Developer Square Enix’s titles will soon be available on Steam, Valve’s PC digital distribution website, announced both companies recently. On April 9, The Last Remnant will be Square’s first title to be available for purchase and download.
Game Design, Gamer Culture, Headlines
Two of our favorite characters will be reunited once again. Sega and Nintendo have announced that Mario and Sonic will be sharing the screen again. This time the two will be duking it out at the Winter Olympics.
Guild Wars 2 will be delayed, this following news of financial hardships at NCsoft West. The sequel is now looking at a 2010/2011 release, with the reasoning behind the delay being levied at financial restructuring within the company.
Tough economic times have struck another video game company. This time it’s THQ, who’s announced a $191.8 million net loss over 3 month span lasting from October to December 2008. Last year THQ posted a 15.5 million dollar net profit in the same period last year.
Breaking News, Casual Games, PC
The next installment of the popular Sims franchise, creatively entitled The Sims 3, has officially been delayed, much to the dismay of its fans. The Sims franchise has been one of the best selling PC titles since its initial release in 2000.
The innocent bystander has become a mainstay of today’s video games. These innocent characters have become an added dimension to games, allowing players to interact with these bystanders. The real enjoyment of this added element for some reason comes not from protecting or helping these bystanders, but instead from eliciting as much pain and damage as possible on these poor innocent characters. What drives gamers to unleash such fury on computer-generated characters that mean no harm and would be perfectly content to wander about enjoying their pointless little lives?
Microsoft has announced that Aces Game Studio will be closing its doors. The studio was responsible for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, one of Microsoft’s oldest product lines, stretching back 20 years. The first Microsoft Flight Simulator game was released in 1982, while the most recent version, Flight Simulator X, was launched in 2006.
Casual Games, Game Design, Gamer Culture, PC
For all of those Frets on Fire fans, a peripheral has finally been introduced. Better start stretching those fingers now, you’re going to need to be nimble for this gadget.
