The US game revenue for 2007 was about 19 billion, much more than 11 or 10.

2007 total.

May not happen, probably won't happen. They said that they have no current plans for any console versions of any of their games. Not that they would never have plans.

And a controller might fit better with the Diablo gameplay then a keyboard and mouse, normally you just used the right click left click during the whole game anyway. With a controller you could have one analog stick to control your facing and another to control in which direction you moved. You could back up and shoot your fireballs at the same time, instead of just mouse controls which meant you had to stop to hit or shoot. A whole new avenue added to gameplay.

I like the idea of Diablo3 on XBox360, though I have a much greater hope that they are actually developing it (any system it falls on, I'd even buy a PS3 for that).

I love violence in video games, movies, books, any kind of entertainment. I can watch a kung foo movie with no plot, just cause the fighting is great. I like video games for the same escapism that most people play for. There has been a couple times, however, that the violence, for a brief second, became too much.

The most lingering occurrence of this was playing Gears of War online. i was running through a crowded, tight area and was killed by a shotgun. Lots of other people around me died from the same shotgun. i was around the first to get killed so the camera did the thing were it stayed locked on my body for a second. in this view, i saw my own body be blown to pieces, along with many other bodies being ripped apart (as in chunks) in a big bloody mess, followed by the guy running through it all, scattering the pieces as he went. watching this i got this awkward feeling. i felt a little disgusted with the scene. it felt almost perverted.

It reminds of the feeling i got watching the horrible Rob Zombie movie House of a Thousand Corpses.It felt like an extremely immature version of extreme violence. I'm not saying that extreme violence can't be humorous (GTA); it just felt demented.

I loved playing Gears of War- don't think i'm saying the game is immature (or the guy who killed me for that matter). it just didn't rest easy with me.

has anyone else here felt that before? i guess its a good thing i'm not completely desensitized to violence.

Hihatrider87

I agree with you, though I have not played Manhunt I think it falls in the same vein. I know I too did not like House of a 1000 corpses, seemed he tried to make a stupid version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Personally I feel that's the problem with the Jackass movies, they really are not funny you just watch to wince at how they really are Jackasses.

Well one thing is for sure, Japan is highly overrated. I was always told (and believed) that without japan backing you up, you have no chance at succeeding in the gaming biz.

xsubtownerx

That depends on what you mean by back up. If you mean developer support you could be right, if you mean sales no. The US game sector makes 3 times as much as Japan does in a year, and this last year has grown about 50% compared to 10% in Japan.

XNA is very similar to programming a game in C++, difference is that in XNA you program in C# which is about as hard to program in as Java. There is automatic garbage collection and many functions such as intializing DirectX are already written for you.

Any game you could write with C++ you could technically write with C#, just that it might not run quite as quickly because the low lvl language decides when objects should be destroyed instead of yourself. Means the game you would write would be harder to optimize.

I would not be suprised if you could get the Unreal Engine to run with C#, you would just have to be very good at what you are doing. So it comes down to the fact you do not know what you are talking about. You could make games as good as anyone, you just won't because you are not a multimillion dollor company.