In hindsight, I should have known that the comments that I made to MTV News would set off a firestorm. But at the time, I was seated across from the reporter in what was then my office at Newsweek, answering question after question for her series on black people in and around the videogame industry as honestly and as thoughtfully as I could.
In part two of our interview with Dan Connors, founder of episodic games specialist Telltale Games, he explains how he has steered his company towards producing games with TV production companies, and his goal of creating the Telltale Channel, a place for interactive storytelling that's as natural to visit as watching CNN for news.
PlayStation Home’s community manager says that the European service is currently lacking the feature set found in other regions because of a lack of resources, but that SCEE is committed to boosting its range of content offerings over the coming months.
Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian says DS and Xbox 360 sales grew in the US during April, while sales of all other systems and software declined.
“Following two years of shortages, demand for the Wii has settled to more typical mid-cycle trends, i.e., driven increasingly by the quality of new software releases,” Sebastian wrote in a preview note ahead of the expected release of official NPD sales data on Thursday.
Microsoft is developing a new Xbox 360 motion sensing camera that allows players to control games with full body and hand gestures, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The paper’s sources claim that the peripheral uses proprietary 3D technology that gives players more accurate control over games than previous cameras like EyeToy.
