Ian is out today [Ian: I’ll puke on you] wondering how boring a news day can get. So for this special day, I’ll be giving the rundown of all things video game. In a story that seems to be more about Sony building buzz for the Game Developers Conference, yesterday GDC Director Jamil Moledina, during … Continue reading
Kotaku is reporting a fun little story about a new crusade from the "ministry" behind educational site The Porn Talk. It seems the minds behind the site have decided to stage a little campaign against the Wii, because Little Johnny can browse the web on the console, and discover an abundance of boobs. The group’s … Continue reading
I considered yesterday some of the implications of the rising costs of game development, and today I’ve got an article to show you that stands as a convergence point for CHUD’s fascinations: movies, games, television, and John Saxon. This article from Japanmanship (via GameSetWatch) proposes a game development business model that emulates the current Hollywood … Continue reading
There has been a fair amount of coverage on game development costs expanding beyond control, resulting in an entertainment medium dominated by the major publishing houses with the bankrolls to hire huge teams across several years. We’ve also dealt with, and are way past, the grumbling about Xbox 360 and PS3 games costing an extra … Continue reading
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Look at this! I bitch and moan and then, in an act of pure coincidence, something happens to appease me. The Xbox Live Arcade will be receiving a new title this Wednesday, ending the drought with a tease of a shower. Alien Hominid HD will be yours for the buying, in all of its 2D … Continue reading
When I was a kid, my mother often told me that I had eyes bigger than my stomach, which resulted in a couple of years during which I thought that I could let anyone punch me in the gut because, hey, my stomach was the size of an eyeball and wouldn’t get hurt. The poing … Continue reading
While the Wii remote’s motion- and location-sensing technologies are nearly inextricable from the console’s games, Johnny-Come-Later Sony’s SIXAXIS functionality seems generally an afterthought. Putting that hypothesis to the test, Ars Technica ran this article comparing how the PS3 controller’s tech contributed to those games which have been released thus far. Their opinions won’t shock anyone, … Continue reading
I don’t much like writing about the videogame violence debate, because the discourse tends to land squarely in the territory of pure politics — that is, politics for politics’ sake, used as a talking point to further the agendas of senators and lawyers and people who give no indication of caring for those people involved … Continue reading
Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii is turning up with some good reviews for the beleaguered franchise. The average review score is 76/100, according to Game Rankings. Reviewers generally seem to appreciate the return to speedy and active gameplay and the diminished story elements, while criticizing the limited player freedom. I spent the … Continue reading