Say what you want about the controversy surrounding the secondary gaming market, whether you agree that it takes money away from developers or feel it’s just a great way to save money on games, one can see it’s not going away any time soon. Now, according to Gamasutra, two major retailers, Target and Best Buy, are both entering the used game market. This is freaking huge, as it opens up the opportunity for retailers to make more money on games, and opens up opportunities for customers to save money on games.
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One of my favorite gaming franchises is the Worms series. If you’re unaware, it’s a game wherein you take a team of heavily armed worms — armed with a variety of weapons from baseball bats to shotguns to explosive sheep — and try to defeat other teams of similarly armed worms. Besides weapons, you have many tools at your disposal to move around, such as ninja ropes, jet packs and so on. The silly nature of the gameplay plus the variety of violence that ensues is both hilarious and exciting. For ages, Worms was strictly a 2D franchise, until they tried to make the game into 3D, which was…less than successful. Thankfully, the folks at Team 17 have brought the game back to its 2D roots with Worms Reloaded.
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For over twenty years, Microsoft’s Flight Simulator series of flight sims dominated the civilian aviation simulator market for personal computers. Hell, it helped start the genre way back when after buying the license from SubLOGIC, who sold the original Flight Simulator in 1980.
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Gotta thank my friend Mike for this one. Apparently on the World of Warcraft forums, someone was complaining that the appearance of the Malestrom area in their upcoming Cataclysm expansion didn’t look “epic enough”.
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Over on 1Up, they talk to Hello Games about why their game Joe Danger is a Playstation Network exclusive. According to Hello Games’ Sean Murray, his figures report that many XBLA games, forty-seven percent, sell less than 25,000 copies, which isn’t a lot for any game, indie or not. Now I only have a PS3 so I can’t confirm the validity of which game distribution is better, but I think that having these methods of getting indie games overall is excellent. If you have an Xbox, do you buy a lot of indie games over XBLA? I’d love to read your thoughts. Thanks!
Anyone who knows me know that my biggest love in gaming is space combat simulations. I’ve sunk more hours into games like Freespace 2, Tie Fighter, all of the Wing Commander games and so on. Sadly the genre really took a dive around 2000, with many companies pulling away from the genre. Thankfully there have been Eastern European developers making space sims, as well as independent developers such as StarWraith 3D Games.
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According to GameSetWatch, a company called Blik is selling wall graphics of classic Atari games such as Asteroids, Pong and Centipede that you can paste upon your wall. They look pretty dang awesome, as you can see from this Asteroids example:
If they ever get River Raid, I’m all over it. 
Recently, Blizzard entertainment announced plans to make real names mandatory on their Starcraft 2 forums, with other forums like World of Warcraft to follow. This was met with a wide array of opinions, both positive and negative. While I’m in the positive camp, I know many, many people who prefer pseudonyms over their real names when online. Well, giving into an overwhelmingly negative response, Blizzard has rescinded this rule today, allowing people to hide behind their pseudonyms at their leisure. 
Now, as someone who uses my real name on everything I do online, I personally don’t understand the big deal, but I seem to be in the minority.
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For the past thirty years, my gaming has been primarily on the PC (with dabbles into Atari consoles and more recently, the Sega Dreamcast), but that seems to have all changed recently with the acquisition of my first console in ten years, a Playstation 3. Now I got the PS3 primarly as a mixture of Blu-ray player and media center…I mean the games looked kinda cool, but I had plenty on my (admittedly old) PC to play, so I figured I wouldn’t really play too many. Boy was I wrong…
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According to many sites (but I’ll link to Rock, Paper, Shotgun because they’re my favorite), Dungeon Siege III is under development by the folks at Obsidian. Obsidian are becoming very adept at developing games for existing properties, such as Knights of the Old Republic, Fallout, Neverwinter Nights and so on. These games usually meet with positive reactions by players and critics, and since the Dungeon Siege series is pretty well loved (I just adored the first one myself), this is exciting news for fans of the series.
