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| GAME gets back Nintendo and EA games...for now |
According
to Edge Magazine, formerly (and still rather) troubled video game
retailer GAME has secured stock again. As the company fought off
bankruptcy over the last few months, major companies refused to send
new games until old debts were paid. You can imagine how this
effected business. Now, however, GAME has begun stocking both
Nintendo and EA titles, with others coming as administration does
it's thing for the high street retailer. Glad to hear it! (via Edge)
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| The world's worst company might be cutting jobs |
Rumors
swirled Monday morning that EA was going to layoff 500 to 1000
unlucky folks. This on the heels of Sony's massive layoffs (though
not all gaming related) would have been tough. EA responded that the
rumors were “false” and that the company is just doing the normal
shifting as projects come and go. Well, that's a bit comforting, but
of course as projects “shift” so do staff levels. It just might
not be the bloodbath rumors predicted. (via Kotaku)
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| Genius developer Molyneux talks shop |
A
lengthy interview with the former head of Lionhead Studios is up at
Eurogamer. The man notorious for saying too much, too soon has a
lively chat about his departure from Microsoft, the broken promises
of Fable,
the failure of Project Milo, and what the future holds. Oddly, the
future seems to hold world-changing things from Molyneux. The more
things change... (via Eurogamer)
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| Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany discusses the philosophy behind Journey |
Edge
magazine has a pretty cool interview with one of my favorite
developers, Jenova Chen. The man behind the Zen experience of Flower
and the fantastic Journey
chats about games and life. I love his philosophy on gaming,
particularly in regards to emotional gameplay. The interview focuses
on Journey,
but some other aspects come through, too. It's an interest look into
the mind of one of the more auteur developers today. (via Edge)
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| Centrist candidate Francois Bayrou |
First
off, everyone remember the Konami Code? Up, up, down, down, left,
right, left, right, B, A. OK, now, go here and enter that on your keyboard. Centrist candidate Mr Francois
Bayrou isn't top tier, and he placed last in today'sfirst round of voting (for the major candidates), but he does have an interesting approach.
Admittedly, my French is terrible but his message sounds pretty good. Still, it is a pretty
cool campaign ad. (via Eurogamer)
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| Extra characters for free? Bwaaaaaaah? |
Tekken
Tag Tournament 2
has a lot of characters. 44 were available in Japanese arcades last
year. At their annual event in Las Vegas, Namco showed off 50. So,
six extra characters over the arcade. Not bad, right? Well,
series producer Katsuhiro Harada just made fighting game fans all
over very happy. He announced he wants to do up to 60 total
characters (or filling up the character select screen) and that the
characters (and extra stages) would be free. Let that sink in. Free
characters instead of charging for things that might already be on
the disc. Capcom recently had this issue with their Street
Fighter X Tekken
game having the DLC characters on the discs.
Now here comes a competitor saying, “Look, we will add others in,
but you already bought the game, so here you go! Thanks for the
support!” It's stuff like what Namco is doing that makes me smile,
instead of frown like seeing DLC being either “on disc” or
(worse) adding stuff that should have been there in the first place. So three cheers to Namco and Harada! (via Destructoid)
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch gets an English trailer
The
first game isn't even out on this side of the world, but Japan's
Level 5 Studio CEO Akihiro Hino is already talking sequels. If Ni
no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
sells well over here, we may get to see more of it. For those that
don't know, Ni
no Kuni
is a JRPG from the fantastic folks behind J'eanne
D'Arc
(PSP) and Studio Ghibli, the guys who made My
Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's
Delivery Service, Spirited
Away, etc. I certainly hope the
game sells well. It looks fantastic! Just check out this trailer!
(via Game Informer)
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| Trouble brewing since November for Prey 2 |
Reports
of Prey 2's
demise were exaggerated, but not by much. Publisher Bethesda has
pushed the game back from a “2012” release and stated that the
game was not progressing in a satisfactory manner. An inside source
from developer Human Head talked to Eurogamer and stated that Human
Head had not worked on the game since last year. The contract
dispute has dragged on and Human Head may no longer be involved. The
anonymous source cannot speak for the company after 2 March and
Bethesda was tight-lipped on the subject when asked. The game showed
promise, so here's hoping that things get resolved and the game comes
out better for it. (via Eurogamer)
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| Author John Beiswenger takes on Ubisoft |
Author
John Beiswenger claims that the Assassin's
Creed
franchise infringes on his ideas. The author demands compensation
from Ubisoft and asks for an injunction on “further infringements”
which would halt more games from being released. Beiswenger's novel,
Link,
features things such as reliving genetic memories in a device similar
to the Animus, the battle between Good and Evil (good luck proving
this one), and seeing “historically significant events” in the
machine. The suit overall does not seem to have much merit,
according to legal sources. The suit also, strangely, names Game
Trailers as a defendant because the site debuted trailers for the
games. Uhhhh, OK? Well...hmmm. We'll see how fast this gets tossed
out; hopefully long before Assassin's
Creed III
comes out on 30 October. Fans of the series have responded to this suit with “Amazon Bombing” Beiswenger's work in reviews.
Ahh, the wrath of gamers. (via Edge)
Oh yeah! *lighter*
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