Episode 6 of DC Universe Online ’s video dev diary Inside the Studio has been released on Facebook, with Game Director Chris Cao and Creative Director Jens Andersen answering the latest round of fan questions.
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DC Universe Online releases new video developer Q&A
You may recall that a couple of days ago we announced a rather tantalizing deal for City of Heroes players, involving both a chance to win a free gaming mouse and the opportunity to ask the developers your questions. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, the session was postponed, as the team found the formspring service didn’t quite have the capacity for what they were doing. We’re happy to say that after a very short turnaround time, the session has been re-arranged and put back on the schedule .
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Rescheduled developer question-and-answer contest for City of Heroes
The game that launched a thousand little samurai warriors returns with a very impressive-looking sequel. E3 2010 is underway, as are rolling hands-off demonstrations of Shogun 2: Total War, a very, very impressive-looking sequel and the next Total War game from Creative Assembly. Shogun 2 takes place in the year 1545 during Japan’s tumultuous “Sengoku jidai,” just before the rise of the legendary warlord Oda Nobunaga, who set in motion the events that unified Japan
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Shogun 2: Total War Impressions – First Look
Girls do lots of attractive things.
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Case of the Mondays – Lighting a Fart Fail
The trouble with making Star Trek Online is that there are a lot of parts that work great in a dramatic television series that don’t necessarily work as well in a game.
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Newest Ask Cryptic for Star Trek Online highlights gaps between series and game
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled guide to playing a spider for a number of questions and answers, and possibly several comic book sound effects! (Okay, it’s not exactly “interrupting” anything when I said that it would be here this week, but humor me.) As usual, the community has taken the opportunity to ask me a number of City of Heroes questions, and I have used my magical time-looker-forward tube to find the vast majority of the answers. So with that having been said, let’s get into the down and dirty, shall we? Superfan asked: ” Massively suspects the game has only 40,000 active subscibers right now?
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A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Questions versus answers, no holds barred!
Filed under: Massively meta It’s been another fun week here at the Massively virtual headquarters as we gather up our new writers and put them through the hazing training process.
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WRUP: Garlic, Duck Tales, and oh yeah, console games edition
If someone collected the data from many weeks of WRUP and charted what everyone played week in and week out there’s certain to be some sort of hidden message, isn’t there? Perhaps this random assortment of games, old and new, every week is only seemingly random, disguising an intricate pattern that will tell us the future… Hmm! But, pattern or not, Team Massively’s gaming habits are all over the map this weekend — just read on to see for yourself! This week we’ve also asked everyone a bonus question which comes again from commenter Blah?, who asked: If you could develop your own MMO, what would the setting be
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WRUP: Seeing signs edition
They’ve got an anniversary coming up, but no one can accuse the team over at Paragon Studios of resting on their laurels. The studio responsible for City of Heroes is hard at work on the next major content update, several anniversary celebrations, and they’re still stopping to reach out to their fans. In not very much time at all, it will be time for a live chat with the development team of City of Heroes via their forumspring.me page.
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Reminder: City of Heroes developer chat today
For whatever people may fault them on, Cryptic Studios has an excellent track record for trying to keep communications open between the company and the fans. Champions Online regularly allows players to ask any number and breadth of questions in the Ask Cryptic feature, and hot on the heels of the melee powerset developer diary comes the latest batch of questions .
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Newest Ask Cryptic on Champions Online
