David Braben came to this year’s Develop Conference to discuss Raspberry Pi, a $25 Linux-based computer that he (along with the rest of the Raspberry Pi Foundation) hopes will help re-engage school children with computer science. We caught up with him to discuss its current status.
This is an article about the changing role of press embargoes. The difficulty in writing anything at all on the subject of embargoes is that, even as many of the arguments have become familiar and well worn (and I can highly recommend John Keefer’s 2008 piece to that end), the issue ceases to be any less contentious. Hardly a day goes by that some exasperated journalist somewhere doesn’t bemoan the shrinking walls of the PRison in which they are forced to work.
Voting has opened for the 29th annual GamesMaster Golden Joystick awards, run by Edge parent Future Publishing, with gamers worldwide able to have their say ahead of the awards ceremony in October.
There are 14 categories in all, with new awards for downloadable, mobile and free-to-play games. Those who vote in all categories will be in with a chance of winning the GamesMaster Ultimate Gaming Prize, which includes consoles and games.
Voting has opened for the 29th annual GamesMaster Golden Joystick awards, run by Edge parent Future Publishing, with gamers worldwide able to have their say ahead of the awards ceremony in October.
There are 14 categories in all, with new awards for downloadable, mobile and free-to-play games. Those who vote in all categories will be in with a chance of winning the GamesMaster Ultimate Gaming Prize, which includes consoles and games.
Satoru Iwata has written to early Japanese adopters of the 3DS, acknowledging they "may feel betrayed" and admitting there is "nothing [Nintendo] can do to completely make up for the feeling that you are being punished for buying the system early."
Seamus Blackley, the man who spearheaded Microsoft's Xbox project, has told us that those who believe the rise of Facebook, iOS devices and cloud gaming means the death of the traditional console are wrong, saying: "The console business has won."
Blackley recently quit his position at Hollywood talent agency CAA in order to return to game development, and he believes there has never been a better time to do so: the potential audience is bigger than ever, and consoles are everywhere.
Last weekend, an estimated 5,000 fighting game fans descended on the Rio Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas for the tenth annual Evolution Championship Series. Known as Evo, it's the world fighting game championship, the biggest tournament of its kind in the year, and with the recent resurgence of fighting games, this year's was bigger than ever.
Electronic Arts has announced the EA Sports Season Ticket, a membership scheme that rewards users with early access to games and discounted downloadable content.
The Season Ticket gives members access to participating games three games before they hit store shelves by digital download, and a 20 per cent discount on DLC. EA also rather vaguely promises "premium web content" and "membership recognition" to those that sign up.
Following its original reveal a year ago, Brisbane-based technology company Euclideon has released a new video of its engine, which purports to show off progress it has made - and the "largest breakthrough since 3D graphics began".
The results are remarkable. The camera zooms into the company's logo, revealing it to be made of a one kilometre square world of trees, rock and ruined ancient buildings, and then it shows the ground to be made from individual clods of dirt. It consists, the video claims, of 21,062,352,435,000 polygons, and it runs at 20 frames a second.
Since its release, Kinect has been threatening to make good on its promise to shake up the way we play. But aside from a couple of standout titles, the games available have yet to fully embrace the devices full body tracking potential. We caught up with Kudo Tsunoda, creative director of Microsoft and Xbox 360 Kinect, to discuss what the company has learned since Kinect's release, what he thinks does and doesn't work on the device and where what we can expect from it in the future.
Aaron Staton will have come to most people’s attention via the AMC TV series Mad Men, but more recently the 31-year-old actor has become the face – quite literally – of Depth Analysis’ MotionScan technology, playing troubled detective Cole Phelps in Team Bondi’s groundbreaking crime thriller LA Noire. When he’s not starring in games, he’s a keen consumer of them…