Game developer David Jaffe has posted on his personal blog what appears to be a dismissal notice of a 2008 lawsuit against him and Sony over God of War. There is no further explanation given, so unless Jaffe is starting some obtuse alternate reality game, we’ll take the document at face value.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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.
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The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA, and our sister sites Joystiq and Massively are on the scene! No matter what kind of games you’re into, there’s a ton of news on its way out of the convention, and we’re compiling some of the stuff that might matter [...]

Commander’s Log:
Well, whaddya know? I get up this morning and ride down to Deck 2, and the first thing outta Kelly’s mouth is that I have a new message at my Private Terminal. About time — things have been hella boring around here since beating up the Collectors! Anyway, it’s from Illusive Man — [...]

Speaking at GDC 2010, 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel discussed the game industry’s typical publishing model, why it doesn’t work for independent developers, and how the newly established Indie Fund will fix it. According to Carmel, publishers offer too much money to indie developers and take too much in return, relegating developers to the role of [...]

Boy, Tron is old. That movie came out way back in 1982, and we’re finally getting a sequel in 2010. You can see how long it’s been if you count the wrinkles on Alan Bradley’s (Bruce Boxleitner) face. That’s Tron himself, but we’ve heard that he’s hardly in the movie. So what gives? Well, [...]

At the end of the summer last year I had this crazy idea: to make a TV show about a raiding guild. I was inspired by the relationships and interactions in my current guild and how much they impacted me personally — both good and bad. I fleshed out the idea over beers (many [...]

It’s been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games and GDC hasn’t even started yet:. Let’s check out what’s been happening in the last seven days:
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Star Trek Online review: We give our final verdict to Cryptic’s latest MMO effort.
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.
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The Disciples turn based strategy series now has a new publisher. Today Kalypso Media announced that they would be taking on the North American, Western Europe and Asia Paciific publishing duties for Disciples III: Renaissance. The game itself is being developed by Russia-based Akella. The first two games in the series were developed and published [...]

Majesco, publisher of Cooking Mama and … other stuff, has received a delisting notice from the Nasdaq stock market. The company now has 180 calendar days to bring its stock above $1 per share, the minimum required to remain on the exchange. The trick, though, is it can’t just pop its fiscally hurting head above [...]

There’s a certain mystique that Klingons hold for Star Trek fans, having shown up for many different stories in every show and even several movies. That’s not even counting the fact that they have an entire language to back them up. So it’s probably not a huge surprise that the most recent Ask [...]

Developer Digital Illusions didn’t release the first Battlefield Bad Company game for the PC. Now we think they are regreting that decision because the second game in their first person shooter series, Battlefield Bad Company 2, has gotten a lot of players. How many? According to a post on the game’s official message boards, the [...]

Earlier today, our tips inbox and the official Assassin’s Creed 2 forum were set ablaze by incensed owners of the PC version of the aforementioned Italian revenge epic. According to numerous reports from prospective players of the game, Ubisoft’s DRM authentification servers have crashed, forcing some players to suffer lengthy login periods when booting up [...]