You can learn a lot about your friends in an elevator. Listen as Kane and Lynch from Kane & Lynch: Dead Men on Xbox 360, PS3 & PC argue about Grand Theft Auto games and GTA IV’s delay to pass the time to their own game’s release a week from now.
You may have heard recently that Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and creator of Pong (a game idea he took from the real founder, Ralph Baer who made the first home video game console in 1968) called modern video games “unadulterated trash” . . . quite a statement from a guy who’s been out of the business for some time.
On that note, Gametap interviewed him and got some more quotes out of the guy.
Nolan explained that his scorn on modern games was reserved for a “narrow segment” of gaming, which includes titles like “Halo 3″ and “Grand Theft Auto” (natch), calling them out for their “deification of antisocial behavior,” even going so far as to say that Halo 3 is nothing more than a “Doom-clone” (remember that term), stating that Halo 3 is “Doom 1 in different clothing. The clothing is nicer, but the game is the same.”
So what games are innovative and not just “Doom-clones” in his eyes? He pointed to stuff like Guitar Hero, DDR (which are actually quite similar given they are both music rhythm games) and of course, Nintendo’s ultra-popular back-it-and-people-will-love-you-more Wii console, saying, “Even though the bowling is the same, doing it on the videogame, using the Wii controller, that’s an innovation.” (lots of commas, I know . . . Oops)
Finally, he goes on to give us this bit of wisdom: “There’s a lot of people who think that bigger, faster, better is an innovation. It’s not. It’s just bigger, faster, better.”
Erm, yeah . . . Do I laugh or cry? 
*laughs* — Via Joystiq
When Grand Theft Auto 4 was delayed for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to February or April of 2008, there was a long silence after the initial disappointment passed. At last week’s PlayStation Holiday Preview Event in Toronto, USA, Rockstar was present and briefly talked about the action game.
A Rockstar representative at the Sony event told GamingExcellence that “they had begun testing the various plots and that the developers were considering the possibility of having an open world completely unlocked from the start of the [GTA4] game. The game’s multiplayer mode, unseen in the GTA franchise since GTA2 in 1999, is aiming for at least 16 simultaneous players, with more than just the usual deathmatch mode.” — Via Gamernode & Digg