Srsly? You need to stop dirty talking nerds!

Srsly? You need to stop dirty talking nerds! I don't get any requests from randoms generally, only from people on here/Twitter, and now I'm full up and keep having to turn people down

Oh THAT'S my problem. I knew it was something.

YAY!

http://www.vg247.com/2010/10/14/xbox-li ... 0-friends/

Let me straighten things out: We will not be expanding the friends list as a part of the next Xbox LIVE Update.

Microsoft have now denied it (from Major Nelson's Twitter)



Although that doesnt mean it isnt going to happen.

Rock Paper Shotgun, wot I freelance for, just one the GMA for best games blog.

Rest of the results here.

Kotaku reporting that Krome Studios have gone splat.
A sad day if it's true (Game Room notwithstanding) as their Melbourne studio used to be Melbourne House/Beam Software.

The Australian games industry has received yet another blow, with confirmation that Brisbane-based development house Krome Studios has closed its doors.

A source close to Krome has confirmed that all remaining staff have been let go as of Friday, October 15, although there is the possibility that a skeleton-crew may be rehired as contractors to finish off any existing work.

The news comes after what has been quite troubled times for Krome, with the global financial crisis, amongst other woes resulting in 50 employees being let go back in April last year, with a further 60 in November.

Our source revealed that the likely reason for the studio's ultimate demise was a combination of Krome putting too many resources into establishing new IPs that weren't successful, alongside titles based on established licensed underperforming.

Formed in 1999, the local studio has been behind the likes of the recently released Blade Kitten, the PS2 and Wii versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and the much loved Ty the Tasmanian Tiger franchise.

With this news, we must bid farewell to what once was one of the country's largest video game developers, with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide. Stay tuned to IGN for more news on the matter as it hits.

Vaz tables his fifth early day motion against games. The dirty beggar.

Judge rules that it really was Silicon Knights' fault that Too Human was shit. I think the writing may be on the wall for them now, after Too Human and that abominable X-men game.

Judge rules that it really was Silicon Knights' fault that Too Human was shit. I think the writing may be on the wall for them now, after Too Human and that abominable X-men game.

I gather that part of SK's claims were that Epic didn't provide them the documentation that they had been promised. Or that the documentation they were provided didn't match up to what they were told they'd get.

Bear in mind that Too Human (the version that actually shipped) would have started development on a pretty early version of UE3.

While I certainly agree that retreading the same old stuff is unappealing, the push for fresh ideas gave us the Wiimote/Kinect/Move. We need fresh ideas that aren't stupid.

Motion controls: it was worth trying.

Surely though there's a difference between fresh idea in game design (what yer man in the article is talking about) and fresh ideas in interfaces (which produces bullshit like the examples you've given)? Trying to weld motion controls, or whatever, to games in scenarios where a traditional control pad already works very well isn't a fresh idea, it's just flat our ruining something that currently works fine just for the sake of it. Creating new IP and ideas for game mechanics though is always welcome.

Name me another game that's like Assassin's Creed.

Name me another game that's like Assassin's Creed.

Motion controls: it was worth trying.

Like I said last week. You innovate, then you sit on your laurels for 5+ years raking in the profits of that innovation if it went well. At some point you'll need to get round to innovating again, but probably not until the revenue dries up.

Name me another game that's like Assassin's Creed.

Yes, Assassin's Creed should stop being a series of games and turn into a shooting racing 5D MMO gamepocalypse MIND puzzleathon.

Who is allowed to say it then?

What?

Ramadan.

While I certainly agree that retreading the same old stuff is unappealing, the push for fresh ideas gave us the Wiimote/Kinect/Move. We need fresh ideas that aren't stupid.

Didn't say it wasn't good for hardware manufacturers. But other than a very few exceptions, it's led to shit games or decent games being ruined by adding in motion control features.

Also, Kinect's made the most out of all of them, hasn't it? Biggest selling peripheral in history or something, I believe.

Fastest selling electrical device, our something equally unlikely.