ATemporaryDistraction.com: "The uDraw Gaming Tablet has its issues, and doesn’t always prove to be as accurate as you might like. As a result, more serious artists will be better served with a more precise PC graphics tablet. But for casual artists/gamers, once you sink the time into getting comfortable with it, it’s an incredibly versatile beginner’s art tool. The uDraw Studio: Instant Artist software, while a little drab in presentation, does a pretty great job at introducing kids and inexperienced artists to the fundamentals of drawing and painting in an engaging way, offering up a bounty of fun colouring activites, too. It’s a fun learning tool, and while it’s a rather expensive alternative to simply picking up a sketchbook and some colouring books, if your kids are interested in art and love gaming, then it’ll keep them entertained over Christmas while inspiring and encouraging their imagination and creativity in wonderfully welcome ways."
This week the podcast is giving away a free copy of BioShock Infinite for the Xbox 360!
In the meantime, the Gaming Flashback this time is the PlayStation One classic Chrono Cross, while Paul tries desperately to avoid listening to BioShock Infinite spoilers.
This week’s news includes:
* THQ’s UDraw failure “invalidated” Saints Row: The Third‘s success
* Levine: BioShock Infinite cost $100M to develop, and $100M to market
* American McGee doesn’t “see anything meaningful” in the PS4, SimCity players “need to relax”
* Schafer’s Double Fine Adventure project from Kickstarter is now Broken Age
* Capcom announces DuckTales Remastered, developed by WayForward
All this and some Reader Feedback.
Gameplanet: THQ, the publisher of games such as Saints Row, WWE, and Company of Heroes, is no more. James Cullinane revisits the five games that finally capsized the company.
GamerTell's Jeremy Hill sees why the uDraw failed by spending 20 minutes trying to actually use it.
