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Xbox 360 4G and Kinect priced and bundled

July 20, 2010July 20, 2010 Doug Groves Kinect, Kinect Adventures, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 4GB, Xbox bundle, Xbox Live2 Comments

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on (or literally hands off, I guess) Kinect, the controller free controller for the Xbox 360, you’re one step closer. Microsoft hass announced a new bundle specifically for Kinect, which includes the new Xbox 360 4GB console, the Kinect sensor and a traditional controller, bundled with the “Kinect Adventures” game, all for $299.99 Canadian. Additionally, the standalone Kinect sensor, bundled with the aforementioned “Kinect Adventures” will be available for $149.99 Canadian. The Xbox 360 4GB model (with 4GB of storage on board)…

Crackdown 2 review

July 16, 2010July 16, 2010 Doug Groves Billy Thomson, Crackdown 2, review, Ruffian Games, Xbox 360, Xbox Live1 Comment

When we got an early hands-on with Crackdown 2 back in May, I was enamoured with the game. You see, I was a huge fan of the original, and everything seemed in place to make Crackdown 2 bigger and better. In a lot of ways, Ruffian Games did build upon the original, but in their quest for pure gameplay, I couldn’t help but feel something was lacking.

Miguel Sternberg Interview

July 14, 2010 Doug Groves Crank, Guerrilla Gardening, Hand Eye Society, HandEye, interview, Miguel Sternberg, Pixel Art, Scott Pilgrim, Spooky Squid, TOJam9 Comments

Miguel of Spooky Squid Games came by the studio to give us a taste of Guerrilla Gardening: Seeds of Revolution, which looks fantastic (see the dev blog here). He also sat down with Alex in what was originally going to be a short interview, but turned out to be quite the discussion about his own work, indie game development and in particular, some great insights to the Toronto indie game scene.

Flying saucer on Roswell ranch captures international imagination

July 8, 2010 Doug Groves Aliens, cover up, i want to believe, pop culture, Project Mogul, Roswell, weather balloon6 Comments

It was 63 years ago today, on July 8th 1947, that the Roswell Daily Record ran the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, which launched the most well-known UFO ‘cover up’ in modern history. Subsequently, the crash was attributed to that of a Project Mogul balloon loaded with crash test dummies and designed to detect Soviet atomic test blasts. Of course, one has to wonder why there would be crash test dummies on what’s supposed to be a high altitude, unmanned balloon, but outside of that…

Indie Fund wants to help bring your game to market

July 8, 2010 Doug Groves Braid, funding, Indie Fund, indie games, Johanthan Blow, thatgamecompany, World Of Goo1 Comment

The Indie Fund has been established by seven notable indie game developers, including (but not limited to) Braid creator Johnathan Blow, Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler of World Of Goo fame as well as thatgamecompany co-founder Kellee Santiago. Their goal is to help the funding of independent game development by support projects financially. If you have a game at the prototype stage, and a video to go along with it, you can apply for funding right now. They’re certainly not looking to fund multi-million dollar Halo or Grand Theft Auto…

HandEye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance

July 6, 2010 Doug Groves arcade cabinet, classic arcade, Hand Eye Society, Nuit Blanche, Spooky Squid, TCAF 2010, TORONTRON4 Comments

The HandEye Society, the coalition of Toronto indie game designers and enthusiasts, has announced that their TORONTRON game cabinet will be appearing as part of Nuit Blanche this October 2nd, as well as offering up a full arcade of gaming goodness, under the name The Arcadian Renaissance. The TORONTRON is a classic arcade cabinet retro fitted to play video games from local developers, and has been touring around at various events, including the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. All of this will be presented as part of Nuit Blanche on Oct…

Sony 3D Launch interview

July 3, 2010July 3, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, blu ray, Bravia, canada, Future Shop, Gaming, interview, Playstation, Playstation 3, Sony, TV2 Comments

A couple of weeks back, we had a chance to go hands on with Sony’s new line of 3D TVs and PS3 games. While at the launch, we also got a chance to talk with Karol Warminiec about some of their plans.

Fable III to be released as episodic downloads as well

July 2, 2010 Doug Groves Fable III, Lionhead Studios, PC gaming, Peter Molyneux, Xbox 3601 Comment

Although Fable III will be shipping physical copies, news via Co-Optimus has it that if you’re not so interested in having a pile of discs lying around taking up shelf space, you can opt to download the game in episodic format shortly after the release. Soon after the retail launch we’re doing episodic. We break it down in chapters. We give away the first chapter entirely free, the first hour. When you reach a certain point in the game it says ‘thank you for playing the pilot of Fable III,…

Xbox LIVE Gold Family Subscription coming in November

June 22, 2010June 25, 2010 Doug Groves broccoli, family subscription, i like broccoli, Microsoft, Microsoft Points, MS Points, Xbox 360, Xbox Live1 Comment

Microsoft will be rolling out the new Xbox LIVE Gold Family subscription in November of 2010. The new plan, priced at $99 US, is about the same price as 2 regular 12 month subscriptions, but gives you four separate accounts. It’s obviously targeted at families, not friends pooling to save some money on their subscription, as there will be a primary (or parent) account that will be able to dole out the MS Points to the secondary (or children) accounts. The parent account will also be able to monitor the…

Crackdown 2 Demo available now

June 21, 2010 Doug Groves Billy Thomson, Crackdown 2, demo, Ruffian Games, Xbox 360, Xbox Live3 Comments

The public demo for Ruffian Games’ Crackdown 2 launched today, with a few interesting twists. Besides providing both single player and 4 player co-op modes, if you’re also a Facebook user, they’ve got a tie in game called Chuck’s Ducks 2, a carnival style game that allows players to earn and activate special sticky bombs, for use in the retail game. You can check out our hands on impression with the game last month, as well as our interview Ruffian Games creative director Billy Thomson. In brief, Crackdown 2 is…

E3 2010 – keynote round up.

June 18, 2010 Doug Groves 3DS, E3, E3 2010, EA, Electronic Arts, Kinect, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Ubisoft, Wii, Xbox 3606 Comments

Even though you may have seen live blogs of the major keynotes from E3 this year, you may have missed some of the details, or even the nuance of having something told to you second hand. Luckily most of those keynotes can still be seen online. Now you can play the Sony and Microsoft keynotes side by side and decide who looks goofier, someone using Kinect, or someone using Move. In order of appearence: Microsoft – Electronic Arts – Ubisoft Nintendo – Sony – Kinect

New slim Xbox 360 to hit Canada on Sunday

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves Best Buy, Futureshop, launch, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Slim2 Comments

Announced at E3 earlier this week, the newly upgraded ‘whisper quiet’ version of the Xbox 360, which also more than doubles the hard drive capacity to 250GB, is slated to hit Canada’s two biggest electronics retailers Sunday June 20th, for $299.99. With the release coming so soon after the E3 announcement, I’m guessing the supply chain for the original design has been very much controlled for some time now, to minimize the number of orphaned original 360s. I have a few unused electronics gift cards sitting on my desk at…