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US Sees Blockbuster Games Release Week
If you've been looking forward to a game's release, odds are that it's coming out this week. Gamasutra has the full list of titles hitting stores in the next few days, and it's a tsunami of gaming goodness. Assassin's Creed, Mario Galaxy, and Crysis are probably the three headlining titles, but no console is spared the deluge. PC Highlights: EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer, EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark, Kane and Lynch, SimCity Societies. PS3 Highlights: Assassin's Creed, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Kane and Lynch, Beowulf. 360 Highlights: America's Army: True Soldiers, Assassin's Creed, Beowulf, BlackSite: Area 51, Kane & Lynch. Wii Highlights: Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Geometry Wars: Galaxies.
Perhaps this counts as "last week", but what about Sam and Max 201 - Ice Station Santa?
Actually I'm glad all these games are coming out. Not just to play them, but the modability of these new engines should be great.
Don't forget Unreal Tournament 3. Been waiting for that one for 4 years.
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Mass Effect will be released two days after the end of this week, on November 20. Truly, this is when the "next-generation" consoles get into their own with quality releases and hopefully the PS3 will finally shape up, as well.
is coming out on PC, too.
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As one of the lucky ones who got Mass Effect over the weekend from the dummys at K-Mart, let me say that I'm 8-9 hours in and this is my dream game. If you liked Kotor, you will love this. It has some very obvious flaws, but once the game gets going you won't even care.
Maybe not, I dunno. With movies, conventional wisdom said that the audience would only see a couple movies in a summer so every studio was competing for a fixed number of viewings. What the studios later came to realize was that demand was fairly elastic: put out 2 good movies and they'll be watched, put out 20 good movies and they'll be watched. Conversely, put out no good movies and you won't get many viewers. The thing is, a movie doesn't take up anything more than an evening. Unless people are that fickle with their full-priced games, it should take them longer than that to properly experience the thing.
I guess that would be an interesting statistic: for the game-buying public, especially the ones that drop the full price when the games come out, how long do they typically stick with a game before getting bored and buying a new one? If two games they think the'll like come out on the same weekend, will they buy both the same day or pick one to play and get the other one once it's half-price some months later?
Since there are so many more adult gamers now, I'd imagine the purchase cycle isn't driven as much by birthdays and Christmas as when gamers were mostly kids.
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