Motorstorm looks awesome. Can’t wait for my Vita preorder to ship

Awesome coverage.

For Best of 2012: GTA 5 and Last of Us will be great, but I bet they won’t be out until 2013.

Stephen Orr, explain: you voted Motorstorm Apocolypse as most overlooked and NFS The Run as both the best racer and the biggest disappointment?

You’re right. The Sony Tablet S was pretty good. That’s probably the best Android device they’ve shipped, but still, it shipped three months after the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which has the exact same CPU/GPU/RAM and a slimmer form factor. And ~three months later, you can get the Transformer Prime which is running Tegra 3 and [...]

“Unannounced New IP” means it’s not God of War.

@Blackstaffer, Almost all Google and Amazon products and platforms give developers highly flexible language and IDE choices. If you want to build a Google AppEngine app, you can use Python along with any IDE you choose, a huge range of JVM language/IDE options, or Google’s own Go language. This isn’t some pie in the sky waste [...]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. @wolfkin, no, there was no other part 1. This was a response to my last post and some other comments I received. @Ceidz, I too was a 8+ hour a day full time C# programmer for about seven years or so until the past year, when I finally was able to get [...]

@Dean, Sony is great at managing/nurturing dev studios. Those studios are better at writing game software than anything Microsoft has done. Microsoft’s reptuation is system + infrastructure software and I’d argue that Google is much better at that overall.

@CHEETO, Obviously, Microsoft Visual Studio is popular. So is Microsoft IE and Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. That doesn’t mean they are good. Most people use Microsoft products because their work or school mandates it and coerces them to. IE, is notoriously a piece of garbage, yet has a commanding market share despite the fact [...]

Yes, I’ve used Visual Studio 2010. Sure, there was NUnit, which I used extensively when working in .NET only shops, but you really had to manage all that without even basic tool/infrastructure support. You never had good IDE/build integration until the non-free versions of VS2008. You can use Scala/Clojure in .NET? Sure those languages have [...]

Sure, Microsoft won’t take over Sony in the same way that Microsoft won’t execute a formal take over of Nokia/Yahoo, but those companies have effectively been castrated as independent entities that influence the technology landscape.

@Tucker, sure many programmers think Microsoft Visual Studio is productive, because to them, programming is just gluing different Microsoft components together: just wire ASP.NET or Silverlight to SQL Server/Azure/Office/SharePoint. I’d point out that Visual Studio is inferior because: – Behind the times. They integrate most…[Read more]

PlayStation Suite is Sony’s game development toolset to build cross platform games that will run on PlayStation Vita, selected Android smartphones & tablets, and (I’m not sure on this last one, but I vaguely remember them saying this) the PS3. All Sony’s past consoles have been purely industry standard neutral C or C++ along with [...]

This post has piqued my interest, but I’m skeptical of the graphic adventure genre. I *loved* text/graphic adventure games when I was a kid, but it seems my interest in that type of game died, and that seems like a widespread phenomenon. I’ll give this one a shot though.

When they say “unannounced” titles, they don’t mean games that new reveals of games that we’ve never heard of, they mean they just haven’t specified which games are going to be put into the show slots.

@xDeFcoN, I doubt that there is much eye damage. There may be some small or reversible issues, but anything more serious probably would have been noticed by now. Obviously, as these become more widespread, we will know more. $780 is too much for casual users and impulse purchasers, but it looks like it has the [...]