ScrewAttack put together another of their always-great Top 10 lists, this time focusing on games that need to be brought back. After giving Capcom the props for revisiting games like Bionic Commando and of course Street Fighter, he mentions a few things I’d personally like to see (like Starfox!), as well as a bunch of choices from the Capcom stable, including Power Stone, Strider, and… I won’t give away their #1 choice. But really? People want that? We had no idea! Anyway, tell us, what games do YOU think Capcom should revisit?

Well…Capcom is asking, so give them your answers! Click here to visit the blog post and leave a comment. Make sure you tell them what systems you’d like to see these games hit!

Sony are upgrading www.playstation.com so that it integrates more PSN features. They are also getting rid of the Playstation Underground service and integrating it into the PSN to create a more streamlined experience. The update will also allow us to check out our friend’s lists on the site. Other features are rating and reviewing games but I’m not sure if you can build a collection to show what you own. These all seem like good additions to me and I really like the design in the screenshot above. I look forward to when it launches next week.

full details and links to creating an account can be found here;
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/11/19/playstationcom-continues-to-evolve/g

In addition, we are making enhancements to the gamer profile features. Your profile will include your PSN online ID, your avatar, and a short “about me” section. You’ll also be able to display your friends list and, on the game detail pages, you’ll be able to include ratings and reviews for all of your favorite games. These features were created so that you can make new friends, learn new tricks and tips, talk trash, offer advice, console the defeated, praise the winners, and more.

If you have an Underground account on PlayStation.com and haven’t already merged it with your PlayStation Network ID, click here to do so. If you don’t have an Underground account but would like to create a PlayStation Network account to participate in the new features on PlayStation.com, click here.

We decided to dissolve the PlayStation Underground program in order to provide more PlayStation fans with a glimpse into the PlayStation Network world via the web. We hope you enjoy this next step in the evolution of PlayStation.com.

Stay tuned; before this year is over we’ll have more enhancements for your gamer profile.

Also hanging out in here - Ste Pickford on the Bond approach to plotting, a Georgia Tech project about how video games can be used in journalism, how people coded games in 1991, the IFComp results, and quite a few more besides.

Link tast ick:

Montreal Mirror - 'Indie gaming on the rise'
'The future may belong to indie games, but for now GAMMA 3D will serve to introduce gamers and non-gamers alike to interactive entertainment that really doesn’t bear any resemblance to the Halos and Grand Theft Autos of the world.'

Cowboy Programming » My coding practices in 1991
'I wrote this in 1991, when I was writing Amiga and Atari ST games for Ocean Software in Manchester, UK. I think at the time I was working on Parasol Stars. It’s an interesting look at a simpler time in games programming.'

Media Coverage: The Case For Games Journalism - Video Game Features, PC Game Features
Missed Gus Mastrapa's hearty bravo for game writing: 'When I browse my RSS reader everyday, I'm consistently impressed by the quality and originality of the reporting being done by the video game press.'

TwitterCrit » PixelVixen707
Really interesting analysis of how games are discussed from the, uhh, fictional ARG character. (Yes, it's odd.)

Ste Pickford's Blog - 'Don't Start With Story'
A fine point, even for demos: 'If we're going to copy movies, then at least copy the right ones. Bond movies tend to start with a massive, stupid action sequence (almost like the end of a previous story), before settling down for the new story to begin.' This (Bond story structure!) coincidentally just got covered on Gamasutra.

VGPC.com Blog: 30 Rare & Expensive Gamecube Games
Prices are a little inflated here (highest ever new price is cited), but it's interesting to note the mix of uncommon but boring titles and actually interesting rarities.

Georgia Tech Journalism & Games Project
'This research project, made possible by funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, seeks to understand the ways videogames can be used in the field of journalism, providing examples, theoretical approaches, speculative ideas, and practical advice about the past, present, and future of games and journalism.' Bogost-impelled, v.cool.

Dollarshort: The Definition of a Slow News Day
Not strictly game-related, but the same tabloid-related problems occurs. Also, it's depressing cos they are all great headlines. all hail the tabloid apocalypse!

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VG Chartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some interesting chatter in here: 'We don't base arguments for keeping articles on the accuracy of the subject—we base it (in part) on it the sources available.'

Results of the 14th annual Interactive Fiction Competition
Hurray, IFComp winners again!

Recently, That VideoGame Blog conducted an interview with Steve Schnur, EA’s Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing and President of Artwerk (EA music publisher), to discuss how EA is expanding their involvement in bringing new music into games. Artwerk signs new talent and brings their songs into EA while also delivering master recordings, film and TV sync deals, advertising placement and distribution that goes far beyond games. If it has to do with music in many of EA’s games, he’s the one to talk to. So we did. And he had some pretty interesting stuff to say about how big the music world is getting within the gaming world.

Of course even an EA man has to attribute a lot of that success to Rock Band and Guitar Hero (though Madden was making artists famous before that). Those two games are making big bucks right now and as Schnur points out, “a recent survey shows that among all boys and girls in the 8-17 year-old age group, the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 are the ‘most wanted’ games this holiday season.” So without a doubt, there is high demand and big bucks there. And we were curious if Schnur knew anything about an EA rhythm game in the works.

“We have some pretty awesome things in development. Naturally, they’re all top-secret. In the meantime, keep your hands on a controller and your eyes and ears open!,” he said after asked if EA and Artwerk had any plans for music style games in that vein. Definitely sounds like EA might be entering the plastic guitar scene some time soon — they couldn’t let Activision have all the fun could they? Of course not.

Okay, I don’t hear any Internet squeeing yet. You must not be looking at the above picture hard enough. Do you not see the classic Bionic Commando box art front? Have you not noticed the 8-bit graphics that line the sides? Are you having trouble making out that it is A FREAKIN’ BIONIC COMMANDO METAL LUNCHBOX?

What? Still not sold? Well, for the love of all that is retro, please click here to check out what’s on the back of said lunchbox. Seriously, prepare yourself. It is that awesome.

If you preorder the new Bionic Commando for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this beautiful lunchbox will be yours ... but only if you preorder from Game Crazy. Also, these are extremely limited, so hurry and preorder now before they are gone forever.

If you don’t want to use Game Crazy (and are apparently just really crazy), you can also preorder from GameStop and receive some fun old school and new school Bionic Commando patches. Not as cool, for sure, but still pretty neat!

Why are you still reading this post? Get to preordering! GO! GO! GO!

[Via Capcom’s Official Blog]

There’s an interesting article on BioWare Blog that gives gamers pause to examine what they really want in a game. Part one of the Immersion vs. #’s article asks whether you prefer immersive descriptors in games or if you just want to know how powerful your shocking infernal reaver is on a scale of 1 to 10.

So I’m leading a troop of Grim-mages across the wastes of D’rann when we get dive bombed by the Nalmerre aliens in their swooping zagoid ships. They’re raining chain bombs down on us and my Grim-mages quickly begin an ancient and dread chant…

Or maybe I’m actually staring at an array of tiny lights that are either red, green or blue. And maybe those lights are controlled by a much vaster array of numbers that are either one, zero or in the process of changing from one to the other.

Which version of reality do you prefer?

Personally I think both have their place in games even when the number crunching does bring you out of your gaming trance. It’s reminds you to hit the head and order pizza. Check out the pros and cons of each approach in Immersion vs. #’s on BioWare Blog.

---
Related Articles at Gaming Today:

• Microsoft Files Suit Against Immersion
• Sonic RPG Q&A with Bioware
• Sessler's Soapbox: Thank You, Bioware
• BioWare on Romance in Future Video Games Post "SeXbox" Accusations
• Bioware Hiring MMO Level Designers Via Contest

Obama's FCC transition team includes MMO gamer, virtual world resident originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments