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GAY

Only a rumor as of now but Epic Games is considering buying the rights to All Points Bulletin which failed after just 90 days and caused its developer to shut down it doors.

Apparently Realtime Worlds and Epic Games have some sort of connection where the boss of Realtime Worlds is a personal friend of the VP from Epic Games. Once Realtime Worlds collapsed as a studio, they contacted Epic Games to see if they were interested in buying the rights to the game before contacting other companies.

Most likely Epic Games wouldn't take over APB and restart the servers but it would give them the source code and pre-made engine/environment to build a future MMO if they were ever interested.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...00x_apb_01.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5640623/gears-of-w...buy-failed-mmo

might just play ICO all night, it turns out if you don't grab some fucking stick the game is impossible and you'll be stuck at the beginning for over a year

I still don't get the avatar craze. You've always been able to make wrestlers in FPW. Who thought "You know what would be cool? If we took away years of customisation and tossed in shitty deformed versions of some loser's ideal self!"

It's huge with the casual crowd, so it makes sense. I'm really not surprised by their direction. This FPW will sell better than Fire Pro R did (in the US). I guarantee it.

Fire Pro is like the opposite of casual tho, so this has train wreck written all over it.

Which would be a horribly unfair comparison. Comparing a full-price 2D cult game with zero marketing budget against an XBLA-priced 3D game with Microsofts money behind it.

If it sells, I don't think anyone can logically say that it had any tiny thing to do with avatars.

Yeah distribution of FPR was atrocious.

Even without understanding the language, Pokémon White is amazing.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...h/57bf8453.jpg

Since it's not Professor Oak, I shall call her Prof. Whoreface.

Harada (Tekken producer) announces "TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2" via Twitter!

Yeah, it was a retarded empty statement. It also neatly missed the point, w hich you and Fagnuts caught.

Come to think of it, it's only missing a kliq statement and a shitty unfunny photoshop to be the ultimate Xero post.

Ape Escape Shake! Shake! for the PS3 Move to be an on-rails style shooter but replacing weapons and bullets with gadgets from the series.

Unlike other Ape Escape games, there is no actual exploration but instead the only thing done in levels is to catch monkeys on the screen while the camera guides the player in a linear path.

Rumored to have a release date of November 1 at a $40 retail price.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...scape_move.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5641392/ape-escape...gadget-shooter

Hideo Kojima doesn't rule out the possibility of making a Metal Gear Solid 5 game even though he previously said he was done with the series and that MGS 4 would be the last in the Solid storyline.

Original plan was to let another person take over the series but in a new direction or storyline while he would only give suggestions or help if the new team needed him (similar to Miyamoto being used as an adviser for Metroid Prime series).

http://kotaku.com/5641618/hideo-koji...l-gear-solid-5

what is pokemon white

The next Pokemon game.

Yeah, White and Black.

Hopefully it's not Raiden or whatever his name is. Don't like him.

Raiden who's getting his own game? Probably not.

Does Solid Snake have a son? Maybe it will be him.

Or if he has a daughter they could go that way...

He can't has kids. Sunny, however, is the tech geek daughter of a mercenary raised by another soldier and an even bigger tech geek.

I'd totally like to see how she turned out.

Oh look, Kojima's full of shit again.

Secret of Mana getting really hard near the end what the fuck!

It's a JRPG, of course it will.

Capcom have had their lowest profits since 2004.

To be fair, bar SSF4 which ha a lower margin anyway, they've not really done anything of note.

Or maybe people are broke as fuck. Chips are fucking 35c now.

Yeah, despite it not happening to other companies, that's it, Kal. :roll:

Tougeki 2010 has come and gone. Here are the results for the world's most prestigious arcade fighting game event. (Missing results will be added as they are confirmed and sent in.)

Street Fighter 4 (Vanilla, Arcade)
1st - Kindevu (Rufus) / Momochi (Akuma) / RF (Sagat)
2nd - Daigo Umehara (Ryu) / TKD (El Fuerte) / Bonchan (Sagat)
3rd tie - Tokido (Akuma) / Mago (Sagat) / Nemo (Chun-Li) & Dashimaki Tamago (C. Viper) / Nen (Rufus) / Denpa (Sagat)

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
1st - Kuroda (Ken) / Nitto (Yun) / MOV (Chun-Li)
2nd - Kokujin (Dudley) / Haitani (Makoto) / Nuki (Chun-Li)
3rd tie - KO (Yang) / Ochibi (Yun) / Tokido (Chun-Li) & Mester (Yun) / Raoh (Chun-Li) / Higa (Ibuki)

Super Street Fighter II X
1st - MAO (Claw) / Futachan (Ryu) / Ito (Dee Jay)
2nd - Abebin (E. Honda) / Sasori (Ryu) / Oonishi (Dictator)
3rd tie - Nuki (Chun-Li) / Muteki (Guile) / Shiki (Boxer) & Tsuji (Boxer) / Inro (O. Chun-Li) / Danjiri (Dhalsim)

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core
1st - Shounen (Testament) / RF (Faust) / Ogawa (Eddie)
2nd - Inoue (Order Sol) / Machaboo (Testament) / FAB (Potemkin)
3rd tie - Isamu (Venom) / Roi (Sol) / LOX (Jam) & Ina (Millia) / Nage (Faust) / Mitsurugi (Zappa)

Melty Blood
1st - GO1 (Akiha) / Ieda (Kohaku)
2nd - Hato (V.Akiha) / Leo (Warc)
3rd tie - Kaimaato (Kouma) /Inoshi (V.Sion) & Tatsuya (Ciel) / X (Nero)

Blazblue: Continuum Shift
1st - Tsujikawa (Taokaka) / Chou (Litchi)
2nd - Satoshi (Bang) / Hiroshi (Jin)
3rd tie - Goro (Lambda) / Fumo (Arakune) & Dora (Bang) / Hima (Arakune)

KOF13
1st - Oeppu (K' / Mature / Raiden)
2nd - Jaian (K' / Mai / Iori)
3rd tie - Kyabetsu (Andy / K' / Kula) & Ho Kun Xian (Elisabeth / K' / Takuma)

Tekken 6
1st - sumairu X (Marduk) / nesuchan (Devil Jin) / tatatatatatatata-ku (Lars)
2nd - daipan (Steve) / pandamania (Panda) / pekosu (Bob)
3rd tie - Addung (Asuka) / Naengmyun Sungin (Roger) / Narakhof (Marduk) & seikingu (King) / ide (Bob) / agichi (Leo)

Virtua Figher 5: Final Showdown
1st - serori (Kage) / morimoto reota^do (Vanessa) / hiraganadeaoki (Jacky)
2nd - Jaga (Goh) / Kurobo~ (Lau) / Yoroshiko (Jeffry)
3rd tie - Gorgeous (Eileen) / Joseph (Akira) / Yuutenji (Lau) and ???

Arcana Heart 3
1st Kasumi LOVE (Akane) / Tono (Konoha)
2nd Shirogoma (Angelia) / Kyouken (Zenia)
3rd tie - Banbaban (Heart) / Andou (Catherine) & Buchi (Yoriko) / Ooen (Kira)
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Hey look, they don't give a fuck about MvC2. Hmmmm.....

People could be dropping gold bars when they shit and they still wouldn't buy Dark Void.

Perhaps they should rethink the whole 'western influence/guest devs' thing. It's a huge cultural misunderstanding of the last three years.

Did Capcom do the one time currency exchange similar to Nintendo and Sony ?

Not sure how bad the exchange hurt Sony but in Nintendo's case, they made a profit for the year/quarter but due to the strong Yen vs weak Dollar, they ended up posting a loss for the year/quarter.

Yo so, was Ninety Nine Nights 2 any good, or was it pretty terrible? Want a decent hack n slash game. Because I can't find Warriors Orochi 2 any where and the new DW have the craptastic move sets, I don't even wanna bother with them.

Hi-Rez Studios trying to convert as many disgruntled All Point Bulletin MMO players by offering a 30% discount to former APB players for their own MMO called Global Agenda.

Discount is good until September 24, 2010 and available to anyone who wants to play their game. The game's price would be $20.99 after the discount is used.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets...40x_global.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5642986/global-age...ht-apb-players

A HALO MMO? Sweet.

For those that like World of Warcraft and Plants vs Zombies, new expansion has a quest that is very similar to Plants vs Zombies in appearance and gameplay.

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http://kotaku.com/5643666/plants-vs-...ld-of-warcraft

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/image...nkshock_01.jpg

Gotta love that the first bullet point is the vibration feature.

YEAH I WENT THERE

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Rich Hall is hosting this years Golden Joystick Awards, which is the 28th GJA and will be taking place on the 29th of October. Wonder if it'll be online somewhere, eventually.