A Look Back at the Year in Games

The excellent Stephen Totilo runs down memorable moments from this year in games, from the perspective of MTV Multiplayer. (Flash site, make sure and stop the ad quickly to avoid brainburn.) From the article: "On a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon we drove south from Austin to Buda and got a look at the Rooster Teeth digs. One of the guys, the heavily tattooed Geoff Fink, sat Sway down at a bank of Xbox 360s and recording equipment to explain how the 'Halo' machinima gets made. Sway got the details, but we couldn't wrap the interview without asking Fink about a detail we highlighted in our old Rooster Teeth story -- the foot thing. Sway noticed that Fink had nine Xbox 360 controllers at the recording station and enough systems to allow them to be used at the same time -- but Rooster Teeth doesn't have nine gamer/actors to wield them. They solve this problem by wielding multiple controllers at once, some with their hands and some with their feet. We needed a demonstration and got one, captured on film."

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[HappySqurriel]

I don't think anyone should be surprised that the new Xbox sales are lagging behind the first one's.

That used to be true, but since the XBox 360 has gotten it's supply problems taken care of it has been selling better and has amost recovered from the bumpy first several months.

http://www.vgcharts.org/usaconscomps.php?name1=X36 0&name2=XB&type=2 [vgcharts.org]

. Or that the two weeks before Christmas there are giant stacks of unsold Xbox 360s at their local Frys as of yesterday.

Show me a system which has been out f

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[IKnwThePiecesFt]

As someone stated, working as intended.

I work for Best Buy, we move tons of 360s, but we have probably 2-300 on hand. Every single day we get more in. I'm told Microsoft has guaranteed we'll be in stock throughout the holiday.

Story-flash.

[Anonymous Coward]

Multiplayer: Speed-Runs, A Referee, NES Collectors -- The Year In Gaming

Underground French McDonald's employees, 'Okami' also make list of Multiplayer's favorite stories of 2006.

Over the past year, I interviewed captains of the gaming industry and the creator of a Columbine video game. I tracked the rise, fall and possible resurrection of a Bob Ross video game, worked with a team of producers around the world to provide MTV viewers interviews with Chinese "World of Warcraft" gold farmers and did the obligat

Yup!

[wikthemighty]

"How Do You Teach People About Africa? Make A Video Game"

Works for me. [lemon64.com]

Zonk, what the hell were you thinking?

[Anonymous Coward]

A link to an MTV site? That is geek cryptonite!

My eyes, my eyes! I feel so hip and cool. I no longer care about the difference between ed, vi, and emacs! Good God what have you done?

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[WilliamSChips]

The term is kryptonite.

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[KDR_11k]

See? It's working.

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[WilliamSChips]

Are you telling me that superheroes and spelling Naziism aren't geeky?

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[KDR_11k]

I'm telling you the OP is affected, as a typical geek you probably didn't RTFA and as such weren't exposed :P.

guide to jargon

[theMerovingian]

For the other two or three of us old-timers who have no idea what this post is about, I took the liberty to look up the terminology.

Buda: a town in central Texas

Rooster Teeth: a company who puts video-game-related cartoons on the net

Machinima: "We just write scripts and then use videogames to act them out. It's a new style of animation that some people call machinima. It allows to make weekly pieces of animation with a small group of people." --Rooster Teeth website

DISCLAIMER: Yes, I am bored and avoiding my inlaws on Christmas eve.

mtv

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Link tells me to goto mtv.co.uk. Is it broken or what?

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[threeofnine]

In Soviet Russia, the links are never broken, you are.

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[MaXiMiUS]

After going directly to mtv.com, and letting it set some cookies, I can view the article properly now. At first it was trying to push me to mtv.ca, which wanted to install some ActiveX plugin for Firefox (which doesn't even work in Firefox 2.0.0.1).