Archives For April 2012

Dallas, TX isn’t typically the “place to be” when it comes to covering the video game industry (despite the number of high-quality studios here), so I was extremely excited to be given the chance to cover a local Gearbox/SEGA event for Joystiq.com.

I got to play the multiplayer, see some of the single-player and interview some interesting people. The result was four stories on the site that I’m pretty proud of (though I had some help from the quality editors over there).

Gearbox: Aliens Colonial Marines was announced before development started

Gearbox boss says impressive Wii U ‘a really nice bridge’ to the next generation

The acid-blood devil is in the details for Aliens: Colonial Marines

Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer, or ‘How Gearbox played as Xenomorphs and dissected its guests’

I was invited by Disney Interactive and Junction Point Studios to head out to Austin (which isn’t terribly far from my Dallas home) to get one of the first ever looks at Disney Epic Mickey 2, coming to the Wii, 360 and PS3. I also had the opportunity to meet gaming legend Warren Spector, which was kind of amazing.

Disney Interactive’s Austin studio announces ‘Disney Epic Mickey 2.’ It’s a musical, and we played it.

Warren Spector doesn’t think video games have ever offered a real “moral choice”

“Dynasty Warriors Next comes with new touch-based diversions, but they don’t prevent this entry from being the same old button masher.”Read the rest @ GameSpot

“The Vita version of Dungeon Hunter: Alliance is a fine Diablo clone, but a lack of ambition and a high price hold it back on the platform.”Read the rest @ GameSpot