Demon's Souls gives what gaming needs = innovations

Demon's souls is one best games I have ever played. You've probably heard lot about it.
So I've played it through now and I'm starting new game+

                                                - Enjoy some art

I'll list some things what I love in it:

* Great atmosphere, dark and beautiful, sunny but eery... it has lot of attributes

* Worlds are large, detailed and imaginery

* Innovative enemies, bosses ( every boss/mob = actually very unique unlike in WoW)

* Combat challenging and rewarding

* ARMORS are best looking! Weapons are awesome, cool spells too

* EVERYTHING WAS INNOVATIVE. More games like this.

And in this vid some dude had made mildly disturbing character !

Social games are "evil"

There is interesting article at gameindustry.biz and PCgamer where Jonathan Blow chats about the evil minded game companies like Zynga etc. And I agree with him.
I think it also shows part of reasons why I stopped playing WoW sometime ago.

So here's what usual evil designer thinks:


'My goal is to get people to think about my game and to put more money into my game and get other friends to play my game to the exclusion of all other games and all other things that they might do with their free time.' 

That is the job description of those designers. And that's evil. It's not about giving people anything. It's about taking from people.

PC Gamer: Do you blame the player? I mean, is it the player’s fault for getting involved? Even if they don’t realise they’re being harmed?


But the thing about these games though is they’re made to look really light and friendly or whatever. So it’s very difficult especially for someone to think about games and how their design affects the world – which is most people in the world, they don’t think about that, right?
It’s very difficult for them to see how this could possibly be detrimental in any way. They’re just like, “Oh, I’m clicking on the items, I’m having fun”. You know, whatever.

Witcher 2 pre-beta gameplay

I found new video from the gameplay of Witcher 2. Even though it's taken from pre-beta, it seems nice. I actually never tried Witcher, it looked like good game but I'm not a fan of round based combat and I just hadn't time for it (damn WoW etc.)

But since there's new combat system in Witcher 2 and got more time, I'm exited about it.




- Noock

Gabe Newell - world's richest game entrepreneur ?

There has been lot of articles about how succesful Valve is, but now people are interest about how much money two owners (Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington) makes.

                                          
There is no published info about Valves finance, but revenue for one year is estimated to be hundreds of millions:  

"Steam made around $300 million to $400 million for Valve in 2010. Valve tells that the revenues for Steam and its own videogame publishing arm (Half-Life, Team Fortress, Portal) are comparable. So, doubling Steam’s revenue gives Valve around $600 million to $800 million in 2010 total revenues."  writes Forbes.

So yeah, Gabe is probably by far the richest person in gaming industry.
Also worth of noting, that if Gabe and Mike decides to sell Valve,
they would receive around 2-4 billion dollars total.

- Noock