Justin Alderman, Author at We Got This Covered - Part 140

Justin Alderman

Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.

Justin Alderman - Page 140

Sony Unveils PlayStation Vita “Never Stop Playing” Ad

Sony took the first wraps off their $50 million ad campaign for the PlayStation Vita today with the reveal of their "Never Stop Playing" television commercial.

Tim Schafer Isn’t Trying To “Vilify” Publishers With Kickstarter Campaign

Traditionally video game studios have had to rely on publishers to fund their projects, which gave the publishers a tremendous amount of influence over what types of games could be made and to some extent the content in the game itself. With the success of Tim Schafer's Kickstarter campaign last week many in the industry have begun to wonder if publishers have lost some of their power now that independent studios like Double Fine have found potential ways to self-fund their projects.

Miyamoto: Pikmin 3 On Wii U Will Be The “Ideal” Pikmin Game

Nintendo's legendary game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview that he is really "enjoying" working on Pikmin 3 for the Wii U, and because of the system's features it will be "closer" to his original idea for the IP.

Epic To Show Unreal Engine 4 Later This Year

Speaking to G4, Epic Games' vice president Mark Reign revealed that the company will be publicly showing the successor to Unreal Engine 3, appropriately named Unreal Engine 4, before the end of 2012 and promised it will have a "profound" effect.

Sony Confirms LittleBigPlanet Karting

This past week at PlayStation Destination, Canadian video game retailer Future Shop revealed a poster for a LittleBigPlanet kart racing game for the PlayStation 3. Instead of staying silent, or giving the standard, "We don't comment on rumors or speculation" line, Sony surprisingly confirmed on their Twitter account that LittleBigPlanet Karting "is in fact in development."

Double Fine Uses Kickstarter To Fund New Project

This past week, Double Fine's CEO Tim Schafer launched a new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fiance the development and distribution of a new point-and-click adventure game. The initial goal for the campaign was set at a modest (in terms of video game development costs) $300,000 for the game and an additional $100,000 to fund a documentary of the development process. It's now three days into the month long campaign and to say that it has been a success would be a massive understatement.