Mar
27
Ah, yes, a little further GameSetLink-age for your wazoo, and this time, a fairly major cornucopia of linkage, including Second Life-rs branching out into ARGs, for starters.
Also below - a Dobbs Challenge update (reminder - the $1,000 ‘first month’ part of the competition ends fairly soon!), as well as the mentioned/pictured neeto indie yoink-age […]
Mar
26
[Completing the ‘best of GDC 2008′ series, this Tom Kim-penned write-up sees Steve Fawkner, president of Australia’s Infinite Interactive, discusses the development Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, giving insight into the melding of both match-three puzzle and RPG gameplay elements to appeal to both casual and hardcore players.]
Steve Fawkner began by introducing Puzzle […]
Mar
26
World of Warcraft Exposed: Why WoW Made It BIg
Category: Column: World Of Warcraft Exposed |
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[’World of Warcraft Exposed’ is a brand new weekly column by Michael Zenke about the culture and experience of the globe’s biggest online game phenomenon, the ten million subscriber-strong World of Warcraft. This first column explores how WoW became so popular in the first place.]
Massively Multiplayer Online Games are officially mainstream. A title from the […]
Mar
26
Xbox Website Updates - Plus Achievement Cheaters Go Bye-Bye
Category: Xbox 360, General, Online Networks |
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If you haven’t already taken a look at your profile on Xbox.com, you may want to log in just to feel the difference of a fast loading page, oh, it is sweet. Visually the profile pages are different as well, taking the full page down to just the necessities. I do miss […]
Mar
26
So, I’ve been involved in the netlabel scene for a good few years (uh, at least 12) with my Creative Commons-licensed online electronic music label Monotonik, and before that the Amiga demo-scene, so it was neat to get a note from Jan Robbe of net.label entity on a GSW/netlabel crossover:
“Our own little netlabel/indie game scene […]
Mar
25
Yeehah, all kinds of goodness in this particular caboodle of GameSetLinks, with a whole weekend of web-based exploration to lay out in the course of a week of glorious http referrals.
These include a postmortem of the intriguing but ultimately underexploited indie title Play With Fire, and some thoughts on creating emotional response as game […]
Mar
25
How To Catch An Xbox Thief - Use The Internet!
Category: Xbox 360, General, News, Hardware, Xbox, Xbox Live, AIM, Digg, Internet, Philadelphia, SXSW, Web, Xbox Thief, YouTube |
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then enjoy the following story of how one man managed to get back his stolen Xbox 360 by utilising the power of the Internet…
Jesse McPherson, a gamer from Philadelphia, returned from a trip to the SXSW festival on March 12th to discover his home had been broken in to, and […]
Mar
25
Rock Band DLC Update: Week of 03-23-08
Category: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Videos, Boston, Music, rock, Rock Band |
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This week’s DLC brings us a lot of Boston. In fact, it brings us more Boston than you can shove in your Cheetos stained face. There are six songs in total, bringing up the Boston total on Rock Band up to seven.
The songs will be 160 Microsoft Points ($1.99) each or as a whole pack […]
Mar
25
COLUMN: ‘Jump Button’: Future Hairy Racers, Neil McFarland
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[Jump Button is a new weekly column by Drew Taylor, written specially for GameSetWatch, that focuses on the art and substance of video game culture.]
‘Passing through the mouth of Venus,’ says Neil McFarland.
‘Passing through, the driver is riled and beguiled by a procession of gigantic beauties,’ he says to me.
The 34-year-old illustrator is describing his […]
Mar
25
[Aha, we’ve announced a call for submissions for the 2008 Austin Game Developers Conference this September - if you like MMOs, audio, or writing (also pina coladas and… oh, forget it!) you might want to consider submitting a lecture, yay.]
The call for submissions is now open for the 2008 Austin Game Developers Conference (AGDC). Submissions […]