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2010 was a truly fascinating year for the gaming world. There’s so much change in the air! 3D gaming, social gaming, motion controls, mobile gaming, developer consolidation, publisher power shifts, and more have changed and will continue to change the gaming landscape. What was the biggest gaming news of the year? Find out what 1Up.com’s Sam Kennedy, Gamasutra’s Christian Nutt, and GameFly Media’s (Shacknews) Garnett Lee had to say on the matter by watching the video above.
Naturally, I want to know what you thought was the biggest gaming news of 2010. Shout it out in the comments section (please)!
3DS was actually good (according to outlets) and Steam coming to OSX. Big things.
Also the fact that Rovio was purchased for 11 million dollars. That's insane for a company that makes a $1 iOS game.
That happens to be free on Android (not like a $1 is hurting anyone with an iPhone).
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It was good according to me too. :P
I was hoping Steam hitting OSX would of had a bigger impact.
I think the Steam to OSX will be bigger in the coming year. I think Apple could be in transition with video drivers seeing as how they are probably going Sandybridge. It took a month for them to update the video drivers for what WoW needed this year. Maybe Steam will start writing the drivers?
Can't you just go to Nvidia and download the driver from them or does it have to be from Apple?
@sandrock
No. NVidia and Radeon only write drivers for DirectX. Apple has to write them for OpenGL
Weird because OpenGL support is in all of my drivers.
"•Supports OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series and later GPUs."
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-…
They have Linux drivers, so maybe they will do OSX drivers eventually.
@Sandrock
That is after Apple puts them out. I don't own a MacPro tower but those drivers might be for those machines only. They have removable cards.
The only way I can upgrade video drivers is when they are in an OSX update.
That is a PC driver, I don't see Apple drivers on their site at all. If my PC had OpenGL 4.1 support in July, why are you waiting on Apple to incorporate it in their next OSX update? From what I can find, the minimum OSX update for Cataclysm only had up to OpenGL 2.0
@sandrock
They were updated 3 weeks after 4.0 on 12/1.
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I second the 3DS scoop.
The biggest and most disappointing news for 2010 is the fact that a majority of gaming companies have or are going to make you buy a new game to play online. *ucking ri-cock-ulous!
The "$10 solution" is actually a pretty interesting pick with loads of ramifications. EA and THQ love it.
Of course a publisher loves the idea. Honda and Saturn would have also loved to get paid a royalty when I bought my cars used.
Thumbs up!
-M
I am going to have to say the 3DS was the biggest news for me being as big of a fan of Nintendo handhelds as I am. I am trying to set aside money already for when this comes out next year so I can buy it then. That is probably the biggest thing for me, even though I am not a fan of 3D tech. being the next big push.
I agree with everyone that the 3DS was the biggest gaming news of this year. Big props to the verbal entertainert that broke that story :D
Wheres the traffic?