All Posts by: Mike Murphy

By Mike Murphy, March 11, 2010 0 GN

EA’s Chief Operating Officer John Schappert had some comments at GDC today regarding the current situation surrounding Activision and Infinity Ward. Most of his remarks on the situation centered on former IW head’s Jason Ward and Vince Zampella. Here is… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 11, 2010 0 GN

Coinciding with the reveal of the PlayStation Move, SCEA president Jack Tretton confirmed in an interview with the PlayStation Blog that the company’s motion controller will have over 20 first-party games this fiscal year. Tretton also revealed that the PlayStation… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 10, 2010 0 GN

Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling has tweeted a link to bring about awareness to Mapathy, a symptom gamers suffer from by playing old maps over and over again. The link and Bowling then stated that the "cure" would be… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 8, 2010 0 GN

The time has finally arrived for Square-Enix fans. Final Fantasy XIII will be hitting retail shelves as the biggest game release this week. After years of wait the first non-sequel, non-spin-off Final Fantasy game to lead with a female since… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 8, 2010 0 Features

On February 20, one of the most well-known figures in the videogame industry returned to his alma mater to share his knowledge and offer advice based on his experiences. Co-founder and creative director of Irrational Games, Ken Levine, visited Vassar… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 5, 2010 0 GN

It’s official, Portal 2 is on its way. Valve has announced the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2007 Orange Box standout puzzle game in the latest issue of Game Informer. While there are no full details known yet, Game Informer mentioned… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 5, 2010 0 GN

Earlier today Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live, released a letter on the Xbox Live official site stating that the service’s Code of Conduct has been changed. The code will now allow for Xbox Live members to put their… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 5, 2010 0 Features

I remember my first experience with a QTE (Quick-Time Event). I was playing Resident Evil 4 and had finally reached a break in the action. I sat back and believed that I could relax and enjoy the playing cutscene when… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 5, 2010 0 GN

Fresh off his second Olympic gold medal and reveal as one of the new Wheaties cover athletes, Shaun White will now have a skateboarding game in his name coming to retailers this holiday season. Yes, skateboarding. Ubisoft has announced Shaun… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, March 3, 2010 0 GN

In a leaked internal memo by publisher Activision, the company’s CEO of Activision Publishing Mike Griffith divulged more about Infinity Ward’s future with Activision to employees than in the recent press release regarding changes to the developer. The memo states… Read More »