Monthly Archives: January 2009

Mourning 1UP

1UP and EGM have been sav­aged by “new busi­ness real­i­ties.” I haven’t read EGM for a long, long time. But a com­mon expe­ri­ence dur­ing my Muni com­mute is lis­ten­ing to the 1UP Yours pod­casts for gam­ing news, reviews, and enter­tain­ment. For my sake, I hope that David, Gar­nett, and John find a way to keep …

January 8, 2009 – 10:14 am | By David Eckelberry | Posted in Game Industry |

Make a new Star Wars? Good luck.

Global Pres­i­dent of 2K Christoph Hart­mann has told MCV that Bioshock has the poten­tial to emu­late the Star Wars series. Yeah, so, good luck. I don’t want to get into all the ways in which Star Wars cre­ates like­able char­ac­ters, a fan­tasy galaxy, and an opti­mistic his­tory for itself that Bioshock, with sur­vivor hor­ror as …

January 8, 2009 – 12:01 am | By David Eckelberry | Posted in Game Industry | Tagged , |