The 50 Biggest Gaming Events of 2007

The Next Generation site has up an article looking back on the 50 biggest gaming events of 2007. From the launch of Burning Crusade in January all the way through to 'Gerstmann-gate', the list is highly eventful ... it's been a big year for games. "The removal of Super Columbine Massacre RPG from the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker competition sent shockwaves through the independent game community, but the event did bring two very important things to light. Firstly, it showed that even the independent art community has a clear delineation between how it treats games and how it treats other mediums. But even more importantly, the voluntary withdrawal of many other entrants in the competition showed the solidarity of the independent community, and emphasized their dedication to the progression of the medium."

And then...

[Dr. Eggman]

As if to justify all those people who claim these lists come too early to include all the big events of 2007, 3D Realms had to go and release a Duke Nukem Forever Teaser [3drealms.com]. I certainly think this qualifies to be on a revised version of the list.

Re:Missing - sales figures for Crysis and Unreal T

[MistrBlank]

The system requirements on PC games are getting out of hand. Basically nvidia hands XYZ a system with the top tier next generation graphics card and tells them to go at it. The company then expects everyone that buys it to have that card. Then doesn't realize that graphics card generations are basically 3-4 months apart and people aren't willing to pay $500-600 that frequently to upgrade systems. Game never quite catches on. If the game developers would just do what console developers are required to do most of the time and develop on outdated gear once in awhile, we might get an optimized game that runs well. Instead we get crap.

Re:Teaser for Duke Nukem Forver Released!

[Chris Burke]

Since it's been 6 whopping years since the last one I think this could qualify as one of the 50 biggest Gaming Events this year.

Actually I'd say that it's been 6 years since the last teaser of this perpetual piece of vaporware is exactly why this isn't a significant event in gaming.

At this point, the only possible significant event that can involve DNF is the release of the actual game. Anything else is *yawn* more of the same empty promises that we've been hearing for what, a decade now?