This week, guest contributor Jim McGinley talks about the player-created content juggernaut (and now Muslim-friendly) Little Big Planet. I played it multiplayer for about 10 levels. I haven’t played it online, nor have I tried single player. Music & Sound Effects – GREAT. The best thing about the game. Upbeat, but not irritating. Even “sproing” [...] Keep Reading

We just returned from an interactive ontario double-billed conference, GameON:Finance and the Ontario Game Summit. i had low expectations for the event, having been somewhat disappointed by the organization’s earlier effort, ICE08. The problem i had with ICE is that it repeated a lot of the information i had heard at the Game Developers’ Conference [...] Keep Reading

The gaming world is not one where you find many dissenting viewpoints, at least on matters of morailty. Sure, you’ll get the usual “GEARS OF WAR UZ THE BEST FL**CKING GAMEZORRS EVAR” versus “STFU N00B GRAND THEFT AUTO ROOLZ111!!1!1!!”. But when it comes to matters of morally compromising game content – particularly violent content – [...] Keep Reading

PROBLEM: You’ve got a movieclip with a stop action on the first frame. When it appears on-screen, it inexplicably starts playing on frame 2, ignoring frame 1 and your stop action entirely. The movieclip in question is probably embedded into a parent clip that you’ve dynamically added to the stage from the library using the [...] Keep Reading

The opinions expressed in the following post are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Untold Entertainment Inc., its employees or its affiliates. i’ve been closely following the Little Big Planet recall fiasco with a few opinion articles. Let me make my stance crystal clear: Sony should not have recalled the [...] Keep Reading