Valve has one upped themselves again, with the launch of Half Life 2 for Mac, via Steam of course. To help kick it off, they’ve taken the classic Apple “1984” commercial and given it the Half Life spin, with Alyx Vance taking on role of the TV smashing runner.
Read MoreGamasutra has a great article up taking a look at the new Ubisoft Toronto studio, which includes moving development of the next Splinter Cell chapter there, as well as the challenges and opportunities inherent in going big in launching a new location. “It’s a really nice position to be in,” she explained. “Instead of starting a studio and working on small projects, Nintendo DS or portables, we’re starting out of the gate with triple-A only.” “The reason that I think that’s the right strategy is that it allows us to attract…
Read MoreThe server switchover had kept us preoccupied here at the rgb HQ, so what better way than to get caught up in all the latest gaming news? In what’s becoming an increasingly popular way to keep your game on the forefront of gamers’ minds when a release date is imminent, the gang from Ruffian present a 5 part animated miniseries that takes place in Pacific City. For those who’ve played the first game, the familiar voice of the Agency is back to narrate the tale in his unique way. The…
Read MoreNow that the beta for Halo: Reach has run its course, Bungie has announced that the full game will be coming out September 14, 2010. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bungie collected a LOT of debugging information during the beta, either. In less than 3 weeks, the beta run saw over 2.7 million users log 16 million hours and 1.1 billion kills. That’s over a kill a minute, if you’re curious. “It’s exceeded our expectations,” said Bungie Studios community director Brian Jarrard. “Our only real perspective going into this was…
Read MoreStill working out the kinks, but it’s made the transition
Read MoreAlex interviews Jim Munroe, writer of Sword Of My Mouth, the follow-up to Therefore Repent, a graphic novel about those left behind after the Rapture. You can also read the first 22 pages of Sword online for free here.
Read MoreIt seems there’s a lot of news coming out of Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios regarding Fable III recently. The latest is that Fable III will be available not only on the Xbox 360, but the PC as well. On the 360 there will be both a standard and the limited edition for the hardcore fans of the franchise. On the PC, it will be available both at retail and as a download via the awkwardly named Games on Demand on Games for Windows – LIVE. I’m not knocking the…
Read MoreWe’re in the process of backing up, and moving the site to more robust server solution to accomodate the increased traffic flow. There may be sporadic outages, and occasional weirdness. Hang on, things should be back to full speed, and then some, over the next 24 hours.
Read MoreApple’s least favorite bloggers Gizmodo.com have re-posted a story from the Southern Weekly newspaper who sent undercover reporter Liu Zhi Yi into Foxconn Inc who makes Apple iPods, iPhones, and the like for Apple. The factory has had a rash of suicides in the last little while and the company has hired everything from counselors to Buddhist monks to try and deal this this. Here’s what the reporter found: During his 28 days of investigation, Liu Zhi Yi was shocked to discover how the factory workers live in a sort…
Read MoreIn the first of what will be a series of interview and panel videos from TCAF, Alex interviews Mathew Kumar, publisher of exp. magazine at this year’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
Read MoreThe last in the trio of Motorola Android phones running their custom UI, MOTOBLUR, launched in Canada on Tuesday, with the release of the Motorola QUENCH on Rogers. The two other phones in the Motoblur line-up are the DEXT on Bell, and the BACKFLIP on Telus. The QUENCH is available now for $49.99 ($424.99 outright) on a three-year voice and data plan. It is a touch-screen only device, and has a 3.1” 320×480 screen, 5.0 MP camera, and uses Android OS 1.5, with the MOTOBLUR UI. To make up for…
Read MoreAlthough Google’s plans to release an open-source video codec was widely discussed in the tech community for some time, the big G has made it official. Google’s acquisition of On2 and their video codec has become WebM. According to the announcement during Google I/O conference, WebM is a container based on the popular Matroska, with VP8 video and Ogg audio streams packaged inside. What makes WebM compelling is that Google has decided to make it both open source and royalty free, which could set it up to be the HTML5…
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