We know that controllers do one thing – allow you, the user, to control the protagonist/character and interact with the game world or environment. These things should be fairly easy (and obvious) to use.
However, some designers kinda get carried away.
Here are some of the absurd video game controllers ever designed. Photos follow after the break.
A columnist at FoxNews.Com is now out of job after writing a review for X-Men Origins: Wolverine at their website. The critic, Roger Friedman, illegally downloaded a copy of the movie which is yet to be released for theaters.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be shown May 1.
That’s right. In a recent survey, a staggering 1 out 3 British men said that they’d rather play a game launch rather than shag. 72% of them say that they love playing video games more. Sigh.
Often, we just play it. Sometimes, we pay for it. But do we really understand the business of Massively Multi-player Role Playing Games (or MMORPGS)?
The following feature article from MMOSITE.COM will show you the types of business models and how online games make money. Sadly, the market is so competitive these days that most online games even fail to make their Open Betas.
Read on…
Posted in General, Marketing, Online 
Tags: business, General, Marketing, money, Online, Online Games, online-gameThe Rohan Closed-Beta Testing (CBT) period officially ended last Friday, March 13th.
In behalf of Level Up and the entire Rohan team, we’d like to thank everyone who participated and made our CBT a big success! Now, the team and the developers (YNK) are busy preparing and fixing all the bugs, errors and discrepancies found in the CBT version. Thanks to all players, cafe owners and members of the community who sent in valuable feedback.
The Open Beta will be up soon and I promise you, THERE WILL BE NO MORE WIPE of the characters.
I have to admit it. I’m a zombie genre fan!
Especially now that L4D is getting the playing time it deserves (special thanks to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later), I thought I’d share with you 7 practical zombie survival tips in case all the movies and games we’re currently enjoying come to life (oops, I mean “unlife”)…
Read on…
Although a lot of fans have already been converting, modding and porting classic/retro games to the Sony PSP via its “homebrew” community. Sony wants to get in on the action, and ultimately cash in on this growing user demand.
Are you being bullied at school?
Here’s a heart-warming story about a kid who thanked his videogame knowledge and “converted” the guy bullying him into a friend. He said “I kept meeting new people through the common connection of videogames and eventually began to get recognized more in school. I also noticed that I wasn’t as afraid of stepping outside of my social circle as I used to be. With the friends I made through gaming I started to branch out, taking what I’d learned by making friends through gaming and started meeting new people through other shared interests.”
To read the entire story, click here.
Via Destructiod
A university in the United States, UC Berkeley to be exact, has announced a course offering this year, 2009, for Starcraft.
In a news announcement at Neowin, the post said that “The students enrolled in the course will meet once a week for two hours, and will go into detail on how war is depicted in the game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, and there will even be a chance at the end of each class to show off a student-submitted replay of a StarCraft match.”
OMGWTF?
Want to know the course outline? Check it out after the hyperjump…
Like any serious undertaking, gaming requires serious discipline if you want to succeed and win. Although, there is actually to real “winning” conditions in MMORPGs, there are certain goals that each individual or group would want to achieve; be it character development or conquest, these goals all share a common requirement – discipline.
How can you do better in your games with discipline? Let me share with you some of my thoughts after the jump.
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