Sega finally finished Hidden Palace Zone and put it in Sonic 2... Then put it on fucking phones.

Cheers Sega, 8 year old me is cursing you through time.

Today's News:
1) Terminal Reality, developer of the BloodRayne series and Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, is rumored to have recently shut down.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...as-closed-down

2) CCP studio, developer of EVE Online, announces they have recently laid off around 15 employees mainly from the team developing the MMO World of Darkness project.
http://www.destructoid.com/ccp-laid-...o-267388.phtml

3) SALES - Amazon is currently having a sale on several Bethesda games while GoG is offering several Fallout games for free as part of their Winter sale launch.
http://www.destructoid.com/deal-nort...p-267384.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tics-for-free/

4) Fallout 4 currently rumored to be set in Boston based on supposed leaked documents recently revealed by Kotaku.
http://www.destructoid.com/next-fall...n-267346.phtml
http://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-r...-in-1481322956

Tried Oculus Rift with Razer Hydra today, was absolutely amazing... I picked up a ball and bounced it on the floor and caught it. Then I granny style threw it outside the map.

Walked around outside for abit and stared in awe at the Dandelion flowing in the wind...

Then I felt kinda sick.

The feeling where you suddenly put them on and your legs want to walk but nothing happens is crazy...

Today's News:
1) Based on recent patent filings, Sony could be considering making a PS4 version of the Playstation Move controller with a touchpad as one of the possible new features.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/new-...aystation-move

2) Oculus state they have recently received around $75 million in additional funding for their Oculus Rift project which goes on top of another $18.4 million recently raised from other funding and Kickstarter.
http://www.destructoid.com/oculus-ri...d-267458.phtml

3) Results from the recent 38 Studios auction ended up with nobody interested in either the Kingdom of Amalur and Project Copernicus IPs while Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends IPs were sold. Big Huge Game studio's trademarks were sold for around $320,000.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-legends-sold/

4) According to Ubisoft, development on Rainbow 6: Patriots is still being rehauled with the strong possibilities of having a new name and being completely different than what was shown previously. The president of Ubisoft's North American branch said the transition to next gen development and problems developing the morality system were the main reasons.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/13/52...d-to-be-remade
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...soft-confirms/

No one wanted Amalur?:(

Probably was way too expensive assuming the state of Rhode Island included some of the studio's debt owed into the asking price.

Wasn't revealed how much both of the Rise IPs generated but between the sale of Big Huge Game and previous auctions, they barely made $2 million from these auctions.

My wife has all of the last ones, so she might have wanted this one too. Ah well.

Weekend News Edition
 

Capcom announces Marvel vs Capcom 2, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, and all DLC associated with either game will be delisted next week from PSN and the following week from XBLA.

Dates for delisting:
XBLA - December 26 (global)
PSN - December 17 (North America), December 19 (Europe)

No official reason was given but likely is being done due to licensing issues.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/combofie...-psnxbla-store

I would probably throw up if I used the Rift, I seem to get motion sickness in a bad way. :(

Today's News:
1) Microsoft announces the Countdown to 2014 Sale starts tomorrow with each day having a different special deal and the whole sale lasting till December 23rd.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...borderlands-2/

2) While it is possible to play Destiny by yourself, Bungie stated the game may require playing with groups in order to be able to complete the game's final missions.
http://www.destructoid.com/destiny-m...s-267549.phtml

3) Square Enix states the Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remaster set will be having a special collector's edition only available on Square Enix's online store.
http://www.destructoid.com/final-fan...n-267557.phtml

Hasney responds to news on this day in history
 

Forgot that existed. It was pretty shit.

Nintendo direct tomorrow focusing on Spring 2014. Preparing to have my heart ripped out.

Today's News:
1) Valve announces they have removed the sign-up process for DOTA 2 and is now available as a free-to-play title for everyone on Steam.
http://www.destructoid.com/dota-2-re...l-267614.phtml

2) According to Ubisoft, the mega-success of GTA V in terms of sales helped play a large role on why Watchdogs ended up being delayed till Spring 2014.
http://www.destructoid.com/ubisoft-i...s-267610.phtml

3) Disney announces a new Star Wars game called Star Wars: Attack Squadrons is currently in development with Area 52 Games as the developers, will be a free-to-play title, and has an early 2014 release date.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...adrons-for-pc/

4) Microsoft states the first batch of indie games for the Xbox One are currently expected to be arriving by March 2014.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...lease-q1-2014/

5) EA currently facing some backlash due to hosting an Indie development competition called Code Wars which originally had hidden terms that allowed EA the sole rights to all games and ideas produced and wouldn't have required EA to compensate those teams.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-c...die-developers

EA is off the fucking chain.

Anybody see this yet? Looks awesome.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/12/17...light-gameplay

Give a hint what link we're clicking.

is Fez honestly worth buying? its discounted today on XBL

Don't think they ever fixed some save bug on the 360 version because the developer couldn't afford MS's QA fees.

Today's News:
1) Highlights from today's Nintendo Direct not covered in threads or the Smash thread included Sonic: Lost World getting new Nintendo-related DLC and a new Luigi-based game called Dr. Luigi was revealed.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/regg...intendo-direct

2) Ubisoft states they are considering the possibility of expanding the Assassin's Creed release schedule to include multiple games per year in the future.
http://www.examiner.com/article/ubis...ases-each-year

3) Update to the Skullgirls delisting news as developer Lab Zero state they are currently working on bringing back the game under the new title of Skullgirls Encore within a few weeks after the current game is delisted on December 31st.
http://www.destructoid.com/skullgirl...--267661.phtml

* 2013 TPWW Gammys Awards still open for voting with the event ending on December 21st. Currently in talks with another gaming website over the possibility of getting free digital download codes and would be willing to give them away to a lucky TPWW poster(s) as incentive for participation. Still waiting on a few details from the website but the available platforms for codes are Steam, PS3, Vita, and iOS.
http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=125521

Today's News:
1) Capcom announces the Operating Broken Eagle DLC pack for Dead Rising 3 has been delayed by a month and will now be released on January 24, 2014.
http://www.destructoid.com/dead-risi...d-267731.phtml

2) Team Ninja reveals once development on Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is finished, they will begin development on the next Ninja Gaiden game which will be more similar to past Gaiden games.
http://www.destructoid.com/not-feeli...n-267751.phtml

3) According to the general manager at Bioware, Mass Effect 4 has currently reached the stage in development where the game is now in a playable (and testing) form.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...neral-manager/

* 2013 TPWW Gammys Awards still open for voting with the event ending on December 21st. Update to the digital games stuff since I got a response with the good news being its possible I could win a game code since they expanded the criteria and amount of games for this year's contest. The bad news is its not possible to win multiple codes and a lot more people who barely contribute during the year entered the contest.
http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=125521

If you're gonna do good news and bad news Smelly, better get Gertner in here to put the stamp on it.

it was for a Zombie Survival game called Dying Light. The video shown is PS4, but I don't know if it's be on the XBOX One yet. Looks absolutely amazing with some nice free-running elements. It's almost like you spend more time running than fighting.

Ah yes, it does look impressive. I fear the scope will be smaller than what people think, but the core gameplay seems interesting and tense.

Probably right. I had the same aspirations for Brink and felt like my heart got ripped out when I played it.

Watch Dogs had better stay every bit as awesome as it's looking so far.

Today's News:
1) EA currently facing several public and legal issues regarding Battlefield 4 with allegations of EA failing to inform investors beforehand of the halt of all DLC work for the game, possible SEC violations by senior executives who sold their stocks at "artificial" high prices before the DLC announcement, and recent news of DLC packs do not carry over with the Upgrade program (at least confirmed for PS3 to PS4 version).
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-c...er-battlefield
http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/18/52...-battlefield-4
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...der-bonus.aspx

2) Namco states they are considering expanding the Dark Souls series to include mobile devices and teased series developer From Software might not develop it due to their lack of experience with mobile development.
http://www.destructoid.com/namco-ban...e-267833.phtml

3) Nordic Games states they are reviving the MX vs ATV series with MX vs. ATV Supercross to be released next year as a downloadable title for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Mac, and Linux
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...nt-early-2014/

4) Nintendo announces Funky Kong will appear in Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze although did not reveal if he will be a playable character or act as just a shopkeeper in the game like Cranky Kong was in DKC Returns.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...opical-freeze/

* 2013 TPWW Gammys Awards still open for voting with the event ending tomorrow. While the Gammys end tomorrow, the game giveaway at the other place lasts till December 25th so the offer to give away a potential game code as a gift extends to that date if I manage to get one by then.
http://www.tpwwforums.com/showthread.php?t=125521

Dying Light is coming to XBox One. I saw a preorder box for it at Gamestop. The only thing that bugged me was how they had their Preorder stuff mixed in with the New Releases. The woman in front of me in line got pissed when they told her Dying Light hadn't been released yet, even after I mentioned to her that it was Preorder.

I get it that it was probably "Last Minute Shopping" aggravation (Guilty :D), but honestly, she really could have asked rather than just slap the box on the counter and say "Gimme".

lol wtf

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YznkH7OOxj8?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I dunno, State of Decay was just an arcade game, and it was pretty big in scope.

Would of loved to see what they could do with a full fledged disc game, but Dying Light might be just that.

The Ninja Storm games are some of the most gorgeous games on current gen. I wasn't able to imagine it looking any prettier, but wow...that trailer.

Looks better than the show. Movie quality animation right there.

CyberConnect are wizards.

State of Decay is being massively expanded on PC. Hoping they patch the XBLA version once they're done since they can't keep doing the little content patches like they can on PC.

Weekend News Edition
 

X-Men the Arcade game and Simpsons the Arcade game are both getting delisted with the process already done on PSN while XBLA will still have the games available until at least December 23rd.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/x-me...t-delisted-psn

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, and all its DLC is 66% off. Great game. Reccomend it for any 2-D Castlevania fan.

Today's News:
1) According to Ubisoft, the engine being used for Watch Dogs was originally meant to be used in a new Driver game that ended up being cancelled.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/watc...bisoft-reveals

2) Valve has recently approved the ability for publishers to restrict cross-region game gifting and trading on Steam with Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance found to be one of the initial games to contain this feature.
http://www.destructoid.com/publisher...m-267963.phtml

While I understand doing this, I wish it had been implemented differently - perhaps allowing you to buy a game for a specific region, and only allowing it to be gifted to people in that region. I dunno.

Still pretty shitty in that if you don't keep playing it, you can die as can everyone else around you. Do they expect us to game all the time? :roll:

Pretty sure they patched that.

You still lose supplies and stuff, but people dying rarely ever happens.

Even then, I agree that it's an unnecessary feature, but it doesn't break the game.

Today's News:
1) Warner Bros stated a big Batman-related announcement will be made on December 31st.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/warn...%E2%80%99s-eve

2) Sony announces the online multiplayer portion of several first party PS3 games will be ending next year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sony...e-trilogy-2014

Bummer. Resistance was a darn good game.