Five newcomers carried Aztecs to Vols matchupWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 8:11PMThey aren’t nearly as fabulous as the five Steve Fisher had at Michigan in the early 1990s, but five newcomers were crucial to Fisher’s San Diego State reaching the NCAA Tournament.
Prep notebook: Two local basketball stars earn all-state nodsWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 5:50PMTwo area players were selected to the NCPreps.com all-state basketball teams. Forestview senior guard Shannon Smith made the girls first team, and Cherryville junior guard Terry Whisnant made the boys third team. Smith, a North Carolina signee,...
M. Basketball. No. 8 Seed Cal Travels to Jacksonville to Face No. 9 Seed LouisvilleWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 1:48PMTeam Sendoff Photo Gallery NCAA Tournament Central | Ticket Information | Watch LIVE Online for FREE! 2009-10 Tournament Guide | Mike Montgomery Teleconference Quotes With its first conference championship since 1960 in hand, California has earned its 16th bid to the NCAA Tournament and will face Louisville of the Big East Conference in a first-round game Friday in Jacksonville, Fla. The Golden ...
M. Basketball. No. 8 Seed Cal Travels to Jacksonville to Face No. 9 Seed LouisvilleWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 1:33PMWith its first conference championship since 1960 in hand, California has earned its 16th bid to the NCAA Tournament and will face Louisville of the Big East Conference in a first-round game Friday in Jacksonville, Fla. The Golden Bears are seeded eighth in the South Region, while the Cardinals are the ninth seed.
First issue of Dragon Age comic now available early on iTunesWednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 8:07AMFiled under: Culture , RPG , Dragon Age: Origins If you don't care for all of that old fashioned print stuff when it comes to comic books, IDW Publishing may be your company. The publisher is one of the leading comic book companies distributing their content online via iTunes which can be read on a PC or via an iPhone/iPod Touch. This week the company released the first full issue of their comic ...
Square Enix and Wildstorm Studios to Create Three-Part Comic That Will Explore the Mind-Bending Story Behind the ...Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 7:00AMSquare Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in North America, is partnering with DC Comics imprint Wildstorm to create a custom comic series that will explore the rich and mysterious back story of the upcoming Action-RPG NIERâ¢.  NIER, whose unique content, characters and hidden, twisting storyline has transfixed gamers and media alike for months, will ...
Illini can send message or decide to mail it inTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 11:58PMWill the Illini be angry about the NCAA snub or listless heading into the school’s fourth NIT appearance all-time and first NIT road game? It probably won’t be known until tipoff of their game vs. the Stony Brook Seawolves tonight at 8.
EA Launches Beta for Need for Speed WorldTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 4:45PMNeed for Speed World Online (PC) Need for Speed World is the first massively multiplayer online action racing game.
Need for Speed Online Beta At the Starting LineTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 1:07PMElectronic Arts has begun its beta program for Need for Speed World Online, the PC-only online racing game that's set to release in the fall. Electronic Arts raised some eyebrows when it announced that it was splintering the Need for Speed series into different console-specific fragments, with the PC version concentrating on online play. Need for Speed World Online is a racing MMO featuring an ...
Are JRPGs dead?Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 1:03PMFinal Fantasy XIII creates a rift in fan opinion. JRPGs suffer an identity crisis
EA's Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Arrives on Shelves This WeekTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 11:00AMEDMONTON, Alberta----The siege begins again! Leading video game developer BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. , today announced that Dragon Age™: Origins – Awakening, the expansion pack to the globally acclaimed Dragon Age: Origins, is available now at retailers and via download on Xbox LIVE® and the PlayStation®Network in North America.
Nibble// Need for Speed World Closed Beta Cracks OpenTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 10:42AMFollow us on... Share on... Need for Speed World - the online multi-player PC outing for the NFS series is open... for its closed beta.
EA Launches Beta for Need for Speed WorldTuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 9:00AMVANCOUVER, BC----Black Box, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. , today announced that the closed beta for Need for Speed™ World, the massively multiplayer online action racing game has begun.
Week In Review: 03/13 Monster EditionSaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 10:07AMThis week's offerings include some surprising news from GDC, the first of our Portal 2 features for the month, and a whole bunch of exclusive content. It's time for the Week In Review! If you're an RPG fan, you probably didn't need to read Monday's Weekly Roundup to know that Final Fantasy XIII has finally reached our western shores. You're probably also not reading this, because you're too busy ...
Star Trek Online video takes a look at things to comeSaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 9:05AMFiled under: Downloads , MMO , RPG , Video , Star Trek Online Download HD Video The development team at Cryptic Studios working on Star Trek Online gives viewers a glimpse of what's in store for the future. Things are looking pretty hot, including all-new playable races and powerful top tier ships. More conflicts with the Borg are in store, and best of all, an apparent encounter with The Q. This ...
Top 10 women of technologySaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 4:00AMTo celebrate International Women's Day Shaun and I decided to devote the Top 10 to women who have been pivotal in the development of the computing world.
Blizzard, BioWare, Valve, more chat about connected gamingFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 9:13PMGDC 2010: Rob Pardo, Ray Muzyka, Jason Holtman join Zynga's Brian Reynolds and Nexon's Min Kim to advocate the importance of community in game design.
12 Best Games, Trends, and Announcements of GDC 2010Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 9:06PMGamePro attended this year's Game Developers Conference, which featured over a hundred sessions on everything from social game design to how Sony's new motion controller, the PlayStation Move, will be utilized in future PlayStation 3 games. We've sifted through the deluge of information to give you the rundown on the twelve biggest announcements, games, and trends that came out of GDC 2010.
Get oiled up with Super Street Fighter IV’s final characterFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 10:30AMWarning : preg_replace_callback() [ function.preg-replace-callback ]: Requires argument 2, 'hs4wp_callback_img', to be a valid callback in /var/www/avault.com/wp-content/plugins/highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php on line 211 Ono-san recently unveiled the final new character coming to Super Street Fighter IV – Hakan. A newcomer to the Street Fighter universe, Hakan is an oil ...
Green Day: Rock Band launch date announcedFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 9:15AMWarning : preg_replace_callback() [ function.preg-replace-callback ]: Requires argument 2, 'hs4wp_callback_img', to be a valid callback in /var/www/avault.com/wp-content/plugins/highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php on line 211 Green Day: Rock Band, the standalone music video game experience that celebrates Green Day’s career, will launch worldwide June 8, for the Xbox 360 ...
News: Uncharted 2 wins big at GDCFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 2:49AMScoops a record five awards. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Eurogamer's Game of 2009, has gone on to win a record five statuettes at the Game Developers Conference Awards. Naughty Dog's sublime PS3 title scooped Game of the Year, Best Writing, Best Technology, Best Visual Arts and Best Audio. Best Game Design was tipped to be another, but that went to Batman: Arkham Asylum on the night. Read more...
Molyneux wants 5 Million Copies of Fable III off the shelvesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7:33PMWarning : preg_replace_callback() [ function.preg-replace-callback ]: Requires argument 2, 'hs4wp_callback_img', to be a valid callback in /var/www/avault.com/wp-content/plugins/highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php on line 211 Peter Molyneux has set a target of 5 million copies sold for Fable III. It is by no means a financial target but rather a statistical indicator that will ...
Molyneux wants 5 million copies of Fable III off the shelvesThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7:33PMWarning : preg_replace_callback() [ function.preg-replace-callback ]: Requires argument 2, 'hs4wp_callback_img', to be a valid callback in /var/www/avault.com/wp-content/plugins/highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php on line 211 Peter Molyneux has set a target of 5 million copies sold for Fable III. It is by no means a financial target but rather a statistical indicator that will ...
First Look at Lara Croft and the Guardian of LightThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:36PMLara Croft is stepping out with a new friend in this new download-only title from Crystal Dynamics. It blends the core action, exploration, and puzzle-solving aspects of the franchise, and introduces a new cooperative element.
Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for Xbox 360Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:13PMBattlefield: Bad Company 2, the DICE/EA answer to Modern Warfare 2 is out, and it’s good. BC2 was shaping to be a big release since we first heard about it, but recent trailers combined with all sorts of backlash about MW2 (as well as the whole Infinity Ward debacle) has done wonders for what was [...]
GDC: Peter Molyneux On Simplifying And Enhancing Fable IIIThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:49PMThough the talk is called Complex Challenges of Intuitive Design, Molyneux says "it's more to do with how we're taking the design of Fable II and radically changing it in Fable III and some of the angst you go through in the design decisions." Of course, those decisions are primarily about simplifying the game. "The whole Fable series was built out of our passion for role playing games," says ...
Two-Time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson Re-Signs With StormThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:34PMSEATTLE, Thursday, March 11, 2010 - The Seattle Storm today re-signed two-time WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson to a multi-year contract Storm Head Coach and Director of Player Personnel Brian Agler announced. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Game PicksThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 9:35AMThe sophisticated science-fiction story that drives the multiplatinum-selling, award-winning BioShock franchise is often cited as evidence that video games can equal and even surpass the narrative in books, film and other traditional sci-fi media.
GDC: Q& A - Sony Studios' Yoshida On Move DevelopmentWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:49PMToday in San Francisco, Sony unveiled the final form of its motion controller, the PlayStation Move. It's a solution that seems to look more like Nintendo's Wii Remote than Microsoft's Project Natal -- though it includes both camera and accelerometer technology. On stage during the event, SCEA marketing head Peter Dille talked about the product in terms of a platform launch. After the ...
Final Fantasy XIV details revealedWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:28PMAlready getting tired of Final Fantasy XIII? Didn't think so. Still, you may be interested to see some juicy tidbits about the upcoming online role-playing Final Fantasy XIV.
Rumors of Tera firmerWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:30AMEn Masse Entertainment has revealed the first details for its Action MMO, Tera. Currently in development for the PC by Bluehole Studio, the game will first launch in Korea this summer, and Western markets will follow in the winter. En Masse, the company responsible for adapting the game for western players is made up of [...]
Critical Reception: Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIIIWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 8:19AMThis week's edition of Critical Reception examines online reaction to Square Enix's RPG sequel Final Fantasy XIII, which reviews describe as "the most technically impressive title in Final Fantasy history." Final Fantasy XIII currently earns a score of 82 out of 100 at Metacritic.com. Joe Juba at Game Informer rates Final Fantasy XIII at 9.25 out of 10. "Final Fantasy XIII has ascended to a ...
No. 1 Danville faces daunting day at ShelbyvilleWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 3:49AMThe Class 3A No. 1 Danville High School boys basketball team enters Saturday's Shelbyville Regional with one loss -- to 4A No. 3 North Central -- and only three victories by fewer than 14 points.
Conference USA Men: Team PreviewsWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:49AMTournament outlook: UAB needs a strong tournament to draw NCAA Tournament recognition. A championship game appearance may not secure at-large bid.
Enumclaw's Hornets hold solid handWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 2:28AMAll eyes are on Enumclaw. The top-ranked Hornets enter the Class 3A boys basketball state tournament today at the Tacoma Dome undefeated and intent on claiming the first championship in school history. Yet, while the rest of the 16-team field is trying to figure out how to bring down Enumclaw, the Hornets have their own approach. STATE 3A BASKETBALL, Tacoma Dome • Brackets: Updated results ...
Lady Blues To Open NCAA Tournament FridayTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:37PMThe No. 7-ranked Washburn Lady Blues open NCAA-II South Central Regional play as the No. 2 seed on Friday at 2:30 p.m. against the No. 7 seed Central Missouri in a rematch of the MIAA tournament championship game.
On Location: Final Fantasy XIII Midnight ReleaseTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:49PMI like to get my games as soon as possible, especially when it’s a huge release like Final Fantasy XIII. Plenty of like-minded gamers convened around local video game shops last night to grab Square-Enix’s biggest title of the last four years. Game Informer attended one such midnight launch to see how many hardcore Final Fantasy fans turned out, ask them to sound off on the game, snap some ...
EA Signs Publishing Deal with 38 StudiosTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:00AMREDWOOD SHORES, Calif.----Electronic Arts Inc. today announced an agreement with 38 Studios, LLC to publish the company’s first video game, an epic single-player role-playing game codenamed ‘Project Mercury’. 38 Studios is the creative enterprise of World Series MVP and avid gamer Curt Schilling. ‘Project Mercury’ is being developed at Big Huge Games, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 38 Studios ...
Best of FingerGaming: From Radio Flare Redux to Astro RanchMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 5:35PM[Every week, Gamasutra sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent -- and increasingly exciting -- portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Mathew Kumar and Jonathan Glover.] This week, FingerGaming covers the rhythm-based shooter Radio Flare Redux, the space-themed farming title Astro Ranch, and the closing of THQ's ...