhoid Well, in a way, yes. As far as I can see, it's a stupid waste of resources that leads to situations like this at worst, and immense waste of money and time at best. But as I said, I'm not in the biz, so some insiders might actually find positive aspects in the practice. Reply 0

• Smoped 19/02/2013

  I'm not an industry pro, and I'm certainly not trying to defend Pitchford or Gearbox, but isn't this just a blatant example of the infamous "vertical slice" approach to game development? Reply +1

• Sinistar retrospective

• Smoped 17/02/2013

  Sinistar is included in that Midway collection that was released late last year. I must admit I never came across the arcade cabinet in the olden days, but maybe that's for the best, it would have swallowed coins like nobody's business. But it does have a certain charm. Reply +1

• Angry Birds Trilogy sells over one million units, despite costing £30

• Smoped 15/02/2013

  I don't know. I mean yes, it's not very good, but then again, neither are many AAA games, and this is cheaper and there's probably many more hours of entertainment here than in many "proper" console games. So is it necessarily too expensive just because you can get most (all?) content cheaper on other platforms? Reply +2

• Sega: Gearbox developed Aliens: Colonial Marines, other studios just "helped"

• Smoped 13/02/2013

  @Steve2911 As with Duke Nukem Forever, regardless of who did how shitty work with what resources, in the end it was Gearbox that decided the game was ready to ship. Reply +25

• Smoped 13/02/2013

  You know guys, if none of you knows who exactly it was who made this game, that might well be your problem right there. Reply +40

• Valve's noted hardware team member Jeri Ellsworth "fired"

• Smoped 13/02/2013

  I wonder if it's just her, or Valve dropping their hardware aspirations... Reply +3

• Cliff Bleszinski says "horror doesn't fly" in the full-priced retail market

• Smoped 13/02/2013

  Well, I would have paid full price for ZombiU, and if they make a sequel, I'll be there. But I think what Bleszinski is going for here is the assumption that for true horror, the game will have to be guided to the extent of being an interactive movie, and it's not really feasible to make such a game very long, with very little to no replay value, which then brings us to the perceived value for money. Reply +1

• Aliens: Colonial Marines "primary development" outsourced to Section 8 developer TimeGate Studios - report

• Smoped 12/02/2013

  @nickbonkersperry That's a matter of taste I suppose, but regardless of the quality, the project definitely was the biggest train wreck in the history of the games industry. Reply +2

• Smoped 12/02/2013

  Between Duke Nukem and this, I can't help but wonder if Pitchford is intentionally spending the good name his company got from Borderlands to help sell trainwrecks developed by others. Reply +46