Posted by: Promit Roy at August 25, 2009 1:05:00 PM
Look, I'm not saying those other writers were being lazy or unkempt, but today's Clean Shaven GameDev.Net Daily is not just looking grizzled and handsome -- it dresses like a gentleman, too.
Last week, you heard that Sony were pulling their heads out of their collective rears and competing in this console generation for real with the new PS3 Slim. (Which is, frankly, a better buy than the 360 even after the price drops become official.) Naturally Sony won't admit they're getting whomped, but the new PS3 Slim will be sold at a loss. Microsoft are of course scrambling their prices, and Nintendo continue to laugh all the way to the bank, because people will literally buy utter trash from them.
Also, it seems that Sony's motion control stuff will be here in Spring. I can't wait to see what stupid gimmicks the combination of this and Microsoft's Natal create. And no, I was never a motion control fan. Although if they come up with a game that is controlled by extremely sarcastic eye rolling, I will probably become a world champion.
Social games are an area that is sadly under-represented on this site. I don't quite understand them myself, but I think their impact is not properly appreciated. Anyway, GamaSutra had a detailed interview with Sebastien he Helleux, COO of Playfish. In particular, he takes another person from Offerpal Media to task for claiming that a lot of sites quickly rack up "low quality" users. It's a fairly interesting read; don't forget there's a lot of developers doing more than pushing the boundaries of big budget gaming.
Watch this video. It is elite animated lego action at its best. The music is pretty awesome too.
Not having owned a PS3 or 360, and never having programed for either, except to have used XNA (and only for PC games), I am clearly qualified to say that the PS3 is superior to the 360 in every way. It's slimmer, it's harder to code for and the community has no way to make their own games for it in easy languages such as C#, much less sell them by letting some big company do the work for you. These are obvious benefits.
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