Tag Archives: Windows Phone 7

History of Grand Theft Auto box art

Boxes in boxes in boxes in boxes GTA 5‘s box art is currently being painted onto a wall in New York City, because that’s how big of a deal it is. Seriously. Now, it’s officially out, ready for your eyes to pour over it while you wait anxiously for the …

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Gamings most green characters

Greener pastures Its St. Patricks Day, a time when we celebrate the Irish, drinking, and the color green (not always in that order). After giving the Irish and drinking at least one tribute feature, its time for us to focus on the favorite shade of the Emerald Isle and the …

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Top 7… Games that broke the fourth wall

This is the first slide of the Top 7 From the wooden floorboards of the theater stage, to the plastic housing of your grandparents old CRT TV, the fourth wall has long been used as a way to describe the barrier between performance and audience. But that magic transparent window …

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Zynga and EA settle plagiarism battle out of court

Zynga and Electronic Arts have settled their mud slinging legal battles about whose social games ripped off whose, Gamasutra reports. Both EA’s initial claim that Zynga took a bit too much inspiration from The Sims Social in making The Ville, and Zynga’s countersuit that EA used anti-competitive employment practices against …

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Valve lays off multiple employees, report says

UPDATE 2: Valve boss Gabe Newell has responded to reports of significant layoffs at the company by attempting to assure fans that any personnel changes haven’t affected its current projects. UPDATE: Develop reports that Valve’s director of business Jason Holtman has left the company, corroborated by his new absence from …

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Bethesda hiring for unannounced next-gen game

Bethesda Game Studios is working working on an unannounced next-generation game, and it’s looking for talent to help out. The developer posted a job listing for a “future generation console programmer,” which is–in a refreshing turn of events–actually still live on its website. The listing was spotted by NeoGAF users …

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Why Ms. Pac-Man is one of the greatest games of all time

Today’s billion dollar video game industry makes the original arcade scene look like the Wild West. Way back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, inspiration seemed endless and the industry was filled with developers ready to imitate the next big hit. And it was that unique mix of innovation …

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Fallout news teased by Three Dog voice actor

Three Dog, that howling voice in the quiet desolation of Fallout 3’s Capital Wasteland, may not have barked his last. Voice actor Erik Todd Dellums tweeted a brief tease yesterday that the Galaxy News Radio DJ could appear in the post-apocalypse again. “To all my #Fallout3 and #ThreeDog fans: There …

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RadioRadar podcast 020: Holiday hangover

We’ve been off work for a while, but we think we still know how to do this. Let’s see… we talked about the Top 7… what else? Oh, and we discussed news, and even did a preview! Yeah. We got this. We totally got this. The Deets Post date: January …

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Shooters finally have something to say in 2012

“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.” Wait, what? I’m, like, an hour into Spec Ops: The Line when this message pops up on a loading screen. “What a weird thing to say,” I think to myself. But …

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