If there's one thing that Commander Shepard, Nathan Drake, Agent 47, Marcus Fenix, and ... uhh ... Mega Man all have in common, it's not just that they're all video game characters -- they're also all white dudes. And Raven Software's Manveer Heir takes umbrage with that fact (and, more importantly, the fact that being caucasian is a rather pervasive theme across game characters), telling Develop in a recent interview that "There are a large number of hispanic and black children playing... [Read More]
After pretty much avoiding our question about a possible delay for Singularity a few weeks ago, Activision Blizzard's financial conference call today finally got the publisher to admit that the temporal-themed first person shooter would indeed be coming out sometime in the second quarter of 2010.
Activision first slated the Raven Software-developed game to come out this fall but then pushed the game back to a first quarter 2010 release. When we noticed that game retailers had... [Read More]
Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday February 4th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last three hours at most, putting the end of the window at 9:00 pm Pacific time.
Some Steam services will be offline during this time. Affected services will include the Steam Community, in-game matchmaking or lobbies, downloading games from Steam content servers, and making purchases from the Steam store. Games that do not... [Read More]
When Dell and its Alienware unit announced the Alienware M11x gaming laptop at CES last month we were genually thrilled. The promise of a small-ish laptop (11 inch display and 4.5 pounds) that could run even high end PC games well would seem to be the Holy Grail. Now comes word that the product is available for sale at Dell's online store.
The starting price for the product is $799. That gets you a PC with a Intel Pentium SU4100 at 1.3GHz and a 2MB Cache, a NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M... [Read More]
The Microsoft SideWinder X4 gaming keyboard was announced today, and it includes a host of gamer-friendly features. The press release touts the device's "anti-ghosting" technology as its primary selling-point.
"We know that ghosting can be a problem for gamers, so we wanted to develop a way to eliminate this issue and improve the overall gaming experience," explained Steven Bathiche, research manager of the Applied Sciences Group at Microsoft. The SideWinder... [Read More]
The February 2 meeting of IGDA Wisconsin will feature a presentation from Film Wisconsin about its role in promoting the development of video games in the state. Our guest speaker is George T. Tzougros, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Arts Board.
The meeting will be held on February 2 at 7:00 PM, at:
Raven Software
8496 Greenway Boulevard
Middleton, WI
About Film Wisconsin:
Film Wisconsin is a public/private partnership... [Read More]
We had a feeling this might happen since Activision hasn't been promoting this game at all for the past several months but today the GameStop web site changed the release date for Singularity, the temporal-themed first person shooter from developer Raven Software.
Activision's last mention of Singularity was that it was delaying the game from a fall 2009 release to a first quarter 2010 schedule. At the time the publisher said the move was not about giving the game more... [Read More]
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