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Okay, I'm listening.

If this is why it was delayed til September, then I'm okay with that.

Today's News:
1) Hideo Kojima states the official reason for no Metal Gear Solid Legacy set for the Xbox 360 is due to the set being "too big" and wouldn't be able to include Metal Gear Solid 4 due to legal reasons.
http://www.destructoid.com/the-metal...4-252922.phtml

2) According to sources close to Eidos Montreal, the Thief reboot project is currently facing several big setbacks leading to several high-level employees recently leaving the company.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...el-departures/

3) EA's on-going feud with Nintendo continues after announcing Madden NFL 25 will not be released on the Wii U with no official reason given. The company could also end up being hit with a fine by the NFL if the league determines it broke terms in the current contract.
http://www.destructoid.com/yikes-mad...r-252893.phtml

Enzo had it coming.

Recently read the article in the last Game Informer about Thief and I was under the impression that all the holes had been plugged on that sinking ship of a project.

Pretty worried right now. It's like the game is cursed or something.

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Today's News:
1) Ubisoft announces South Park: The Stick of Truth is still on track to be released later this year although at the moment is not officially listed among the games they are planning to release in 2013.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sout...k-truth-update

2) Some recent Battlefield 4-related news include DICE releasing a new teaser screenshot for the game and rumors of the initial planned DLC for the game being leaked by a recent survey.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...shot-revealed/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-details-dlc/

:drool:

I just saw that on wired

Gamestop will stop accepting PS2 game trade-ins on June 1st.

:(

Most of the GameStops here don't even sell PS2 games anymore.

Ah well.

Today's News:
1) EA announces they have signed a multi-year deal with Disney to become exclusive publisher for the Star Wars series along with EA's studios being the exclusive developers for the games.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ea...now/1100-4633/

2) Some Nintendo-related news as this month's Club Nintendo game rewards include Super Mario RPG (Wii VC) as part of the 4 games available and a former developer stating Star Wars Battlefront 3 was in development for the Wii before it was cancelled.
https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=201924

3) According to an internal memo from Microsoft, the Next Xbox will permit offline gaming to be possible.
http://www.destructoid.com/internal-...t-253184.phtml

4) A sequel to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is rumored to be occurring with the Creative Director teasing the idea of Blood Dragon being made into a series/franchise if approved.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...making-sequel/

For those who are interested in another list, ESPN is counting down the top 25 Sports games of all time. They started today and got 25-21 up right now. Here's the link to the page with an introduction and what not.

http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/fea...deo-games-ever

0 people with any grasp on reality were surprised.

Yeah that's kinda meh.

Today's News:
1) According to reports, Ubisoft has once again fired the creator of the Assassin's Creed series with the official reason being due to a "difference in visions" for the franchise. The creator alleges that is not the actual reason and instead he was just abruptly fired today.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/7/4308...-a-second-time
http://www.screwattack.com/news/assa...-fired-ubisoft

2) Marvelous announces XSEED studio has been renamed to Marvelous USA as part of their restructuring plans and have purchased Atlus Online studio (renamed to Marvelous Online).
http://www.destructoid.com/xseed-now...e-253218.phtml

3) The pre-order bonus for Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX was revealed to be a special edition artbook along with the announcement of a September 10 release date in the US for the PS3 (Sept. 13 for Europe).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...nus-announced/

You made a great game people love that's not how we do things at Ubisoft! You're fired!

Late Night News Edition
 

Barely a day after EA got the license to the Star Wars series, the company managed to find a loophole to back out of having to make Star Wars games for the Wii U (and 3DS). The company stated future Star Wars games will use the Frostbite 3 engine while claiming the Wii U can't handle it.

According to the original terms of the agreement, EA was required to make games for all platforms for the series with the only exceptions being social and mobile platforms (Disney covers those platforms themselves).

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-star...e-253262.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/frostbite...s-253295.phtml

lol EA

At this point, I don't give a fuck. Just release Battlefront 3 please.

I think I am finally on the "I hate EA but I will still play their games" bandwagon.

Today's News:
1) Freebie - For those interested, Doritos Crash Course 2 was released today for free on XBLA although currently only playable for Xbox Gold users.
http://www.destructoid.com/doritos-c...y-253194.phtml

2) A bunch of EA-related news with EA's FIFA license has been extended till 2022, no Star Wars-related games will be arriving until Spring 2014, Battlefield 4 will not have any ties to actual gun manufactures, and roughly 900 people were laid off from the company's recent restructuring plans.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-h...e-through-2022
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-frostbite-3/
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ea...ers/1100-4635/
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/8/4311...-restructuring

3) According to the creator of the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft also fired the series producer yesterday.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rice-desilets/

4) Capcom recently released their fiscal report for 2012 which revealed a drop of around 55.8% in overall net income compared to last year. The company did have an increase in net sales by about 14.6% but also saw losses in regards to ordinary (down 7.85) and operating income (down 17.6%).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...al-2013-plans/
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202107

Star Wars is now Nintendont.

EA, you mean. They're taking this Origin thing to heart. Whatever.

EA bitches at Steam for lowering the market on old games and now they are offering Sleeping Dogs for 8.50.

Public interest on that brand must be low, so why not give it away cheap. That's all that is.

Bought The Movies for PC from CEX. Wondering if it contains Securom. It says it contains protection to stop piracy but it's not specific. Always paranoid about installing stuff on my PC that may have Securom. Anyone know if it does or doesn't?

Nah, a simple CD check and non-online serial number.

If it were in a vacuum, that would be all it was. But they've done a bunch of sales. They never reach Steam levels in terms of scope or price, but EA is doing exactly what they bitch about.

Which is no surprise. Corporate ethics.

If you're that concerned, why not research it before you buy?

It was a spur of the moment thing. I was in the shop and it was just £3. I thought it was old enough that it might have been pre-securom.
I did a little Googling when I got home and can't really find an answer one way or another. Just people speculating before it was released, I think.

Today's News:
1) EA states neither Dead Space 3 nor Crysis 3 managed to hit their sales expectation targets with Dead Space 3's sales being lower than Dead Space 2's sales.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...cording-to-ea/

2) Some fiscal report-related news as Konami's 2012 fiscal report revealed a 15% decrease in overall revenues while their digital sales were up by 17%. Sony's fiscal report revealed their first overall profit since 2008 but the Playstation Division saw net losses of around 12.2% for sales and 94% in operating income.
http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/09/kona...-series-at-e3/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...th-ps4-launch/

3) Sony's fiscal report also revealed the company is currently not expected to be hit with a major fiscal loss during the launch of the PS4 later this year.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-not-...h-253433.phtml

4) The vice president of Epic Games states both Microsoft and Sony are currently pushing for the free-to-play market to become a strong focus for their next gen consoles.
http://www.destructoid.com/epic-micr...n-253424.phtml

Good for Dead Space 3.

Shadow Warrior reboot on the way. Thrilled and worried at the same time. At least Gearbox isn't doing it tho.

Today's News:
1) Sony rumored to be officially debuting Gran Turismo 6 next week as part of the series 15th anniversary celebration this month.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...mo-6-next-week

2) Capcom states they are expecting a "significant" spike to occur in development costs for the next gen to the point the company is moving towards more in-house development to help keep costs down.
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-ex...s-253437.phtml

3) Tecmo Koei announces Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate will be arriving later this year and includes all the exclusive features the Vita version of Dead or Alive 5 contained along with several new characters and stages.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/xbox_...first-trailer/

NextBox is almost certainly going to be called Xbox Infinity. The infinity symbol also doubles nicely as an 8, giving brand cohesion with Windows 8.

The Infinity logo is being claimed as a fake according to Reddit/Imgur.

http://i.imgur.com/keclS5o.png
http://imgur.com/r/gaming/keclS5o

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What in the fuck?