Prince of Persia
This week Zero Punctuation reviews Ubisoft's latest addition to the Prince of Persia series.
December 31, 2008
Demon’s Souls ‘Story’ trailer HD
Makers of Armored Core present a dark fantasy action RPG for PS3.
Teen Makes Phony Suicide Threat to Blizzard Rep, Gets Arrested
A 17-year-old Ohio gamer found himself in hot water after he allegedly threatened to commit suicide while talking to a Blizzard rep about an online game (presumably, World of Warcraft).
The Middletown Journal reports:
The teen was having an online conversation with a representative of Blizzard Entertainment, an online video game company, when he typed that "he was suicidal and that the game is the only thing he has to live for," according to the report.
The company representative called 911.
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A Holiday Message from Criterion Games
One last post from Criterion Games, before we disappear for our Christmas break, but don’t panic! We’re back on January 9th with a big update on what 2009 has in store for everybody’s favorite driving game!
2008’s been an awesome year. We shipped the award-winning Burnout Paradise – Spike TV and IGN PS3’s Driving Game of the Year. We dragged Burnout kicking and screaming onto the next generation and a new era of open world freedom, social play and MASSIVE scale support.
That support started with 3 new online game modes, new cars and designs, 70 new challenges, a live news page, custom soundtracks and stacks more – this was our FREE “Cagney” Pack.
(read more...)Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon ‘Danger’ trailer
See the obstacles that you'll face in the Wii RPG.
Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon ‘Action’ trailer
After you play Namco Bandai's Wii RPG, buy the music soundtrack.
Show #303: The final show of 2008
Just in under the wire, it’s the final show of 2008. Thanks for all your support through out the year. We’re looking forward to a great 2009
This week’s show:
Co-host : e
We discuss the Holiday season
The great Seattle Blizzard of 2008
What we’re playing
Name the Game
Xbox 101
Much more…
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Gaming’s 15 Most Fascinating People of 2008
It's Game Over for 2008, a year full of fun, excitement and more than a bit of controversy for the game community.
While many people helped shape the gaming scene over the past 12 months, a surprising number of 2008's movers and shakers are not part of the video game industry. A couple of weeks back we looked at the Top 15 Stories of 2008. Today GamePolitics presents the 15 most fascinating people of the year:
15. Politicians Who Play - The mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma is a gamer. So is the mayor of the Anzin Saint-Aubin in France. Both were elected in 2008, a year which saw more gamers hold political office than ever before. Hard to believe? Check out our coverage of gamer-politicos.
(read more...)Red Ring of Zune? 30GB Versions of Microsoft mp3 Player All Fail at Once
It's not exactly a video game story, but...
Multiple reports are coming in that every 30GB Zune (Microsoft's mp3 player) failed this morning at 2 a.m.
College OTR has this:
Microsoft is just squeezing in under the wire to claim the rights to “weirdest tech story of the year.”Last night at approximately 2 AM, every 30GB Zune model on the planet crashed... The Zunes reset, powered up, then froze on the loading bar screen, and no conventional method of resetting them appears to work.
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This is brought to you courtesy of Microsoft, who has been selling a video game console with a nearly 100% fail rate for three years. The Zune situation is all the more disasterous however seeing as all of them failed at the exact same moment, which people have taken to calling 2K9.
NIMF’s David Walsh Talks Game Addiction, Game Violence with GameCyte
GameCyte has a posted an in-depth interview with Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family.
On game addiction, Walsh told GameCyte's Sean Hollister:
[At a recent conference] therapists and counselors from all over the country were saying, “We’re seeing this in our offices every week, more and more frequently,” and so I think the frequency is definitely something that’s getting people’s attention...
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Where we will go with video games, compulsive video game playing, whatever the term is, where we will end up with that ten years from now, I’m not quite sure. But I think it is something we’ll have to take seriously, and the people who just pooh-pooh it and say there’s nothing to it — they haven’t talked to the parents or the spouses that I’ve been talking to in the last couple of years...
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