Spielberg Talks About Microsoft’s Natal Control System
BBC has a interesting interview with Steven Spielberg about Microsoft‘s new Natal control system. As someone that was seriously considering trading in my rather dust covered XBox 360, this has really changed my mind. I think i may hold onto it a little longer.
Telltale Tell Tales Of Monkey Island!
Telltale Games have teamed up with LucasArts to bring some new stories from the legendary Monkey Island! Telltale will be bringing Guybrush Threepwood, evil pirate LeChuck, and many other characters from the classic point and click adventure back to the PC in the same episodic format that worked so well for them with the Sam & Max games.
I doubt they’ll ever compete with the genius writing of Gilbert, Schafer and Grossman in the original Monkey Island series, but i’m glad LucasArts have at least chosen to partner with pretty much the only people out there that are still waving the flag of the point and click genre.
More info at telltalegames.com
Team Fortress 2: Meet The Spy
I love what Valve does with the Team Fortress 2 ‘Meet The…’ videos, and they just get better and better. I’ve not been on TF2 for while, so i might just boot it up again… If i can just kick my Plants Vs. Zombies addiction…
Team Fortress 2′s Sniper Gets An Update
TF2's sniper gets some new toys
I’ve kinda been off Team Fortress 2 for a while, but I’ve recently been thinking I might pay it another look. Following the Doctor, Scout, Pyro & Heavy updates, Valve have finally got round to the Sniper. Everyone’s favourite long distance psycho-murdering Aussie, is getting himself a brand new bow and arrow set to play with. You might think a bow and arrow is a bit of a step down from his trusty rifle, however, the arrows do have the added advantage that they’ll also stick the target to a nearby wall! And if that doesn’t kill them, the poor punctured soul will then have to spend the rest of the game with pointy arrow-shaped proof that they need to learn to duck and dive more sticking out of them.
For more info on the Sniper update here.
Blizzard Is The World’s Most Bankable Games Studio Shocker!
I saw this article over at bbc.co.uk in which Develop 100 have announced their top 100 software development studios, and it just got me thinking… is anyone actually all that surprised that Blizzard – the 11.5 million World of Warcraft subscribers/$1.34 billion annual turnover – software development juggernaut is top of the software developmer list? It’s becoming more and more apparent with each expansion that WoW has become a licence for Blizzard to print money. Then you add on the profit potential from the upcoming release of Starcraft II and Diablo III, and the Guitar Hero money from Activision‘s side of the business, and you could probably heat the whole of Activision Blizzard’s head office with rolls of $20 bills, and still never run short of cash!
You can read the article in Develop 100 here.
