Archive for February, 2008

This totally came from left field. That’s two big names from Sony that have stepped down. What is this world coming to!? Phil Harrison was synonymous with the Sony Playstation brand and it will be sad to see him go. Here’s the full release: Read the rest of this entry »

Pictured above is all the swag I procured from the GDC08.  I must admit, GDC has better swag than any convention I’ve ever been to, including E3.  Microsoft was just handing out wireless 360 controllers if you let them scan your tag.  Easy as that huh?  Well I’ve decided to start giving my swag away after every convention.  I usually give most of it away to my friends but now you have a chance to get my swag.  Read the rest of this entry »

Over the recent years, Apple’s popularity amongst the “regular” populace has increased exponentially. There are several reasons for this, and to be honest, it’s simple, but brilliant. 

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I played Lair today and the controls wouldn’t work.  Why?  They reconfigured it for analog use.  Now you can choose which controls you like.  It’s too bad so many Lair owners balked at the innovation.  It’s still good to have a choice.  The patch will be available sometime in March for download. 

I posted my bullets from the Microsoft Blogger Breakfast the other day and some info about GTAIV was taken out of context…well sort of.  People are claiming that Microsoft announced the game would be as big as Vice City/San Andreas.   I posted comments on some of the bullets and putting 2 and 2 together I came up with some facts and opinion on GTAIV.  Here are the facts: Read the rest of this entry »

Earlier we told you that the demo would be available today, but due to some technical problems, that’s not gonna happen. Read the rest of this entry »

NAMCO BANDAI will be releasing new maps and planes for Ace Combat 6 next Wednesday for the Xbox 360. The following planes will be included: F-117A Night Hawk (for free), Mirage2000-5, Su-33 Flanker, F-15E Strike Eagle, and a Razgriz Set of four planes. Single and multiplayer maps will include: Battle Royale, Co-op Battle, Siege Battle, and Ace of Aces Mission #1.

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Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards – 2007 Winners

• Best Overall Arcade Game: “Bomberman Live” (Hudson Entertainment)
• Best Classic Game: “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” (Konami Digital Entertainment)
• Best Original Game: “Pac-Man: Championship Edition” (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
• Best Family-Friendly Game: “Pac-Man: Championship Edition” (NAMCO BANDAI Games)
• Best Competitive Multiplayer Game: “Bomberman Live” (Hudson Entertainment)
• Best Cooperative Multiplayer Game: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Ubisoft Entertainment)
• Best-Selling Game: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Ubisoft Entertainment)
• Most-Played Game: “Worms” (Team17 Software Limited)
• Highest-Rated Game: “Castlevania: Symphony of the Night” (Konami Digital Entertainment)
• Xbox LIVE Arcade Staff Choice: “Pac-Man: Championship Edition” (NAMCO BANDAI Games) Read the rest of this entry »

Someone slipped me an invite to the CCP/White Wolfe Party tonight.  It’s supposed to be the hottest party at GDC.  I didn’t know why until I showed up.  I guess it’s an S&M themed party.  They had girls all over dancing in cages and on poles.  The girl pictured above was my favorite.  I named her poptart because she kept popping out of her corset and didn’t mind at all.  Drinks and food were great and so was the atmosphere.  As far as CCP goes, they are supposedly working on an expansion for EVE that will allow you to leave your ship and walk around.  Pretty slick eh?

They had Wii Fits out at Nintendo’s booth today.  I figured I’d give it a try.  Now you must know that I’m 6′4″, 355lbs.  I know the Japanese version is rated at 300lbs, but supposedly the American version of the Wii Fit is rated at 330lbs.  I gave it a shot anyways.  I stood on the Wii Fit, it started calculating and then shut me down.  It said I was too heavy to play Wii Fit.  So if people think they can get fit by using a Wii Fit and they are over 330lbs, then they’ll have to get fit just so they can use Wii Fit so they can get fit.  Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it?

Today at Sony’s Blogger Lounge Insomniac had a press briefing detailing their Nocturnal Initiative.  NI is basically open source tool development and sharing.  Insomniac believes that the same thing shouldn’t be done twice when it comes to making tools for game development.  What they have done is setup a website and wiki to give out free pipeline tools to other developers to help them streamline their game development.   They hope to build a huge community around NI and get feedback from other developers as well as tweaks to the tools that they have already given out.  They said the pipeline tools can be used on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 game development.  Yep, you read that right.  They said “Xbox 360″ at Sony’s Blogger Lounge. 

Nocturnal Initiative

Just got back from Microsoft’s Blogger Breakfast and it was a hoot! The smoked bacon was delicious! Several bloggers got to throw questions at Chris Satchell, Aaron Greenberg and John Schappert. They answered all the questions and even recruited Ron Workman to their PR team. Here are the bullets as I wrote them down: Read the rest of this entry »

Capcom announced yesterday that the fourth installment of the Devil May Cry series has shipped over 2 million worldwide. This should not be surprising as the whole gaming community (including The Bitbag editors like TD) had been waiting for this game and drooling over ever screenshot and all of the gameplay footage. Somebody should release the Xbox 360 VS PS3 numbers, just so fanboys can get into it. Is ships the same as sells? Read the rest of this entry »

Who says the Xbox community has nothing to look forward to in 2008? Sequel mania this year. After all of the denials over the past few weeks, we see that Epic was waiting to drop the news at GDC . . . Gears is coming back, folks! Although the movie-going community has been tortured by one horrible sequel after another (not to mention all of the prequels), the gaming community has so much to look forward to this year with the much-anticipated releases of several huge IPs: Gears of War, Ninja Gaiden, and Fable. The big new IP that Microsoft will be introducing this year is Too Human, which seems to be a cross between Gears and Diablo. The Big M also announced several Xbox Live Arcade titles including the Penny Arcade game which was featured at PAX. Read the rest of this entry »

Among several announcements made at the GDC, one of the major ones made by Microsoft during a keynote address is that they would open up game development to the console community. Since the early days of home gaming, PC users have had the opportunity to download and enjoy many gems through various Internet portals like CNET’s Download.com and IGN’s FilePlanet. This could bring similar opportunities for console gamers who are looking for hours of mindless titillation (Desktop Tower Defense anyone?). Although PC gaming has seen some resurgence of late, it pales in comparison to the dominance of next-gen consoles in the market and the hour is ripe to bring some of this creativity to the rest of the gaming world. Although this will probably indundate the space with tons of crap games, perhaps this will reveal the hidden talents of aspiring developers just as MySpace and YouTube has done for musicians, comedians, and other low-profile performers. Read the rest of this entry »