http://www.playdevil.com PlayDevil.com - European Game Site - Your daily visit before breakfast http://www.playdevil.com/logo.png CCMS v4.5 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/15/christmas-lull/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/15/christmas-lull/#1260369362-15 Is it me or are games being released earlier and earlier for Christmas? It is only the second Friday in december and already there will be no more big releases until January 2010. Am I the only one that things that the industry has taken this a little [...] Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:36:02 +0100 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/12/the-darwin-lie/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/12/the-darwin-lie/#1255145547-12 This is a small part of my new book, it's called "Game Design: From Abstract to Uncertain", and I do believe this part is kinda interesting on its own, so I made it into a little preview for you. This subchapter is called The Darwin Lie, hope [...] Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:32:27 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/11/the-journey-of-the-legend-of-zelda/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/11/the-journey-of-the-legend-of-zelda/#1250620737-11 I've been quite interested on the book The Writer's Journey from Christopher Vogler (special thanks to the brazillian Nerdcast for bringing that up), which is a simplified version of Joseph Campbell's work and I can't resist the opportunity to apply it [...] Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:38:57 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/10/when-did-easy-became-standard/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/10/when-did-easy-became-standard/#1249666874-10 As a game reviewer and unemployed videogame player I am constantly criticized for playing games on the easiest setting available. That's right, if there's Normal, Hard, Insane and Kids, suddenly I turn under three. Its also funny because I'm not the [...] Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:41:14 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/9/are-wii-games-paying-nextgen/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/9/are-wii-games-paying-nextgen/#1245104418-9 You've probably heard this one on message boards already, that companies make mediocre Wii games to pay for their "next-gen" products, that cost a lot more to make. It's also easy to dismiss this theory because it's just not logical. Next- [...] Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:20:18 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/8/the-motion-control-war/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/8/the-motion-control-war/#1244374406-8 So, here we are at our post E3 moment, when the show's hype go down and we are faced with a cruel world made of truth and facts that we call reality. Like Norm Macdonald once said, a good way to differ fantasy from reality is that fantasy is good, whil [...] Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:33:26 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/6/too-true-to-be-good/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/6/too-true-to-be-good/#1243898755-6 Hey, hope you're all enjoying E3, no better time to be a gamer, right? We've just walked away with our minds blown from Microsoft conference, and in case you don't know, I'm talking about Project Natal. A quick explanation for those who haven't hear [...] Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:25:55 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/5/easy-comes-easy-goes/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/5/easy-comes-easy-goes/#1243594383-5 Are you a graphical enthusiast? So I guess you're usually jumping form one platform from another, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, looking for the best version of a multiplatform game. Not mentioning PC here, let's go with home consoles. At first, games loo [...] Fri, 29 May 2009 12:53:03 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/4/is-it-for-wii-put-a-big-head-on-it/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/4/is-it-for-wii-put-a-big-head-on-it/#1243541257-4 "Hey guys, we invested a lot on the Next-Gen consoles and our games are not selling that well" "Are we closing?" "No, not so drastic... we'll just have to make games for the Wii" "Hum... but we don't know any [...] Thu, 28 May 2009 22:07:37 +0200 http://www.playdevil.com/blog/3/shame-on-you-capcom/ http://www.playdevil.com/blog/3/shame-on-you-capcom/#1243448443-3 So, now we have The Grinder from High Voltage, with detailled, fully shaded, 3D models of 65 enemies on screen at once with no loss on frame rate, by using the technique they called Imposter. Can't really guarantee this is what happen, but I guess Imp [...] Wed, 27 May 2009 20:20:43 +0200