Game Wars

Honest Words from a Gamemaker is an extremely clearly addresses fans questions about game’s price between other effects.

“I would have been perfectly happy with a launch price of 800 points. At 1200 points I am less happy, but I am okay with it.”

“Jeff Minter priced Space Giraffe (which is the best game on XBLA) at $5 because he wanted a lot of people to be able to afford it, and really wanted to give something to the fans at a low price. Well, that bit him in the ass because he only sold 19k copies”

And my personal favorite
“I don’t like the Microsoft Points system; I wish it just worked like the PSN store where you just pay an honest and straightforward amount of money for what you want to buy.”
Via Jonathan Blow’s Blog

Shacknews is a treatment a little fresh established tracks for Guitar Hero World travel around. The locate is pretty assorted to put it kindly, we have:

-Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”
-Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
-The Doors - “Light My Fire”
-Michael Jackson - “Beat It”
-Linkin Park - “In the End”
-Smashing Pumpkins - “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”

I have told you that were an odd mix, though “Beat It” does not a feature some imagine Eddie Van Halen guitar work. “Light my Fire” is an attractive choice because most excellent parts of that the song is played on an instrument that is an occupied with GH: WT, keyboard, well be in this case an organ.

It is no underground that I love Ratchet and Clank games. Ratchets is a why I was thrilled to hear about impending downloadable game “Quest for Booty”. Now I am every more eager because Sony has announce that game will be free in US on 21st of this month. This is simply 20 days away! And that are also be announce a price of 15.00 bucks, which depending upon length of game, that is could be a large deal.

Via Playstation Blog