Silly STD, thinking consumers have rights.

Today's News:
1) Square Enix states the HD remakes of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 will support cross-platform saving and contains a new end credits video that is about 30 minutes long.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ts-cross-save/
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fan...e-257560.phtml

2) A week after Microsoft confirms they have dropped the fee charge for patches, Phil Fish announces a new patch for the XBLA version of FEZ is currently in development and is expected to arrive later this year.
http://www.destructoid.com/dreams-co...0-257582.phtml

3) According to the executive producer for Call of Duty Ghosts, there are no plans for the series to change from its current linear storytelling style to something different any time soon. The official reason was due to them thinking the series stories wouldn't be as effective or good if it was driven by player choices instead.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-storytelling/

4) Major Nelson announces signups for the public beta for the Xbox Live 2013 Update starts today with one of the big features being the swap from the MS Points system to a real currency system.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rosoft-points/

Oh, but they have totally had this in place for ages!

I'm sure its already finished and Phil Fish is just slightly altering all the textures out of obsessive compulsion or changing all the dialogue to "Go fuck yourself" and "Suck my dick".

I'm more implying Microsoft lied than anything to do with Phil. though I'm not sticking up for him, either.

Met DC Douglas the voice of Wesker surprisingly and I HAD to get at him. I told him Wesker was one of my all time favorite villains in anything and an inspiration for own ideas in evil characters.

He read out my brother's shirt in Wesker's voice, "Keep calm, and kill zombies!" Which seemed kinda strange but it was awesome.

Met him as in a con or as in "I saw him buying toilet paper and pushed an old lady to the ground to get at him."?

At the con. I went to one yesterday and caught him at a table.

Cool.

Met him as in "expect a restraining order soon."

"You're so funny KK," said KK.

Way to be bitter.

Gonna give Eve Dust a try on PS3. Catch me if you can. May dive back into DC Online as well. My ID is Kalyx_Triad_3 or something rather.

Wasn't DC Online one of the games that got hacked and led to the big shutdown?

Dont know dont care, I need something to play.

But you can get ACHIEVEMENT$ AND HD GRAPHIC$! And can totally buy the re-repackaged Halo collection box $et for the One later, with even MORE updated graphic$ and $ound. What'$ not to get about thi$?

All of your decisons leading to one of 3 different color explosions at the end, I'd imagine.

Today's News:
1) Volition studio state Saints Row IV will be the last game to feature the Third Street Saints while the series will be going into a new direction for the future.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...street-saints/

2) Microsoft recently revealed both the games and start for this year's Xbox Summer of Arcade sales. The promotion starts on August 7 and offers a free DLC pack for Ascend: Hand of Kul with the purchase of two games in the deal.
http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-summ...d-257721.phtml

3) Tetsuya Nomura, creator of Kingdom Hearts series, states he is willing to include Star Wars and Marvel characters for Kingdom Hearts III should Disney approve his request.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ingdom-hearts/

A new direction? They've been going in every possible direction except straight up crime story. Is the next game going to be Dragnet?

They could really swerve people by actually trying to make it a serious narrative again. Otherwise yeah, I can't imagine where it can go to be different other than being either an MMO.

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If they did that, everyone that's enjoyed what they've done with it so far would complain. Time travel would be a new direction. You travel between the prohibition era and the modern era and stuff happens. Fun stuff.

Go back to the 20's with a predator drone?

I can dig it.

Saints Row was never serious.

Today's News:
1) According to Sony, The Last of Us has managed to sell around 3.4 million copies since its launch and has become the fastest selling game in PS3 history in regards to new IP titles.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...n-ps3-history/

2) Square Enix states the reason their is no Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is due to current server policies from Microsoft which don't allow cross-platform games to be played on the same server.
http://www.destructoid.com/square-ex...x-257794.phtml

I'm glad to see TLOU doing so well. Which is weird to say, since I haven't played it.

I wonder what Microsoft's reasoning is. Especially from the company that wants to take us to the FYEWWWWCHUR!

I also wonder how common/uncommon this is. I was under the impression that the other consoles were also anti-multiplat play.

Today's News:
1) The start of the 2013 Steam Summer Sale is currently rumored to occur tomorrow according to a potential accidental reveal by Valve's support team.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...mail-suggests/

2) According to Miyamoto, Nintendo is currently working on a brand new franchise which will debut on the Wii U and is targeting a Spring 2014 release.
http://www.destructoid.com/miyamoto-...e-257850.phtml

3) Microsoft states they are currently fixing an error from the recent Xbox 360 dashboard update that ended up causing a price hike affecting the UK's Xbox Marketplace.
http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-live...e-257848.phtml

4) According to the Financial Times, Activision's majority owner Vivendi is expected to be taking out a massive loan under Activision's name to settle their own financial issues. The loan would be in the amount of around $5 billion and be Activision's legal responsibility for repayments.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...cial-woes.aspx

Thanks to all the sales happening throughout the year, my wallet is hopefully spared a massive loss due to a Steam sale. Instead, there were several smaller chunks lost :'(

Safe titles is where it's at for Nintendo. Why rock the boat.

I much prefer it this way. Less impulse to buy at once. Though with like four concurrent sales promotions I am torn.

Today's News:
1) Capcom announces they have recently laid off a portion of their staff with senior vice president Christian Svensson among those who were laid off.
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-un...s-257940.phtml

2) Capcom also announced Ducktales Remastered will be arriving digitally on August 13 for PC, PSN, and Wii U eShop while the XBLA version arrives on September 11 and a limited edition retail version of the game arrives on August 20 for the PS3.
http://www.destructoid.com/ducktales...g-257930.phtml

3) Sega announces Sonic Lost World is among their playable games available to the public during next week's Comic-Con in San Diego.
http://www.destructoid.com/play-soni...n-257904.phtml

Any of you guys hear/read about that story in Eve Online about the supership getting destroyed?

Just curious because it's like it came out of a Tom Clancy novel.

Ya I heard and saw the video as well as that angry rant from one of the legion's guys. The game itself is played so far zoomed out that everything is just mere dots though.

Today's News:
1) EA states their EA Phenomic studio (SpellFoce series, Coomand & Conquere Tiberium Alliances) has been shut down with all the staff laid off .
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-phenom...n-257998.phtml

2) Based on recent teasers from Namco Bandai, a new game in the Ace Combat series is expected to be revealed soon with Project Aces as the developer for the project.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ew-ace-combat/

3) Warning - Konami states hackers might have been able to gain access to roughly 35,000 Konami ID accounts from a recent mass hacking attack and are asking everyone with an account to change their passwords as soon as possible.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-compromised/

4) According to the CEO of Epic Games, gaming graphics will be able to become "indistinguishable" from reality within the next decade although only in terms of appearance. In regards to having A.I. and character animations matching reality, it won't come anywhere close within the same time period.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...thin-10-years/

Today's News:
1) According to Ubisoft, Far Cry 4 will be revealed "soon" along with early details for the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-details-soon/

3) Ubisoft also hinted their current policy is to only create new IPs if they can be turned into franchises and won't bother if they can't from now on.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=207511

4) Nintendo revealed the rewards for this year's Club Nintendo Platinum and Gold members with the biggest prize being a Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask soundtrack CD. Other prizes include specialized posters and digital games.
http://www.destructoid.com/club-nint...d-258112.phtml

Heads up guys:

If you go onto the dashboard and watch The Wolverine trailer from the advertisement square, you get a sweet pair of Wolverine claws for your avatar for free.

Nice.

I did that a couple weeks ago (when they were promoting it) and I still don't have the claws. Ah well.

Is that just in the US? Is it one of the things on the dashboard or do I go download it?

Today's News:
1) Several employees involved with SimCity have left Maxis Software in order to form their own independent studio called Jellgrade. The new studio will focus mainly on developing Sims-like games.
http://www.destructoid.com/developer...o-258175.phtml

2) ZeniMax Online Studios states The Elder Scrolls Online game is being designed to cater to both the solo player and group/guild players. The game will provide certain dungeons that require groups in order to beat while others will contain exclusive items for those who play by themselves.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...group-players/

3) Yoshinori Ono states that neither his team nor himself are currently working on anything Street Fighter V related mainly because he doesn't have the budget nor the team size needed to even consider working on the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eet-fighter-5/

It was being advertised on the Dashboard quite heavily. If you haven't come across it by this point, it may not be available to you.

'Murrica. Fuck yeah.