Why is this the first true sequel to GTA III? How do you make a multiplayer component that still feels as free and open as the single-player of GTA? And what’s Rockstar’s take on downloadable content? IGN spoke with VP of Creative, Dan Houser and Rockstar North Art Director Aaron Garbut to get the answers.
Meet Aaron “coldraccoon” Mesec, an 18-year-old Xbox 360 owner from Murrieta, California. He’s a gamerscore cheater.
He’s a former cheater — or so he now claims to MTV Multiplayer.
Mesec was one of the gamers caught during Microsoft’s attempt last week to reign in gamerscore cheaters. Microsoft won’t say how many people have, like Mesec, been branded with a “Cheater” tag, had their questionable Achievements stripped and their gamescores re-set. But MTV Multiplayer heard that the number of users whose gamerscores were reset wasn’t more than a few handfuls. The punishment is meant as a message to others.
And it appears to have worked on Mesec. “The cheating days are over for me. I just want to kick back and enjoy gaming again,” he told MTV Multiplayer over the weekend.
Criteriongames reports:
Here’s a hot news update for all you PS3 1080i gamers – we’ve found a way to support 1080i in Paradise!
This will enable any gamers who own a 1080i TV that doesn’t support 720p to run the game in HD instead of SD.
If you have the option to run 720p, we still recommend you run the game in this mode, because the 1080i image is effectively scaled from 720p.
This will appear with the "Cagney" update – that’s version 1.3, if you’re new to the site.
To trigger this feature, all you’ll need to do is make sure you have 1080i ticked and 720p unticked in the XMB display options, once you’ve installed the Cagney download.
Modified maps of a snowy environment in Halo 3’s Valhalla spark attention from Bungie workers who pass somewhat positive feedback on the four screenshots.
As you might have noticed, the PS Store is currently blooming with new content (in certain countries of course) and with a new layout coming soon the PS Store has quite a promising future ahead of it.
Anyone with a passing interest in the videogame internets will have caught the very mighty Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw’s weekly video reviews. If not, check ‘em out, very funny, very cool, yes we wish he worked for GamesRadar… Anyhow, unless you spend all your free time poking around in the neatherbelly of YouTube, you may not have seen the bastard offspring of Yahtzee’s crude animation style and nimble-mouthed swear-mongering.
Put simply, loads of people have ripped him off. They’ve stolen the visual style. They’ve attempted the breakneck-babble. They’ve shoehorned a rather sweet jewel of originality into a number of videos that’ll leave you either red-faced with fury or red faced with embarrassment.
It’s true: female gamers do exist (the shock!). Just like male gamers who come in different shapes, sizes and flavors, we can come up with a diverse list of girl gamer types. No, Frag Dolls and 6-year-olds fascinated by the Wii don’t count. South Korean StarCraft fangirls were tempting to add, but we decided to cut them from the list since we can’t tell if they actually play games or just read magazines to drool over the pros.
If you ever need a brief guide on the who and the what of female gamer types, this QuickList is for you. No need to put up those flame spears, because we don’t have anything against those who don’t fall under our categories. Furthermore, apologies go to our female readers who weren’t covered, but right now, here are the more prominent types we’ve seen of our beloved industry’s non-male audience.
Hardcore Gamer - You don’t need a pair to kill Altima in Final Fantasy Tactics with one blow or defeat Metatron from Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne without losing your sanity. While the hardcore who would go discuss their "1337" gameplay tactics and strategies on notorious message boards almost never expect to run across girls, it is a fact that the male dominated scene of spending hundreds of hours to kill secret bosses and pull off insane Achievements for bragging rights is not without the presence of the opposite gender.