The best thing about Scribblenauts is not that I can type the word “BURRITO”, click a button, and watch an actual burrito pop onto the screen. The best thing is that I didn’t have to draw it. Plenty of games give us ways to bring a real-life object into their worlds.
North American retailer Game Crazy will reportedly close 200 of its approximately 680 locations by the end of October.
Game Crazy is a fully owned subsidiary of Movie Gallery and many of its stores are located adjacent to Hollywood Video rental stores. Hollywood Video outlets attached to or nearby closing Game Crazy stores are expected to remain open.
It doesn’t matter how good your MMOG is; if your community goes sour, you don’t have a game any more. And if your game appeals to children, the dangers of bullying and grooming make moderation essential. It’s a serious problem that Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment’s enormously popular free-to-play family MMOG, continually faces.
Sony has unveiled plans to make upcoming PS3 title Uncharted 2: Among Thieves playable on US cinema screens equipped with its digital-projection technology, and hopes it can build the experiment “into a standard element in the movie-going experience”.