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Carmageddon: Reincarnation, initially announced as a downloadable multiplatform game last year, now depends on Kickstarter for completion.

Patrick Buckland and Neil Barnden, CEO and Executive Director of Stainless Games, tell an all-too-common horror story from creatives stuck in a bad business deal. After doing work-for-hire projects with their new company in the mid '90s, they finally released a passion project, called Carmageddon, which featured goofy and gory, over-the-top vehicular carnage, and still claims a place in the heart of older PC gamers everywhere. In order to get published, they sold rights for the title to SCI, which co-published the game with Interplay.

The title was followed up with a sequel in 1998 (it was called Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, back when games could be called things like that), but when the sequel didn't do as well, the worst happened: Buckland and Barnden lost their own creation. They've spent years since then trying to get the rights back.

Gallery: Carmageddon Reincarnation (PC)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>carcarmageddoncarmageddon-reincarnationdestructionneil-barndenpatrick-budlandpcracingstainless-gameswreckageTue, 08 May 2012 11:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Breach expected to launch this summer on XBLA for $15]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/breach-expected-to-launch-this-summer-on-xbla-for-15/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/breach-expected-to-launch-this-summer-on-xbla-for-15/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/26/breach-expected-to-launch-this-summer-on-xbla-for-15/#comments We popped by Atomic Games' booth here at PAX to check out Breach, the dev's attempt to take on DICE's online-only, digitally distributed Battlefield 1943.

Atomic president Peter Tamte revealed during our play session that he hoped to get Breach on XBLA this summer (as previously estimated), and that the developer is targeting a $15 price point. Considering how polished the game was in the state we saw it, we certainly believe it can meet that deadline. Look for our hands-on impressions later today.

JoystiqBreach expected to launch this summer on XBLA for $15 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>atomic-gamesbreachdestructionMicrosoftmultiplayerpaxpax-2010pax-eastpax-east-2010xblaXbox-360xbox-live-arcadeFri, 26 Mar 2010 20:20:00 EST<![CDATA[Sony Australia flings a PS3 into a Bravia, technophiles cringe]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/21/sony-australia-flings-a-ps3-into-a-bravia-technophiles-cringe/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/21/sony-australia-flings-a-ps3-into-a-bravia-technophiles-cringe/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/21/sony-australia-flings-a-ps3-into-a-bravia-technophiles-cringe/#comments Dear Mr. Larson,

Congratulations! With your recent purchase of our 46-inch Bravia KDL46X 3100 LCD TV, you're eligible to receive a free PlayStation 3 -- provided you haven't changed your address, and still live in Australia. Funny story: You're actually the last person that's eligible to receive the free console with the TV's purchase. "Lucky Number 25,000," we've been calling you around the office. I'm running to the stockroom right now, so I can ship your console and television to you personally, along with a very heartfelt letter of gratitude.

Oh, crap. Listen, Mr. Larson -- I might have forgotten something ... important. See, to promote this offer, we may have flung the last PlayStation 3 into your Bravia television at 50 mph. By "may have flung," of course, I mean "totally did fling." If it makes you feel any better, it was a really good ad (check it out after the jump)! Very thought-provoking, and even a little cheeky. Just know that your television and video game console died for a worthwhile cause. (What? No! Of course there are no refunds. Don't be silly.)

Love,
Sony Australia.

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At a recent THQ game event, another writer asked me about the original Red Faction. I told him it was one of the first games to use destructible environments. And then as I kept talking, I added qualifiers and backed off from that statement. Eventually, I rambled on to say it was also the first not-fully-successful game to do that in a long line of unsuccessful games. It was still cool -- smashing through a window was impressive -- but it didn't give the destroy-anything sense that the developers pushed.

Due late this year, Red Faction: Guerrilla could finally deliver on that promise, although it has caveats of its own. Still on Mars, this time you play almost the entire game above ground. I had fun smashing holes into buildings and even destroying them with a sledgehammer. But I missed the underground, mining elements of the original. If everything is supposed to be destructible, why not the ground, too?

On a technical and design level, it makes sense that a destructible ground would be a lot to ask. But it sure would be satisfying. Even without that option, Red Faction: Guerrilla could be a great game

Gallery: Red Faction: Guerrilla

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>destructibledestructionopen-worldPCPS3red-factionred-faction-3red-faction-guerrillathqvolitionXbox-360Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Havok upgrades to 5.5, adds cloth and destruction]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/19/havok-upgrades-to-5-5-adds-cloth-and-destruction/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/19/havok-upgrades-to-5-5-adds-cloth-and-destruction/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/19/havok-upgrades-to-5-5-adds-cloth-and-destruction/#commentsThe Havok Physics engine has been upgraded to 5.5, according to a press release from today. The release includes new enhancements, features, "dramatically accelerating the development of cross platform, [and] cutting edge electronic entertainment."

The Havok Animation and Havok Behavior toolsets were also updated to 5.5, and the PlayStation 3 tools also received enhanced collision query optimizations. In a separate press release, Havok announced Havok Cloth and Havok Destruction, whose intentions and use are pretty self-explanatory.

JoystiqHavok upgrades to 5.5, adds cloth and destruction originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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YouTube is filled with people absolutely obsessed with destroying or wasting PSP systems. I guess wasting $150 is really popular with the kids these days ... especially those from the Czech Republic. A series of videos called PSP Destruction can be found on YouTube. These videos, from the "mind" of FaNitos, chronicle the adventures of masked hoodlums trying to destroy every PSP ever. They're already up to an eigth episode (shown above), showing more dedication to the system than most. What's their problem?

At least D2Stemcell won't shell out real money to destroy a PSP. His solution? Do it virtually. While he isn't wasting money, he's wasting something far more valuable: time. Time that could be better spent, y'know, playing games?

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>czech republicCzechRepublicd2stemcelldestroydestructionfanitospsppsp destructionPspDestructionyoutubeTue, 20 Mar 2007 21:15:00 EST<![CDATA[Study: Evidence low that video games cause violence]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/19/study-evidence-low-that-video-games-cause-violence/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/19/study-evidence-low-that-video-games-cause-violence/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/19/study-evidence-low-that-video-games-cause-violence/#commentsFiled under:

A Texas A&M researcher sent GamePolitics a study he recently completed showing little evidence linking violent video games and violent behavior. Christopher Ferguson, a Ph.D faculty member at the university's department of behavioral, applied sciences and criminal justice, conducted a "meta-analysis" of studies associating violent video game exposure with aggressive behaviors. A look at the overall result of studies in the field showed violent video games increase people's aggressive thoughts, not necessarily action.

That's like if you watch a comedy it increases funny thoughts, or after watching a melodrama it increases Japanese RPG thoughts. For the violent game studies to have some validity, the key is for a study to prove that violent video games don't just cause thoughts of violence, but violence itself.

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When we saw via Game|Life that some IGN forums goers had taken steel wool to a Blu-ray disc with no apparent damage, we thought, "we can do better than that." So we gathered up some convenient implements of destruction and saw how our free copy of Talladega Nights would stand up to a ballpoint pen, a pizza cutter and a butcher's knife (unfortunately, the disc broke down before we could rub crunchy cereal all over it.) Check out the video below, and keep watching to the end for some pyrotechnic bonus footage.

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Slow news day? You betcha! Today's video theme seems to be PSP abuse. I don't know about you, but I don't like buying a $200 piece of gadgetry and then destroying it for the sake of "entertainment." Didn't a group of Japanese kids do that a while back? Why is this entertaining? Why do people do this? I don't really understand, but at the very least, I have to give props to the people above for using explosives. To the kid below, you're not too cool.

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Everybody seems to like these videos of dorks destroying -- excuse me -- stress testing their expensive Microsoft hardware, so why not link to a whole collection.

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