They will have at least one new game announced at GDC, guaranteed. But Alan Wake doesn't belong on this list, as interesting as it looks from the 2 year details, I am highly doubtful it'll come out in 2009.
Since Dan Hsu left as editor of EGM, I personally found that the number of games covered was less (but each feature had more content) and unfortunately for me, the bulk of those games featured, I had little interest in before and after reading the articles.
Not to mention they removed a bunch of staple features when Hsu left, like 5 Lives.
And the one where they interview someone working in the game industry and outline what their job entails and how they got it (the name slips my mind atm). I think the excuse given for eradicating it was that they covered every possible job title, which was BS, since their are definitely nuances to jobs from company to company, and there are a ton of individual stories to tell in the industry, in this area.
To replace the features that got the axe, they put in that ridiculous Blu Ray Movie review feature. That boggled my mind since it was a game magazine and there was clearly a million other pieces of game related info that could have put in there instead. If I want info about films and DVDs/Blu Rays, I'll start subscribing to Empire. That addition in particular seemed a bit self-absorbed and was not created with the readers in mind.
I was also extremely disappointed two issues back, Prototype was suppose to have a feature article in the Watchmen issue, but in that issue there was zero sign of it, and not even a little retraction blurb stating that it didn't make it. Instead they gave it a small paragraph in the comic book game article that was in what looks like the last issue of EGM.
The EGM I will always remember will be the old school thick magazine, that had a lot of crazy 90s game advertisements, but also way more content than any other game magazine.
I'll also miss 1up's podcasts, Video shows and video specials. I rarely read the content on the site (usually other sites had info first), but I was a huge fan of their extra content.
Nick, there's always Edge, though I know for me, the North American shipping charge is killer. I'll probably replace my EGM subscription with the gamasutra.com industry magazine.
This comment is a bit out of place here, maybe you meant to post in one of the "Year Ahead" articles where it would be more in line with the content?
It very much remains to be seen what the full 360 exclusive line up looks like for 2009, there's only Halo Wars and Halo: ODST that's confirmed. I guess the MMORPG Champions Online, will be an exclusive due to circumstance, at least for 2009. GDC will probably be when the full scope of the line up will be revealed.
Probably wouldn't be successful, since most hardcore 360 fans see the Xbox 360 as what it is, a product, and if their video game division didn't deliver in respect to the games, then they wouldn't be buying.
But hey, the minute there's a significant portion of the Xbox fanbase that participates in petitions trying to (feebly) prevent formerly exclusive games from being released on more platforms, or maybe crying out how some sites are "bought" by Sony even when a MS game is that site's overall game of the year, then maybe a MS religion has a shot.
Really my initial comment was a joke, Science Fiction writer Ron L Hubbard stated on a few occasions "The real money is in religion", a few years before he founded the Church of Scientology, so it made sense to reference them in the context of Sony working towards turning a profit on the PS3.
This patch is SORELY needed. My friends and I have stopped playing Gears 2 online all together.
I also hope the bug involving players not being able to do anything except move (you can shoot but it doesn't register as hits) due to connection issues, is addressed by the fixes as well.
I'm glad their fixing it, but the game probably lost a good chunk of playerbase due to these bugs, and I'd imagine many of them have moved onto other online shooters and won't be coming back regardless of the patch.
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They will have at least one new game announced at GDC, guaranteed. But Alan Wake doesn't belong on this list, as interesting as it looks from the 2 year details, I am highly doubtful it'll come out in 2009.
Since Dan Hsu left as editor of EGM, I personally found that the number of games covered was less (but each feature had more content) and unfortunately for me, the bulk of those games featured, I had little interest in before and after reading the articles.
Not to mention they removed a bunch of staple features when Hsu left, like 5 Lives.
And the one where they interview someone working in the game industry and outline what their job entails and how they got it (the name slips my mind atm). I think the excuse given for eradicating it was that they covered every possible job title, which was BS, since their are definitely nuances to jobs from company to company, and there are a ton of individual stories to tell in the industry, in this area.
To replace the features that got the axe, they put in that ridiculous Blu Ray Movie review feature. That boggled my mind since it was a game magazine and there was clearly a million other pieces of game related info that could have put in there instead. If I want info about films and DVDs/Blu Rays, I'll start subscribing to Empire. That addition in particular seemed a bit self-absorbed and was not created with the readers in mind.
I was also extremely disappointed two issues back, Prototype was suppose to have a feature article in the Watchmen issue, but in that issue there was zero sign of it, and not even a little retraction blurb stating that it didn't make it. Instead they gave it a small paragraph in the comic book game article that was in what looks like the last issue of EGM.
The EGM I will always remember will be the old school thick magazine, that had a lot of crazy 90s game advertisements, but also way more content than any other game magazine.
I'll also miss 1up's podcasts, Video shows and video specials. I rarely read the content on the site (usually other sites had info first), but I was a huge fan of their extra content.
Nick, there's always Edge, though I know for me, the North American shipping charge is killer. I'll probably replace my EGM subscription with the gamasutra.com industry magazine.
This comment is a bit out of place here, maybe you meant to post in one of the "Year Ahead" articles where it would be more in line with the content?
It very much remains to be seen what the full 360 exclusive line up looks like for 2009, there's only Halo Wars and Halo: ODST that's confirmed. I guess the MMORPG Champions Online, will be an exclusive due to circumstance, at least for 2009. GDC will probably be when the full scope of the line up will be revealed.
Probably wouldn't be successful, since most hardcore 360 fans see the Xbox 360 as what it is, a product, and if their video game division didn't deliver in respect to the games, then they wouldn't be buying.
But hey, the minute there's a significant portion of the Xbox fanbase that participates in petitions trying to (feebly) prevent formerly exclusive games from being released on more platforms, or maybe crying out how some sites are "bought" by Sony even when a MS game is that site's overall game of the year, then maybe a MS religion has a shot.
Really my initial comment was a joke, Science Fiction writer Ron L Hubbard stated on a few occasions "The real money is in religion", a few years before he founded the Church of Scientology, so it made sense to reference them in the context of Sony working towards turning a profit on the PS3.
This patch is SORELY needed. My friends and I have stopped playing Gears 2 online all together.
I also hope the bug involving players not being able to do anything except move (you can shoot but it doesn't register as hits) due to connection issues, is addressed by the fixes as well.
I'm glad their fixing it, but the game probably lost a good chunk of playerbase due to these bugs, and I'd imagine many of them have moved onto other online shooters and won't be coming back regardless of the patch.
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