Remember before when I said that Dave Perry likes to make some big promises and then doesn't deliver anything in the end? Hmm well here's what I just stumbled across on bigdownloads:
The Gaikai streaming PC game service announced a couple of new people that will join the company's executive team. One is Robert Stevenson who is the company's new Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment. Stevenson has worked for many years in the game business including stints at Namco Bandai and Atari. The other new executive is Tim Wilson who has been named as Gaikai's Executive VP of Strategic Relationships. Wilson worked for 16 years at Electronic Arts including the Chief Technology Officer at EA' Redwood Shores studio.
Meanwhile we are still waiting for Gaikai to launch. You may remember that its CEO Dave Perry told our sister site Engadget that he was targeting a December 15, 2010 launch but that date has come and gone. He told us about a month ago that Gaikai decided to take the "difficult route by supporting every browser / operating system configuration (including Linux) in all countries."
There ya go Dave. I think someone has been reading Jim Collins. Getting the "right people on the bus" is not going to get your product released, assuming it exists at all.
Bloodline Champions
Bloodline champions, the latest free to play competitor to DOTA was just released. Looks interesting, I might check it out.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Romero departs Slipgate, Minecraft crash
Via Bigdownloads:
id Software founder John Romero has decided to depart the latest game developer company that he helped to form, the San Fransisco-based Slipgate Ironworks. Earlier this week it was revealed that Romero was teaming up with his long time friend and business partner Tom Hall on a new social networking game developer called Loot Drop.
Romero formed Slipgate Ironworks in 2005 and said at the time that it was developing a new but unnamed MMO project. Later it was revealed that the company was part of the many MMO game studios from Gazillion Entertainment. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to Big Download, "John is no longer working with Gazillion. We parted ways late last year, and we wish him nothing but the best in the future."
It's been nearly five years since Slipgate Ironworks was formed yet the developer has yet to reveal the game project or projects it has been working on for all that time. Gazillion's spokesperson gave us a small update on Slipgate Ironworks, saying, ... "the studio is working on a key project in Gazillion. John's MMO project was changed and shifted out to later in the pipeline, as the company decided to move it to an in-browser platform which is an area of focus for Gazillion's future titles. We have not announced a release date for this title and John was not involved with the new plans."
Hmm, 5 years and nothing to show for it? Anyone remember Dikatana? I wonder if Romero fell back into old habits. We shall see.
Minecraft Website down.
A victim of its own success, the website for Minecraft appears to have crashed for awhile. As stated by its creator Markus "Notch" Persson:
"We've got five servers behind a load balancer, and a dedicated server for payment processing, and another for ingame authentication and login, although that won't be in use until we update the game launcher." However the web site's sales and player stats for Minecraft are not yet back up to speed."
Hey, even World of Warcraft crashed when it was released. So far, he is doing pretty good.
id Software founder John Romero has decided to depart the latest game developer company that he helped to form, the San Fransisco-based Slipgate Ironworks. Earlier this week it was revealed that Romero was teaming up with his long time friend and business partner Tom Hall on a new social networking game developer called Loot Drop.
Romero formed Slipgate Ironworks in 2005 and said at the time that it was developing a new but unnamed MMO project. Later it was revealed that the company was part of the many MMO game studios from Gazillion Entertainment. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to Big Download, "John is no longer working with Gazillion. We parted ways late last year, and we wish him nothing but the best in the future."
It's been nearly five years since Slipgate Ironworks was formed yet the developer has yet to reveal the game project or projects it has been working on for all that time. Gazillion's spokesperson gave us a small update on Slipgate Ironworks, saying, ... "the studio is working on a key project in Gazillion. John's MMO project was changed and shifted out to later in the pipeline, as the company decided to move it to an in-browser platform which is an area of focus for Gazillion's future titles. We have not announced a release date for this title and John was not involved with the new plans."
Hmm, 5 years and nothing to show for it? Anyone remember Dikatana? I wonder if Romero fell back into old habits. We shall see.
Minecraft Website down.
A victim of its own success, the website for Minecraft appears to have crashed for awhile. As stated by its creator Markus "Notch" Persson:
"We've got five servers behind a load balancer, and a dedicated server for payment processing, and another for ingame authentication and login, although that won't be in use until we update the game launcher." However the web site's sales and player stats for Minecraft are not yet back up to speed."
Hey, even World of Warcraft crashed when it was released. So far, he is doing pretty good.
Friday, January 7, 2011
One Grand Per GHZ reasonable? Apparently to some
Via conceivably tech:
The most extreme announcement we have seen so far comes from custom PC maker Origin, which will begin selling its Sandy Bridge Big O and genesis models late next Sunday. Based on the 32 nm 3.4 GHz Core i7-2600K processor, the manufacturer said it will overclock the CPU to a stable 5 GHz.
15- and 17-inch Notebooks based on Sandy Bridge will follow later in Q1, the company said.
Pricing for the new computers isn’t finalized yet, but the Big O should be less than what the company charged for a comparable 4.3 GHz Nehalem system, we are told. The last Big O started at about $7800, while high-end configurations went past $16,000. This sounds excessive, but if we remember that high-end Core 2 Duo computers went for well more than $25,000 from companies such as the now headless Voodoo PC, Origin’s pricing could be almost considered to be reasonable.
Seems excessive to me, but if you've got five grand to blow go ahead.
The most extreme announcement we have seen so far comes from custom PC maker Origin, which will begin selling its Sandy Bridge Big O and genesis models late next Sunday. Based on the 32 nm 3.4 GHz Core i7-2600K processor, the manufacturer said it will overclock the CPU to a stable 5 GHz.
15- and 17-inch Notebooks based on Sandy Bridge will follow later in Q1, the company said.
Pricing for the new computers isn’t finalized yet, but the Big O should be less than what the company charged for a comparable 4.3 GHz Nehalem system, we are told. The last Big O started at about $7800, while high-end configurations went past $16,000. This sounds excessive, but if we remember that high-end Core 2 Duo computers went for well more than $25,000 from companies such as the now headless Voodoo PC, Origin’s pricing could be almost considered to be reasonable.
Seems excessive to me, but if you've got five grand to blow go ahead.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
New Nvidia Drivers
Personally I dont do beta drivers, but hey, its up to you.
Via Bigdownloads:
Owners of gaming PCs with Nvidia GeForce-based graphics cards can now grab the first beta graphics drivers of 2011. The GeForce.com web site now has the downloads to the new 266.35 beta drivers for the GeForce family of graphics chips. The beta drivers support the newly launched GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 570 graphics chips.
The new drivers boost performance for the 400 and 500 family of GeForce-based cards in a number of PC games including Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and many others. In addition the new drivers add ambient occlusion support for StarCraft 2, allowing for more realistic lighting and shadows in the Blizzard RTS game. You can check out examples of how ambient occlusion looks in the game at the GeForce.com web site.
Finally the new drivers have some changes and additions for Nvidia's 3D Vision feature. The drivers now support seeing some PC games in 3D in a game window as opposed to just full screen support. More 3D Vision-supported games have been added including Medal of Honor, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and DC Universe Online.
Via Bigdownloads:
Owners of gaming PCs with Nvidia GeForce-based graphics cards can now grab the first beta graphics drivers of 2011. The GeForce.com web site now has the downloads to the new 266.35 beta drivers for the GeForce family of graphics chips. The beta drivers support the newly launched GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 570 graphics chips.
The new drivers boost performance for the 400 and 500 family of GeForce-based cards in a number of PC games including Battlefield Bad Company 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and many others. In addition the new drivers add ambient occlusion support for StarCraft 2, allowing for more realistic lighting and shadows in the Blizzard RTS game. You can check out examples of how ambient occlusion looks in the game at the GeForce.com web site.
Finally the new drivers have some changes and additions for Nvidia's 3D Vision feature. The drivers now support seeing some PC games in 3D in a game window as opposed to just full screen support. More 3D Vision-supported games have been added including Medal of Honor, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and DC Universe Online.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
BFME Servers going down
This is too bad. I just started playing this game again recently. It was probably the last original good game that EALA (formerly Westwood) made. Now they are just kicking out crappy clones of the same game, like Red Alert 3.
Oh CnC Generals 2, why do you not exist.
Via Bigdownloads:
On December 31 the online servers for all of the Battle for Middle Earth games were shut down. If you own the Xbox 360 version of Battle For Middle Earth II and Rise of the Witch-King you still have a few more days to play online; those servers will shut down on January 11.
Oh CnC Generals 2, why do you not exist.
Via Bigdownloads:
On December 31 the online servers for all of the Battle for Middle Earth games were shut down. If you own the Xbox 360 version of Battle For Middle Earth II and Rise of the Witch-King you still have a few more days to play online; those servers will shut down on January 11.
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