Game Industry
CCP Reaches New Heights. By Climbing a Mountain. For Real.
You know how I said that I didn’t want to report gaming news on this blog, despite the fact that it is what I mostly want to write about? Yeah. Screw that. Why keep a blog (blarg) if I’m not writing about what I enjoy?
CCP developers Solomon, Diagoras, and Punkturis were also not willing to [...]
GDC 2010: Coming Full Circle, but With a New View
Shortly before midnight yesterday I stumbled back into my apartment after taking a flight from San Fransisco back to Austin. I was in California, of course, for the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest events in the world for the game industry. It wasn’t my first time at GDC since I had attended it [...]
Rise From Your Grave! Heatwave Revives Gods and Heroes
You may recognize the name Gods and Heroes from a few years back. It was a game being developed by Perpetual Entertainment, the studio that was also developing Star Trek Online before they closed their doors. Whenever a studio closes, it is always a sad. Developers find themselves out of work, and the games that [...]
Cheyenne Mountain Files for Bankruptcy
As much as I’d hate for it to seem like I’m coming out of blargging-retirement just to talk about how Stargate: Resistance and Stargate Worlds developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is filing for Chapter 11, and it really is more of a coincidence than anything, I practically feel required to talk about this one.
I’ve been skeptical about Stargate [...]
EA Buys Out Playfish, Lays Off Other Employees
.Today brings both interesting news and bad news out of Electric Arts. It was announced that EA has sank $300 million into purchasing Playfish, a casual game studio that’s made a splash on Facebook. While casual web games are certainly no new thing for EA, there is no doubt in my mind that they’ll be [...]
