Sony CEO Jack Tretton just bared his claws in a catty new interview with Fortune magazine. In the interview, Tretton had some particularly harsh words for Nintendo’s new ‘3d-without-glasses’ 3DS, calling it of all things a “babysitting tool.”
Here’s the quote:
Our view of the ‘Game Boy experience’ is that it’s a great babysitting
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When a brick-and-mortar retailer decides to go digital, one possible strategy goes something like this: Buy a smaller digital company or two, and hope to make them big.
That’s what GameStop did last week when it acquired Stardock’s Impulse game download …
Imagine a video game that got better as you did, or that could turn your pro thumb-hook, wrist-twist moves against you. Imagine another that added a little zest to your opponent’s less-than-exemplary game by making it harder for a pro like you to play.
Imagine games with dynamic handicaps, in other words, but don’t mistake that for …
It’s been a weird year for football fans. The NFL lockout means Sunday’s regular pigskin battles may disappear entirely, or worse, that they’ll be waged by substitute players. It’s even getting strange on the video game front, where sports-play bigwig EA’s adding cautionary concussion mechanics to this year’s edition of their perennial …
We at Techland hold firmly that video game designers are some of today’s best artists. But we also realize that mainstream art snobs sometimes dismiss the genre as not real art.
That’s why we love the work of Thibault Brunet, a photographer who’s capturing and retouching screenshots to capture the landscapes and portraits found in
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The film festival started by one of cinema’s greatest actors will give special focus to the next game from the makers of last year’s hit Red Dead Redemption.
Announced today in a statement from Rockstar Games, Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Festival has made L.A. Noire an official selection of the two-week celebration in downtown …
The latest chapter in the long melodrama that is Metacritic’s dysfunctional relationship with the video games medium came to a swift end last night. The review-aggregating site announced the end of their Career Score feature, which had been assigning an average score to prominent developers based on the scores of games they’d worked on. …
The unexpected game success of the week is a five-dollar app called Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. When it was released last Thursday for the iPad, only hardcore gaming heads had heard of it (or its Toronto-based studio, Capybara Games). Now, basically on the strength of word of mouth, it’s already hit third place on the paid iPad …
You’ve read the short story, seen the movies, and probably spent the better part of your life waiting for the answer to a single poignant question:
“Why not Children of the Corn the video game?”
Why not indeed. You’ll have to ask the Weinstein brothers, Harvey and Bob, who today announced the creation of game studio TWC Games, with …
Electronic Arts just got a little greener and its retail footprint a trifle leaner. The world’s largest video games publisher says it’s finally pulling the plug on printed game manuals, making it–not the first, but certainly the largest games publisher to bid those little black-and-white pamphlets sayonara.
They weren’t always as …
If you’re around the median age of most video game players–which the Entertainment Software Association says is about 35 years old–then chances are that you’ve got more than a few M-rated games on your shelf. Roughly equivalent to the R film rating issued by the MPAA, ‘M’ (for “Mature”) stands at the highest age bracket for video …
This year saw the second edition of the Penny Arcade Exposition, Eastern Variant, otherwise known as PAX East. In the new Boston Convention Center venue, the 2011 fan festival saw gaming of every stripe celebrated with CCG groups playing Magic: The Gathering in the hallways, giant LAN parties for FPS and fighting game competition and …
