In Japan, videogame publishers and developers are usually the same group or company, and they aren't willing to collaborate with other companies to organize concerts except when there's a clear promotional vision in the event itself, said Hibino.
About a week ago, Valve began a new survey for users of their Steam service. They've kindly put up a constantlyupdating results page open to the public, and the answers provide some interesting information on PC gamers' habits. The info we've garnered is based off current results for the survey as of 2:30 PST, with a bit over 380,000 users surveyed.
French film site DVDrama (via Ain't It Cool News) quoted Gans as stating that Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro will be taking on the role of Onimusha main character Samanosuke. This is great news for series fans, who likely already know the trivia bit: Samanosuke was modeled after Kaneshiro and contributed voice acting in the games.
The battle for the cosmos begins now! So that's what those symbols meant. You know...the ones on the posters and the website; that same string you always see. Better than knowing was hearing it straight from Richard Garriott, designer of the Eloh symbolic language and executive producer for Tabula Rasa. We took a trip down to NCsoft in Austin recently to spend some time with him and the game itself in our first handson session.
Back in April, we put out the call for your questions about BioShock to find out what you wanted to know about the upcoming shooter. Then on a recent trip to the developer's offices just outside Boston, we pulled out the list and presented it to Irrational president Ken Levine. Here are his answers:
Unarguably, free is better. GalaNet seems to agree, as they announced today they'll be releasing Upshift StrikeRacer, an online freetoplayer multiplayer combat racer in the US this August.
Tomorrow, we'll finally start to learn what Bethesda Softworks has in store for the Fallout series, as the company will finally make good on their promise to release a Fallout 3 trailer on the official website.
In the wake of StarCraft 2's announcement in South Korea, there's been a resurgence of interest in replaying the original and not just around the WDS offices, either.
If you're not confident about getting into the beta for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, there's plenty of MMOs out there in seek of testers. In fact, two upcoming and drastically different MMOs, Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising and Fury, are on the lookout.