Hi, videogame fans. Today we’ve got an update for you about the PS3 title Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes, or SBSH. (It’s also been converted into an anime and a manga title.) I’m still trying to recover from the discovery that this game was developed by Capcom, not Koei, because it smells, tastes, feels, and plays […]
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Scifi/Humor Rag Publishes on Clay Tablets
The scifi/humor ‘zine Space Squid has just released a special edition of their latest issue on clay tablets. As trendy as clay tablets are these days, they don’t get enough cred. One of the editors created the tablets using a cuneiform stylus like an ancient Sumerian (Iraqi) scribe and then created a hard polyurethane plate to […]
Minor Update: Company of Heroes, $3
A Web Win-Win: We Win a Gig, You Win a Car
Check Out Our New Project and Win a Car Yup, it’s a web win-win situation. I landed a web game writing project recently, and it’s now hit the inter-web-nets. I was a contributing writer on Toyota/Scion’s new web game, Unlock the tC, which highlights the Scion tC. I can say, as objectively as I can, […]
Keynote: Steve Jobs Announces iPad Newton
Steve Jobs Debuts iPad Newton at Keynote STEVE JOBS KEYNOTE, SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 2010 – World, meet the new iPad Newton. As suspected at Patently Apple, which noted in March that Apple renewed their Newton trademark, Steve Jobs announced at a conference keynote that Apple has transformed the past into the future by introducing the […]
Austin LAN Party Discounts
If you’re looking to get your game on with dozens of other Austin PC gamers this summer, you’re in luck. Mayhem Team, a very inclusive group of gamers operating under the admirable slogan “Character Above Skill,” is setting up a massive Austin LAN party at the Omni Hotel at Southpark, a good south-central location. The […]
Spam to Gold: Ditch Your Spam for Kids
Change Spam Mail Into School Lunches Spam mail is good for something! What a shock. Chipotle has a great new benefit to improve school lunches, and it involves spam. Spam to gold! Once Chipotle gets 500,000 spam emails, they’ll donate $50,000 to The Lunch Box, which means lots more healthy food for school kids. Check […]
Rapidfire Review: Fret Nice
Game Write-ups on Ritalin Hello, game writer central denizens. We’re rolling out a quickie review tonight of the PS3 demo Fret Nice. For the time-constrained gamer, game demos are an ideal way of assessing the longevity of a videogame before the actual purchase. Game demos aren’t always a perfect reflection of the final product, but […]
The Janus Fund Fee Game
The Janus Performance Fee Proposal The Janus fund fee (“performance fee”) recently pitched by Janus Funds is a good example of gamesmanship for higher stakes than seen in your typical RPG or RTS. We don’t usually talk about financial matters here at Game Writer Central, but I believe that it’s important to recognize game elements […]
Blu-Ray Sale and Game Blowout at Hollywood Video
Blowout Blu-Ray and Game Sale as Hollywood Craters Blu-rays, DVDs and videogames are bearing closeout sale tags at Hollywood Video as the crumbling of the movie rental business continues. We stumbled on this recently when rolling into an Austin-area Game Crazy, Hollywood’s game subsidiary, for the usual dose of videogame overexposure, and instead got a […]