"UPDATE: Ubisoft representative Michael Beadle issued this statement to 1UP this morning regarding Assassin's Creed on the PC: "Assassin's Creed PC will indeed see the light some day. Details will be provided at a later date." What does this mean for the long-discussed Assassin's Creed on 360 business? It probably isn't bad news, but nothing to announce just yet.
ORIGINAL STORY: Ubisoft still won't confirm the highly anticipated Assassin's Creed is coming to Xbox 360 (timed exclusive or not) despite all indications it's on the way, but we're one step closer to, well, something as Computer & Video Games says the latest issue of PC Gamer UK contains a first-look preview at the PC version."
Microsoft has released the XNA Game Studio Express Beta, available for an open download. Everything that encourages independent development is good, even though it's supposed to advertise Microsofts own services.
"In the future -- we don't have a specific time frame -- we envision investing in the infrastructure to create a friction-free distribution environment very similar to what you see with YouTube. You've got these really cheap accessible tools, now wouldn't it be really cool if you had a way to share this stuff with people online, potentially sell it in time to people online, and what if we, Microsoft, created the platform and the distribution mechanism as a part of the Xbox Live service so you could do that. So our vision and our ambition is to actually create a community-powered arcade."
-Scott Henson, Director of the Game Development Group at Microsoft
XNA Game Studio Express enables individuals and small teams to more easily create video games using new, optimized cross-platform gaming libraries for Windows and Xbox 360. This beta release targets the development of games for Windows. The final version of XNA Game Studio Express will be available this holiday season and will enable development of games which target Windows and upon purchase of a XNA Creators Club subscription, the Xbox 360 as well.
While we’re very proud of this Beta milestone, it does not represent all of the great features we are enabling in XNA Game Studio Express which will be available in final release form by this holiday. Some of the key feature areas that were not able to make it into this beta include:
- The XNA Framework Content Pipeline feature is not present in this release of XNA Game Studio Express (Beta). It will be made available in a future beta release of XNA Game Studio Express - Support for retail Xbox 360 game development. This feature will be made available upon final release of XNA Game Studio Express later this holiday - Additional starter kits and tutorials will be made available upon final release of XNA Game Studio Express
It seems that once we released our Burning Crusade screenshots, and they got spread around the internet, the popularity of our forum increased and we're now up to 6000 members, compared to around 4000 members before 25th August.
I just read a mail. In that mail, they asked me if I were able to come up and visit them, sometime next week, for a job interview. I'm almost speechless. There's nothing that says I'll get a job at Starbreeze, but being invited for a job interview is atleast a good sign :D
Oh, right, I sent a job application to them about a Game Testing position, something that suits me perfectly. I wonder if I get to celebrate a little extra on my 21st birthday (2 Sept.) this year?
Ninja Loves Pirate is a award winning, swedish independent developed, retro ultra violence, platform game. It's very stylish with its hand drawn backgrounds and retroistic pixel art. I'll recommend you to download and try the demo out :)
2 months ago, I made a post about Uwe Boll challenging the internet community for a boxing match that's going to be held in Vancouver, 23 September. Now he got a sponsor for the event, and the rooster have been announced:
Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka from Lee's Summit, Missouri, Webmaster /CEO for Something Awful, Jeff Sneider from Los Angeles, California, Journalist for Ain't It Cool News, Chris Alexander from Toronto, Ontario, Journalist / Radio Announcer for Rue Morgue, Nelson Chance Minter from Fredrick, Maryland, Website Critic.
The Carlos Palencia / Uwe Boll fight will occur in Malaga, Spain early in September. The date in Spain is still to be confirmed. The actual fight will be filmed for inclusion with the other Vancouver fights. With Uwe Boll receiving a film award from the International Film Festival of Fantastic Cinema and Terror in Malaga, Spain for his work with BloodRayne, this gives us the opportunity to hold our first fight in Spain.
Setting the standard in marketing creativity, GoldenPalace.com has devised some of the most exciting and outrageous advertising campaigns in the past few years. Items such as the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Britney Spears' Pregnancy Test, and William Shatner's Kidney Stone have garnered extensive worldwide media attention for the casino. GoldenPalace.com has also used their items and marketing to raise awareness and funds for over $1,000,000 for various charities worldwide."
Worth nothing though, is that his non-game related movies got a 3.5 average. I don't know about you, but on a scale of 10, that's not too impressive. This looks more like a case of denial to me, that Uwe refuses to believe that he's a bad film maker, and then project the blame on "internet voices".
I'm just glad to report that our forum has exceeded 4000 members now. That's quite much for some thing that just "happend", and for being a community that started from the movies I've made. Although it's grown beyond "my" creation now, and they've formed themself and grown a will of their own, which I'm glad to see. It's all about exploration.
Politicians sickens me. Pirated software is organized crime and funds terrorism, Doom brainwashed kids to shoot people in school, Grand Theft Auto trains people to kill cops, Battlefield 2 is Al'Qaida recruitment.
Pentagon have found a fanmade ingame movie from Battlefield 2 on a "hostile" website, and hence connects it with terrorism recruiting video. Politicians sickens me.
