Useless gaming news & chatter

[Ingmar]

It's going to have gameplay like the board game, if there is any good at all in the world.

[Malakili]

EA loses spot on the Nasdaq-100

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/17/ea-loses-spot-on-the-nasdaq-100/

Looks like the failure of TOR is hurting pretty bad.

[Paelos]

Why are they putting Facebook in there?

[satael]

THQ files for bankruptcy 
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/19/thq-bankruptcy-sale/

[Ingmar]

Why are they putting Facebook in there?

Isn't it just based on market cap?

[Paelos]

Why are they putting Facebook in there?

Isn't it just based on market cap?

Probably, but I think the real value of that stock is around 10B. Not 60B. I can't really see how the hell they can maintain a stock price above $10 with a P/E ratio of 254. I mean hell, ATVI has a P/E of 14 and it's getting bad press. I don't understand the market sometimes.

[Xanthippe]

Brenda Romero (née Braithwaite), game designer for the Wizardry series and author of Sex in Video Games, named first game designer in residence at UC Santa Cruz.

I have nothing to add, having no experience with any game she's worked on.

[Zetor]

You may also know her as Brenda Garno/Garneau, she was one of the prominent Sir-Tech people. AFAIK she worked on all games in the Wizardry series; started as a writer+tester and ended up as the lead designer on Wizardry 8. She also worked a fair bit on Jagged Alliance 2.

RIP Sir-Tech, btw... still my favorite dev (and sometimes publisher) house to this day.

[koro]

Brenda Romero now? Wait, you can't mean...

Romero is currently married to developer Brenda Brathwaite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero#Personal_life

No accounting for taste I guess!

[Ingmar]

Hopefully she made him her bitch.

[schild]

Last time I saw Romero he was hanging out with some floozy in Austin. This was 2008 or so. Whatever. They can make mediocre games together.

[Gets]

http://news.yahoo.com/excavators-head-myanmar-wwii-spitfires-152507234.html

Along the way he found an unlikely ally, a Belarusian company called Wargaming.net best known for its multiplayer titles including "World of Warplanes" and "World of Tanks." The company's American director of special projects, Tracy Spaight, said he got his company involved after hearing about the Spitfires in the news, promising $500,000 toward the dig and up to another $500,000 if the Spitfires were found.
Company spokesman Frazer Nash batted away repeated questions about what the video game maker in the country known as Europe's last dictatorship hoped to get out of the deal, saying the company had an "open bucket" to dispense cash if the dig was a success.
"Money's not an issue," he told journalists. "Have you seen the profits for gaming?"
The reporters seemed mollified.
"Can I have a job?" one asked.

[koro]

So it looks like Gas Powered Games is finally... out of gas.

 

No, but seriously, Chris Taylor's fired a bunch of people. The company's nearly completely broke and the last-ditch Kitckstarter was looking like a flop.

[Soulflame]

That's kind of a shame.  I was just playing SC: FA too.

[Malakili]

For some reason I thought he was working on Planetary Annihilation, but I guess that is another team.

[Gets]

I'd be upset, but Space Siege and Dungeon Siege 3 were the closest I've come to feeling like someone cheated on me.

[rk47]

I'd be upset, but Space Siege and Dungeon Siege 3 were the closest I've come to feeling like someone cheated on me.

DS3 = Obsidian.

[Outlawedprod]

So it looks like Gas Powered Games is finally... out of gas.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-22-gas-powered-games-had-multiple-projects-canned-last-minute-by-publishers

You need people to really slam their fist; guys like Steve Jobs, you know, who are a**holes because they believe so vehemently in what they're doing they will f***ing - f*** bending the spoon with their mind, they'll just snatch it out of your hand and bend it in half and stuff it up your ass! Take that! Let's get back to work!

[schild]

God just, who cares.

[Yegolev]

But, you know, Total Annihilation.

[Soulflame]

Total Annihilation!  

Man, all I want is a nicely updated version of that.  Plus an updated Master of Magic.

Edit:  AND A GODDAMN PONY TOO!

[Rasix]

[Soulflame]

That is not on the list.

[K9]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but it seems that Games Workshop are trying to stop other people calling things 'Space Marines'

 

[Yegolev]

Of course they are.  I'm glad I don't use any of their products or services.

[HaemishM]

Games Workshop really ae one big gaggle of dicks.

[Sky]

Yes.

[Fordel]

That's not even possible is it? I'm no lawyer man or anything, but don't trademarks needs to be more specific then that?

[Soulflame]

This particular case is Games Workshop telling a self publishing author to cease and desist or lawyers will eat her soul.

Given that, it's unlikely she can fight it.

[K9]

I guess GW needs a new business model since they are top of the 'Companies most likely to be wiped out by the advent of 3D printing' list.

[Trippy]

Actually it's not even that. GW convinced Amazon to pull it even though Amazon didn't have to cause it's not under DMCA (DMCA "safe harbor" is for copyright infringement not trademark infringement).

[K9]

What is the diference?

[Soulflame]

Hey I know let's consult the author in question.  Oh, she has a legal battle on her hands that she can't afford to fight for a case she'd be able to win if she only had the money, as "prior art" would pretty much be the end of any GW case.

[K9]

Interesting, thanks.

[Bzalthek]

Is there a site that shows projected release dates for upcoming games.  I open a thread and get kinda excited then notice it's due out in a year or two.  Then I kick a puppy. 

Like how we have such a feature here at F13 for MMOs.  (The Gaming Graveyard)