Tag Archives: Behind the scenes

If the best judge of success is how worried your competitors are, then cloud-gaming platform OnLive may have just had its potential validated by GameStop. Unfortunately for the platform – and for players, and fans of best consumer practices – the validation comes in the form of a directive to …

PC Battlefield 3 fans will have nochoicebut to use Electronic Arts’ Origin service if they wish to play the hugely anticipated sequel. Daniel Matros, EA’s Global Battlefield community manager, confirmed todayvia Twitter (opens in new tab)that PC players will be required to install and register with the newly launched digital …

Bethesda has re-released its spiffy Prey 2 cgi trailer with added developer commentary, answering the age old question of how cool it would be to have director Chris Rhinehart talk all over Johnny Cash’s hypnotic vocals. The result is ‘not very’, but at least this version gives us more info …

Are high price tags to blame for the slow demise of single-player-only games? Shadows of the Damned director Massimo Guarini seems to think so. Reflecting on why Grasshopper Manufacture’s quirky hell-bent action titlefailed to set the gaming world on fire, Guarini suggested consumers are reluctant to pay the same for …

It’s tricky to pinpoint where exactly the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie went wrong, except to say ‘everywhere’ and ‘at every conceivable point’. Interestingly enough, the film adaptation of Nintendo’s 1985 8-bit classic once had a chance of being semi-decent (or at least, considerably less disappointing), as evidenced by four …