Listen to the Final 1UP Podcast Ever
Posted by 1UP on Apr 06, 2013 | Leave a Comment
As you know, 1UP.com has breathed its last. Such are the vicissitudes of business. Happily, Jose Otero managed to pull together a startling number of former 1UP staff during Game Developers Conference this year for one final podcast. Not everyone was there due to the last-minute nature of this show (or because they had other duties that kept them away), but if you paid any attention at all to the site for the 10 years it lived you’re bound to hear some voices you recognize in this three-hour...
PS3 Digital Games Could Be a Gentle Way of Easing Us Into Streaming on PS4
Posted by 1UP on Feb 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Much like their disc-based counterparts, PlayStation 3 downloadable games won’t be supported on PlayStation 4. What that means is your entire PlayStation Network library is going to have to stay put, and won’t be carried over to the next generation as many people were hoping it would. That’s no surprise considering the major changes to the system’s architecture which, other than the issue of backwards compatibility, are excellent news. This leaves gamers who wanted the PS4...
Can PlayStation 4 Restore Our Lost Love for Sony?
Posted by 1UP on Feb 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment
I used to love Sony.
The Sony I fell in love with won me over from 10 years Nintendo loyalty. I lost my faith in the N64 within six months of launch: After I’d stripped Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 of every last drop of entertainment they had to offer, and I couldn’t see much of interest in the near future besides Zelda, 18 months away. So I sold my N64 to a roommate and used the money to buy a PlayStation, a copy of Suikoden, and Tomb Raider. From that moment, the PlayStation never...
1UP’s PlayStation 4 Roundtable: Opinions, Analysis, and Community Reactions
Posted by 1UP on Feb 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Jose Otero: At the PlayStation event, Sony showed some of the best and worst kept secrets in the gaming industry. We all got our first peek at the PlayStation 4’s controller and the rumored social features, like the ability to allow other users to spectate the games you’re currently playing. I went into this thing unsure of how social features would help boost this upcoming generation of hardware, but I walked away impressed by all of the possibilities. Today’s Internet thrives...
Here’s One Rumored Detail About the Next Xbox That Piques My Interest
Posted by 1UP on Feb 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Much of the recent talk about Durango, the code name for the next-generation Xbox, has been about its rumored always-online requirement. Aside from the fact that you’d need an Internet connection in order to use the system, this would also supposedly block the use of secondhand games, potentially eliminating used game sales, game rentals, and maybe even something as simple as borrowing a game from a friend. It’s difficult to imagine for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is...
Rayman Legends Going Multiplatform Lets Down Wii U Owners And Nintendo
Posted by 1UP on Feb 08, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Rayman Legends was, for myself and many others, a major reason to pick up a Wii U early on. Although it was known more than a month in advance of the system’s launch that Legends would be coming in the first quarter of 2013, rather than in November as originally planned, it had been a game touted as a Wii U exclusive for some time. It seemed inevitable that it would eventually come to other platforms, but it would still be a game that could only be had on Wii U for a period of time, and it...
The Exciting Prospect of a J.J. Abrams-Valve Collaboration
Posted by 1UP on Feb 06, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The prospect of a keynote discussion at the DICE Summit between Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams seemed intriguing enough. After all, the two are some of the biggest names in their respective fields, Newell being the co-founder of Valve and Abrams being one of the most prolific producers and directors in Hollywood over the past decade. The conversation the two had on stage today was interesting enough, but the most noteworthy bit came in the form of a revelation that the two sides could collaborate...
Sly Cooper’s Alarmingly Quiet Launch Emphasizes the Need for Change
Posted by 1UP on Feb 05, 2013 | Leave a Comment
You might not know it, but Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was released today. It’s a PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita exclusive that you can pick up right this very second, although you could be forgiven for not realizing it — and not just because Dead Space 3 is the week’s biggest release.
Thives in Time is the series’ first entry not to be developed by Sucker Punch Productions, which is now better known for its work on Infamous. When the game was revealed back at E3 2011,...
An (Admittedly Futile) Cry for Less Annualization And More Breathing Room
Posted by 1UP on Jan 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment
It is something we see far more often than many of us would like: A game hits it big and the publisher responsible for it proceeds to annualize it or, at the very least, provide each subsequent release with little breathing room before yet another follow-up is released. The short-term rewards for doing so promote a temptation to exploit series in a way that can be harmful to the quality of the games in question and the series as a whole. Not only that, the interest in backing games with this sort...
Making Sense of Warren Spector’s Junction Point Being Shut Down
Posted by 1UP on Jan 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Following rumors that began to circulate yesterday, the news was made official today: Junction Point Studios is the latest game development studio to be shut down. While far from outright shocking, considering the moves its parent company had made in recent years, this does call attention to how quickly things can go south for a developer, even one with a name like Warren Spector at the helm.
Spector, who is best known for his earlier work on games like System Shock and Deus Ex, founded the studio...
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