“I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.” – English “Jestem dowódcą Shepard, a to jest mój ulubiony sklep na cytadeli.” – Polish (machine translation) In a GDC 2010 session entitled “Localizing Large RPGs,” which forms part of an ongoing localization summit, BioWare localization project manager Ryan Warden eloquently explored the revered developer’s process of adapting a huge, dialogue-driven game like Mass Effect 2 for alternative markets and languages.
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Steph Thirion, creator of the early iPhone standout Eliss , has a new game on the way, from a new company. The first game to be released by Thirion’s studio, Little-Eyes, will be Faraway , a project Thiron says “will be about constellations and infinite space travel.” Faraway will be on display at the Kokoromi Gamma IV event tomorrow, and should also be playable at the Gamma IV showcase during GDC . At that point, presumably, we’ll know exactly what Faraway is and what platforms we’ll be able to play it on.
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Eliss creator’s next game: Faraway
Though we’ve thoroughly enjoyed Just Cause 2 ’s “Anatomy of a Stunt” videos, we’re not sure the one you see posted above is accurately titled. Though the name ” Rocket Launcher Jump ” does capture some of the components of the stunt, it fails to mention a few other important buzzwords; namely “speedboat,” “ramp,” “explosion,” “death,” “aerial,” and “unimaginably awesome.” Do yourself a favor and check out the video above, which we’ve chosen to remoniker “Unimaginably Awesome Speedboat Ramp Jump Aerial Rocket Launcher Explosion Death.” Gallery: Just Cause 2 Just Cause 2 trailer analyzes anatomy of the ‘Rocket Launcher Jump’ stunt originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EST.
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Just Cause 2 trailer analyzes anatomy of the ‘Rocket Launcher Jump’ stunt
Wayne Barlow’s ‘Cerberus’ … gross Held in conjunction with the Into the Pixel and Video Game Art Show exhibitions, San Francisco’s Hotel des Arts is dedicating its entire fourth floor to “The Making of Dante’s Inferno” through April 2010. We’ve got a sneak peek at the art on display in the gallery below, but if you want to see the real deal we’d suggest you make your way to the opening night reception being held at the Hotel des Arts on Thursday night, from 6pm to 10pm, smack dab in the middle of GDC week.
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GDC 2010: Dante’s Inferno art show at San Francisco’s Hotel des Arts
In advance of NPD sales results for February 2010, analysts are predicting year-over-year declines for pretty much everything. Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter, according to Gamasutra , is predicting that hardware and software sales will decline 10 percent, with Wii hardware sales hit particularly hard (around 40 percent) due to shortages. Beyond the Wii, the continuing decline of the music genre is partly to blame for the reduced sales.
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Analysts predict hardware, software drops in February NPD
Sure, Ferraris are fun and all, but they aren’t exotic enough. EA’s looking to increase Need For Speed: Shift ’s roster of wacky, expensive rides you’ll probably never drive in real life through the Exotic Racing Series Pack
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Need For Speed: Shift gets exotic DLC
Though we already know the bulk of the March release schedule for new content on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Major Nelson’s blog recently laid out how the rest of the month will play out. Tomorrow, we’ll get our hands on Scrap Metal for 1200 ($15), next Wednesday will see the release of Perfect Dark for 800 ($10), and on March 24, we’ll get our hands on the (somewhat) free Game Room hub.
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Xbox Live Marketplace release schedule for March
Rather than, we don’t know, a press release or any other professional method of disseminating a message (Twitter, perhaps?), Harmonix took to Facebook to tell friends and friends-of-friends that Rock Band 3 will be released “this holiday season.” The announcement is brief and detail-free, but reveals that EA will distribute the game — apparently having renewed its Rock Band distribution deal with Viacom. With Rock Band 3, the developer promises to “innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again, just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band .” If previous comments by Dhani Harrison are to be believed, you may even learn something from playing RB3! [Thanks Helloimbob!] Rock Band 3 out this holiday season originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds
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There’s really only one important thing to take away from the new trailer for The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion . The expansion allows players to extend the lives of their sims, endowing them with many different career options, including inventor, fireman or a detective.
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Hunt ghosts in the new Sims 3 Ambitions trailer
The upcoming Singularity from Raven Software is supposed to give you the power to age objects just by gesturing at them, and it appears that ability is being tested on the game itself: Its release date has been slowly edging into the future, from early 2010 up into March and then on to June .
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Amazon and Gamefly agree: Singularity out June 29
