On the Relative Difficulty of Mario Kart Titles  |
| Posted by Eitan Glinert on 05/14/10 05:21:00 pm
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| The four console incarnations of Mario Kart are compared in terms of difficulty to complete 150cc races with a gold medal, that game's highest honor. A team of game development ninjas (aka Fire Hose) examines the games to determine which is the toughest. |  |
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| Losing For Good |
| Posted by Adam Bishop on 05/14/10 05:06:00 pm
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| How Mass Effect 2 and Heavy Rain made me enjoy it when I lost. |  |
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| Pre-Pwned |
| Posted by David Hayward on 05/14/10 12:53:00 pm
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| There’s been a bit of a furore this week instigated by EA planning to charge $10 for an online pass for their EA Sports titles. Looking past the nerdrage, I'd like to state a case as to why this is a good, unsurprising, and ultimately acceptable move. |  |
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| Roger Ebert: Hero of Videogame Discourse? |
| Posted by Christopher Totten on 05/14/10 08:54:00 am
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| In this post, I discuss how Roger Ebert's recent claims that videogames are not art have caused an upturn in academic gaming discussion of how games are and can be art and how this can affect the way gamers and professionals can view typical content. |  |
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| The Problem With Non Disclosure Agreements |
| Posted by Jas Purewal on 05/13/10 05:57:00 pm
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| In this post, lawyer Jas Purewal discusses Non Disclosure Agreements, one of the most frequently seen but least understood legal documents in the games industry. He looks at what NDAs are, what they do and give some tips for how to use them effectively. |  |
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| Game Launched :) |
| Posted by James Hofmann on 05/12/10 03:13:00 pm
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| Just a quick update, I haven't been active here in a while. I just released Deep Sea Descent, the product of about 10 months of work. Here's the retrospective. |  |
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| Hacked & Stolen - The halted gears of the GrassRoots Machine |
| Posted by Andrew Esswein on 05/16/10 05:12:00 pm
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| The gears of the GrassRoots Machine have stopped turning, because one of the cogs have gone missing. This cog didn't just go missing, it was stolen! This has completely halted the construction of the GrassRoots Machine.
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| If you think Evony banners are disturbing... |
| Posted by Anatoly Ropotov on 05/16/10 10:57:00 am
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| Runes of Magic (Free to Play MMORPG) flash banner: http://stopgame.ru/images/partners/rmonline/5.swf
These RoM banners in Russia make Evony banners look like a weak sauce.
"(boobs close up) WANT MORE??? ENTER... ... THE GAME... RUNES OF MAGIC" |  |
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| BYOND Strategy Tech Tree: 161 |
| Posted by Andre La Barre on 05/16/10 07:00:00 am
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| New games and, finally, a BYOND RTS that might be finished. |  |
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| Do We Own What We Own? |
| Posted by Isaiah Taylor on 05/15/10 10:38:00 pm
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| Unlike the NES or old Playstation games, where if you had a game and the console there was a good chance you could play until something broke. Now with the new technology available in gaming everything has changed. Possibly for the worst. |  |
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| Retro Game of the Day! Xybots |
| Posted by Ron Alpert on 05/15/10 03:30:00 pm
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| Retro Game of the Day is a daily look back at some of the games we loved - and some that we didn't - during the formative years. Today's entry is Xybots. |  |
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| The Worth of Ideas |
| Posted by Michael Lubker on 05/15/10 12:47:00 pm
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| I've been researching Kickstarter as a way to fund some of my game projects, and I've noticed a few interesting things. A lot of the projects on Kickstarter do a public pitch of their IP. The all-or-nothing paradigm reduces risk for both parties. |  |
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