spidweb writes “The common theory is that games like World of Warcraft are addictive. But what are the exact qualities that make it so? Are there specific elements of the design that can be pulled out, distilled, and used at will to give a game drug-like properties? Is it wrong to do so? A new article at IGN RPG Vault attempts to isolates the exact qualities that go into making an addiction-based design. From the article: ‘If a game uses rewards of any sort to entice you to experience highly repetitive content, you should see what it’s trying to do and which of your buttons it’s trying to press. If you don’t mind, that’s cool, but you should understand it.’”
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viyh sends word that new downloadable content will be coming to Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. They also announced that this bit of DLC, as well as the previous pack, The Lost and Damned, will be released together on a compilation disc later this year. The interesting part is that players won’t need to buy the original game to play the two expansions. Rockstar’s Sam Houser said, “This episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities.” The press release describes the plot thus: “As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka ‘Gay Tony’), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.”
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viyh sends word that new downloadable content will be coming to Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. They also announced that this bit of DLC, as well as the previous pack, The Lost and Damned, will be released together on a compilation disc later this year. The interesting part is that players won’t need to buy the original game to play the two expansions. Rockstar’s Sam Houser said, “This episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities.” The press release describes the plot thus: “As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka ‘Gay Tony’), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
viyh sends word that new downloadable content will be coming to Grand Theft Auto IV this fall, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. They also announced that this bit of DLC, as well as the previous pack, The Lost and Damned, will be released together on a compilation disc later this year. The interesting part is that players won’t need to buy the original game to play the two expansions. Rockstar’s Sam Houser said, “This episode’s focus on high-end night life contrasts with the biker gangs portrayed in The Lost and Damned, whilst giving us a lot of new gameplay possibilities.” The press release describes the plot thus: “As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (aka ‘Gay Tony’), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.”
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While still one-half away from a good “show and tell” game, Splitfish has announced (with no pics, unfortunately) the Dual SFX Evolution and Dual SFX Frag Pro controllers, part of the Frevolution X series and coming this Fall for the PlayStation 3. For the first person shooter crowd, the Frag Pro is slated to be the successor to the mouse-and-nunchuk combo originally released in 2007 (pictured), with a new dual wireless system to clear up some cord clutter. As for the Evolution, according to the presser it’ll swap out the mouse for a right-handed motion / analog joystick. We’re a bit lacking in the imagery department right, but we’ll be getting some eyes (and hopefully hands) on the peripherals when E3 rolls around early next month.
Update: Looks like Splitfish called us on a bluff we didn’t realize we had and pointed us to pics of the Evolution (above) and Frag Pro (after the break).
[Via Joystiq]
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Janco’s Mike Hickey believes that if done the right way, a GTA MMO could go over very well in the market. He’s also taking a cautious point of view on BioShock 2.
What’s more, Free Realms boasts appeal to key demographics, with most of the users under the age of 17 and nearly a third female.
wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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wjousts writes “Technology Review is reporting on IBM’s plans to take on Trebek at his own game. The ‘Watson’ computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers. A televised matchup with Trebek is planned for next year. ‘David Ferrucci, the IBM computer scientist leading the effort, explains that the system breaks a question into pieces, searches its own databases for “related knowledge,” and then finally makes connections to assemble a result. Watson is not designed to search the Web, and IBM’s end goal is a system that it can sell to its corporate customers who need to make large quantities of information more accessible.’”
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