_ Over the last couple of months, you may have seen several posts here on Gamerblast complaining about a bunch of ridiculous digital rights management (herein simply DRM) that’s been placed on games recently (most notably Assassin’s Creed II). All of this brings up the question… Can there be a compromise? Can there be a type of DRM that fits the needs of the developers while still pleasing and not arbitrarily impairing customers? Well,... Read→
Call of Duty Last March we witnessed the two high profile employees of Infinity Ward studio heads Vince Zampella and Jason West getting fired. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, to figure out the consequences this would have regarding the other long term developers of Call of Duty, and just as expected that scenario appears to be unfolding as we speak. Infinity Ward’s head designer Tod Alderman and the leading engineer Francesco... Read→
Mac computers have always been shamed by their lack of support from game developers. It’s one of the key arguments against the Mac operating system in all “Mac vs. PC” debates, and there’s nothing anybody can say back. It’s the truth. Well, it WAS the truth. It’s quickly becoming a decent competitor in the gaming world. The most recent and amazing victory in the realm of Mac OS X gaming is the announcement that... Read→
The famous developer of games: American McGee, has started working on a gory version of Little Red Riding Hood, and has published concept art for this new game in progress. On his Flickr page the games creator posted: “This is something Ken Wong and I have been working on for years – a concept built on “Little Red Riding Hood” Truth be told, this Little Red Riding Hood kicks butt! The imagery that was shown, comes from the... Read→
It’s very difficult to compare the today’s video game industry with the video game industry of ten or twenty years ago, as so many things have changed. Latest generation consoles, with their hi-speed online connectivity and impressive graphics power are much more advanced than the old school ones like Sega Channel, but what about certain popular genres that have never quite been able to make the jump to this generation of consoles? To be... Read→
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