I’m not about to complain about the waiting times and server queues that have been infecting the launch of Diablo III. That kind of thing happens sometimes with games this popular. It sucks but it isn’t permanent so develop some patience and wait a bit.
What I can’t seem to wrap my head around is why players who don’t even want to play online are having to sit and wait in the same queue as the multiplayer users…
Haven’t been keeping up with everything that’s happened with Double Fine and their Kickstarter success? Here’s a great opportunity to catch yourself up. Already backed the project and want some behind the scenes footage about the story of how adventure game fans came together to revive their favorite genre and give a great developer down on their luck the help they needed? Perhaps you’ve been keeping up with events but you never got a chance to contribute before the Kickstarter ended. Well you can do that now too!
2 Player Productions (the excellent team behind the upcoming Minecraft documentary) have been documenting everything and released the first episode for free where originally it was only available to backers.
If EA’s history of half-assed digital distribution ventures including Origin, EA Link, EA Store etc isn’t indicative of this enough, here’s some words from one of the top dogs himself.
The head of EA Sports, Peter Moore had this to say to Gamasutra concerning his opinions toward digital distribution versus traditional retail game sales.
Once we get that disk installed in the tray of an Xbox or a PS3, we then look at our consumer on an ARPU basis,” Moore said. “We love what retail does for us. We love its ability to create massive launches and create excitement. GameStop probably sees three million hardcore gamers walk through their doors every day, and that’s a marketing opportunity for us.
Epic Games are celebrating their 20 year anniversary by putting out a free compilation album of famous songs from most of the games they’ve released over the years.
This includes not only newer games like Gears of War and Bulletstorm, but also Jazz Jackrabbit and the Unreal series. Nearly all of their games have had some pretty killer soundtracks and many songs from Epic’s games such as Unreal Tournament have become some of the most widely remembered in video game history, even if some of them didn’t make this album. The choices for the album could have been better but they are more symbolic of each series rather than a collection of fan favorites. They even included the infamous Cole Train rap as a bonus track.
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