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Zelda the kitten plays Game For Cats for the iPad. It’s a game. For cats. On the iPad.
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A mesmerising promo for the first person puzzler Perspective (due out on PC later this year). Created at the Digipen Institute of Technology in Washington, whose students produced the game that inspired Portal (and were subsequently hired to develop Portal for Valve), Perspective has a similar, melon-twisting premise.
Basically, you move around in first person while controlling a second character who exists on a 2D plane along the walls and ceiling. By manipulating your perspective, you alter the level layout for the 2D character.
Confused? Watch the promo.
A 3D remake of the first level of Super Mario Bros. Just over a minute is about the right duration for this. After that, you start feeling sorry for the Goombas.
Lego City Undercover (due for release on the Wii U later this year) looks just like Grand Theft Auto with added slapstick, break-and-build and blocky humour.
You know, for kids. And Karl.
How far will games manufacturers go to promo their upcoming releases? Well, Ubisoft was more than happy to invest in this 25 minute live-action ‘prequel’ film to whet gamers’ appetites for the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which comes out on XBox and PS3 later this month.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Alpha the movie invites you into the future of war with the US Armed Forces’s point of spear. Inserted deep behind enemy lines, the Ghosts must strike swiftly to eliminate one of the world’s most feared war criminals, and vanish as they came.
And the actual gameplay? Sam Clay of games news site VG24/7 sampled the beta multiplayer last month:
Currently unavailable on Amazon, the mysterious game of Three-Man Chess pitches grey pieces into the time-honoured battle of black and white.
How this unholy mutant is supposed to work is anyone’s guess. The product description isn’t that helpful:
Play chess with 3 people at the same time with this three player chess game. Without compromising any of the rules, strategy, or fun of Chess, this variant board has been developed that accommodates three players. The only changes from conventional chess are some protocol issues that must be followed to maintain order where the teams border each other, which is simple and necessary.
The complexities of the third player are infinite. Your threatened piece may be allowed to maintain occupancy as your position is beneficial to the threatening player. But how long can it last? This scenario may exist all over the board. There are multiple trust and doubt situations among all players.
Word.
Color is a timesink of a game that brings out your interior designer.
It involves color-matching. Which is almost the same as colour-matching
(Thanks Doloads)
Sit-in at Game in the ILAC centre, Dublin, this afternoon. Top: Gemmy Cooney (4 years’ service) and second pic, from left, Des Collins (5 years’), Nathaly Artero (2 years’) and Gemma.
Statement from the staff of Game (Ireland).
As of last Monday, GAME has told all employees that they are being made redundant. The company has appointed administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK to look after the stores that are being closed in the UK but they have failed to appoint an administrator to the business in the Republic of Ireland.
We have only been told to make a claim to the state for our statutory redundancy entitlements, a process which we have not been offered any support with and which we understand will take over a year to complete whilst GAME and PricewaterhouseCoopers walk away from any responsibility or liability in the Republic of Ireland, even whilst they have asked us to remove all company assets back to the UK, which we believe puts them out of reach of any Irish creditors.
We believe GAME and PricewaterhouseCoopers are making us a burden on the Irish state and Irish tax payer, whilst avoiding their responsibilities. Employees have not been given any of the paperwork or information required to claim redundancy from the state. We were instead given information about UK redundancy procedures. We were informed that we would not be paid redundancy or any statutory or contractual notice periods or any outstanding annual leave.
GAME and PricewaterhouseCoopers is still trading as a going concern in the UK and we feel that they should pay us the wages and entitlements we are due including statutory notice and redundancy payments rather than forcing us to spend a year our families do not have claiming our entitlements from the Irish state and taxpayers.
GAME and PricewaterhouseCoopers can expedite these payments and allow staff to pay their mortgages and feed their families without having to wait as much as 16 months for their just entitlements.
We, the employees of Game Ireland, believe the way we are being treated is wholly unfair and unjust. We are now sitting in our stores as a form of protest until GAME and PricewaterhouseCoopers address our concerns.
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Game Ireland Fight (Facebook)
Previously: Occupy Game Street
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Thanks Dermot Bohan
Game, Tallaght, Dublin (top) and, above, Game, Ilac Centre, Dublin.
Sit-Ins Held In two Game Stores In Cork City (RTE)
Earlier: Game Over
Thanks Mr Bigglesworth and Stephen Daly
Game Over
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RETAILER GAME has closed all of its stores in the State with the loss of 121 jobs after the group went into administration. Administrators appointed yesterday also closed most of its stores in Northern Ireland, cutting 110 jobs.
The Game Group became the latest retailer to go into administration, after the company last week suspended its listing on the London Stock Exchange and said it was seeking the protection of the courts.
Only five outlets in Ireland will survive the cull – all in the North.
Game Closes All Shops In Republic (Irish Times)