Ive actually never played suikoden but have been thinking of trying them out. I've only heard good things for the most part.

Right now I'm actually finishing up Chrono Cross. Can't believe I never played it until now considering Trigger is one of my 2 favorite games ever.

Open world, proper RPG style.

5 was open world map too.

McDohl would show up, as would Yuber and Persmerga.

I think most of the true Runes make you immortal. I could be wrong though (I think that was mentioned in three, because Geddoe was supposed to be older than he appeared, wasn't he?)

Star Dragon Sword would still be around.

Not to mention you could easily have some other characters who up because of Vicki. Hell, part of the story could be an older Vicki, having mastered her powers, able to take you back in time at certain points and collect some people...

Which would be a great way to finish the Victor and Flik saga, and explain why they were absent in 3.

I still need to play 5.. Sold the PS2 I had tho because I didn't want to spend 15 bucks for a new controller for a console I had no games to play lol.

5 does some things amazingly well. For example, all characters have a pre-fight pose and a post fight pose, some of which are more awesome than others. For example, one character has his sword sheathed at his side prior to the fight, and his pre-fight pose, instead of pulling the sword out, is yanking the sheath backwards and throwing it off to the side.

There's just a lot of little details that made the game great.

BUT, the main character is REALLY effeminate.

Just happy at all the Suikoden talk going on right now.

FFXIII-2 is actually pretty fun, probably the best final fantasy "sequel" not containing the word Tactics.

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Noel got a makeover!

Looks like Phantom is playable.

I knew I didn't need to collect everybody, but it was ridiculous how they did things like make you recruit this one guy if you want to get a world map. I remember finding that guy pretty luckily too. I liked the concept but thought it was executed really poorly, a lot of the characters were useless, and the war scenes seemed unnecessary. I remember it being a lot of fetch quests too, "You need to go to this castle, but go to this dungeon first so you can get something," that was a lot of it. Also the only game I have ever had to mute because the castle music was so annoying. Just seemed so simplistic, again the story could have been good but the way it was told was really lame. I never felt like I was overthrowing anything with this piece of crap group I had assembled.

I respect your input on that, OssMan, I'm just a diehard Suikoden fan and would love to recreate the fun factor I had playing these games from years ago.

VIta recommendations please

Sell. Get 3DSXL.

...Or get Gravity Rush.

Gravity Rush or Uncharted or Escape Plan. Not many great games yet.

I have a 3ds.

I got all of those games but uncharted. i also got table top tanks, mortal kombat, katamari, all for a really good price. Plus I got warriors persona and persona 2


and the beatinator which was an awful choice

I love the people who bitch about Valve's release schedule.

"I'm pissed off for you not announcing or releasing a game that has only been hyped by us!"

THQ said their best-selling nonlicensed game was Saints Row the Third, which sold under 4 million last I checked. So what they want is a game that will sell better than Saints Row the third, likely in a shorter time period.

Good to know that despite Kalyx-level stock prices, they have EA-level ambition.

He was featured in an article in print about a week ago. Not really anything new, except everyone and their momma saying the opposite of what he did.

By the time you get there, Kickstarter will be as worthless as your current projects.

Kalyx can't stop being an idiot. He's proudly rocking that extra chromosome.

Says the guy who staunchly defends Nintendo.

what

what

According to a recent leak from the official Ubisoft forums, Ubisoft is considering another reboot for their Prince of Persia franchise with this time being potentially influenced by the Assassin's Creed series.

Years ago Ubisoft was rumored to be considering rebooting the franchise under the codename of "Prince of Persia Zero" before it was cancelled and replaced with the cell-shaded 2008 Prince of Persia game.

The new leak suggests another attempt at PoP Zero, this time nicknamed "Prince of Persia Zero 2", is currently in the making with the leaked screen showing off the code name.

People are already suggesting the new Prince of Persia game will be heavily influenced by the Assassin's Creed series based on the screen shots leaked with a lot of concern coming from the official forums over the potentially new direction.

Ubisoft has yet to respond to the leak at the moment.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...e-persa-reboot
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-2-screenshot/
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to EA suing Zynga as Zynga claims EA themselves are also copycats with claims of The Sims Social being a copy of Zynga's own CityVille.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-vs-zyn...o-232634.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ginal-pokemon/ (Ignore the link name since EGMNow goofed up a bit)

2) Similar to the idea behind Nintendo Selects, Sony announces they have started a new series for their first party games called "Playstaion Collections" with the God of War Saga and Infamous Collection as the first two sets available and a $30 price tag for each.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/play...tles-necessity
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-collections/

3) New screens and details were revealed for Darksiders II with a Horde-like Arena mode consisting of 100 waves with rewards carrying over to single player and a full New Game+ mode which allows all equipment and items to be carried over for a new playthrough.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...plus-features/
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/06...es-of-enemies/

Some crossover elements? Would be interesting.

Well considering the original Assassins Creed was planned to be a P.o.P game originally but slowly took out the prince element. I can definitely see them using the same sort of gameplay.

Ubisoft should have had a sequel to the reboot that had the beautiful graphics out already.

The fuck are they waiting for?

Forgot to mention Ao2. What this series does not need is a more "gritty" tone.

Kalyx=manchild.

Oh.

""

said Kalyx to himself one lonely night while staring at his ex girlfriend's longerie he bought for their anniversary.

Later that night, Kalyx took a step outside, a deep breath, and exhaled...finally feeling the weight slide off his shoulders from years a fire inside just waiting to come out.

But what to do with his new found freedom? Kalyx thought long and hard, but then a slight smile crept onto his face...

(next poster continues)

what

Indeed. I'm not saying the PoP game after that (the one based off sands of time or whatever) was bad, but that cell-shaded reboot made my day. One of my favorite action games of this console generation, if not ever.

If they say so.

Two years later but the Xbox Live Arcade version of Scott Pilgrim The Video game is getting a new DLC pack according to Ubisoft.

The DLC pack will finally include online multiplayer which was a big complaint against the game and will include the shopkeeper, Wallace Wells, becoming a playable character.

The DLC pack will arrive on August 19 for the price of 400 MS points ($5) with no news if the PSN version will be getting the pack as well in the future.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/scot...years-too-late
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/07/xb...august-19-201/
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Daily Recap:
1) According to sources close to 2K Czech studio, Mafia 3 is currently in development for the next generation of consoles with at least a next Xbox and PS4 version being hinted.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-gen-consoles/

2) Some good and bad news from THQ as the company made a profit for the fiscal first quarter ($14-!5 million) but have cancelled the upcoming InSane project which was being developed in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro who now owns the rights to the project.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/thq-ca...del-toro/4317/
http://www.screwattack.com/news/thq-cancelles-insane

Valve announces they are expanding Steam to include non-gaming services and programs.

Starting on September 5th of this year, Valve will be offering an "App Store"-like service which will handle all the non-gaming products Steam will carry. These programs and software will also be provided with all the benefits and features Steam currently provides for games on the platform.

http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...er_2462941.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/valv...types-software
http://store.steampowered.com/news/8584/
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Daily Recap:
1) Sony rumored to be making an official price cut on 17 first party games for both the Vita (8) and PS3 (9) starting next week with Vita games getting the biggest drop in terms of savings.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rop-next-week/

2) Gameforge announces they have cancelled the browser-based Star Trek Infinite MMO game with the official reason being the studio has been unable to find a publisher willing to help promote the game since last year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/new-...pped-gameforge
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ace-cancelled/

3) Hybrid has been pulled from Xbox Live Arcade due to massive server issues which made the game unplayable for a lot of users according to Microsoft and developers 5th Cell.
http://www.destructoid.com/hybrid-re...s-232778.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...server-issues/

Based on recent job postings, the next Xbox console will arrive within the next 18 months and would include Skype.

Microsoft has been rumored to now be looking at a late 2013 release date after earlier rumors of a late 2012 to early 2013 release won't be occurring.

In another job posting from Microsoft, Skype is being teased as a new feature for the next Xbox console but will also include the Xbox 360 once the project is finished.

Microsoft bought Skype mid-2011 for around $8.5 billion and have been rumored ever since to be expanding the service to every platform with the next Xbox console being included.

http://d1vr6n66ssr06c.cloudfront.net.../next-xbox.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ing-job-report
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...vert-suggests/
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Daily Recap:
1) While Konami has a patch ready for the PS3 version of the Silent Hill HD Collection, the Xbox 360 version will remain unpatched due to "technical issues" according to Konami.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/grea...tched-only-ps3
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/konami...its-hard/4320/

2) Epic Games announce they have opened up a new studio called Impossible Studios which is being staffed primarily of employees from the former 38 Studios and Big Huge Games. The first project for the new studio will be a new Infinity Blade game called "Infinity Blade: Dungeons" for iOS devices released later this year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/epic...wns-copernicus
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...sible-studios/

3) In an interview with MCV, EA reveals their goal for Origin is to become a huge cross-platform service involving consoles as a way to tie in all EA games into a single service.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/the-m...origin/0100960
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=182985

Except Nintendo, I guess.

Duh.

Late Night Update:
 

Blizzard has issued a security alert due to their battle.net network was recently hacked affecting the entire North American region. Also affected are anyone who plays on North American servers even if they are located in different regions.

They have sent automated emails to everyone stating for passwords and account details to be changed as soon as possible.

As of now Blizzard confirms no financial info has been stolen yet but other info was indeed stolen.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html

According to a recent announcement by Game Informer and a few rumors, a huge announcement will occur during the upcoming Gamescom expo.

The announcement might be the official debut of Half-Life 3 after Game Informer reveals they are not allowed to show a preview of their upcoming issue's cover since it would spoil the "world premeier" announcement. Also contributing to the rumors of the announcement being Half Life 3 is due to Game Trailers who stated they have a special trailer video dedicated to just Valve which will occur on September 16 or 17.

The announcement is expected to occur during the EA press conference which also is a publisher for Valve games on consoles.

Previously rumors teased Grand Theft Auto V would have been the huge announcement after E3 had passed. The rumors were debunked by Gamescom organizers who stated a mistake lead to the debut trailer being listed on their website while Rockstar themselves have never attended Gamescom nor made an application to attend this year.

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http://translate.google.de/translate...half-life-3%2F
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/8...-announcement/
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Daily Recap:
1) Bioshock Infinite is currently rumored to be dropping mutiplayer from the games with a mode similar to Spec Ops from the Modern Warfare series and arcade Horde-like mode both revealed to have been dropped.
http://kotaku.com/5933119/bioshock-i...uld-fans-worry
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ch-multiplayer

2) According to trademark leaks, Sony has dropped the trademark for The Last guardian project although the company still insists the project itself is still in development.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sony...mark-abandoned

3) Sony reveals they are having a lot harder time getting third party companies to continue supporting PS Vita development after several have dropped or become disinterested due to low software sales.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-havi...t-232866.phtml

Sweet, sooooooooooo can Bioshock get released now?

Thats also the same day as the Sony press conference if I'm not mistaken. Could be next-gen console related, perhaps.

I'm hoping it's HL3 though....finally.

The Last Guardian Trademark wasn't dropped per se. Its status as "abandoned" comes from a failure to demonstrate use or file for an extension. It doesn't strike me as unlikely it slipped through the cracks. Though neither will I hold my breath for its release.

I'm kinda thinkin they are going to release it as a ps4 launch window title.

At this rate, they may have to.

A couple of Battlefield related news as the series celebrates its 10 year anniversary today and Battlefield 4 will stay in the modern setting.

During the ongoing 2012 Game Developer Conference, the general manager of DICE, Karl Magnus Troedsson, revealed the Battlefield series turned 10 years old today with about 50 million games sold in the entire series. Battlefield 3 alone accounts for 12 million of the series total sales.

Troedsson also revealed Battlefield 4 will be taking place during the modern day just like Battlefield 3. So far the only other details known about the game is a release date of late 2013 is currently being planned for the game.

Previously, DICE had teased a bit at the potential for the next Battlefield game to take place in the near future after becoming worried about first person shooters becoming a bit stale in the modern setting while the market soon could be showing signs of loosing interest in favor of wanting something new.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...he-modern-day/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...urns-10-today/
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Daily Recap:
1) A supposed "Durango" dev kit for the next Xbox console was recently put up for sale on eBay by allegedly the same person who was the first to leak images of the debug and UI menu screens which were later confirmed to be true by developers who actually have the device.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/aleg...-kit-sale-ebay
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-sale-on-ebay/

2) EA is really emphasizing the upcoming Medal of Honor Warfighter game will be "the most authentic shooter" by linking the official website of the game to gun makers and shops who have the actual guns available to purchase online.
http://gameological.com/2012/08/partners-in-arms/
http://www.destructoid.com/medal-of-...s-232993.phtml

3) Developers Firaxis Games release a new video for the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Unknown showing off some of the multiplayer modes, strategies, and a new points system which is used to completely customize a player's squad.
http://www.screwattack.com/video/XCO...vealed-2507776

Jesus Christ, EA.

I got a bad feeling about that gun link idea.

Why in fuck's sake are any of the guns in that game available for purchase by civilians?

And it's a really bad fucking time to even reveal that sort of thing. Like they've been living under a rock. Bad idea on so many levels.

Sleeping Dogs getting pretty good reviews across the board. Was already planning on picking it up.

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Too sooooooooooooooooooooon!

During the Sony press conference at Gamescom today, the company revealed a brand new game which will rely heavily on the PS Move.

The game is called "Until Dawn" and is essentially similar to teen horror and slasher style films in terms of gameplay and story.

7 playable characters with the goal of the player to keep them all alive for a whole night even though they are being chased in the woods by an unknown killer.

Supermassive Games was revealed as the developer for the game who previously worked on Tumble and Start the Party for the PS Move.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...le-until-dawn/
http://www.destructoid.com/panty-sho...d-233095.phtml
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Daily Recap:
1) Activision announces the PS3 version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will be arriving on August 28 with a PC release date expected to be announced in the near future.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...playstation-3/

2) To help boost sluggish Vita sales one more time, Sony announces the "buy a PS3 game and get the Vita version free" promotions will now fall under the "Cross Buy" label with the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, or Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault all available to be free on the Vita if the PS3 version is bought for each.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...pcoming-games/
http://www.destructoid.com/cross-buy...e-233079.phtml

Knock down the price of the Assassins' Creed: Liberation bundle and I might be convinced to buy it.

Other than that, I don't need it. Already got myself a 3DS.

Yeah, it does look pretty good. They say the combat controls are kinda pokey, according to an IGN review. That can be dealt with, as the rest of the game was fairly solid.

The game map seemed kinda small, when you compare it to other games like it. It might not have been meant to adhere to the 'open world', sandbox genre though. I'll have to wait, though. I'm already committed to Forza Horizon, WWE13 and eventually GTA 5.

At Gamescom, EA re-announces a new Command & Conquer game is being development and is being done by Bioware who teased they were working on a game for the series months ago.

Titled as "Command & Conquer", the game follows the same RTS style as past games in the series while also using the free-to-play model.

In terms of content, the first content piece available at launch will be based on the Generals 2 game with more "universes" to be added in the future such as the Red Alert and Tiberium settings.

The game itself runs on the Frostbite 2.0 engine while Bioware Victory studio is working on the project. A closed beta will be available in the future with official signups to occur at the game's official webpage.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/gene...ommand-conquer
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/15/co...ree-to-play-c/
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Daily Recap:
1) The Last Story's US launch has been delayed again to now an August 17 date due to shipping errors from Gamestop and other retailers. Amazon themselves state it might take up to 3 weeks more for their orders to be delivered to consumers.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...pping-it-late/

2) Another "LA Noire" fiasco appears to be occurring at Vigril Games after complaints of the studio purposely left out names of several people from the Darksiders II credits list. A few of the names left out supposedly had a major impact on the finished state of the game.
http://www.destructoid.com/darksider...--233138.phtml
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=183400

3) Update to Valve potentially announcing Half-Life 3 at Gamescom appears to have been false baring a special announcement before the expo is over. It appears the debut of "Mann vs Machine" mode for Team Fortress 2 most likely was the special announcement which occurred well before EA's press conference.

Haven't played Command & Conquer in a looooooooong time. I got Generals and it can't run on my rig anymore. If Chris Taylor would pull his head out of his ass and fix the disaster that was SupCom 2, I'd be slowly getting back into the RTS swing of things.

It's sad when "Vave not announcing HL3" is news.

Well the state of videogame news has been sad for quite some time now, because I see that headline every year.

I would probably still get excited at this point for HL3, but I don't know. Given the choice, I'd rather see Portal 3.

Duh.

Fignuts' next revelation: FPS are popular.

Your mother.

Picked up Sleeping Dogs today. Really fun so far. Combat isn't quite as fluid as Batman, but I didn't expect it to be. It's still pretty satisfying though, and the environmental attacks are a blast.

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Capcom reveals the official 25th anniversary celebration for the Mega Mna series will be a new game called "Mega Man Xover" and will only be available for iOS devices.

The game is a social RPG type game which will allow players to customize their own Mega Man character while visually borrowing from the Mega Man X iOS game released earlier in the year.

The setting for the game takes place in the Xover World which is a crossover of all the worlds within the entire series.

In terms of storyline, Dr. Wily teams up with Sigma to lock away all the Mega Man heroes into a separate universe while Dr. Light and Dr. Cossack create a new playable robot hero to save them all.

The game has a Fall 2012 release date with December 17 expected to be the actual date.

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http://andriasang.com/con28o/mega_man_rpg_ios/
http://www.screwattack.com/news/capc...-man-x-rpg-ios
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Daily Recap:
1) Gamestop is ditching the 25-digit system for selling DLC content in favor of a more user friendly system which would send the direct link to the content as an email message. The new system will only be available for Xbox 360 users but the company has plans to expand it to all consoles in the future.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/game...25-digit-codes
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/08/gamestop-dlc/

2) The previous Japan-only Hrule Historia which celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Zelda and the new 3 branches for the timeline will be arriving in the US next year courtesy of Dark Horse Comics.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/hyru...k-horse-comics
http://www.destructoid.com/ultimate-...s-233294.phtml

3) Update to EA linking real gun manufactures as sponsors for the upcoming MoH Warfighter as the company has removed or hid the links on the official website which had the real life versions of the weapons found in the game available for sale online.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-backs-...t-233282.phtml

That Megaman game actually sounds pretty interesting.

Oh yeah, smart move, Capcom. Now all the kids with dumb phones gotta go out and buy smart phones JUST so they can get their Mega Man fix.

LOL at EA.

Sorry to bust your big scoop.

According to several sites and sources, OnLive could be facing bankruptcy and shutting down soon with several sites stating their sources reveal layoffs are currently happening at the company.

An official statement by the company denies anything bad is going on right now with the company but Kotaku has stated the company recently filed a bankruptcy-like claim in the state of California.

According to GiantBomb and EGMNow who have contacts close to the situation are reporting a 10am meeting occurred recently with the entire staff present fired on the spot. Both also supposedly had witnesses who confirmed seeing employees leaving the building with moving boxes.

While the rumors point to OnLive no longer existing as a company soon, there is also the small possibility of the company itself not completely shutting down as a whole and instead being rebranded under a new name but as a much smaller company.

The news also comes as a concern to the upcoming Ouya console who had recently announced a partnership with OnLive as a way to help bring the entire OnLive catalog and service to their console.

http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...er_2541781.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...-shutting-down
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/onlive...dated-x2/4322/
http://kotaku.com/5935767/onlive-fil...take-its-place
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-its-closing/
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Daily Recap:
1) Valve announces the beta for Steam's "Big Picture" project which is Steam's user interface optimized for tv displays will begin in September.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/valv...eta-later-year
http://www.destructoid.com/big-pictu...r-233352.phtml

2) Team Ninja states they would like another opportunity in developing a Metroid game with the company currently in close contact with the co-creator of the series, Yoshio Sakamoto.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...other-metroid/

3) According to Bioware, Day One DLC is not a bad thing considering they state their fans and customers love the idea of having DLC available at launch regardless of the content being found on-disc or not. They state the reason they favor this is due to their data shows a significant percentage of players do not finish their games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...t-day-one-dlc/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...adable-content

Ah. Was wondering how the OnLive rumour was going to be misreported here.

Day 1 DLC is proven by stats to sell. Can't argue with that.

Fuck team ninja. Stay the fuck away from my Metroid.

The only real argument is the spin on it, that people want it. Many people just feel compelled to get it.

In any case, it sells. Gamers need to learn vote with their wallets.

The "vote with your wallet" bullshit is the reason that this shit keeps happening.

Also, this may not be news, but Onlive has two free games as part of a free indie weekend: Spaz and Spacechem or something.

Doom. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

CEO also recently accepted full blame for creating the financial mess for the company which lead to the recent filing for a type of bankruptcy called "Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors."

Yesterday he was being blamed solely for the mess and doing nothing about it nor informing the employees of the situation until it was too late which lead to the mass firings yesterday.

His official reason was basically over expansion to the point of them having over 8000 servers being used by only 1600 paid users.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...ankruptcy.aspx

Sorry if this was posted before, but i found it hilarious.

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According to rumors from a potential survey, Dragon Age 3 could be featuring a co-op mode, the story taking place during a civil war, and a few other gameplay details.

The survey which hasn't been confirmed nor denied by EA and/or Bioware reveals plans for online and co-op modes along with finishing moves and the ability to control up to 4 party members out of a pool of 10 heroes at a time. The ability to use spies is also rumored as another feature for the game.

In terms of the game's story, the player takes on the role of an Inquisitor who's goal is to stop a civil war currently going on in the land of Thedas.

In terms of the official title for the game, at least five names were teased in the survey with the final name possibly being chosen from this group.
http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...er_2557846.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/node/2557846
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eplay-details/
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to last week's OnLive story as Lauder Partners, LLC was revealed to have been the buyers of OnLive. About half of the workforce was retained while the other half received no compensation for their layoffs.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/onlive...tal-deal/4323/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...taff-retained/

2) Fallout 4 currently rumored to be taking place in Boston with Bethesda themselves rumored to be scouting the area for design purposes.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...set-in-boston/

3) A sequel to The World Ends With You is expected to be announced in a week and possibly for mobile devices after a recent countdown timer appeared on Square Enix's Japanese website.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...o-mobile-game/
http://www.destructoid.com/is-square...--233460.phtml

I'm about to roll out a Sith Inquisitor in Old Republic. Perhaps that experience will give me some insight as to what I might expect from this new Dragon Age game.

While not officially confirmed by Future Publishing, the 24 year run of Nintendo Power will be ending soon after Nintendo rejected plans to keep the magazine around in the future.

Tweets sent and later deleted by the senior editor and one of the writers confirmed the plans for the magazine to end its publication with staff currently being transferred to other Future Publishing branches.

According to a source connected with Ars Technica, Future Publishing had been in negotiations with Nintendo to find a way to extend the life of the magazine with a digital-only plan and Nintendo buying back the publishing rights as two offers given. Nintendo is rumored to have rejected both plans and favors just ending the magazine as soon as possible.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ts-publication
http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-...--233543.phtml
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to EA suing Zygna as recently EA claims they consider themselves a "game industry defender" for being the one who stands up for the little guy (small publishers) against Zygna who they feel has hurt the industry from the constant copyright infringement.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-the-industry/
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-vs-zyn...--233529.phtml

3) Microsoft has currently opened up a second wave of applications for the upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard update.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...beta-sign-ups/

Oh Nintendo Power, you were the shit when I was eight.

I wonder what's gonna happen to my subscription? I have a two year one and I still have a year left.

PopCap's got layoffs coming now, too.

Gamepro?

They will likely offer a voucher for another publication (if apllicable). Failing that, they will refund you.

According to Ubisoft, piracy has been such a problem for them on the PC that they are dropping their current PC model in order to enter the free-to-play model.

The company blames piracy for all the problems they have encountered with the platform stating they have suffered close to a 95% piracy rate and they are barely making any money from the games released on the PC.

While they are not expecting a larger percentage of people to suddenly buy their games once they become free-to-play, the company did state it will provide more long term revenues. According to their data, only 5-7% of all users in the free-to-play model actually pay to unlock everything which is roughly the same percentage of users who don't pirate PC games.

The company however did not take any blame for their DRM on the platform which is notorious for crashing or not working at all which ends up leaving legitimate customers unable to play the game or have to download an illegal copy just to play.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eir-pc-titles/
http://www.destructoid.com/ubisoft-c...e-233588.phtml
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Daily Recap:
1) The developers of the Wipeout series, Psygnosis, will be shutting down soon due to Sony currently in a restructuring phase for their entire UK branch. Psygnosis was rumored to have been developing the next Wipeout meant for the PS4 before being shut down.
http://www.destructoid.com/wipeout-d...d-233607.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ore-it-closed/

2) Interplay announces they are reviving former Black Isle Studios, which closed in 2003 and creators of the original Fallout and Baldur’s Gate series, to help develop a new rpg gaming project.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/interp...parently/4331/

3) According to the executive vice president of EA, retail games will be gone within the next 10 years in favor of just digital distribution with EA planning to go all digital as a way to save costs on production for physical games.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...-says-ea-exec/
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=183849

Of course they didn't take any blame. They were too busy with the bullshit figures they're ass-pulling.

While "all-digital" may be the future, I doubt we'll be seeing it in the next ten years. We're slowly reaching the end of what our current infrastructure will allow, and nobody wants to upgrade. This is why we have bandwidth caps, throttling, etc.

I dunno, 5 years I reckon...

You really expect that, with one of the primary markets lacking an infrastructure to sufficiently support it?

Some news regarding Peter Molyneux's game called "Curiosity" as the game has been delayed and will be getting a name change.

22 Cans studio announces the game has been delayed after missing its initial release date schedule but the good news is the delay will only be for a couple of weeks. The new release date is now set for a TBA September date with the actual date to be announced in the near future. To make up for the delay, a new trailer was released for the game.

The other piece of news is the game's name will now be changed although the reason is not due to trademark or delay issues but instead of the game no longer being the top preferences on Google.

According to Molyneux, the decision was due to NASA's Curiosity rover landing on Mars which has taken over as the preferred status for the word on Google's search engine. He did state the company is currently accepting name suggestions from tweets sent to their Twitter account.

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http://www.destructoid.com/molyneux-...d-233659.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...cause-of-nasa/
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1) Blizzard state they have no plans to expand the level cap for free-to-play users of World of Warcraft and instead feel the current subscription model works the best for them and the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...f2p-level-cap/
http://www.destructoid.com/blizzard-...y-233655.phtml

2) Ubisoft has changed their minds and announce the previously XBLA and PSN only downloadable title "I Am Alive" will be getting a PC release for Steam on September 13.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ubis...bringing-it-pc
http://www.destructoid.com/it-lives-...h-233665.phtml

3) According to EA Sports boss Peter Moore, he feels sorry for older gamers that miss the days of stuff not being DLC locked on the disc. He also implies the rate gaming technology is evolving now makes companies have to sell DLC and other stuff due to the online nature of games now.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...the-rest-of-it
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=183994

Update the previous news of a sequel to the rpg game of The World Ends With You as Square-Enix officially reveals the game a few days before the countdown was meant to end.

The official reason for the early announcement according to Square-Enix was due to their online store accidentally spoiling the debut when they posted the official soundtrack for the new game.

The game will arrive on iOS devices after also accidentally being leaked by the online store before it was taken down.

While only a few details were revealed, Square-Enix is still waiting for the actual countdown to end before unveiling everything about the project.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...more-in-store/
http://www.destructoid.com/the-world...s-233719.phtml
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1) Achievement list for Fable The Journey was recently leaked with the majority based on Arcade Challenge mode, story progressions, and killing.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...list-revealed/

2) A recent patent filed by Sony appears to be an updated version of a previous patent where commercials would interrupt a game mainly during loading screens. The new patent suggests Sony could be considering in the future on having interactive ads where the commercial itself acts as a mini-game and would be available over a variety of media devices and apps.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-pate...s-233711.phtml
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...mes-in-tv-ads/

3) The first non-ad sponsored free-to-play game on Xbox Live Arcade will be arriving this Fall called "Happy Wars" which is being described as an MMO class-based real-time brawler.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/xbla...appy-wars-fall
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ee-this-autumn

Dunno why Sony can't just do in-game advertising.

I remember I popped in Mercenaries 2 in my 360 after sitting around for a long time and I drove by billboards hyping that new show "Chase" on NBC.

Granted it's canceled now, but it was still pretty cool by my standards.

Because people weren't giving them enough revenue for scenery.

Peter Molyneux revealed what the new name for Curiosity will be and I believe he didn't bother to use any of the names from Twitter (probably a good thing).

The game is now called "Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube?"

We all know where this is going.

Roooooooooooooooooooooll it.

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Kojima Productions teases they have a huge surprise planned when the official Metal Gear 25th Anniversary announcement and party begins.

It is already been teased and leaked the official debut of the Fox Engine will be shown off as well as the possible debut of Metal Gear Solid 5.

The announcement will occur this week on August 30th in Tokyo with a huge public party prepared to celebrate the occasion at Konami's offices. Special events for the party were also revealed which include trying to find hidden "camouflaged" people and the ability to win 1 of 100 special anniversary shirts.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ming-industry/
http://andriasang.com/con2em/metal_gear_roppongi_jack/
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1) As part of the lead up to Kirby's 20th anniversary, Nintendo announces they will be trying to break the world record for most pink bubble gum blown at once during PAX Prime next month.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...h-anniversary/
http://www.destructoid.com/set-a-wor...--233766.phtml

2) According to shipped and early sales data, Lollipop Chainsaw became the highest selling game made by Suda 51 studio and Grasshopper Manufacture with 700,000 copies sold/shipped which tops the previous record held by No More Heroes 1 at 500,000 copies.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/loll...sful-game-date
http://www.destructoid.com/lollipop-...e-233823.phtml

3) Kenji Kaido who has been with Sony since 1997 announced he has retired from the company. His list of accomplishments at Sony include being the creator of the Ape Escape series, producer for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, and rumored producer for the repeatedly delayed Last Guardian project.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/kenji-kaido-leaves-sony