http://gamerexcitement.com Wii Xbox 360 PS2 PS3 PSP DS - News and Talk at GamerExcitement.com Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Back after a few months’ hiatus, The Aberrant Gamer is happy to return as a biweekly, sometimes NSFW column by Leigh Alexander, dedicated to the kinks and quirks we gamers tend to keep under our hats – those predilections and peccadilloes less commonly discussed in conventional media.] “Make her boobs bigger,” ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/column-the-aberrant-gamer-uncanny-valley-of-the-dolls A new survey of Guitar Hero and Rock Band players by Brown University ethnomusicologist Kiri Miller has revealed some fascinating trends, including the fact that 76% of the players bought music they heard in the game, and 69% often play in multiplayer modes. The initial results from Miller, who has ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/in-depth-inside-the-music-game-player-census [Veteran, possibly pseudonymous game developer Matthew Wasteland writes the ‘Arrested Development’ humor column for Game Developer magazine, and we’re now reprinting his best insights on GameSetWatch. This delightful installment includes several useful excerpts from nonexistent game development tomes.] Making Money With GameCube Ports: A Fast And Easy Guide To The Wealth ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/humor-excerpts-from-development-books-that-never-were [’Design Lesson 101′ is a regular column by game designer Manveer Heir. The goal is to play a game from start to completion and learn something about game design in the process. This week we take a look at Jonathan Blow’s critically acclaimed platform-puzzler, Braid, available on Xbox Live Arcade] In ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/design-lesson-101-braid Popcap cames has announced that Bejeweled has sold more than 25 million copies. That’s a lot of casual games for casual game players. PopCap co-founder Jason Kapalka had this to say about it, “Considering we tried to sell Bejeweled outright to more than one industry giant back in the early ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/bejeweled-officially-takes-over-the-world [In this editorial, originally printed in Game Developer magazine and already causing much debate on online messageboards, editor-in-chief Brandon Sheffield questions whether oft-theorized “graphics plateau” has already occurred, as supported by the continued success of graphically modest systems such as Wii and PlayStation 2.] Developers and journalists alike have talked ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/opinion-video-games-and-the-graphics-plateau Aha, the ever-present GameSetLink-age bus is trundling up to the WWW stop again, headed by another of those well-researched MSNBC.com articles that don’t often get noticed by game sites - this time, on social network gaming. Also wandering around in here, the (pictured) super-cute Shooting Historica Vol.2 classic shmup figurines, ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/gamesetlinks-the-historica-of-social-gaming There’s been a lot going on over the past couple weeks in magazine-land (not least of which being the destruction of my laptop, which is why this column is a little late), but I’d like to start instead by officially inaugurating the UK’s Retro Gamer into the regular rotation of ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/column-game-mag-weaseling-mag-roundup-81608 If you’re interested in the development of Fallout 3 (and why shouldn’t you be?) then you’ve got to make sure and check out a whole slew of images that were taken by an Asian blogger who, I suppose, doesn’t care about breaking NDAs. There’s so many pictures that if you ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/a-lot-of-fallout-3-pics If you can’t wait for over the top, unbelievable and extreme to the max Star Wars action that’s like, TOTALLY UNLEASHED, then you should be happy to know that Star Wars: Unleashed is having a demo available on Thursday. The demo will hit Xbox Live and PSN, with Wii owners ... http://gamerexcitement.com/nintendo/wii/xbox/360/playstation3/force-unleashed-demo-%e2%80%9cunleashes%e2%80%9d-this-week%e2%80%a6-har-har