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• Virtual reality adult adventure Wicked Paradise coming for Oculus Rift

• number3son 17/06/2013

  At least they are approaching this project with the right attitude. Good luck to them, I say. We are long, long overdue for a quality game that is also genuinely sexy. Reply 0

• What EA Sports' new Ignite engine means for a game like FIFA 14

• number3son 22/05/2013

  @AlphaCookie
  Cryengine was built and funded entirely by Crytek. EA had nothing to do with it. Reply +2

• Grand Theft Auto 5 shown off in three new trailers

• number3son 30/04/2013

  Just as with the trailers for every other Rockstar game, there is no gameplay footage in any of these. It's all cutscenes. Reply -1

• Microsoft hasn't lost touch with indies, insists XBLA dev

• number3son 24/04/2013

  "I don't think Microsoft would have acquired us if they weren't interested in indies," said Thorsted.

  ... Think about that comment for a moment, Mr. Thorsted. Reply +3

• Orion: Dino Horde dev hits back at allegations of Metacritic manipulation

• number3son 18/04/2013

  "And as the debate rages on, Prassel stands accused of deleting threads that contain negative comments on Steam and banning users."
  
  When is EG or any other gaming site going to start questioning why Valve gives developers ban and deletion powers on the Steam forums? Isn't that what journalists are supposed to do - ask questions?
  
  This exact situation has happened several times now on the Steam forums. I was banned on the Miner Wars 2081 forums for questioning the developer's censorious attitude there (the post was also deleted, though not before I took a screenshot), and my support ticket to Valve has (of course) gone completely unanswered. Reply +19

• The Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter begins

• number3son 06/03/2013

  By the time the campaign ends, 3 of the top 4 and 4 of the top 8 most-funded video games on Kickstarter will be old-fashioned, turn-based CRPGs. I think it's safe to say there's a lot of pent-up demand for these sorts of games. Reply +9

• EA cans Dead Space series following poor sales of Dead Space 3 - report

• number3son 05/03/2013

  "Developer Visceral were ordered to take the series into a more action-focused direction in order to emulate BioWare's Mass Effect franchise and broaden its appeal."
  
  Remember that part, ladies and gents, so that the next time one of EA's developers tries to tell us that "EA isn't pressuring us at all and we have full creative freedom, blah, blah..." you now know that they are completely full of shit. Reply +38

• Several staffers on Aliens: Colonial Marines spill the beans on what went wrong - report

• number3son 26/02/2013

  Assuming this is all mostly true, then it certainly seems to me like Gearbox really screwed everyone in this scenario. Reply +26

• Kickstarted arty turn-based viking RPG The Banner Saga now due mid-2013

• number3son 05/02/2013

  It takes inspirations from the likes of King of Dragon Pass, Shining Force and Final Fantasy Tactics, and is billed as "a mature game aimed at gamers who appreciate art, story and strategy".
  
  It's made by the three-man Stoic team, all of whom are veterans of the Star Wars: The Old Republic BioWare team. Their various backgrounds also involve working for DC Comics and NASA.

  These two paragraphs could be their entire marketing campaign. Reply 0

• It's time to ignore Dead Space 3's micro-transactions

• number3son 02/02/2013

  It's very easy for Eurogamer and other gaming sites to leap to EA and Visceral's defense in this case, since unlike consumers, they're all getting the game for free (along with the tens of thousands of Euros worth of other games and hardware that are gifted to them by the publishers every year). So for them, DS3 is just another free-to-play game with micro-transactions. Reply +15

• Minecraft maker Mojang: "There are simply no good ways to forecast how much money we are going to make"

• number3son 01/02/2013

  So now how about funding that Psychonauts sequel, yeah? Reply +4

• Warren Spector's Junction Point shuttered

• number3son 29/01/2013

  Kickstarter for spiritual successor to System Shock incoming. Please. Reply +16

• Nintendo unveils Wii U Virtual Console

• number3son 23/01/2013

  So... we're getting a discount on the ripoff price we payed for the VC games on the Wii. Which means our reward for buying them once already is that now we can pay for them again at a non-ridiculous cost.
  
  Yay. Reply +7

• Miner Wars 2081 review

• number3son 08/01/2013

  All that, and the review even neglected to mention the always-on DRM. Reply +1

• Age of Empires Online development ends, but game lives on

• number3son 04/01/2013

  The same thing seems to have happened to Tribes: Ascend also - no new content in several months now. Reply +4

• Embattled The War Z producer promises to change his ways amid furore

• number3son 02/01/2013

  Titov deserves all of the criticism he's getting, but what about Valve? It is an astonishingly stupid idea for them to give third-party developers the power to freely censor criticism in the Steam forums, as Hammerpoint and other developers have been doing lately (Miner Wars' Keen Software and Ubisoft have also been doing this, though not as extensively).
  
  If devs want to censor people in their own domains, that's fine with me. But if Valve is to retain any credibility at all, Steam discussions must be moderated by Valve personnel only. No exceptions. Reply +1

• Steam Greenlight: Is it working?

• number3son 22/11/2012

  I know of one major problem with Greenlight that didn't exist in the previous system: Games in niche genres - particularly simulations and shmups - have much longer odds of making it to Steam than they did previously, regardless of the quality of the game.
  
  Even polished, slickly produced entries in these genres (like Heaven Variant) are having a difficult time because despite having a passionate fan base, there simply aren't enough fans to actually get the necessary votes to make it on to Steam. Reply 0

• BioWare calls for your feedback as it embarks on “entirely new” Mass Effect game

• number3son 09/11/2012

  DRM Free. Reply +3

• Assassin's Creed Anthology includes five games, DLC

• number3son 06/11/2012

  Post deleted Reply 0

• Microsoft rewards gamers for their achievements

• number3son 02/10/2012

  Come over here sonny, and sit on Grandpa Willy's lap. Look, here's a shiny quarter for you! Reply +15

• Jordan Mechner's Karateka remake due on XBLA in November

• number3son 01/10/2012

  Wow I am not liking that art style at all. I'd much prefer something in line with the original's more subdued, serious look. This cartoony crap makes it seem like a kid's game. Reply -1

• The ultimate open source handheld: the return of Pandora

• number3son 29/09/2012

  I wish the review had gone into a little more detail, particularly with the screen. Aside from being a resistive touch screen, what about the actual picture and color quality?
  
  Also, what about the speakers? Sound quality isn't touched on at all. This kind of info is important considering there's no way for us to get a hands-on demo of the device without buying it. Reply +3

• Saturday Soapbox: Let the good times role

• number3son 22/09/2012

  I guess nearly everyone is expecting the first wave of big Kickstarter-birthed RPGs (Wasteland, Shadowrun, Eternity) to disappoint in some way, but I'm not one of them.
  
  I'm sure the review scores are going to fluctuate a bit - a lot of younger reviewers probably won't "get" the appeal of tactical turn-based combat or extensive dialogue trees - but as long as the devs stick to their pledged designs, little problems here and there are going to bother me in the slightest. As Dan points out, these types of games have been largely absent for nearly two decades now. Even a merely decent game would be a great relief. Reply +29

• Obsidian's Project Eternity going DRM-free on GOG

• number3son 19/09/2012

  Good on Obsidian. It takes a certain amount of faith and humility to commit to DRM-free for larger releases like this. Reply 0

• Revisiting Black Mesa

• number3son 17/09/2012

  "The security guard performing CPR on the scientist"
  
  Other way around, Will Reply 0