GamesDaily has a nice summary of why developers hate certain game reviewers. Oddly enough, the reasons mostly mesh with why I hate most games reviewers: People shouldn’t review games they haven’t spent time with, and they shouldn’t review genres they hate. I have seen dozens reviews lambasting puzzle or retro arcade games because “I don’t like this kind of game.” Great, I don’t like most RPGs much, that’s why I don’t review them.
The big sites and magazines have had some notably terrible reviews recently. Aside from copy & paste jobs between reviews of the same game on different systems, there are reviews of games which complain about problems that could be circumvented just by reading the instructions or following a tutorial. I have taken to trusting nobody unless I know them pretty well (it helps if you know how their preferences mesh with your own). It also helps if they are Cone, because Cone hooked me on Ratchet and Clank and for that he is a god.
[url=http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/media/?id=13224]What Game Developers Hate About Videogame Reviewers[/url] (GameDaily)
All you have to do is hold a party. This was too good to keep to myself.
[quote]Want to get in on the action? Throw your own Wednesday Night Arcade party! We’ll even help get you started with a Party in a Box. Okay, there’s not really a box, but here’s what we’ll send you:
A free pizza from Papa John’s.
1000 Microsoft points. Use ’em to download Xbox Live Arcade titles!
Free digital music download to get your favorite eighties tunes.
All we ask in return? Take some pictures of your party and tell us who was there and what happened. What did you play? What did you listen to? Did you get pepperoni or sausage on your Papa John’s pizza?[/quote]
[url=http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2006/0712-partyinabox.htm]Xbox Live Arcade Wednesday Party-In-A-Box[/url] (Xbox.com)
So apparently after years of fanboy waiting, Team Fortress 2 leaves the land of vaporware and becomes real. While I was never a big TF guy, I know people who would damn near kill for this game. It was really the great-grand-daddy of class-based FPS games.
Half-Life 2 Episode 2 should be coming to the PC, 360, and PS3, and will include TF2 and a “puzzle game” called Portals. The latter involves, well, portals and using them to move yourself and other things around.
Valve will also be bringing HL2 and HL2 Episode 1 to both the 360 and the PS3 as part of the package.
[url=http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/halflife2episode2/news.html?sid=6154006]Half-Life 2: Episode Two – The Return of Team Fortress 2 and Other Surprises[/url] (Gamespot)
Apparently the mayor of Las Vegas thinks that somehow his town is exempt from being depicted in fictional stories, and the sheriff thinks that kids are forced to play video games. The mayor, at least, needs a very harsh education on what first amendment rights actually are.
Kotaku also has some nice new screens of the game.
[url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rainbow-six-vegas/las-vegas-hates-ubi-187257.php]Las Vegas Hates Ubi[/url]
[url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/screens/new-rainbow-six-vegas-screens-187104.php]New Rainbow Six: Vegas Screens[/url]
(both via Kotaku)
Doesn’t that just roll of the tongue? Electronic Arts has released their first 6 games for the Wii: Madden NFL, Need for Speed, Harry Potter, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR, SSX, and The Godfather.
No more info beyond that.
[url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152148]Godfather, Harry Potter, Others for Wii[/url] (1up)
