G4’s President, Neal Tiles, regularly takes time to answer viewer questions in his Open Source column. Now, he will take one step closer to your living rooms by participating in a live, online chat via Stickam later today.
It’s your network and the prez would like to hear your questions and feedback. Sure, it’s not a [...]
Filed under: Online, Meta (about Joystiq), MMO
It’s that time of year again — the trees and lights are up in Azeroth, and Winter’s Veil is upon us. Father Greatwinter is giving out gifts in Ironforge and Orgrimmar, and Blizzard devs are busy giving players the gift that keeps on giving: nerfs and more nerfs. Follow [...]
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/SAO/A.Vikhlinin et al.);Optical (SDSS);Illustration (MPE/V.Springel)
The composite image on the left is of the galaxy cluster Abell 85, located about 740 million light years from Earth. The purple emission is multi-million degree gas detected in X-rays by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the other colors show galaxies in an optical image from the Sloan [...]
Coming along side the March 2009 release of the feature film Watchmen, is the downloadable beat-em-up prequel Watchmen: The End is Nigh. Available via XBLA, PSN, Steam, Direct2Drive, The End is Nigh will have you taking on the roll of either vigilante Nite Owl or Rorschach as you pummel your way through the 1970’s era setting [...]
We’re going to file this under bull*cough*
Some guy recently met with a recruiter who specializes in the online media industry. The recruiter expressed to him that his clients — the employers who are looking for job candidates — specifically told him that they don’t want World of Warcraft players.
What?!
The recruiter went on to say that [...]
It seems that we can’t go three days (at most) without hearing some bad news from Midway. Today the company laid off 25 percent of its staff and "suspended" all of its 2010/2011 projects. Several of the company’s projects are supposedly for sale too, with only a handful safe for a 2009 release. Variety’s Ben [...]
Sony marketing manager Mark Malledor has posted information on the upcoming LittleBigPlanet "Festive Level Pack" on the PlayStation Blog. The pack will cost .99 and be available from December 16, 2008 to January 8, 2009. Malledor says the pack will include:
Two new Costumes – Christmas Tree headpiece and a Wrapped Sackboy.
One new [...]
Palm will try to get back into the smartphone race with a new mobile operating system, currently code-named "Nova", which they plan to reveal at CES 2009.
Palm hopes to grow and overtake the BlackBerry as the #2 platform behind the iPhone.
There’s little chance that they can defeat Apple’s iPhone at this point, but a decent [...]
We know that a bulk of computer users out there use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. So it’s a real drag that there may be a serious security glitch in the browser.
The public is being urged to use other browsers while this flaw is being investigated and Microsoft preps an emergency patch to unravel this mess.
Everyone is [...]
The GRIN (Bionic Commando, Bionic Command Rearmed) developed video game version of Terminator Salvation drops its first trailer. The game is set to be released simultaeneously with the movie in May 2009 with the platforms uncofirmed, yet speculated at a PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 at the very least.
Hrm… the Bionic Commando crew working on [...]
A story I wrote about rather ferociously back in May and then continued the following week, is back in the news again.
It turns out the FCC’s plan to auction off a frequency to the highest bidder, which would give them the right to give away broadband internet access under guidelines imposed by the FCC is [...]
In case you missed them check out our Direct-Feed videos of the three new maps bundled in the Combustible Map Pack released yesterday for Gears 2.
Check out Flood below and Fuel Station and Gold Rush after the cut.
Gears of War 2 Flood Map
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Gears of War 2 Fuel Station
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Amazon may be a great place to go for lowest retail prices on books, music and other goods for the holiday season, but when it comes to how they treat its employees..well, its hitting pretty low, too.
The Sunday Times conducted an investigation and it found some disturbing employment practices being conducted as thousands of temporary [...]
According to Sony, God of War 3 will be the franchises "epic conclusion" when it releases for the PlayStation 3. You can watch the debut in-game trailer of the game here:
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"We have large shoes to fill following the success of the previously released God of War titles," said Stig [...]
Ensemble Studios’ unloads another wave of screenshots for their company finale RTS project Halo Wars. Will their swan song live up to all the hype? You’ll find out come Feb 26th (Asia), Feb 27th (EU, Middle East, Africa) or March 3rd (North America) when the game makes landfall on the Xbox 360.
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EA Black Box drops their lengthy opening to the highly-anticipated skating sequel Skate 2. Chock full of big name skaters the live-action opening also serves to set up the game’s story as well.
Who’s the greatest skater in your opinion in the long roster featured in the video?
Skate 2 hits home on the PS3 and Xbox 360 [...]
Filed under: Business
Without requiring any edits, the previously “banned” F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin has received an MA15+ rating in Australia. The title was refused classification by the OFLC last month, but the decision has now been reversed, following an appeal by publisher Warner Bros.
Upon review, the classification board deemed that the violence in the game [...]
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGs
The Daily Telegraph has thrown two pence in with its own “best of” video game round up, naming its top 50 games of 2008. Like X-Play before it, the conservative UK newspaper named Lionhead’s Fable 2 as the best game to come along in the last 12 months, [...]
Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Rhythm
As revealed late last week, Rock Band 2 will be making its Wii debut on December 18 - two months after the Xbox 360 version. In a post to the official Rock Band forums, series creator Harmonix has openly apologized for the delay, while saying that the extra development time has [...]
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360
Each week Jeff Engel and Geoff Brooks contribute Counting Rupees, a column on the business behind gaming:
“The Network is the Computer” - John Gage, Sun Microsystems, 1984
When John Gage said this in 1984 it was a fairly controversial statement. Computers were getting smarter and more [...]
