Posts about gaming.
Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.
The first Wipeout game was developed by Psygnosis, whom later got renamed to Studio Liverpool when Sony bought them as a first party game developer for their thriving Playstation console. Despite being an English developed game, it has a very futuristic, Japanese … [ Read More... ]
FixedChair, a reader on Kotaku, watched the Gabe Newell speech at University of Texas just like the rest of us. But unlike the rest of us, he cracked Valve Corp founder, Gabe Newell’s secret announcement of Half Life 3… the sequel to Half Life 2.
He breaks it down like this:
Video Length: 1:02:53
1 + 0 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 11… [ Read More... ]
For those of us who never went to “uni” and probably never will, we miss out on some stuff. Like lectures from geniuses and visionaries. One such event that recently went down was Gabe Newell, founder of Valve Corp, speaking for LBJ School at the University of Texas. It was entitled “Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions & The Future of Corporations: Reflections of a Video Game Maker.” … [ Read More... ]
Square Enix does more than make video games and publish manga as Gangan Comics, they also create beautifully detailed collectible ‘PlayArts‘ figures. The upcoming Kojima Productions game Metal Gear Rising will be getting a PlayArts Raiden figurine. However to mark the release of Metal Gear Rising Square Enix sent Metal Gear series creator, Hideo Kojima, a custom one-of-a-kind Raiden figure with his face on it. … [ Read More... ]