Comment Re:Three years ago? (Score 1) 105

by UnNerved on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @02:54PM (#36439676) Attached to: <em>Gran Turismo</em> Gamer Takes Second In Class In World-Renowned Race

No, But GT5 Prologue has.

Designer Builds Coffin For Xbox's Suffering RROD 118

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @12:34PM from the rust-in-peace dept.

angry tapir writes "The Xbox 360 RROD coffin was created by Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It's the ultimate final resting place for 'bricked' Xbox 360 consoles that have suffered the Red Ring of Death; it even has a cavity for your controller!"

Comment They did try already... (Score 1) 303

by UnNerved on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @04:09PM (#31000390) Attached to: Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone?

A while back nokia released the n-gage phone. It even had shelf space for games at the local EB store. I don't think it caught on though and I don't see the stuff around anymore. If it was a failed experiment I can't see companies like nokia jumping on the bandwagon too quickly again. I see the n-gage site is still up but I can't recall seeing much in the way of promotion for it and sites like IGN have taken down their section for it that included reviews etc..

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, 2009 @01:01AM from the say-goodnight-folks dept.

lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

Xbox 360 Homebrew Finally Arrives 39

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @04:10AM from the mario's-not-in-kansas-anymore dept.

Busshy writes "Tmbinc has posted a video showing Snes 9X as the first homebrew for the Xbox 360. This coincides with the upcoming release of the Free60 project, which will turn the 360 into the most powerful console for homebrew to date, hopefully with emulators for the Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox and possibly even the Wii."

0 A.D. Goes Open Source 88

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:40PM from the good-on-ya dept.

DoubleRing writes "Wildfire Games has announced that it will be moving its previously closed development process for 0 A.D. to open source. All code will be released under the GPL and all art under CC-BY-SA. 0 A.D. is a historically-based RTS, and while it's not yet complete, this trailer is purportedly actual gameplay footage. With a codebase of over 150k lines of C++ code plus 25k lines in development tools, this is looking like a fairly promising entrant into the open source RTS field. The screenshots are definitely pretty, to say the least."