Gadgets and Video Games

Team 17’s Martyn Brown believes the barriers to self-publishing on Xbox Live Arcade are becoming more difficult to break through. The studio director tells GI.biz that it’s “massively” harder to get games on XBLA now, saying that there just aren’t “many gaps in the portfolio” and the top sellers are mostly established IPs — like his company’s Worms games.

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Team 17: XBLA publishing is much harder now

“Wii has no hardcore games” is about as old, lame and untrue as “the PS3 has no games,” and “Xbox 360 has only shooters.” Real gamers know that each of the platforms has its gems — but not everyone can afford all three gaming consoles. Marvelous may be expanding its portfolio to include more non-Nintendo systems. Already, the publisher is working on a PS3 and Xbox 360 game, Rainy Woods ; however, according to a report by Siliconera , the publisher may look into porting some of its diverse Wii lineup onto the HD systems. Games like No More Heroes and the upcoming Muramasa would certainly appeal to the hardcore PlayStation and Xbox crowds. In fact, Suda 51’s most recent comments suggest an HD future for his franchise.

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Marvelous looking into HD ports of Wii games

If you think Unreal Engine 3 games feature too much gray and brown, laden with “pillars and girders,” all being stomped around on by bald space marines, Cliff “Young Clifford” Bleszinski wants you to blame the tech. Speaking with Develop recently, the man that birthed Marcus Fenix said, “The technology of this generation just happens to be very good at rendering metals and stones and dramatic lighting.” He argues that “translucent effects” are much harder to pull of with the technology given and as such, “the tech is good at showing off armor and it’s not that good at doing hair … that’s why we have bald space marines.” Though we’d argue that there are lots of bald men in our lives who happen to not be space marines — CheapyD and Dr. Manhattan prime among them — we can appreciate how Marcus Fenix may be more equipped to take down the Locust than an omnipotent blue man

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Cliff Bleszinski explains why there are so many bald space marines

EA Sports is ramping up the hype machine for its very crucial FIFA franchise, as it has issued out a new teaser trailer for the latest installment, FIFA 10 . Thankfully, it’s not your average teaser trailer, as though it is short, it does contain actual gameplay footage.

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FIFA 10 offers brief glimpse of footy-filled gameplay

Click image to fire a volley of screens at your eyeballs Eidos just fired off a press release, scoring a direct hit on our inbox, informing that Battlestations: Pacific will receive two resupply convoys in the form of the Mustang Pack and the Carrier Battle Map Pack. The first pack is available for download today and offers six new units (including the P-51 Mustang bomber, US Navy Alaska Class battleship, and Japanese Yamato Class battleship), along with 18 different pieces of nose art to be used online or off, and will set players back a cool 160 ($2).

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Man your download stations for Battlestations: Pacific DLC

If people can clean their hands with a simple name change, then why can’t games? Paleo Entertainment recently re-dubbed its bargain-priced shooter, Merchants of Brooklyn , as “Drug Wars.” Currently exclusive to Steam, Merchants of Brooklyn suffered an embarrassing release in mid-March when an alpha version was mistakenly sold in place of the final code and apparently failed to recover any credibility. Its Metacritic score of “36″ ranks near the bottom of all 2009 games to date.

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‘Drug Wars’ offers fresh start for Merchants of Brooklyn

EA just announced a new EA Sports game (most likely a new EA Sports series , because, you know, EA Sports ): EA Sports MMA . The company didn’t announce any platforms, but we assume that not only will the game feature multiple fighting techniques , but will also release on multiple consoles. Did you see what we did there? Related the content of the game to the platforms

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EA Sports MMA: If it’s in any martial art, it’s in the game