Gamers are always demanding new experiences. Fortunately then, game developers and platform holders have continually been dreaming up new ways in which to entertain us. Over the last ten years we’ve seen games focus on technology: increasing graphical fidelity, delivering more natural animation and improving AI and physics. More recently, new game experiences have been delivered by gestural interaction controllers such the Wii, Move and Kinect, also bringing with them a new audience.
The end-user licence agreement (EULA) in Electronic Arts' new distribution platform Origin collects and transmits extensive data about your computer and your use of it.
A member of The Escapist's forums first raised concern over the terms, which have since been posted in full by Rock Paper Shotgun. One clause, headed "Consent to collection and use of data," stipulates that EA will gather huge amounts of information about the software installed on users' PCs and how they are used, and either use the data for its own marketing or pass it to thirdparties.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has stepped down as company CEO after 15 years at the helm, and has been replaced by former chief operating officer Tim Cook.
Jobs, 56, revealed his decision in a statement issued last night. "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," he said. "Unfortunately, that day has come.
Leading specialist retailer GameStop has admitted to a company-wide policy of removing OnLive vouchers for free, streaming copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the boxed PC version of the game sold in its stores.
Leading specialist retailer GameStop has admitted to a company-wide policy of removing OnLive vouchers for free, streaming copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the boxed PC version of the game sold in its stores.
FIFA 11 has returned to the top of the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Having briefly lost the number one spot to fellow EA title The Sims 3, FIFA 11 enjoyed its seventh week out of the last ten at the head of the rankings. On the individual formats chart, the football game was the best-selling PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP title.
Japanese PS3 sales rose almost 50 per cent last week following the introduction of a price cut, although the console remained the nation’s third best performer behind 3DS and PSP.
Having enjoyed a massive spike following its own markdown on August 11, 3DS managed to hold its lead during the week ended August 21, although sales fell from 196,077 units to 105,639.
Though it's the sequel to a slightly clunky original, you'd be forgiven for passing over iBlast Moki 2 as just another cartoony physics puzzler without a second thought. And when its start menu consists of the words 'Play, Create, Share' you begin to wonder if Sony's lawyers have iPhones.
You'd think Rally-X Rumble is all about cars, but really it's all about paint. Namco Bandai is frighteningly good at putting new spins on its classics, but Rally-X is a more difficult one than most – because, in all honesty, it was always decent rather than great. And the main mode in Rally-X Rumble is little more than a slick update to the original, rather than a flair-filled re-imagining a la Pac-Man Championship Edition.
When is a clone not a clone? When it has a distinguishing characteristic, of course, and Flick Soccer certainly has one. Its foundations are straight up copied from Pik Pok's Flick Kick Football, which is a miniature masterpiece and one of the few permanent-fixture iOS games.
Microsoft reserves the right to refuse an Xbox 360 release for games that are released first on other platforms, according to reports.
Eurogamer reveals that Microsoft's developer terms also stipulate that the company may also refuse to allow an Xbox 360 release for games that offer more features or content on other platforms.
Let’s kick off with a return to the gamification debate, as lawyer and game blogger L.B. Jeffries wades in to apply some good old fashioned law to proceedings. The question at the heart of gamification, he says, is “how far can you structure an organized system before it stops being play?” And if you exchange the word ‘play’ for ‘morality’ or ‘justice’, it’s a very similar to a question lawyers and judges have been arguing about for years.