Birthday Updates!
BAM! That is the first proper trailer for Battlefield: Heroes. Wow! While Rock, Paper, Shotgun may have some detailed impressions based on what they saw at the GDC…I shall give a quick rundown of my thoughts based on that video.
If this isn’t a game to show that EA are pushing forward and trying to regain their crown that Activision-Blizzard stole from them, then I don’t know what is. This game looks set to give the classic shock-paddle treatment to the PC gaming scene by taking away all the GFW:Live crap that is plaguing the PC these days.
Low specs, cartoony graphics, jump-in-and-play gaming, free, fun. This is what PC gaming should be about, (in addition to the monster Far Cry 2’s of the world) making a game accessible to one and all and giving people the chance to really enjoy a game. With the game landing in the summer we can be sure to see much more information coming out between now and then. I am confident this will be good, if not great.
Gaming Sales greater than Music Sales in the UK
Long header there…feck it! Over on CVG there is news that the games industry pulled in more money last year that the music industry did in the UK. The Entertainment Retailers’ Association has revealed that spending on games rose from £1,345m in 2005 to £1,719m in 2007 while spending on music during the same period fell from £1,839m to £1,417m. This is a clear sign that gaming in the UK is taking off big time and only time will tell whether it can become bigger than DVD sales.
“Games have overtaken music massively this year - music revenues are down on last year’s figures and game sales are huge in comparison now,” said Kim Bayley of the ERA. “In years to come, games and DVD will vie to become the biggest market.”
Counter-Strike 2…
The wildly successful Counter-Strike has been around for a long time now, nearing in on its tenth birthday, so it is only fair that CS2 should be talked about. On GameTrailersTV Doug Lombardi revealed something on the possibilities.
With Counter-Strike 2, there’s a big question between, do we go start over from scratch and build a whole new game, do we do something that looks more like Team Fortress 2 that is rooted in the old game but has a ton of new stuff, or do we just sort of take everything that’s new that we’ve released and put that out in a new box.
I think we’re leaning more towards the two more radical places than just sort of rolling up the new box and re-skinning the box and putting out all the new stuff.
Highly intriguing, for me I would rather a complete overhaul of the game and see where it goes from there. I have never been a big CS lover so for me, I care little on this. [Kotaku]
One last thing, today is my birthday…I am now 20! :D
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