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*Update #1: There are approximately 2 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes remaining to post an entry. I've only seen 4 posted by Noobtubin8ter, Jolt, Blaze, and Le Hannibal. If you want to enter, just follow the instructions below. I also would like to add that my girlfriend will hand paint a Rainbow Six Patriots related design on a shirt for the winner. She does excellent work, for those of you who have never seen a picture of my Alan Wake shirt she made me, or the Battlefield Bad Company 2 shirt she painted. I hope more people will take advantage of this give away. I'd like to see some more entries.*
It isn't too often that I read a piece of news that makes me want to declare a company to be run by complete morons, but today, Microsoft has officially made me do so. An opportunity for the company to sell their console, away from retailers where the revenue gained
For this blog, I wanted to analyze how many copies a publisher would have sell at certain prices in order to break even. For this analysis I will be drawing heavily upon the research conducted by Noobtubin8er in his great analytical blog which you can read here. In his blog he figured that the amount of money going back to publishers after manufacturing costs, shipping, console royalties and retail markup was approximately $37.50 on a $60 retailed game.
A few days ago, a smaller news site that I frequent ran a story about Capcom's Better Business Bureau rating taking a hit. At first, I thought that this had to be a massive blow to Capcom's credibility in terms of perception, but then I read another article on the site that mentioned that the Better Business Bureau had ruled that Bioware had falsely advertised Mass Effect 3. So, I decided to take a look at what their rating was. To my surprise, Bioware's rating was an F.
Back in high school, I went through a phase where I started to get into PC gaming more than console gaming. This was spurred on by great PC experiences such as the Warcraft series, Diablo 1 & 2, and Unreal Tournament. However the game that stood out the most for me, and became my first ever FPS online multiplayer experience, was Red Faction.
Today marks 7 months since my brother's death. While this is not a blog to discuss or even continue to mourn his passing, it has served as a bit of inspiration for a blog. You see, when we were younger, we had a specific way to get back at each other when one had made the other mad. That was to delete the other's game saves from the memory cards that we shared to my Playstation. It started when he saved over my save file on Final Fantasy VII. From there, we got into a fight, and I deleted his game save in retaliation (I was 13 at the time and was an easy way to get revenge). From there, everytime we got into a fight, it was always a good idea to hide the memory cards, because more than likely game saves would be deleted otherwise.
Recently, Game Informer's Dan Ryckert reviewed Resistance 3. What followed was a massive attack upon his profile page by gamers that did not agree with his opinion. Some even went as far as to call for his firing for what they perceived as an apparent bias against th
I started blogging on this site, last year, with blogs about my pursuit of 75,000 gamerscore. While these blogs were a good starter series, I decided to stop the series after it became apparent to me that the blogs were repetitive and hard to keep track of. This didn't stop my pursuit of achievements, and I ended up reaching my goal just before Christmas last year, with just over 77,000 gamerscore by end of 2010.
In the early days of gaming, video games usually consisted of arcade games in bars and other businesses, where the player was faced with a fairly simplistic, yet challenging task. As games developed, the artwork became more intricate, music became more complex, stories developed better narratives, and the player gained a greater level of interactivity.
This blog isn't really video game related, but I recently mentioned to a few other users that I would be taking part in a zombie walk, here in Lincoln, Nebraska (yes folks, that is where I am from). The event was broken up into two days, with the first consisting of vendors selling items to get the would be zombies ready for the walk, as well as panels, fashion shows, and even a live concert in the streets. The second day, the vendors will continue to sell their wares, all leading to the zombie walk which will cut through downtown Lincoln, and end in a final battle between the resistance (survivors) and the undead horde (over 1000 participants last year). All in all it is looking like it will be a blast.
Yesterday, Game Informer ran an article discussing a portion of Eric Hirshberg's keynote speech frrm Gamescom. The portion of the speech that was focused upon was his condemnation of statements made by EA's CEO John Riccitiello. What was lost along the way was what was said outside of the quotes provided. I'm not just talking about within the confines of his keynote speech, which you can find a link to here (a big thank you to Dan Americh for posting this), but also past statements by Hirshberg as well as what was the statement that he was referring to in his keynote speech.