An internet snooper could have stumbled upon more domain names pointing to preparations for Grand Theft Auto V.

The GTAForums user known as "Rpg_" brought a whole host of new URLs apparently registered by Rockstar.




Just like the web addresses found towards the end of last month, many featuring on this long list of new brands have more than a GTA feel to them. Others could be related to absolutely anything.

As always these are just potential clues adding to growing rumour and speculation, but they're definitely worth a look:

babehardcore.com
baitman.com
bicyclecommuter.com
boobstop.com
californiahomesbyowner.com
carolinabrokers.com
cookinganything.com
couchparty.com
drcarlton.com
edrugs.com
famouszone.com
f*ckyew.com
getamexican.com
indepthappraising.com
justcanoe.com
loadoffmymind.com
pregnantandalone.com
majorflava.com
myrtlebeachattorney.com
outrageouslife.com
sexomy.com
stacysmail.com
thebetter.com
themaniacs.com
thetangible.com
thewhitefox.com
westernescapes.com
whattheysay.com

A Tweet by actor and comedian Gilbert Gottfried outed GTA V on Monday. It could have been a hoax or mistake but the fact that it was quickly taken down raises suspicions.

[ Source: GTAForums ]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS ...

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ThatotherDev a Coder who has released homebrew for the PS3, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and Windows has posted this news:

There is a lot of stuff I want to work on. Regardless of whether or not its mentioned here let me know if there is a specific project of mine that you would like to see me focus more on or something you would like to see done with any specific project.

So I sent in my submission to the competition. I ended up just shortening the title to Winter’s End. I’m not really sure how I feel about it. I think it turned out really nicely except its not really a game. But anyways it should be posted in the next few days so you can try it for yourself then. I’m not going to bother trying to rush in an updated in the next few hours before the competition closes but I might go back and update it eventually.

There is a simple 2D platformer that I’ve been meaning to make (primarily for GP2X, Wii). I could probably put it together in one or two days.

I’m considering to at least try to do some software 3D stuff on GP2X… Ray casting and/or polygonal.

I was thinking of also updating the GP2X version of Revolt Of The Binary Couriers to fix up some things and bring it more inline with the Wii version (which got an update ages ago). But its such a mess that I would really prefer to just start fresh. In which case would anybody be at all interested in there being a third entry in the Pineapple Apocalypse RPG series? It would obviously be for GP2X, Wii, PC and depending on the state of the PSL1GHT SDL port potentially also PS3. There is a lot of new stuff I would like to add. Maybe this time I might actually include some kind of narrative or goal…

I want to port the GP2X version of Cascade Beneath to Wii.

I would like to do a sequel to Swing Ball with polygonal graphics and maybe a mode with 3D gameplay. It would be primarily for Wii.

I want to remake Time Frack and Time Frack 2D. I like the idea of them and it bothers me that I abandoned them both in such incomplete and buggy stages of development. Time Frack 2D would at a minimum be on both GP2X and Wii (with a lazy port of the Wii version to PC). I don’t know what platform the non 2D version would be for. Maybe PC/PS3?

There is also the unannounced new game that I’ve already begun working on for the upcoming Nintendomax competition.

I would like to do something for DS/DSi and Wii for the GBAtemp competition. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was alright to submit the same game to both it and the Nintendbomax competition but I would prefer to do something unique to each. Maybe I could do the new Swingball or Time Frack 2D game for it.

Then there is PS3. I’m going to finally try out PSL1GHT (most likely using the newly released Devkit Pro addon) in a few days. I’ll probably just put together a simple hello world style program with some pretty graphics to familiarize myself with using it.

I want to do a quick PSL1GHT remake/update of the PS3 version of Maze Generator, Cubicle Shooter, Dont Get Crushed, Cascade Beneath, Neo Tanks, Neo Race, and The Untitled Project.

I want to completely restart on making The World Drowns from scratch and write a series of tutorials showing how it was made and how to develop for PS3.

Depending on how well SDL works on it I would also like to quickly port all of my Wii SDL games to PS3 (its a reasonably long list).

On the subject of SDL games I would like to do some more Tick Tock stuff. A boat racing game, a stealth action game, a zombie shooter (a lot like They Do Not Die) and eventually a moddable open world game.

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A leaked internal Microsoft video allegedly provides some hints as to what the company's Windows Gaming eXperience (WGX) team is attempting to do. The video, dug up by ZDnet, showcases what appears to be several concepts that could cross between Windows, Xbox and mobile platforms. The video is PC-focused, but features Microsoft's Avatars moving around screens using Kinect functionality, while interacting with social games and media, along with the Avatar Marketplace.

A now-removed LinkedIn job posting reportedly described the function of the WGX Team as creating a "new world-class gaming platform" to define "the next generation of Windows and Web gaming to 300 million potential customers."

According to ZDnet, the video was dated May 2010 -- in this world of corporate ADD and division restructuring, take nothing of what you see in the clip as the gospel of Windows future according to Microsoft. Just remember how that whole Kinect object scanning videoturned out, or didn't turn out ...

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/21/le...platform-plan/ ...

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THQ's first person shooter Homefront has defied a mixed critical response by debuting at number one in the UK sales chart.
The Xbox 360 version was by far the most popular of the three SKUs, accounting for 70 per cent of sales - compared to 26 per cent on the PlayStation 3 and 4 per cent on the PC. Homefront on Xbox 360 has already sold 82 per cent of the lifetime total of developer Kaos' last title, 2008's Frontlines: Fuel of War.
Officially Dragon Age II is the second-biggest seller of the week, with a fall in sales of 68 per cent. But if sales of Pokémon White and Black were combined they would have been enough to push Nintendo's portable release into second place.
PC exclusive Total War: Shogun 2 debuted at number four, although unlike the other new releases it was launched on the Tuesday rather than Friday. Nevertheless the game made almost 80 per cent of its retail boxed sales in the first 24 hours.
Outside the top 10, Take-Two's well-reviewed tennis title - Top Spin 4 - entered the charts at number 13. Here sales across the two HD console formats was much more even, at 51 per cent for the Xbox 360 and 45 per cent for the PlayStation 3 (plus 4 per cent for the Wii).
In what was a busy week for new releases there was no sign of Capcom's Okamiden in the all formats top 40. Even in the Nintendo DS top 40 the game only managed to debut at number 10.
Sega's Yakuza 4 did enter the all formats charts at number 25 though, and like Top Spin 4, just one place below that achieved but its previous iteration.


http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...t-in-uk-charts ...

Blizzard co-founder and vice president of product development Frank Pearce has told press that he feels Diablo III is likely to cannibalise World of Warcraft's audience well before new MMO 'Titan' hits the scene.
Speaking in an interview with Gamasutra, Pearce spoke about the likelihood of WoW players leaving to play Diablo, but pointed out that if the game is going to lose players to anybody, it may as well be another Blizzard product.
"It's hard to say," said Pearce when asked about Titan and WoW running concurrently. "I think even a shorter-term concern is whether or not we might see cannibalization of WoW players from Diablo III when we launch it, because it's a similar type of experience. Not exactly similar, but it's that RPG feel.
"For us, I think it's really important that we recognise that somewhere, sometime it's likely that someone is going to cannibalise World of Warcraft players, so it's better we cannibalise them ourselves than let someone else do that, because if we cannibalise them ourselves, they're still a Blizzard customer."
However, Pearce doesn't see the current level of player engagement as a plateau - there is, he believes, still room for another big game or two in the market.
"Whether it's a Blizzard game or another great MMO, I think there's plenty of space in the market for great MMOs to share customers," Pearce claims.
"We have players that burn through content in weeks or months that takes us two years to create. There are so many people looking to play these experiences so passionately, so many hours a week, I think there's plenty of space for the industry to grow."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...annibalise-wow

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Hardware manufacturer NVIDIA has told GamesIndustry.biz that it believes while the console platforms do have an advantage in terms of stability, the resulting disadvantage is that the hardware is static - and the gap to mobile and PC is closing.
That's according to the company's senior corporate and Tegra PR manager Bea Longworth, speaking in an interview published today.
"Already mobile gaming is hot on the heels of what you would expect from console-class gaming," she said. "We were demonstrating an Xbox 360 game running on our quad-core Project Kal-El technology demonstration at MWC.
"The gap is definitely closing, and that has always been the Achilles' heel of the console - its greatest strength is it's a stable platform, it's very much plug and play, you don't have to fiddle around with the hardware and have all the hassle that you might get from the PC.
"But that's also its biggest disadvantage, the fact that they are static from one generation to another, and also that the technology can't improve. Whereas with other platforms like the PC and now mobile gaming, they will be constantly moving ahead.
"So it will be really, really interesting to see what console technology has to do in order to differentiate itself and stay ahead when it has to compete with a very mass-market mobile format instead of digging in its heels."
The company has been working hard to establish its technology in the mobile space, and while Apple uses its own chipsets, NVIDIA's confident its supply to the Android market can help it compete in the future.
"It already is extremely important to us, but in terms of the proportion of the business dedicated to that particular sector, it's definitely going to become one of our most important businesses in the future," she explained.
"We've been pretty open, over the last two or three years, that we have that expectation. And obviously mobile is currently the fastest-growing and the most exciting area of computing and technology, so it makes a lot of sense for us to be there at the forefront.
"So yes, we're definitely extremely committed to our mobile business and we're really excited to be able to start introducing devices from major manufacturers like LG and Samsung and Motorola based on our technology."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ble-but-static
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REminiscence is a cross-platform virtual machine (using SDL) for the game Flashback.


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release 0.2.1 (2011/03/15)
- added missing music playback to PC SEQ cutscenes
- fixed some palette and sprite issues with Amiga data

release 0.2.0 (2011/03/11)
- added support for PC CD SEQ cutscenes
- added support for Amiga data files (experimental)
- fixed minor sound glitches ...