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Reply #525 on: October 24, 2011, 11:11:51 AM

Gabe talks a bit about pricing models and f2p. Confirms we're lab rats in a totally awesome experiment.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell
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Reply #526 on: October 24, 2011, 11:52:58 AM

The pricing experiments they've done have more often than not been very beneficial to the consumer. It's awesome to think that by being good to the customer, their revenue increases by not just a little bit, but a fuckload.

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Reply #527 on: October 24, 2011, 12:31:19 PM

Yeah, I like that part, too. It's nice to see someone who gets the concept of win/win capitalism, seems like such a quaint idea in modern times.

Also, I have a shitload of games on steam I'll probably never play and wouldn't have bought if they weren't on some amazing sale. So...utter genius imo.
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Reply #528 on: October 24, 2011, 03:30:39 PM

Gabe talks a bit about pricing models and f2p. Confirms we're lab rats in a totally awesome experiment.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell

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The company’s Steam distribution system, with more than 35 million users, is sometimes called the iTunes store of video games.

Really?  Because I call the iTunes store of video games the App store.

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Reply #529 on: October 24, 2011, 03:37:45 PM

Gabe talks a bit about pricing models and f2p. Confirms we're lab rats in a totally awesome experiment.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economics-valves-gabe-newell

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The company’s Steam distribution system, with more than 35 million users, is sometimes called the iTunes store of video games.

Really?  Because I call the iTunes store of video games the App store.

This is the tech article equivalent of  "some people are saying"  in other words "just now, I said"
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Reply #530 on: November 02, 2011, 06:47:31 PM

...am I the only one looking forward to AC : Revelations?

Due out in 2 weeks for consoles, 2 more for PCs.   swamp poop  Might have to actually buy a game at release for a change...

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Reply #531 on: November 02, 2011, 10:22:33 PM

I'm psyched for it, it's just hitting at a really bad time.

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Reply #532 on: November 03, 2011, 02:14:46 PM

I would like to play it, but first I have to complete the others in the series.

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Reply #533 on: November 10, 2011, 09:04:36 AM

Well, apparently Zynga is holding some of its employees over the fire for previously given out stock options. 

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Early last year, as Mr. Pincus began preparing to take Zynga public, he and several other executives decided the company had doled out too many stock rights to certain people in its early days, say people familiar with the matter. The executives chose an unusual solution: They began demanding that certain employees surrender some shares or be fired.

Seems like a bunch of unethical bastards there.  I expect them to get their asses sued off in the very near future.
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Reply #534 on: December 02, 2011, 02:22:01 AM

Fans of the Marathon series can download updated versions of all three games for free on PC's, Mac, or Linux.  Hadn't really heard about the Aleph One project until now, but apparently it's been in the works for quire some time, and is an open source upgrade of the Marathon 2 engine.  The 1.0 release was apparently a couple days ago, but I haven't had any time to take a look at it myself.  Used to love the Marathon games though back when I was largely using Macs.
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Reply #535 on: December 02, 2011, 05:28:20 AM

Well, apparently Zynga is holding some of its employees over the fire for previously given out stock options. 

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Early last year, as Mr. Pincus began preparing to take Zynga public, he and several other executives decided the company had doled out too many stock rights to certain people in its early days, say people familiar with the matter. The executives chose an unusual solution: They began demanding that certain employees surrender some shares or be fired.

Seems like a bunch of unethical bastards there.  I expect them to get their asses sued off in the very near future.
"Hey guys, come work for me.  We don't have a lot of money right now so I can't pay you a lot, you know start-up amirite?  But, here are some stock options so that if we make it far enough to go public you'll be set."  "Oh, we don't have money for raises this year, you know start-up amirite?  How about some more options?"

Years of underpaid labor later...

"Stock options.  You GIEV preciousss?"

I've been there on start-ups, the options paying off is the whole point.  What dicks.

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Reply #536 on: December 07, 2011, 12:59:42 PM

Executive Producer on The Last Guardian, Yoshifusa Hayama, has left Sony.  There have also been rumors that Ueda has left Sony as well but is continuing to work on the game as a freelancer.
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Reply #537 on: December 07, 2011, 01:04:16 PM

That would be... absolutely disastrous.

Maybe he went to From. Oh god, please go to From Software.
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Reply #538 on: December 07, 2011, 01:12:58 PM

http://kotaku.com/the-last-guardian/

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Hayama joins Rupert Murdoch-owned London studio Bossa, where he will work on the outfit's first 3D social game.
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Reply #539 on: December 07, 2011, 01:13:57 PM

SOCIAL GAME?

FUCK YOU UEDA. FUCK YOU.


Oh, that's Hayama. Whatever.
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Reply #540 on: December 07, 2011, 02:58:28 PM

Executive Producer on The Last Guardian, Yoshifusa Hayama, has left Sony.  There have also been rumors that Ueda has left Sony as well but is continuing to work on the game as a freelancer.

That game is never coming out.   Heartbreak

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Reply #541 on: December 12, 2011, 06:26:55 AM


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Reply #542 on: December 12, 2011, 06:29:06 AM

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Reply #543 on: December 28, 2011, 11:08:06 AM

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Dear Club Nintendo Member,

Thank you again for being an Elite Status Club Nintendo member this past year.

As you may have noticed, we misspelled one of the months on the Year-view Calendar insert, included alongside your 2012 Club Nintendo Calendar Elite Status gift. (It's the month between October and December.)

We're really embarrassed and apologize for this oversight; we always want our rewards and gifts to be special. We would like to offer you a replacement Year-view Calendar insert. In the interest of saving paper, we thought it better to ask if you want a replacement before automatically sending.

Please confirm by January 9th if you would like a replacement and we'll happily send you a new Year-view Calendar insert.

Thanks again for being a member of Club Nintendo.

We appreciate your continued feedback and loyalty.

Happy New Year!

Club Nintendo

I prefer the month of Nobember, actually.

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Reply #544 on: January 03, 2012, 06:19:10 AM

Ebay will prefer the month of Nobember 10 years from now also.
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Reply #545 on: February 22, 2012, 07:51:09 PM

This is a game.  So I can put it here.
http://land.allears.net/blogs/dnews/2012/02/sorcerers_of_the_magic_kingdom.html

We will be in WDW Mar 2-9 and we will definitely be trying to get in on this.  Looks like an improved Kim Possible, if anyone did that in World Showcase.

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Reply #546 on: February 29, 2012, 10:52:13 AM

So http://www.baldursgate.com/ went up late last year and had nothing on it.

And it now has something: the Baldur's Gate logo, looping Baldur's Gate title screen music, the opening quote from the intro, and a background of the character portraits. The page's source code also has some interesting stuff in it:

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Shadowy Figure- Raise Dead : Infinity Engine

For years, I clung to the memory of it. Then the memory of the memory.

And then... it returned. Better than it was before.

Pore over the tapestries and works of art hanging from our walls if you wish, Child of Bhaal... perhaps you will find a clue. But patience, ah... patience would reveal it all.

As the silver moon waxes and wanes, so too does life.

Apparently the page is registered to this fellow who was with Bioware and worked on the first BG, and he's been fueling speculation with some of his latest tweets.

So now I'm quite curious to see what's going to come of this.
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Reply #547 on: February 29, 2012, 11:26:26 AM

I am curious, too, given it seems like there's basically no chance this dude has an actual license from EA/Bioware or WotC. They've been totally tolerant of mods in the past, but now we're talking about a website that actually is the trademark name, uses the music, art, etc.

So, either it is more levels of misdirection than would normally happen for something EA is actually doing themselves, or this dude is going to get hit with a nice fat C&D.

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Reply #548 on: February 29, 2012, 11:30:30 AM

The Baldur's Gate license lies wholly with WOTC, I believe. And if not WOTC, then it lies with Atari. I highly doubt EA will have any say in the matter.

From what I've been seeing, smart money is on this being an iOS port of BG1.

Edit: According to some copyright pages, apparently the Infinity Engine itself along with the Bioware logo are EA copyrights, but pretty much everything else was Interplay, which then went to Atari, which I assume is now in WOTC's hands since they got the license back.

If I put on my Optimist Hat, I see the "Raise Dead: Infinity Engine" line as meaning that something's been worked out on that front. But we'll see.
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Reply #549 on: February 29, 2012, 11:37:00 AM

Apparently the company this guy works for did the HD port of MDK2, so they could be doing some kind of anniversary edition HD thing.

EDIT: I can't imagine how the hell you would control 6 dudes on iOS, but I guess it could be something like that.

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Reply #550 on: February 29, 2012, 11:39:26 AM

Yeah, I just read that as well. I wouldn't say no to a high-quality HD Baldur's Gate, especially if it has actually properly working multiplayer.

I'd rather see BG2 get the treatment, but I'll happily accept the first too.

EDIT: I can't imagine how the hell you would control 6 dudes on iOS, but I guess it could be something like that.

After watching my girlfriend try to play BG1 on her tablet, the answer is: not well. But according to a guy who worked at Beamdog when they got the BG license and source code from Atari and Hasbro, it seems to work better when some adjustments are made.

Edit:

Here, have a teaser trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpPU-MtBqrA


Oops, apparently it's a fake! Now this entire project's legitimacy has been cast into doubt.
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Reply #551 on: March 04, 2012, 12:17:56 PM

mariO (SMB with a Portal Gun) is now available.  Download it before it inevitably gets shut down by Nintendo and/or Valve.


Edit: Gameplay video
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Reply #552 on: March 06, 2012, 11:05:52 PM

New SimCity (5?) Announcement Trailer

Not really close or substantial enough for its own thread yet so I'll put this here. Trying not to get too excited here since I'm sure it will be dumbed down and Origin-exclusive but SimCity was the first PC game I really got into when it first came out. I still install 4 every six months or so and can easily blow through eight hours without knowing it.

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Reply #553 on: March 06, 2012, 11:54:53 PM

I'm getting vibes of this being a mix of Sim City Societies and CitiesXL. Add Origin, and all I can do is sigh.

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Reply #554 on: March 07, 2012, 12:03:25 AM

Funny. Just last night, I was talking to a friend of mine about not playing ME3 due to it only being on Origin. I said that the only thing that could possibly get me to buy in to Origin was a good, faithful remake of SimCity, preferably around the SC2K level of complexity.

Well played, EA. Well played.
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Reply #555 on: March 07, 2012, 07:15:33 AM

That looks snazzy. I hope single player will allow you to do multiple cities/regions/whatever. Fuckamultiplayer.

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Reply #556 on: March 07, 2012, 07:19:04 AM

Funny. Just last night, I was talking to a friend of mine about not playing ME3 due to it only being on Origin. I said that the only thing that could possibly get me to buy in to Origin was a good, faithful remake of SimCity, preferably around the SC2K level of complexity.

Well played, EA. Well played.
Funny because just last night I said I'll never play this because of Origin.

There is nothing that will make me install that shit.
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Reply #557 on: March 07, 2012, 12:20:08 PM


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Reply #558 on: March 07, 2012, 01:26:04 PM

Out of sheer amusement and to hopefully make Schild's eye twitch a bit:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465809

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The original news was that Monster Hunter Portable 3 was listed on Play.com. The subsequent carnival of stupid began when a photoshopped image from 4chan emerged, purporting to show listings for GTA: Vice City Nights, Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, and Tales of Innocence R:


While a quick search of Play.com would quickly reveal that none of these other listings actually existed, somehow Eurogamer seized upon the image. Without any fact checking whatsoever, it quickly became front page news:


Joystiq saw it posted on Eurogamer and, again without any fact checking whatsoever, posted it as confirmed news as well:


In no time at all, the stupidity had gone mainstream:

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Since then, Jason Schreier from Kotaku has come in demanding proof that it was a shop and it's just become absolutely hilarious. And sad. But overall just business as usual.

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Even worse is that everyone refers to Eurogamer as the source and they have fantastic words such as these:

"The listing has since been yanked, but Eurogamer was able to capture a screenshot of the page. It suggests the game will carry a €39.99 (about $50) price point." -Gamespot

"Eurogamer was alerted to this by reader el_pollo_diablo, who sent us the image displayed in this story." -Eurogamer

"Sony is hosting the PlayStation Vita Game Heaven on March 9, and we have a feeling that it just might include these titles." -Joystiq

"Eurogamer was alerted to the leak by a reader, posting images of all four games listed on the site. The link to Monster Hunter 3 is still live on Play.com." -IGN

"Perhaps the most interesting news here is an HD version of action-RPG Final Fantasy Type-0, which publisher Square Enix released for PlayStation Portable in Japan last year. Although the chances that we'll see that PSP game in the U.S. or Europe seem fairly slim, an HD remake for PlayStation Vita is far more likely to make its way over here." -Kotaku

smh.
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Reply #559 on: March 07, 2012, 01:42:52 PM


Holy shit.
And it's coming out on PC too?  Best news I've heard all year.

Assuming they can keep the soundtrack intact.
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