Opinion: Feeling Unwelcome in the Industry I Love

Preview events are common in the gaming industry. The event’s purpose is to give journalists uninterrupted time with the game and with the studio responsible for the title. Preview events have been under fire lately as they grow into larger and larger events. For some preview events you drop by an office for an hour. Others take you to Cancun. The concern is how much the event influences the journalist. Some sites have refused the fancier events, but by missing out, the site also misses out on the coverage which equals hits. I have attended some preview events for GamingAngels. We tell our readers about the extent of the event; though being that we are an independent site, we tend to not get invited to many. To be clear, I was not invited to the Duke Nukem Forever event. I have no knowledge about the title (except I’m excited for

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GamingAngels Announces Two Additions to the GA Presents Network

Hey everyone! I’m super happy to finally be able to share our good news with you. We’re adding two new podcasts to our GA Presents Network: Game Dames and PrincessCast. Hopefully, most of you are now well familiar with our current network member, The Married Gamers and as much as we love them, we’ve been wanting to bring you more podcasts for a long while and I’m proud to be the one to make the announcement. Game Dames (www.gamedames.com) is a bi-weekly podcast discussing video games from a female perspective, covering all types of video games from console, handheld, mobile, to Facebook, and PC. Hosts Dana and Leala created Game Dames with the purpose to celebrate the girl gaming community and create an environment that encourages thoughtful discussion on subjects that are both meaningful and fun. The Game Dames have just released their first episode. The Panels on Pages PrincessCast

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Dead Rising 2 UK Hands-on Event

Gaming Angels attended Capcom’s first UK Dead Rising 2 hands-on event in a 24-hour casino laced with Xbox360s. The best kind. There were zombies of two sorts, the stumbling, blood-covered kind, and slightly strange members of the public who looked like they hadn’t slept. It felt rather surreal to be entering a casino in one of the busiest parts of London, Leicester Square, at eleven in the morning. It was also very surreal to walk into a ridiculously extravagant building with suited men behind blackjack tables and seeing Capcom staff dressed as zombies, walking like their legs had been caught in a bear trap. Surreal, but it was a wonderful way to set the scene for the impending Capcom-branded madness that was to happen with our hands-on with their upcoming game, Dead Rising 2. Dead Rising 2 opens with Chuck Greene, who you may know from the Dead Rising 2:

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Online Game of the Week – Fergus Feats

Cool off with this week’s OGOTW as you take Fergus through the snowy slopes collecting fallen apples… or what look like fallen apples. Grab up bonus points for stylish moves and catching apples on the run. He can also hang from the cliffsides and, try running him into walls and continue holding the arrow key. Watch out for icy enemies though, because one touch from them takes away your life! Control Fergus with the arrow keys. Enjoy!

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Online Game of the Week – Bugs Gone Wild

This week’s OGOTW is reminiscent of Space Invaders, or,more accurately, Centipede. The bugs are coming for you so you’d better start shooting! Move your ‘shroom with the arrow keys and shoot with the space bar. catch some helpful power-ups along the way to improve your weaponry, but watch out for the tricky little red bugs in the beginning! Good luck and enjoy!

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Get the American Idol Star Experience

Interactive entertainment company Ludia and FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) have announced the release of American Idol Star Experience game today, May 26th, to coincide with the Season 9 finale of American Idol (the show). Idol lives on in every player as they put together online performances for friends and the entire Facebook community. Download the free performance creator for your PC and design your original stage performance with an avatar of your creation, one of your favorite rock, punk, pop, hip hop, disco, R&B or country hit songs, fun dance choreography, different camera angles, and flashy special effects, which you can post on Facebook for others to enjoy, rate, comment on, and discuss with others. “We are excited to release a unique game experience based on American Idol, one of the most important entertainment franchises in the world,” said Alex Thabet, Founder and CEO of Ludia Inc. “American Idol Star Experience

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Online Game of the Week – Ninja Mahjong

This week’s OGOTW takes us back to an old favorite of a lot of casual gamers, Mahjong! In this game, just match two tiles at a time to clear the board. I like the little ninjas aspect, the music, and the candlelit atmosphere of this one and it’s as challenging as ever! When you have a few minutes to sit and play a casual game, what genre do you gravitate toward? Good luck!

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TMG Interviews Brent Fox of NinjaBee

Last week, Erik the Editor-in-Chief at The Married Gamers sat down with Brent Fox, the Art Director and co-founder of NinjaBee.  They discussed the history of the company, their games, and what they’re working on.  TMG has been nice enough to share their interview with us. ERIK: I appreciate your time for doing this. I’ve just got some questions for you that I put together from the staff at The Married Gamers and we’ll go from there. Brent: All right! E: When you helped create NinjaBee, what was your vision statement for the company? B: That’s a good question. I guess our main goal as a group that started in the beginning had worked previously at a video game company that was fairly successful and things were going well for a long time and then things went not so well and our main goal was to be able to basically

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Featured Interview: Maple Story’s Producer Crystin Cox

Nexon’s wildly popular, cute and creative multi-user online game, MapleStory is celebrating its 5th anniversary here in North America, and is celebrating with a slew of events and player rewards! I recently had the opportunity to ask a few questions of the lead producer for Maple Story about the game itself, the big anniversary, and what’s on the horizon. Enjoy! GA – Tell me a little bit about your position with Nexon, and specifically with MapleStory. Crystin -Hi, my name is Crystin Cox, and I am the producer for global MapleStory at Nexon America. GA – What was the inspiration behind MapleStory? Crystin - MapleStory was inspired by classic, 2D game play and the desire to create a world where anything could happen; where fantasy archetypes can live beside pop-culture references and heroes can slay giant dragons and yeti-riding pigeons all in the same day. Most of all, MapleStory was

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Online Game of the Week – Biomass

This week’s OGOTW is an infectious, fun puzzle game in which you click on one color to infect the others of the same color that are already touching your biomass and watch it grow! Keep an eye out for bonuses and catalysts to help you in your post Armageddon mission to grow your biomass before your beaker explodes! Enjoy! And let me know what kind of game you’d like to see featured in next week’s OGOTW!

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