Recent content by wgar

I agree completely. All risk is always in the investors. That risk is transferred to us if we use Kickstarter. It also means developers are willing to try much riskier games than what regular investors would want who may've invested potentially thousands into a regular AAA company. Now...

Loved it. Did exactly what it wanted to and del Toro was loving every minute of it. Hopefully we get more big budget kaiju movies. Those Aussie accents are still awful. Last time I saw a decent one was the guy who was actually Australian in Django Unchained, cast next to Quentin's AWFUL...

PSOne and PS2 gen they had great exclusive titles and went for 'help the developers and they give us the exclusives that get sales'. Then PS3 threw that out the window with the obtuse CELL architecture and didn't care much for devs, which cost them a great deal. Now XboxOne is saying...

Except I don't want shinier, I want better. Sound design, gameplay testing, story writing, and creative game mechanics have fallen to the wayside for 'MOAR PIXELS', which is the primary reason the new console generation is underperforming in terms of hype compared to last genre; even the average...

It's the CFO that said this. The CFO. The one that secures funding for projects from creditors and investors; the one that gets EA to borrow money at 5% to invest into its latest game. Take it with a heaping of salt.

The bigger problem is console networking has always been brutally laggy if you live outside the USA; SC2 and D3 barely scrape buy with international sales due to how shockingly bad it is. It could quite easily kill a game if it were to release on console to someone who didn't understand why...

It's actually perfectly logical to lose more money when you get more sales, as you're spending more inefficiently to get more sales.

It's about time you wankers started prioritising gameplay, but something tells me this is all marketing speak for 'we say what makes the fans happy'.

Uhhh what? They built an MMO; can't make that offline mate. If you knew the first thing about video game design you'd realise that. It's not like Gibeau can change Valve's mind anyway; shoving more Steam down our throats is how things will have to be for a little while.

Goodwill for future Diablo titles. People will still flock to them for HotS though, and Activision has tonnes of goodwill from their CoD series anyway if Blizzard were to go under (so they could make Activision titles for them; it's not like Blizzard are particularly innovative, they never...

Aussies still pay $70-80USD so... yeah. I can tell you the retail market is already resisting it a lot; some people prefer boxes, and others simply don't know where to get digital titles from. With that being said, I haven't paid over $40 for a new title (Hitman: Abs $32 vs 27 retail, BL2...

No it won't. Also, as he stated in his reddit post they tried having linux at the forefront of 2 releases and both failed miserably as directX has too many advantages over openGL. That's one of the most biased statistics I've ever seen; only people who use steam, which is a very small...

It's the name, not the concept that is the issue. Starship Troopers =! Space Marine, and apparently Space Marine is used very little before GW got their hands on the trademark (don't forget, use it or lose it). What'd be the point of owning the Space Marines trademark if you didn't exercise...

This is GPG, they have released a fair few AAA titles now so what's your point? Why does the source of the money matter now all of a sudden? With games like Wasteland they were pulling together a team that's never worked together before but GPG have been in the business a while (since mid 90s...

On GON they quoted it as being in the hundreds of Hz, and I can't think of any creatures off the top of my head that breathe that fast. It'd be interesting to see this used in gaming consoles at the majority of xbox 360 space is the drive and the heatsinks (like, 2/3 of the cases space give...