It was confirmed a few weeks back that Blade Kitten will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in September. The game is based on the comic book series by creator Steve Stamatiadis and is being developed by Krome Studios. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for XBLA Ratings about the upcoming release and how it ties in with the comic series.
Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.
Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.
That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony
"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."
The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.
I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.
Andrew writes:
"Years ago I had the chance to interview Steve Stamatiadis the creative director at Krome Studios and since then I've been good friends with him. You may know this company since they created Blade Kitten, Full House Poker, Game Room and much more. Well just a short time ago glancing at my Facebook feed I noticed the Blade Kitten page posting about Blade Kitten Episode 2, which has been missing for quite sometime. When I say missing I mean in limbo for quite a few years since it wasn't able to see the light of day until now."
38 Studios went bankrupt and Rockstar moved from Vancouver to Toronto. Where does the government budget sit in our industry, and how can we improve its use?
