The headline says it all: GameDaily BIZ: Breaking: Guitar Hero Development Goes to Neversoft.
I suppose this might be a side effect of Harmonix getting acquired by MTV while Red Octane got bought by Activision. And Neversoft is a talented shop. But either way, it’s still dismaying…
With the launch of Burning Crusade, people are already commenting on how much the value of older items has dropped. I’ve seen folks who are new to the whole expansion thing wondering about past games, and whether the same was true, and how much the buying power of past currencies fell in the wake of expansions. They even asked for links to studies.
Not one, but two! Variety reports that George R. R. Martin’s books in the Song of ice and Fire series will become an HBO series, with A Game of Thrones being the entire first season. And SciFi.com has the news that Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer will be a miniseries. Very cool. As if I didn’t have enough to record already… (Gawd, I wrote “tape” there, dating myself…)
Blog reader Dragon sends in this note:
Raph, Haven’t seen anything about this on your blog yet – if you’ve already written about it then I missed it. Thought you might be interested in this article on the BBC tech news about a company adapting Neverwinter Nights to use it to encourage learning in schools. The company website is http://www.alteredlearning.com/ (and no, I’m not connected in any way shape or form) Cheers!
It is indeed interesting. The achievement scores have literally tripled. Most interesting, however, is that the mod replaced typical RPG challenges with, well, typical RPG challenges:
