arcam • Comments

• This is how Xbox One game trade-ins will work, apparently

• arcam 24/05/2013

  As the great Paul Weller once sang: the more I know, the less I understand. Reply +6

• Aroooo! The inside story on Call of Duty dog motion capture

• arcam 24/05/2013

  I love how this dog just is Colin now. Reply +18

• Xbox One: developers have their say on specs, self-publishing and TV TV TV

• arcam 24/05/2013

  @anomagnus Fuck me, i hate this site
  
  Then leave!
  
  Or to put it another way: "anomagnus, go home". Reply +41

• Grid 2 Special Edition costs £125,000

• arcam 24/05/2013

  Guinness World Records are getting more and more stupid. Reply +16

• Arty survival badger game Shelter gets a gameplay video

• arcam 23/05/2013

  Don't fuck with a mother badger.
  
  Reply +9

• Dead Island dev unveils open world first-person survival horror game Dying Light for current-gen, next-gen and PC

• arcam 23/05/2013

  Didn't they just last week announce Hellraid, a dark RPG-style hack-n-slash?
  
  Busy studio! But their willingness to try new franchises is impressive. It would be easy to just sit back and milk Dead Island. Reply +18

• Grand Theft Auto 5 Collector's Edition includes a real-life money bag and cap

• arcam 23/05/2013

  @Supra_Hans Does anyone else have a problem with getting in-game advantages as a pre-order bonus?
  
  Yes, but it's just so common now that I've stopped remarking on it. Reply +7

• arcam 23/05/2013

  Like others here I'll be waiting for the best possible version of this.
  
  Even GTA 4 struggled on PS3/360, I really think an epic like GTA 5 deserves to be experienced on a PC or next-gen console. Reply +19

• Remedy on why Alan Wake 2 isn't happening right now

• arcam 23/05/2013

  @Kami Hmm, I really don't like the look or sound of American Nightmare.
  
  I will get the bundle because, hell, it's pay what you want for both games, and never having had a PS2 I'm not that familiar with that style of survival horror so maybe the original will feel a little less stale for me. Reply 0

• arcam 23/05/2013

  @Kami What do you mean? Was it patched up later to improve it or do you just mean that you didn't appreciate it at first?
  
  I'm thinking about picking up the Humble Bundle. Was very excited about Alan Wake when it was announced (I'm a big Stephen King fan) but it took so long to come to PC I never ended up playing it. Reply 0

• Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn review

• arcam 23/05/2013

  How much was Spielberg involved in Falling Skies or Terra Nova? I always figured he was attached to those series mostly so they could use his name on promotional materials.
  
  Is the Halo series going to be like that, or is he really producing the show? Reply +4

• Capcom cancels Resident Evil Revelations blood pool stunt following Woolwich attack

• arcam 23/05/2013

  @DreadedWalrus The trouble is I do remember that, but I don't remember the G&T virus. Reply +2

• Ex-Skyrim dev's The Stomping Land looks like a prehistoric DayZ with dinosaurs

• arcam 23/05/2013

  I've been asking about dinosaur games for years! Everyone likes dinosaurs. Video games are the perfect medium for them. Why on earth did no big studios start making this game ages ago?
  
  Well, you snooze, you lose - I've chucked my money at these guys now. Reply 0

• Microsoft won't let indies self-publish on Xbox One

• arcam 22/05/2013

  Why? What do MS get out of forcing indies to sign with a publisher? Reply +32

• Next Xbox Reveal: live report and live video

• arcam 21/05/2013

  "One" is a seriously played out name. Reply 0

• Retro shmup/metroidvania A.N.N.E. hits its Kickstarter goal

• arcam 21/05/2013

  @kinky_mong Many kickstarter projects choose the same platforms. I guess releasing on the big two consoles is simply too expensive. Reply 0

• Kevin Conroy Batman confusion continues with deleted “new Arkham game” tweet

• arcam 21/05/2013

  @Djimm 'Batman' is not specific enough.
  
  If I say the word 'Batman' it might make you think of the movies, or the TV show, or that lunchbox you had as a kid, but if I say the word 'Arkham' you're probably going to think of Rocksteady's recent game series. Reply -1

• What to expect from tonight's Xbox reveal

• arcam 21/05/2013

  I'm just hoping for something as mental as the Kinect launch - one of the weirdest, most corny, and criminal wastes of money I have ever seen in gaming. It was gloriously bad. Reply +11

• Former THQ president reveals Metro dev's terrible work conditions

• arcam 16/05/2013

  @darth_paul You reckon there's no outlet for a rolling office chair in the Ukraine?
  
  I am definite he meant the Herman Miller chair, they're seen almost like a status symbol for American businesses.
  
  (They are also freaking awesome, I used to have one at my old job and loved it so much I had to buy one to use at home). Reply +11

• arcam 16/05/2013

  He said he tried to get the staff rolling Aeron office chairs, which Rubin perceived as "a fundamental human right in the west"
  
  Aeron chairs are £800 each: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aeron-Task-Chair/dp/B0009UXQ1Q Reply +44

• Dream is a video conceptualising how visually sumptuous next-gen games could be

• arcam 15/05/2013

  Totally pointless. Next-gen dev kits are available, if you want to show what is possible on a next gen machine how about you build it on a next-gen machine?
  
  This is just a nice animated video. Reply +17

• Terraria, Dust 514, Metro: Last Light on EU PlayStation Store this week

• arcam 15/05/2013

  How has the CS:GO thing remained a secret for so long? You'd think someone would have sneaked out a bit of info about what's going on there. I haven't even heard any credible rumours. Reply 0

• Hawken art prank changes CEO's mind about scantily clad women

• arcam 15/05/2013

  @Toploader @sherpa1984
  
  Facebook is not a professional work environment.
  
  Sexy pictures are about as appropriate for an office wall as spreadsheets are for your Facebook wall.
  
  (All IMO of course - a private company can decorate its office however it wants, but don't be surprised when you aren't taken seriously.) Reply +6

• arcam 15/05/2013

  @peori I'm surprised that having FHM posters plastered about doesn't/wouldn't put you off.
  
  In truth I've never worked anywhere where that would be acceptable, so I've never had to deal with it. Reply +4

• arcam 15/05/2013

  @peori no one ever tried to keep me out.
  
  Surely it isn't men actively preventing women from joining, more that this kind of thing creates an atmosphere where women didn't really want to work.
  
  I am a guy - I don't work in a male-dominated field, but if I went for an interview in an office where the women have posters of the Diet Coke guy and the men have FHM posters you can bet I won't be taking the job.
  
  Not because its offensive, just because it's childish. I don't want to work in an office decorated like a teenager's bedroom. Reply +20