Lego Harry Potter Covers Years 5-7 This Holiday
The newest Lego-themed game will return to the world of Harry Potter to cover the remainder of the series. Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is based on the final three J.K. Rowling books and final four films (the last book, Deathly Hallows, was split into two movies).
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Lego Harry Potter Covers Years 5-7 This Holiday
The Legend of Zelda Turns 25
1UP Celebrates The Legend of Zelda’s 25th Anniversary Table of Contents | Gameography | Coolest Videos | Embarrassing Moments | Things You Didn’t Know | Top 25 Theme Song Covers | Merchandise You Didn’t Know Existed | Useless Items | Commercials | Why LTTP is Still Best | Retronauts Podcast On February 21, 1986 — exactly 25 years ago today — the very first copy of the game we know as The Legend of Zelda was sold in Japan, jump-starting an iconic franchise that has spawned various sequels, books, television shows, and a fan community larger than perhaps any other videogame series.
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The Legend of Zelda Turns 25
Supreme Court: ‘Are You Going to Ban Grimm’s Fairy Tales Too?’
The Supreme Court of the United States heard an hour-long oral argument this morning about a California law that would ban the sale of violent videogames, and while a ruling will not come until next year, the responses from justices seem to indicate that it will be ruled unconstitutional. According to a Wall Street Journal report , Justice Antonin Scalia argued that banning videogame sales to minors could extend to children’s books as well.
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Guillermo del Toro Defends Games as an Art Form
Director Guillermo del Toro — who will soon be teaming up with THQ to work on an undisclosed amount of videogame projects — recently conducted a book reading in Portland, Oregon. And as if on cue, at the end of the reading someone asked him what he wants to accomplish in gaming, which opened the door to not only a few more vague details on del Toro’s upcoming game, but also an impassioned defense of the medium as a whole. “Videogames are the comic books of our time,” del Toro began, reportedly perking up quite a bit after the question was posed (via Shacknews )
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Guillermo del Toro Defends Games as an Art Form
Will Wright Donates Game Design Papers to Museum
The Strong National Museum of Play has announced that Will Wright, who gamers no doubt know as the creator of such monumental videogame franchises as SimCity , The Sims , and Spore , has donated a large collection of his personal papers and design documents to the museum’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG). The donation includes nine graph paper notebooks covering a large span of Wright’s career, including doodles, detailed drawings, and hand-written notes chronicling his creative process for such games as The Sims, SimCopter, SimCity 2000, and Spore. The notebooks also contain Wright’s notes and outlines regarding business matters, as well as the various presentations he’s given over the years to explain his game design methods and philosophies.
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Will Wright Donates Game Design Papers to Museum
Film, Comics Industries Lobby Against California Games Bill
Entertainment industries to have frequently come under legal scrutiny, assemble! With Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association set to be heard before the Supreme Court in November — a case that will settle the constitutionality of a California bill that would prohibit the sale of violent videogames to minors — the videogames industry is suddenly finding support from two other industries that have had their share of legal bouts in the past: films and comic books. As PC Mag reports, every major organization in the film industry — The Motion Picture Association of America, National Association of Theatre Owners, and the Directors, Producers, Screen Writers, and Screen Actors Guilds — have all joined together to file an amicus brief to argue in support of the videogames industry and against the proposed California law.
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Film, Comics Industries Lobby Against California Games Bill
Hiroyuki Kobayashi Talks Devil Kings, Japan Game Biz
Hiroyuki Kobayashi may be renowned as the producer of Resident Evil 4 and the Devil May Cry series, but right now in Japan he’s probably best known for his role in Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings ), a series of Dynasty Warriors-y action games that has become wildly popular in Japan in recent years. “We came up with the project plan for Basara around the time game sales began to slow down in Japan,” Kobayashi recalled in an interview printed in Famitsu magazine. “We thought a lot about how to to make a game sell here, and during the trial-and-error phase, we went to a bookstore and found a section devoted to the Warring States period.
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Hiroyuki Kobayashi Talks Devil Kings, Japan Game Biz
GDC Europe 2010: Warren Spector Cites Oral Storytelling As Medium Games Should Learn From
In a grandiose keynote titled, “What Videogames Can Learn From Other Media…
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GDC Europe 2010: Warren Spector Cites Oral Storytelling As Medium Games Should Learn From
Square Enix’s Next Game Involves Throwing Bears Around
In Japan, Final Fantasy creator Square Enix has unveiled a new WiiWare game called Kumange, which is a “throwing action” game involving mansions, paper bears and picture books. According to Japanese gaming site Andriasang (as translated from the game’s official website ), The Tales of Bearsworth Manor (as it will be called for its English language release) allows players to “make use of the [Wii remote] to throw things in order to solve puzzles.”
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Square Enix’s Next Game Involves Throwing Bears Around
Ubisoft Announces Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
It was revealed last week that Ubisoft still has two unannounced Tom Clancy games in the works, and now that mystery has been at least halfway solved: Ubisoft announced today that Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 is in development and slated for release later this year
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Ubisoft Announces Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
