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There’s a news story doing the rounds today, and unless I’ve really missed something, it makes very little sense to me. ActiBlizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been talking about Guitar Hero: World Tour, and more specifically the user-generated songs the game enables dedicated souls to produce.
Apparently they’ve had something like 25,000 uploaded already (though [...]

Apologies for the lack of updates recently here on Prime Gamer, seems I’ve found myself somewhat distracted by the actual playing of games. It also seems some of the other writers have fallen off the face of the planet, and Skills, in the weirdest of twists, hasn’t found anything to hate recently.
So yes, on the [...]

LittleBigPlanet ranks as the game I’m most excited about right now. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a close call at the top, but after the serious taster that was the beta, damn do I want to get hands on with the full LBP experience right now.
And so I was somewhat confused when I got home [...]

It should be no secret that I’m not a fan of crappy online-based achievements in games, the kind that alters how people might play, forces you to play in ranked matches, or tries to make you to do keep going for something you might not otherwise do. Well, I’m adding to the list of retarded [...]

Managers, salesmen and politicians are all people live in alternate worlds, spouting their own brand of bullshit, trying to twist people’s world views to match their own warped perceptions. It would seem Activision’s boss, Bobby Kotick is currently buying into his own crap, coming out with the following claim:
“We’re outselling [Rock Band] 6 to [...]

The classic image of EA is that of the evil publisher who cares for nothing but profit, forcing their developers (swallowed up through brute force and big pockets) to churn out year after year sequels, usually with diminishing returns on the quality front. This year EA have sought to tackle that image, promising to be [...]

Remember how I said I hated the idea of region locking games, thus preventing friends across countries from playing with one another. Turns out Mercenaries 2, which just arrived this evening, features just that. How do I know this? Was this announced up front? Not at all. I know this because I’ve just tried to [...]

Will Wright’s Spore has been in the public eye for quite some time now. I remember watching a video quite some time ago that seemed full of promise. However, as many of us will know promise in a concept, or the odd brilliant feature, doesn’t necessarily translate into great gameplay (just ask our man Skills [...]

One of the upcoming releases I’m most excited about at the moment is LittleBigPlanet, which manages to look better every time I see it (which is impressive given how good it was looking from the off). However, there was a brief scare in the last couple of days when an announcement at Leipzig Games Convention [...]