Posts By Kartik Mudgal

Obsidian reporting layoffs due to a next-gen Xbox project

Obsidian reporting layoffs due to a next-gen Xbox project

Obsidian, the studio behind the awesome Fallout: New Vegas and Alpha Protocol (it was awesome), are reporting some job cuts, which is extremely disappointing. It is being reported that they wer... Read More

Here’s how PSN security head is protecting the network

Here’s how PSN security head is protecting the network

Brett Wahlin was appointed as PSN's security chief after the devastating PSN hack last year, and he's someone who worked in the US military during the Cold War. Sony means business, and we pretty mu... Read More

Japanese hardware and software sales for this week revealed

Japanese hardware and software sales for this week revealed

Yes, the Vita hasn't gone below 10k units yet, in fact, it actually shows higher sales, by a whopping 18 units over last week. It sold 10, 041 units this week, and the 3DS sold 68k units and is show... Read More

Gravity Rush was inspired by Xbox 360’s Crackdown

Gravity Rush was inspired by Xbox 360’s Crackdown

This is an interesting revelation, as Gravity Rush director Keiichiro Toyama has mentioned on the US PS Blog that he was inspired by Crackdown a lot, and gave plenty of reasons to support it. ... Read More

Fez trial video released by Polytron

Fez trial video released by Polytron

Polytron Corporation has released a trial video for its upcoming platformer Fez, and it's loaded with 6.5 minutes of gameplay footage. Phil Fish, the game's creator is in the news for all the wrong re... Read More

Team Ninja: Many developers don’t do justice to violence in games

Team Ninja: Many developers don’t do justice to violence in games

Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi has told GamesIndustry that many developers don't do justice to violence and gore, and it ends up being mechancial. Just like Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, right? I kid..... Read More

Pirate contributes $10,000 for Wasteland 2 Kickstarter

Pirate contributes $10,000 for Wasteland 2 Kickstarter

Wasteland 2 Kickstarter campaign is almost successful, with over 800k funded. The goal is $900k, which, let's be honest here, should be pretty easy to achieve in 33 days. Razor's CEO Min-Liang... Read More

Microsoft hiring for an AAAA game

Microsoft hiring for an AAAA game

That's right, AAAA game. That many A's, yup. When people say the game is "AAA", it simply means that the budget is high and nothing else. Maybe Microsoft may be planning to create a huge franchise... Read More

GTA V expected to release in 2013, targeting the Wii U

GTA V expected to release in 2013, targeting the Wii U

When Rockstar delayed Max Payne 3 to May, I immediately thought "there goes GTA V to 2013". Of course, this isn't official yet, just some analysts saying it's going to be released in 2013 and they a... Read More

Shoot Many Robots Review

Shoot Many Robots Review

Shoot Many Robots is an, uh, interesting name for a 2D sidescroller. When I first heard of this game, I'll admit, I brushed it away thinking it will be generic. The market is flooded with 2D side scr... Read More

BioShock Infinite heavy hitters video released

BioShock Infinite heavy hitters video released

2K Games has released a new video which shows handyman in BioShock Infinite. The video shows Ken Levine and a bunch of other guys explaining the new enemy and also some of the gameplay mechanics.... Read More

DmC Director: Dante isn’t modelled after me, “I didn’t design the character”

DmC Director: Dante isn’t modelled after me, “I didn’t design the character”

DmC director and co-founder of Ninja Theory, Tameem Antoniades is on the hot seat after taking over Capcom's Devil May Cry, and one of the main issues people had was that Dante's design resembled hi... Read More

It will take a long time for tablets to match the consoles in performance – Tim Sweeney

It will take a long time for tablets to match the consoles in performance – Tim Sweeney

Well, as if it wasn't obvious enough, Epic President Tim Sweeney has said that there are plenty of factors which limit the performance of the tablets. The first reason is power consumption, and as y... Read More

Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter accumulates $3.3 million

Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter accumulates $3.3 million

The Kickstarter project for Double Fine's Adventure closed at $3.3 million, and we have the complete stats for you. This has to be one of the incredibly successful Kickstarter campaigns to date, a... Read More

Final Fantasy Versus XIII real time demo reveal delayed

Final Fantasy Versus XIII real time demo reveal delayed

Final Fantasy Versus XIII was revealed in 2006, and we still do not have any gameplay demo yet. But that was about to change when Tetsuya Nomura said they will show off a demo running on a PlaySta... Read More

Casey Hudson: Mass Effect 3’s ending “will be remembered”; BioWare listening to fan feedback

Casey Hudson: Mass Effect 3’s ending “will be remembered”; BioWare listening to fan feedback

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the ending of Mass Effect 3, and plenty of fans simply don't like it. There's also a petition to change the ending - BioWare isn't interested in tha... Read More

iPad to be replace consoles in the future – EA and Epic

iPad to be replace consoles in the future – EA and Epic

EA and Epic are bullish on the iPad and understandably so. Apple is extremely profitable and people buy the iPad in droves, and when you consider these two things, it's a recipe for success. The pr... Read More

Ben Cousins gives a 26-minute presentation on why game consoles are dying

Ben Cousins gives a 26-minute presentation on why game consoles are dying

Now, who is Ben Cousins? Well, he actually works for ngmoco, and yes, it's a company that makes games for the mobile devices. He recently gave a presentation at GDC where he explained where consol... Read More

Xbox 360 Achievements being randomly wiped out, users panicking

Xbox 360 Achievements being randomly wiped out, users panicking

UPDATE: Microsoft has responded and has advised people to log in again into their accounts. It has just come to our attention that Xbox 360 Achievements are being wiped out as soon as you earn ... Read More

Phil Harrison is now the head of Microsoft’s European game studios

Phil Harrison is now the head of Microsoft’s European game studios

How can anyone forget Phil Harrsion who used to work at Sony, and he was such a towering presence at their E3 conferences. Microsoft has snagged him and he now replaces Peter Molynuex, who left Mi... Read More