Dec 17, 2009

Getting an interview with Michael Pachter wasn’t easy. Luke and Patrick had to last ten rounds with him in a UFC cage fight in order for him to agree. They did it, just; it was as though Pachter could predict their every move. During the interview, he preceded each answer with ‘I knew you were going to ask me that’. It turned out he’d...

So we now see, after reading part one, that interactivity being used as a justification for the study concentrating on games falls apart on close examination of the study itself. Which begs the question: why did TRIAL and Pro Juventute choose to concentrate on games? One possibility, is that these organisations – previously almost unheard of outside of their...

Do you like pirates and sack people? If so you are in for a treat, otherwise, well, you’ll still probably find some fun in it if the above video is anything to go by. This trailer for the Pirates of the Caribbean DLC pack for Little Big Planet seems to show off some quite nice looking stuff, with set pieces and references from the movies Little Big Planeted....

Partners in violence and various criminal doings, Kane and Lynch are returning for their second outing sometime next year, and here’s a new trailer giving us our first real look at it. The video shows Kane in a spot of bother as he fights off an unseen enemy in a rather intense shootout, which contrasts with Lynch’s appearance of being disturbed in the...

In our interview with Michael Pachter we discussed the idea of a games industry crash, but despite a poor year in terms of sales, Pachter believes things will improve in 2010. He stated “We had a difficult year, primarily due to tough year-over-year comparisons for Wii hardware sales and for music genre sales, and I think both of these correct next...