GamerBlips User Blog - Douglass C. Perry

The Monetization Game: Moore calls current gen a burning platform

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:28:33 +0000

This past Saturday I had the chance to moderate the keynote panel at Play: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference , an annual Haas Business School conference that covers a variety of tech, media, and business issues. It was a gorgeous day to be back at Cal where I graduated, and in a nice ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 18 days ago from gameinsano.com

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Scribblenauts game developer makes a risky bet on being original

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:34:13 +0000

Everyone loves original games. But few developers take the risk of making them in the video game industry. Enter Jeremiah Slaczka, the creative director at game developer 5th Cell , dropped out of high school in his junior year. Working with his partner Joseph Tringali, he made a string of ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 23 days ago from gameinsano.com

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Alpha Protocol Slips to June 2010

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:25:17 +0000

Like Heavy Rain, BioShock 2 , Red Dead Redemption , Bayonetta, Darksiders, and Singularity before it, Sega’s Alpha Protocol has been pushed back into 2010, according to EBGames.com . Sega’s “espionage RPG,” was due to ship on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on October 27. Sega ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/25/2009 from gameinsano.com

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SSX Originally Designed for Dreamcast

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:46:19 +0000

Electronic Arts’ original boardercross game, SSX , was initially designed for the Dreamcast, not the PS2, Bing Gordon told me in a phone interview for the story, The Rise and Fall of Dreamcast , live at Gamasutra.com . SSX’s original executive producer, Steve Rechtschaffner (SSX, ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/10/2009 from gameinsano.com

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The Rise and Fall of Dreamcast (on Gamasutra)

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:30:17 +0000

In this ten-year Dreamcast retrospective, Gamasutra looks back at Sega’s last effort in the console market through interviews with former president of Sega of America Bernie Stolar, former Sega of America COO Peter Moore, former SOA Vice President of Communications Charles Bellfield, and ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/10/2009 from gameinsano.com

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The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:24:48 +0000

In this ten-year Dreamcast retrospective, Gamasutra looks back at Sega's last effort in the console market through interviews with former president of Sega of America Bernie Stolar, former Sega of America COO Peter Moore, and former SOA Vice President of Communications Charles Bellfield.

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/10/2009 from digg.com

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Mini-Review

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:10:09 +0000

Every night that I play Batman: Arkham Asylum, a little Xbox oval pops up on my screen to tell me “friends playing this game.” This is a newish addition to the Xbox Live communication functionality, but with this game, I hardly need to see it. It’s redundant. Whenever I play ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/4/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Collector’s Junk

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:57:08 +0000

Yesterday afternoon I bought the last copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum from the local EB Games store. It was the Xbox 360 Collector’s Edition, $40 more than the standard price. I was sick of waiting for Eidos to send the game my way, so I spent my Edge Card savings and traded in some games ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 9/1/2009 from gameinsano.com

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The Games of Fall 09 (on GamesRadar)

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:09:43 +0000

While most folks mourn the end of summer, gamers are different. They creep around in their dark rooms all summer staring at brightly lit computers yelling things like, “Eat it, motherf*(*&^%!!!” And “Hey mom???!!! Where’s my motherf*(*&^%!!! milk!!!!” ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/30/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Activision Ghetto-izes Guitar Hero Van Halen

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:36:50 +0000

In what appears to be a badly hidden secret, rather than a big six-pack celebration like it should be, Activision is given Guitar Hero: Van Halen the super ghetto treatment. Starting with its nearly hidden appearance at E3 2009, stashed away in a dark corner of Sony’s booth, and ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/27/2009 from gameinsano.com

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How Airtight Games started a console game studio with just $24,000

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:28:52 +0000

In 2004, Microsoft canceled a sequel to its Crimson Skies game, prompting the game’s executive producer, Jim Deal, to leave the company to create a startup. He and his team of four other ex-Microsoft game people had $24,000 of their own money and an idea to create an action-adventure game ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/21/2009 from gameinsano.com

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GameStop: Play Halo 3: ODST Firefight Early

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:54:03 +0000

Seen enough Halo 3: ODST previews and impressions ? Ready to play? Your time has come, rookie. In conjunction with Microsoft and GameStop, Bungie is fueling its custom Halo 3: ODST Transport and is scheduled for a 22-stop, nationwide roadtrip to offer gamers a chance for hands-on sessions ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/20/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Gamescom 09: Rock Band Unveils Sgt. Pepper’s and Rubber Soul DLC (All Tracks Revealed)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:35:46 +0000

From Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Harmonix CEO and co-founder Alex Rigopulos today confirmed that The Beatles: Rock Band will not only see the full Abbey Road album become available via DLC on October 10, 2009, but following it will be the full albums Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/19/2009 from gameinsano.com

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GamesCon 09: Molyneux Unveils Kingdom in Fable III

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:14:39 +0000

Cologne, Germany holds the annual European show, GamesCon, and this year the surprises are bigger and better than in years past. For one, Sony announced a $100 price cut for PS3 along with its new PS3 slim model. Second, Lionhead Creative Director Peter Molyneux revealed his studio is in the ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/19/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Brutal Legend Demo Slated for September

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:43:33 +0000

Electronic Arts today announced it will offer a free demo download of Brutal Legend on PSN and XBLA this September. Tim Schafer’s outrageous game is slated for October 13 in North America and October 16 in Europe. If you value all that is right in this unholy world, you will download ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/18/2009 from gameinsano.com

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WTF? Video Games are Dying?

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:11:42 +0000

I got an email from an associate the other day about a mini video documentary called “Digital Trends Presents Players Only with Scott Steinberg: Video Games are Dead.” The headline irked me because to say that ‘video games are dead” is a shock-jock journalistic trick to ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/17/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Review

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:49:29 +0000

There is something innately exciting about Western stories. The Wild West is usually depicted as a lawless land of id-driven pursuits where lust, greed, and fame always end up dragging a wagon of bullet-ridden bodies behind it. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood fits this bill perfectly. Following ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/14/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Brutal Legend Multiplayer Hands-on

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:50:05 +0000

You’ve heard the rants from what you think are extreme fanboys. Seen the accolades laid upon a studio that seems to take forever–four years–just to make a single game. And witnessed the drama from Microsoft’s punt of Psychonauts to Activision’s trite and ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/14/2009 from gameinsano.com

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NHL 2K10 Preview on GamesRadar

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:31 +0000

In 2008, Visual Concepts found itself in the unenviable position of picking up the 2K hockey series in mid-development, with only five months to build and complete NHL 2K9. The critics assailed the game with an average Metacritic rating of 6.8. In response, the company took the beating, ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/14/2009 from gameinsano.com

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Halo 3: ODST Firefight, Multiplayer Hands-on Preview

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:57:18 +0000

We sat there glued to our TV screens. The familiar countdown sounds sounded off–four, three, two, one… until the black TV screen revealed a narrow hallway where I stood shoulder to shoulder with my team, three ODST soldiers. Stepping into the sunlight we saw Covenant Phantom dropships ...

Douglass C. Perry posted 8/12/2009 from gameinsano.com

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