GameXplain: "I spent the past weekend playing the excessively punctuated Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines because a friend gifted it to me with enthusiastic recommendations. Now, understand: vampires aren’t normally my thing. Anne Rice never made it onto my bookshelf, and the only part of True Blood that I really like is the opening. I have nothing against the supernatural; if they were just immortal, smooth-talking people who wanted to bring the cape back in style, I’d have no problems with them. It’s just that they’re so sad about it. So, I went into Vampire: The Masquerade expecting a lot of emo characters whining about the burdens of immortality and how they long -- oh, how they long! -- to see the sun again."
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
The details for multiple future Call Of Duty games appear to have leaked, including a follow-up to Advanced Warfare.
Activision Blizzard ordered to pay $23.4M for patent infringement involving popular games.
I would read the article but the giant pop-ups from the top and bottom of the screen made me close it.
Without reading $23.4 million isn't a deterrent for a company that size.
Boss: Let's fire a few people to recoup on that loss.
Slave: Cortana has decided to get rid of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks.
Boss: Let's get those Firing Letters "Copilot Approved" and send them through the power of the cloud.
Slave: Long Live Phil !!!
ALL in the room: LONG LIVE PHIL !!!!
Well another troll company with a patent trying to extort money out of companies. Seems like they’re going to try and sue everyone.
I remember the ridge racer loading screens. Good times
Great game, just a shame the released game wasn't finished and Troika closed down.
I must have tried 8000 times to get into bloodlines. It's a shame because it looked like a stellar game... it's just something about it didn't click with me.
Oh well. And I think developers should actually make loading screens useful. I'm tired of reading tips like "aim for the head", "press space to enter cover", "you can aim by holding the RMB" and so on.
I want actual tips that read like, "this end boss is a bitch but the chaingun stuns him so he can't return fire". Or "there's a hidden rocket launcher under the crate just before you enter this room". I know they'd ruin the game but I'm so pedantic when someone tells me they're offering me a tip I expect it to be an actual tip, and not something painfully obvious. Maybe they should just wire themselves into something like didyouknowfact.com or sickipedia.org and give us little bits of miscellaneous trivia or jokes to read and laugh at.