Electronic Arts sent along word today that patch 1.05 for Command Conquer 3 is ready to go live. This is a massive patch that will be fixing major gameplay inbalances and exploits that caused much anxiety in the CC3 community, including some players swearing off playing the game online until the patch's release.
Vancouver developer Hothead Games ended up taking home the honor of Most Promising New Company from the event. What exactly did the CNMA find so exciting about this new developer? Most notably, they're currently hard at work on Penny Arcade Adventures, but according to their website, they've got a couple other interesting games in the making.
Say what you like about casual games; your derision won't change the fact that investments in cellphone, handheld and Xbox Live Arcadestyle downloads are currently paying out like onearmed bandits for the big developers.
We asked the folks at Games for Windows to spend a few minutes doing something productive after Bethesda Softworks released the Fallout 3 teaser trailer this morning read on for their thoughts (except for Ryan, who's probably too busy thinking about LOST), and a few from some reflective WDS users at the end, as well!
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: