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Interview with John Plewe of Shibuya

katiegreen — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:26:58 +0000

When you approach the PAX 10, it's a melange of televisions and Xbox controllers. However, in the middle of it all, the Shibuya booth stood out with two iPads and an iPhone. Between the bright colors, the falling blocks, and the shiny hardware, the booth was brilliantly salient. John Plewe, the game and software creator for Nevercenter, was onhand to help explain why. Related posts:

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Off To PAX

pixelsocks — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:50:17 +0000

PAX is upon us again, so the site will be on hiatus until we’re back next week. To make up for the lull, we’ll bring back daily PAX10 interviews and whatever news and previews we can find. See you next week! Related posts:Aaaand We’re Back. Man, does nobody update this site when I've caught a... [...] Related posts:

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Xbox Live To Raise Prices

pixelsocks — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:18:53 +0000

Microsoft will be hitting you where it hurts starting November 1, because Gold Xbox Live membership prices are getting hiked. Monthly subscribers can expect to pay $2 more ($24 annually), tri-monthly will rise by $5 ($20 annually) , and yearly subscribers will get a $10 price hike. As you might expect, there’s been no small [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Best Buy Breaks Into Used Games at the Worst Possible Time

pixelsocks — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:00:06 +0000

Hot on the heels of incendiary remarks from THQ and Penny Arcade, Best Buy has decided to break into the used games business. The retail chain will exchange $20 gift cards for games on a rotating list starting August 29, just in time for the release of Metroid: Other M. Best Buy plans to pilot [...] Related posts:

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Portal Is Officially Educational

pixelsocks — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:03:22 +0000

Apparently Portal just made the Syllabus at Wabash College. Michael Abbott over at The Brainy Gamer is a professor at the sesquicentennial college. He managed to convince a multidisciplinary committee of faculty to play the game long enough to see it as a storytelling medium. His idea: This tension between backstage machination and onstage performance [...] Related posts:

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The Missing Manual Pages: Castlevania HD

pixelsocks — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:00:41 +0000

Ok, so I was scrounging through Koji Igarashi's trash (in a totally journalistic capacity) when I happened across the following pages. I only managed to scan a handful before their informative radiance broke the scanner, but I'll post more once I work around that bottleneck. Who knows, maybe if I'm suddenly inspired (or I find a bored graphic designer willing to work for site credit), I'll bind these and the ingame pages into an honest-to-intellectual-property-theft manual. Related posts:

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Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness Changes Media

pixelsocks — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:43:22 +0000

The lightening bolt symbolizes being awesome. That’s not to say that RSPoD alters media, but rather that it has entered a new medium. Developer Hothead Games recently dropped the Penny Arcade Adventures game to refocus on DeathSpank. It looked for a while like we’d never see closure for the Startling Developments Detective Agency. However, Penny [...] Related posts:

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The Apologist: On the Subjective Character of Money

pixelsocks — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:30:00 +0000

I'm not terribly mindful about my generational membership, but I'm pretty sure that being 30 makes me an apathetic gen X. I say this by way of explanation for why I find it embarrassing to admit that I have a blogging hero. Jeremy Parish is an editor at 1up and maintains gamespite.net (and bakespite.net, though it's more foodie-oriented). He produces more words in a day than I do in a week, and I aspire to his standards for quality. So I'm a bit worried by the fact that I completely disagree with his position on the role of money in game reviews. Still, If I don't hold my ground on this one, I may as well hang up one of my favorite review tools. Related posts:

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Filler post

katiegreen — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:09:34 +0000

Hey all, Adam’s still coming out of the anesthesia, so your feature piece will have to wait until he’s doing a bit better. Don’t worry: it was a routine procedure and went fine. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Irrational Announces Bioshock: Infinite

pixelsocks — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:02:12 +0000

Irrational Games (formerly 2K Boston) just announced their latest project: The Bioshock developer made much ado about the project’s secrecy when it was named Icarus. So if anything comes as a surprise, it’s the obvious sequel. However, it’s worth remembering that Bioshock 2 actually came from developer 2K Marin, which makes three years since Irrational [...] Related posts:

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