Reakktor Media Technical Director Cyrus Preuss is back with his fourth and final dev diary regarding Black Prophecy’s game physics. This time around, the focus is on the networking side of the equation, and the article does a good job of presenting the Reakktor team’s networking challenges to the lay person.
“It must be noted that [...]

When it comes to Facebook games, some MMO players look at them as being a scourge; a strange offshoot of a genre they know and love. To others, it seems the next logical step in gaming. And nobody can doubt the revenues involved are sweet for companies who manage to hook casual gamers into their [...]

Just one day after OnLive announced their June 17 launch date for their streaming PC-Mac game service, a possible rival has announced its own plans, and it’s a company you may have heard of. InstantAction.com, launched in 2007 as a way to offer 3D action games with a web browser, plans to relaunch and team [...]

It’s been a week since GoG.com has added an Activision-owned game to its DRM-free line up but today they continue with the addition of Gabriel Knight 3 to its library. The adventure game, first released back in 1999, is the third (and as it turned out final) game in the classic franchise that was originally [...]

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At last night’s Indie Game Maker Rant, Tommy Refenes, one half of Team Meat, appropriately let off some steam about Apple’s App Store, saying, “The majority of people who do anything for the App Store work on it and then kind of get screwed over.” Refenes suggested that what the App Store specializes in [...]

Brett Favre is one of the all-time greats. Still, he throws one untimely interception, and that’s all people talk about. Just imagine if he threw 7 and a half million! That’s the number EA highlighted during its EA Sports Opener last night in an extraordinary example of the game data the company collects from its [...]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ubisoft will release a short film ahead of the release of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The film will be helmed by Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy, the duo that just won an Academy Award for their short film Logorama. We’re assuming the Ghost Recon film won’t be quite as [...]

Sony announced during its GDC 2010 press conference that the upcoming US release of EyePet will feature support for its motion controller, PlayStation Move. The game will allow players to manipulate toys and also play games with their EyePets. Furthermore, it’s even possible to create new toys. The promotional video during the event showed off [...]

With the announcement that Valve would bring its line-up of games and its Steam download service to the Mac, there seems to be a resurgance of interest in releasing games for Apple’s machines. The truth is that Apple doesn’t seem to have much interest in gaming on their Macs and laptops (gaming for the iPhone [...]

Last year, Ubisoft released a series of short live action films that tied into Assassin’s Creed 2. Now the publisher wants to do the same thing with their upcoming military shooter Ghost Recon: Future Solider and they have recruited the people behind a movie that just won an Academy Award.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog [...]

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These gameplay trailers provide an early, up close, look at the intense racing action of Split/Second. The second trailer can be seen after the jump. This racing game that lets you call upon disasters to wreck the competition is expected to release this spring.
Download HD Split/Second ‘Downtown’ Gameplay Trailer #1 (625 MB)
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15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft personalities of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, from the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
The Syndicate first came to our attention a couple of weeks ago, [...]

In what’s becoming a GDC tradition, Sony today announced an update concerning the PhyreEngine, a free, cross-platform middleware tool offered to developers interested in creating PS3 games. First introduced in 2008, the PhyreEngine has since been utilized in games like Critter Crunch, Shatter and Flower. Today, SCEA has announced the expansion of PhyreEngine compatibility to [...]

WoW.com’s prestige in the community has afforded us the opportunity to speak with major Azerothian leadership figures on any subject, and we’re letting you, the reader, Ask a Faction Leader!
We recently spoke to Sylvanas Windrunner, Banshee Queen of the forsaken, and she shed light on several key issues, including undieting, hunter training, building this city, [...]

Bullworth is now following up the hit machinima Raid Eats with Raid Eats 2: Cake! He’s certainly tipping his hat to other games (and maybe the recent announcement about Portal 2) with his subject matter, as he assures his loyal viewers that the cake is absolutely not a lie.
I actually think the sequel [...]