It's a searchable PDF, btw.

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to Crytek, the idea of next gen consoles being compared favorably to a current high end PC is basically "impossible" with Crysis 3 and next gen dev kits forming the basis of their claims.
http://www.destructoid.com/crytek-it...s-245727.phtml

2) Footage of a previously cancelled Aliens game by Obsidian Entertainment which was meant to be an RPG and named "Aliens: Crucible" was recently leaked online by a former artist of the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/xbox_...ppears-online/

3) EA's copyright infringement lawsuit against Zynga and their Sims-like game called "The Ville" has been settled. Most of the terms from the settlement were not revealed publicly though.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1...t_of_court.php

Downloaded the 30 day trial of RPG Maker XP from the official site. I've no idea how to do anything.
When I had RPG Maker on my PS1 it was a basic drag and drop game etc but this XP game seems to require coding and everything. I can't manage to figure out the most basic things.

http://media.avclub.com/images/419/4...9/627.jpg?7529
"What do I do? What do I do? In the name of God you've got to tell me!"

I don't think that's from the Agetec guys, right?

I remember putting 24hrs into RPG Maker 2 (PS2) which translated to about 15mins of gameplay. But shit; I had branching dialogue, a working shop, a boss battle, secret items, and even a mechanic where picking fruit from a private garden sent you directly to jail and taxed for your trouble (something that required a lot of time and Event mixing gymnastics).

Part 3 was eh. I was gonna screw with Fighter Maker 2 as well but I heard it was too limited for the ideas I had back then (more like Fighter Editor). I still should have tried it longer than 30mins, though.

Back then, I was around 11 or 12 and I had dialouge and events etc.

This XP game is from the official site. It's not by Agetec but by someone else. Not sure if it's a new name for Agetec or if they sold the rights to someone else.

RPGMXP seems much more of a "pro" tool in terms of what you have to do but the results can't possibly be better than what we saw on PS1.

The PS2 game had game examples of what you can do, just a simple scenario made with the game's options. Surely this program you're dealing with has something similar?

I can't access a demo to see how well a game can turn out. I can't even get things to appear in the play test. I genuinely can't figure out how to do anything. I can open menus but no clue what 99% of it means. I can place things on the map but that removes the grass around it unless I place it on another layer but then that doesn't seem to do anything.
I can't add any characters etc. Everything seems to be done through actual coding.

Either it's broken or you need a damn manual.

Can you figure it out?

http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/download

I DL'd the trial for the XP version.

Just saw they have IG Maker. I might actually try that instead. Make my own platformer or something.

Tried to DL IG Maker and my pc has gone slow. Now I'm pretty paranoid something was in there that I didn't want. Going to go scan.

I wouldn't have to DL things to my PC if they released Maker games outside Japan. God forbid a game comes out for consoles that doesn't involve gunning down people with accents.

Either way you're dealing massive script work. You're gonna have to square with that.

The site seems legit, I don't think they put something in your PC. Check anyway.

The IG Maker looks nice, some good export options there. May check out the fucker eventually.

The press have been invited to the unveiling of the now yearly Assasins Creed game on Feb 27th.

Yay I guess.

I still haven't beaten Revelations or even thought about 3 probably done with the series once I beat Revelations. I wouldn't even worry with that one if I hadn't already bought it. The 2 before that didn't really do anything for me and the little I saw of 3 didn't seem that interesting either.

Revelations was bleh at best :(

Made me sad.

Yeah that's one reason I've been putting it off so long. Just want to clear out my games laying around though so I hope to get to it when I finish Mass Effect 1 & 2 of course at the rate I'm going there will be 4 new AC games and a couple more ME's by the time I'm finished.

ME is one trilogy I need to complete. Never even played the 1st one, but I know I need to. And me being the way I am with games, I would WANT to start from 1 so I can keep the same Shep (with decisions & consequences) through the entire trilogy. That is a summer project, after school dies down :)

I'm the same way. Finally got around to starting it on Saturday. Pretty fun so far.

Let me know how you feel about the combat in 1. That was the main thing that kept me from buying it at release.

After Red Dead/Undead Nightmare, I will also be reliving ME 1/2, then going into 3 that I bought for 17 bucks. I could start 3 if I wanted, but I want to get back into the story of it all.

I want to play Far Cry 3 also, but waiting for the price to go down a bit, have too many games to play already.

Grand Theft Auto 5 being pushed back really fucked with me, as I enjoy playing them in the summer time.

Feels pretty standard so far, granted I'm not far into it and chose soldier so I don't really have many "abilities" that the other classes have, but it hasn't felt like anything special from any of 100 other games.

Getting to grips with the game slowly but surely. Figured out hot to add BGM, how to build a map, how to change the character sprite and how to set up basic events.

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to supposed claims from person behind both the Durango leaks and attempted sale of a Durango dev kit, Microsoft was responsible for a recent police and FBI raid at his house.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ded-by-police/

2) Microsoft has issued another permanent banning warning to anyone caught playing the leaked version of Gears of War Judgement online.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ssues-warning/

3) According to a recent LinkedIn posting, Visceral Games is currently working on two unannounced games with one set to arrive next year for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...isceral-games/

4) More claims against Gearbox in regards to Aliens Colonial Marines recently became public with allegations of Gearbox sabotaging the game's development and diverting funds without Sega's permission in order to develop Borderlands 1.
http://www.destructoid.com/developer...s-245986.phtml

Hidemi Matsuzuka of Square Enix has finally tweeted some news on the status of Final Fantasy Versus XIII

http://gematsu.com/wp-content/upload...tis-Perume.jpg

FF Versus XIII perfume, vapourware in a bottle.

Link

Patch coming for Far Cry 3 that adds a new difficulty level, and also allows you to reset outposts.

Finally got around to finishing the main story, and damn was it good. Great ending.

Aliens Colonial Marines is turning into Alien 3, in that the behind the scenes problems are much more interesting than the game/film itself.

WWE's next game, now running under the 2K Sports label, will indeed be called 'WWE 2k14'. As suspected 2K will allow Yukes to do the heavy lifting, while 2K themselves will supervise THQ's old branch that usually handled the localization and 'WWE-ing' of the product (specifically Visual Concepts who are often on point). It will also launch in the usual Fall time frame. I believe they are on that shit as we speak, and may have something to show next E3.

So there you have it, WWE 2k14.

Sounds like its going to be the same game as always.

The sad truth about THQ going under is that nobody is going to change business as usual.

Of course, WWE games sell no matter what, so there's no need to change.

However, I think this could also be rephrased as "suck it, Darksiders fans."

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to Activision, they are planning on releasing fewer licensed-based games this year with the official reason due to the company currently restructuring its finances. 30 employees were also announced to be getting laid off as a result.
http://www.destructoid.com/activisio...r-246100.phtml

3) More footage of Obsidian Entertainment's cancelled Aliens game recently appeared online with gameplay being shown.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/xbox_...ed-aliens-rpg/

4) Sony currently rewarding select North American PSN users with a $5 or $10 voucher gift useable for future PSN purchases. The gift expires on March 5 while Europe appears to not be included in the giveaway.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ns-10-over-psn

I'm now expecting Zelda news today. Nintendo have just this minute added a Zelda development community to Miiverse and they only add communities when they are about to be used.
No one but devs can post in it.
Possibly WW related.

I heard they added it because there was some demand, nothing more. But who knows.

That's the general Zelda community. They added a dev community within that that only the people who work on Zelda can post in.

Interesting, then.

Yeah, they're talking about merging Yukes with Visual Concepts too, so it will be the next gen versions before we even start seeing what creative direction 2k take the game.

"Creative" being used loosely.

No mention of the PS4 reveal? you guys are getting lax.

wait nvm, just noticed the orbis topic right below this one. WOOOOOOOOOO