Games Without Frontiers: Explosion of Indie Games Kills 'Best of' Column
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Clive Thompson cranks out the last annual roundup of top independent videogames that he'll ever need to write. Commentary.
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"Half-Life 2," "Halo 2," and "Need for Speed Underground 2" are all fine video games. But do you see the trend here? There doesn't seem to be much room for new, unique titles anymore. If "Alien Hominid" is any indication, that's a shame.
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Tycho:  We attended the same Nintendo Media Summit you have seen reported elsewhere, in the hopes of seeing Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - titles which are not minigame compilations, portable puzzle games, or games for my mom.  I don't want to say that the complimentary breakfast and lunch were a factor.  Let me say that we were hungry when we made the decision to go.
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The controversial game publisher pulls the plug on a game, for now.
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Greg Canessa explains his departure and the future of casual games. In Game|Life.
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The Entertainment Software Association has drastically cut back its video game convention. Will smaller companies get shut out?
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While it didn't surprise me that Nintendo games dominated the top 10, I was appalled at what I learned. Check out this and other original content from CNET's blog network.
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Over the last week, I've been writing about the disconnect between flow and rank. Paradoxically, sites that are ranked high don't always deliver a lot of hits when they link to you. On the flipside, there are some sites that are rarely on Top 100 lists, or talked about very much, that deliver substantial flow. Two of them stand out, one a veteran site, and the other a relative newcomer. 1. Daring Fireball is a thoughtful blog written by John Gruber that focuses on the Macintosh. Since I've returned to the Mac in 2005, and have been writing more about Mac issues, I've started getting links from this site, and when I do, they usually send between 1000 and 2000 readers my way. And they're generally interesting people with useful information and ideas. I follow Gruber on Twitter and have learned that he is a Phillies fan and therefore disappointed this year. His posts are interesting there too, and irreverent, which I like of course.  2. A Digg-like memetracker, news.ycombinator.com is in the same league as TechMeme, about 1000 hits for a highly ranked piece. I don't know much about the site, I'm not a regular reader, and I don't know much about the people who visit from this site.
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Mobile game publisher aims for shorts, snacks, and even sexy pasttimes.
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Tycho:  Positive Sony news here, at Penny Arcade?  I know, right?  We shall redouble our efforts.  The story all this was based on has been changed to say that none of it is true, or that very little of it is true (depending on who you ask), but if you're asking me I think the original story hit pretty close to the mark.  The alternative - which is to say, that xFire technology would be used for a single game and no others - suggests that their service will be another briar patch of vendor "interpretations" of an online community, which can't possibly be true.  I refuse to believe that, in this generation, they would leave something like this to chance.
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poll Pac-Man or Space Invaders? Frogger, maybe? Vote on which game was the best of that bygone era.
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2008 looks like a good year to be an independent videogame developer, as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft fish for the next big hit. Look for little games to steal the show at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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The summer video game doldrums  are almost here, but a small flurry of new titles over the next  couple of weeks may help tide gamers over until the fall  bounty.
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Gabe: I don"t read game reviews. I honestly don"t see any reason to. It"s not hard to rent a game and see for yourself if it"s any good. I don"t know why I should care what number someone I don"t know and will never meet has attached to the latest game. I picked up Enchanted Arms the day it came out because I"m a fan of classic turn based RPG"s. Now there are a lot of bad games in this genre but there are also some real gems. Series like Shadow Hearts and Shin Megami Tensei are proof that the genre has grown beyond just Final Fantasy. I"m happy to say that Enchanted Arms is another of the good ones. I"ve been hooked on it since I dropped it into my 360. Robert also grabbed a copy and we have little chat sessions every morning about how awesome the game continues to be. Tycho happened to hear one of these Enchanted Arms lovefests and was actually surprised. He told us that for the most part all the reviews of the game said it"s pretty bad or at the very best only okay. I was really surprised that reviewers could have gotten this one so wrong so I hit gamerankings to see for myself. I found the Games Radar review especially bad.
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It's been a long year for PlayStation 3 owners with very little in the way of new, exclusive content. As good as they are, "MotorStorm" and "Resistance: Fall of Man" are wearing thin for me.
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Is competition to keep up with the next-gen Joneses slowly running the video-game industry into the ground?  In Game|Life.
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Shooters, RPGs and simple pleasures -- it was a very good year for videogames. Wired's gaming scribes salute 2007's finest titles.