Retail box of Awakening expansion contains flyer with two-winged dragon and a date corresponding to previously announced release window of entry in series. Get the full article at GameSpot ” Xbox 360 | Dragon Age 2 coming Feb See more here: Xbox 360 | Dragon Age 2 coming Feb. 1, 2011? Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

Xbox 360 outsells Wii for first time since 2007, analysts blame supply constraints; PS3 sales up 30%; Dante’s Inferno PS3 outsells 360; New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Modern Warfare 2, Wii Sports Resort, Mass Effect 2, make chart This afternoon, the NPD Group released game-industry sales figures for its February reporting period (January 31 through February 27). The month saw yet another double-digit... 

GDC 2010: Akira Yamaoka of Grasshopper Manufacture discusses how the human brain works and what techniques are effective when creating a memorable audio experience. Who Was There: Akira Yamaoka, who is best known for his music in the Silent Hill series, leveraged his 20 years of experience in video game production to discuss audio design in games from a producer’s perspective. He has worked... 

“We took some pretty different aesthetic choices on this game, and it wasn’t easy to bring it to where we are today,” said Jonathan Jacques-Belletete, art director of Eidos Montreal. “We started from nothing, literally,” he said, referencing the fact that there were 5 people in the dev team initially. The first thing they did was go back to original. “That was very,... 

It’s possible that an over-reliance on metrics-driven design and extrinsic rewards for in-game actions could lead to a future of “designing shitty games that you have to pay people to play,” warns independent developer Chris Hecker. Hecker, who is currently working on the espionage-themed multiplayer game SpyParty, presented his hypothetical “nightmare self-fulfilling scenario”... 

R.A. Salvatore, the popular fantasy author best-known for his Forgotten Realms novels starring Drow Elf Drizzt Do’Urden Read more here: GDC: R.A. Salvatore On Building Worlds, Copernicus Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

Akira Yamaoka, famed for his Silent Hill soundtracks, today discussed his thoughts on sound design, informed by his 20 year career of making music and games. Orginally, he went to design school, and that’s how he came into the game world. But he loved both games and audio, so he wanted wanted to do both. “When I started getting into games, the Famicom was yet to come,” he said, as... 

Hardware constraints dragged on February’s NPD results, but PlayStation 3 saw unit sales up 30 percent year over year — and though Sony is facing supply constraints, it still plans to make a major sales milestone by the end of the month. “There continues to be incredible demand for PlayStation 3, but tight inventory is definitely having an impact on recent sales numbers,” says... 

Though revenues were down across the board year-on-year, February 2010 releases achieved big numbers, with 2K Games’ BioShock 2 for the Xbox 360 leading the chart — though last fall’s big hits, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, are still represented by strong sales. According to the NPD Group, year on year, overall retail sales in the U.S. video game market are down 15 percent,... 

In a lecture Thursday at GDC, Blizzard EVP of game design Rob Pardo shared Blizzard’s core design concepts, offering examples of places where the World of Warcraft developer succeeded and failed in creating compelling multiplayer experiences. Pardo offered a plethora advice to the designers present, stressing that these lessons may not necessarily gel with other studios and suggesting that everybody... 

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ModNation Racers PSP (PSP) Zap kart-driving friends wherever you are. Read the original here: GDC 10: ModNation Racers PSP Hands-on Bookmark It Hide Sites  Read More →

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