Game Industry Devs, Averaged around $81,000 last year(2010)!

Game Developers aren't doing so badly at making money these days; last year (2010), game developers averaged $81,000 per person! This is awesome news, because a couple of years ago, people were saying the game industry was doing terribly (then again, so was everything else!)

Nonetheless, I am happy to hear this news; it makes me believe that I still have a chance to get a career in the video game development field!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310472.html

Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gameplay trailer

Here is a trailer for the upcoming game, Final Fantasy Versus XIII (no relation at all to Final Fantasy XIII or Final Fantasy XIII-2, except for the origin story of this world - but they're different worlds). Square Enix just loves to confuse people by naming different games with almost the same exact name with a slight twist...

The graphics in this game look nearly realistic; however, that's just the prerendered part. They can't really put realistic graphics onto PS3 or 360, so they'll have to scale them down. I hope they release it on the upcoming Nintendo console, Stream!

Stream is more powerful than a PS3 or 360! However, a PC or Mac Pro can still be beefed up to be as powerful as you want them to be, so they should still be released on those, in my opinion, but Square Enix doesn't care much for my opinion. Even though, they would have great sales if they sold it on Steam.

Anyway, here is the trailer!

Portal 2 is coming in a few days!

Portal 2 is coming in the next few days, and I really can't wait! My older bro and I decided to buy the game together to get 20% off each copy! That means we saved $20 all together. Steam has sales like that all the time, except that they're usually far bigger sales saving you even more money. Sometimes, games will be sold at dirt cheap prices like $2.50, even when their retail price is 29.99 or even 59.99.

I wonder how rich that dude that owns most of Steam is? Gabe Newell is the guy. I remember reading one time that he probably has made over $1,000,000,000 dollars off of it (or close to it, anyway). Nonetheless, let's get back to that awesome game of Portal 2, which the article is titled.

Portal had that awesome computer GlaDos and her android test subject, Chell; Chell is returning in this game, along with GlaDos. Two new characters, robots, will be brought in as well. There are two campaigns in the game - the single player featuring Chell, GlaDos and a new robot. Coop - you must play this mode with another person (I'll be playing with my brother that I bought the game with), and you play as the two new robot characters.

This game has about four times the content of Portal, because each new campaign is about double the length of Portal. I really hope the story in Portal 2 is as awesome as it was in the first one! Valve is very good at telling stories without blatantly saying it in the game, like most companies would. Valve reveals it through gameplay, characters, environments, dialog, etc.

I'm sure it'll be awesome. :D

p.s. buying the PS3 version gets you the PC and Mac version free!!! (NOT the other way around, though..)