Daily News:
1) More SimCity news involving EA telling people to stop promoting the game, EA's PR claiming the reason the servers are crashing is because people are having "too much fun", and EA officially not offering refunds on Origin.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ting-the-game/
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-simcit...--248186.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/no-simcit...n-248135.phtml

2) Nasdaq has issued a stock delisting warning to Majesco with the demands of they must improve their stock value to the $1 minimum within the next 180 days. Majesco's stock value has been hovering between the 50 cents to 60 cents range for the past month.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/7/4077...medium=twitter

3) Microsoft has quietly discontinued offering the Xbox Live Gold Family Pack which gave a year of Xbox Live Gold for up to 4 accounts per console for the price of $100.
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...k-248141.phtml

4) A recent episode of the PBS "Inventor" series dealt with Ralph Baer who is considered as the "father of video games" due to his work with the Odyssey.
http://www.destructoid.com/pay-your-...s-248119.phtml

EA are giving a free game to anyone who has SimCity now. Guess they really have to.

I ended up getting it for £10 and played for 5 hours hours without issue yesterday and it is fantastic when it works... But I'm in a queue this morning.

You showed them.

Since there was so much in this thread about SimCity, here's some more Jim Sterling.

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Daily Gaming News:
1) While Valve stated there won't be a standard price for the Steam Box, the first confirmed version of the console will cost about $1000 and is being made by Xi3.
http://www.destructoid.com/first-ste...0-248385.phtml

2) According to a recent rumor, more teases regarding to a potential new game in the Crash Bandicoot series appeared and could tease a release on the Wii U, Xbox 360, and the PS3 (or PS4).
http://mynintendonews.com/2013/03/10...ming-to-wii-u/

3) The debut of Battlefield 4 could be occurring later this month during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) based on some teases from EA.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ield-4-reveal/

4) According to sources with Kotaku, a downloadable prequel to Star Wars Battlefront III called "Star Wars First Assault" is currently in development although a strong possibility it may not be released due to current status of LucasArts. It is also rumored if the game is released and sells well, Disney and/or LucasArts might approve Star Wars Battlefront III to be developed next.
http://www.destructoid.com/downloada...s-248397.phtml
http://kotaku.com/5989910/leaked-sta...ii-source-says

Xi3's piston, which was announced quite a while back, isn't really "the steam box" so much as "a steam box."

Didn't Nerd Jesus himself confirm that?

Think its only been recently that the actual prices have been announced with Xi3 being the first.

Before that it was mostly speculation or people theorizing how much the initial Steam Boxes would cost.

Hahhaha it's failed because it's a success. Nice EA logic.

Well, the main problem is insufficient server "space," isn't it?

Battlefront 3 is another game I would really love to be a good one.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Update to Xi3's "Steam Box" as Valve states the "Piston" is not an approved version of the Steam Box nor do they have any current ties with the company to allow them to use the Steam Box name.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/stea...on-involvement
http://www.destructoid.com/valve-dis...n-248483.phtml

2) According to several Sony Store locations, Sony has unofficially discontinued the 3G model of the PS Vita with the handheld currently being sold for $200 ($100 discount) at most of those stores.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...t-sony-stores/

3) The ESRB has changed several rules in regards to trailers for M-rated games with the changes being similar to how R-rated films are shown to the general public. The rules also remove the requirement for age gates as long as the trailers are approved by the ESRB before being shown online.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/es...ide/1100-4602/

4) Activision announces a micro-transaction system for Call of Duty Black Ops II will arrive tomorrow with the Xbox 360 version to be the first to have the new service.
http://www.destructoid.com/microtran...i-248467.phtml

Activision doing things in a shockingly subtle way.

Huh.

Would you not need a PC for the steambox? It is basically for people without the ability to hook the computer into a TV?

"Steambox" as a Valve invention is designed to be optimised for family convenience with yet-unknown functionality. "Steambox" as a general term is a PC built around big-picture mode by a third party which may lack the bells and whistles (if any).

The steambox is the PC. It's just a specialised one designed for people who aren't PC people. Kind of like Macs, except for casual gamers instead of yuppy douchebags.

I'm explaining this from the assumption that you think the "steambox" is a peripheral of some sort.

It's a console for PC gamers who hate consoles.

I saw one in pc gamer for 6,500.

GET IT

Is anyone getting darkstalkers?

Not interested.

Pretty heavy into SoulCalibur V and Street Fighter x Tekken for my fighting fix, and Tekken Tag 2 will soon make a comeback for us. I'll certainly give a next-gen Darkstalkers a try when it comes around, but I don't have any emotional or casual interest in the series enough to get older titles.

I love my Macbook Pro and my Macbook from 2007.

:love:

Macs do run better and have a MUCH better working OS but yeah- they are luxury computers.

I'd want one purely to play my Steam Games somewhere other than my Workplace.
A couch, a big tv and a controller is way more relaxing than mouse and keyboard.

If only you could add a controller to your PC and hook it up to your TV somehow.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Another update to the Xi3-Valve "Steam Box" news as the CEO of Xi3 denies Valve's recent claims of not having any relations to his company. He claims the "Piston" was only created due to Valve's involvement with the project.
http://www.destructoid.com/xi3-ceo-s...e-248540.phtml

2) Ron Gilbert, creator of The Cave, announces he has left Double Fine studio.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ron-...es-double-fine

3) CD Projekt Red announces they are currently planning and developing several online multiplayer features for Cyberpunk 2077 although no actual details were revealed.
http://www.destructoid.com/cyberpunk...--248573.phtml

If only there was a smaller case which didn't cost a bomb. so there wasn't a mammoth in my living room...

If only there was a pc which at the press of the power button, launched up Big Picture Mode...

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to the lead content manager for Assassin's Creed IV, Ubisoft is currently using 7 studios to help develop the game with each studio responsible for a specific gameplay feature.
http://www.destructoid.com/seven-dif...v-248626.phtml

2) Update to Star Wars First Assault news as gameplay footage from an early build of the game was recently leaked online.
http://kotaku.com/5990366/leaked-foo...d-call-of-duty

3) Nintendo has lost a recent US court case against a former Sony employee over claims of patent infringement in regards to glasses-free 3D technology used in the 3DS. Nintendo argued the tech they used came from Sharp's patent (who also became the manufacturer of the screens) and did not use key features from Seijiro Tomita's own patent as the lawsuit claimed.
http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-...t-248612.phtml

4) The debate regarding violent video games might be restarting soon after a Washington teen blames video games as the main reason why he murdered his parents with GTA and hearing "voices" in his head as the motivation for the crime. Also claimed the crime was due to his parents taking away his electronic devices because he was playing them almost non-stop that even caused himself to be concerned about it.
http://www.destructoid.com/teen-shoo...s-248661.phtml

He was playing extremely violent games too much and had a mental problem anyway. What's there to study?

Too much of anything is bad for you. That's why it's called "too much". If he watched too much Saw and heard voices, would they start studying violent movies? Most likely not.

No he's right. Even though the kid is obviously crazy, people and the media are going to look past that fact and blame "the video games." And using your example, even if the kid blamed the Saw franchise and hearing voices, that fact probably wouldn't ever get mentioned after the first day because "zomg video games were found in his house, clearly the reason!"

I'll just go and post this....



Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?

by Marilyn Manson

It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder. The day that Cain bashed his brother Abel's brains in, the only motivation he needed was his own human disposition to violence. Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an image of death and sexuality that we have based our culture around. A half-naked dead man hangs in most homes and around our necks, and we have just taken that for granted all our lives. Is it a symbol of hope or hopelessness? The world's most famous murder-suicide was also the birth of the death icon -- the blueprint for celebrity. Unfortunately, for all of their inspiring morality, nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

A lot of people forget or never realize that I started my band as a criticism of these very issues of despair and hypocrisy. The name Marilyn Manson has never celebrated the sad fact that America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. They just created two new ones when they plastered those dipshits Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' pictures on the front of every newspaper. Don't be surprised if every kid who gets pushed around has two new idols.


We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president's brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Does anyone think the Civil War was the least bit civil? If television had existed, you could be sure they would have been there to cover it, or maybe even participate in it, like their violent car chase of Princess Di. Disgusting vultures looking for corpses, exploiting, fucking, filming and serving it up for our hungry appetites in a gluttonous display of endless human stupidity.


When it comes down to who's to blame for the high school murders in Littleton, Colorado, throw a rock and you'll hit someone who's guilty. We're the people who sit back and tolerate children owning guns, and we're the ones who tune in and watch the up-to-the-minute details of what they do with them. I think it's terrible when anyone dies, especially if it is someone you know and love. But what is more offensive is that when these tragedies happen, most people don't really care any more than they would about the season finale of Friends or The Real World. I was dumbfounded as I watched the media snake right in, not missing a teardrop, interviewing the parents of dead children, televising the funerals. Then came the witch hunt.


Man's greatest fear is chaos. It was unthinkable that these kids did not have a simple black-and-white reason for their actions. And so a scapegoat was needed. I remember hearing the initial reports from Littleton, that Harris and Klebold were wearing makeup and were dressed like Marilyn Manson, whom they obviously must worship, since they were dressed in black. Of course, speculation snowballed into making me the poster boy for everything that is bad in the world. These two idiots weren't wearing makeup, and they weren't dressed like me or like goths. Since Middle America has not heard of the music they did listen to (KMFDM and Rammstein, among others), the media picked something they thought was similar.


Responsible journalists have reported with less publicity that Harris and Klebold were not Marilyn Manson fans -- that they even disliked my music. Even if they were fans, that gives them no excuse, nor does it mean that music is to blame. Did we look for James Huberty's inspiration when he gunned down people at McDonald's? What did Timothy McVeigh like to watch? What about David Koresh, Jim Jones? Do you think entertainment inspired Kip Kinkel, or should we blame the fact that his father bought him the guns he used in the Springfield, Oregon, murders? What inspires Bill Clinton to blow people up in Kosovo? Was it something that Monica Lewinsky said to him? Isn't killing just killing, regardless if it's in Vietnam or Jonesboro, Arkansas? Why do we justify one, just because it seems to be for the right reasons? Should there ever be a right reason? If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?


America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality, and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain. It's comical that people are naive enough to have forgotten Elvis, Jim Morrison and Ozzy so quickly. All of them were subjected to the same age-old arguments, scrutiny and prejudice. I wrote a song called "Lunchbox," and some journalists have interpreted it as a song about guns. Ironically, the song is about being picked on and fighting back with my Kiss lunch box, which I used as a weapon on the playground. In 1979, metal lunch boxes were banned because they were considered dangerous weapons in the hands of delinquents. I also wrote a song called "Get Your Gunn." The title is spelled with two n's because the song was a reaction to the murder of Dr. David Gunn, who was killed in Florida by pro-life activists while I was living there. That was the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being "pro-life."


The somewhat positive messages of these songs are usually the ones that sensationalists misinterpret as promoting the very things I am decrying. Right now, everyone is thinking of how they can prevent things like Littleton. How do you prevent AIDS, world war, depression, car crashes? We live in a free country, but with that freedom there is a burden of personal responsibility. Rather than teaching a child what is moral and immoral, right and wrong, we first and foremost can establish what the laws that govern us are. You can always escape hell by not believing in it, but you cannot escape death and you cannot escape prison.


It is no wonder that kids are growing up more cynical; they have a lot of information in front of them. They can see that they are living in a world that's made of bullshit. In the past, there was always the idea that you could turn and run and start something better. But now America has become one big mall, and because of the Internet and all of the technology we have, there's nowhere to run. People are the same everywhere. Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. I've always tried to let people know it's OK, or better, if you don't fit into the program. Use your imagination -- if some geek from Ohio can become something, why can't anyone else with the willpower and creativity?


I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. I didn't want to contribute to these fame-seeking journalists and opportunists looking to fill their churches or to get elected because of their self-righteous finger-pointing. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom. Everyone will agree that nothing was more entertaining than Clinton shooting off his prick and then his bombs in true political form. And the news -- that's obvious. So is entertainment to blame? I'd like media commentators to ask themselves, because their coverage of the event was some of the most gruesome entertainment any of us have seen.


I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so most people choose Doom, The Basketball Diaries or yours truly. This kind of controversy does not help me sell records or tickets, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue -- it's been happening every day for a long time.


MARILYN MANSON
(May 28, 1999)

Posted May 28, 1999 12:00 AM

Pac-Man made me a crack fiend.

So you're a retard switching it from capacity to use on a TV to convenience.

Gotcha.

I'm not following this Piston shit too closely (in part because the idea of a consolised PC strikes me as the worst of both worlds), but have they even announced a single press boot of Big Picture?

If it ain't gun control, it's violent video games. And vice versa. Newtown opened up one big pandora's box.

This is just the Halo 3 kid all over again.

Unnecessary. Don't shoot the rabbit eating your berry garden with a rocket launcher. Waste of good berries.

Yup.

honestly, it was mostly surprise. I don't remember EA being as phenomenally stupid as he's demonstrated on this topic and the whole EA and crash topics, for that matter.

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to the NPD, the Xbox 360 and Dead Space 3 ended up being the best selling console and game for the month of February. Hardware sales managed to rise compared to last month but are 25% lower compared to last year.
http://www.destructoid.com/npd-hardw...p-248732.phtml

2) Assassin's Creed Rising Phoenix currently rumored to be another Assassin's Creed spin-off title for the PS Vita with a release date of October 10.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-spin-off.aspx

3) Supposed box art for Battlefield 4 was recently leaked along with rumors of a teaser trailer expected to arrive later today. EA has confirmed the game will officially debut on March 26.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...g-later-today/
http://www.destructoid.com/battlefie...h-248812.phtml

4) According to recent trademark news, Nintendo was granted another trademark extension for the Eternal Darkness IP with the trademark being applied on December of last year.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=198171

Well that I get.

That would be worth noting if it was a Fall release. I bet I'd have the best taco stand in Nowhere, USA in a post-apocalyptic era.

"We're up 25% from last year, too."

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to EA, SimCity has managed to sell about 1.1 million copies since launch. The list of games available for the free game offer was also recently revealed along with the offer lasting until March 30.
http://www.destructoid.com/simcity-h...h-249017.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-free...4-249002.phtml

2) John Riccitiello, announces he has resigned as the CEO of EA with the move due to the poor financial performance of both EA's stocks and big name projects since mid-to-late 2011.
http://www.destructoid.com/john-ricc...o-249028.phtml

3) Even though Thief 4 will be a reboot of the series, Edios Montreal stated the game still allows non-lethal play-thoroughs to be possible and is part of the several gameplay styles being planned for the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...play-throughs/

4) Microsoft reiterates once again they have zero plans to released Halo games on Steam nor making PC versions of Halo 3 (and Halo 4).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ion-of-halo-3/

Damn Micro$oft.

Did I do that right?

You could settle for M$.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Update to the Xbox Entertainment Awards as Microsoft has suspended the contest due to hackers being able to get access to roughly 3000 accounts from those who had voted before it was pulled down.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/aler...80%99re-hacked

2) According to developer Dontnod Entertainment, the studio had a hard time trying to find a publisher for Remember Me due to the majority of the publishers did not want the main character to be a female.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...e-protagonist/

3) The developer for Super Meat Boy claims the push for DRM is more harmful than fighting piracy for gaming due to his reasons involving the large amounts of money wasted on DRM and its track record of hurting legit customers more than pirates on a disproportionate scale.
http://www.destructoid.com/super-mea...y-249054.phtml

4) EA will be defending its crown as the "worst company in America" after The Consumerist has released the brackets for this year's tournament.
http://consumerist.com/2013/03/18/he...ca-tournament/

I think Carnival might knock them off this year.

If Halo is not on Steam by the middle of 2014, I will be very shocked. Not only the database entries in Steam itself but it's also got an entry in the latest AMD drivers too.

There's speculation that MS might leverage Steam for some rudimentary backwards compatibility as the next XBox will be x86 and based on DirectX. There's nothing in the hardware that would make it difficult, but I'd be shocked if MS didn't use their own platform for that rather than Steam.

But if they're porting the greatest hits of the 360 to x86 for BC purposes, it would make sense to get some extra cash on another platform that isn't a threat to their business too.

Is there a demand for a Halo game for Steam? Seems strange to me.

I would buy it if only for the mods.

It's unlikely Microsoft would allow a mod kit for Halo, it would undermine a fairly key feature of the last few games.

Last time they were up against banks that nearly killed the country. Never underestimate the power of butthurt gamers in large numbers.

Sexism in gaming? Now I've seen everything!

PC fans are retarded. They resent games being exclusive to something other than the PC, but then proceed to shit on it when they get it.

They will likely hem and haw and petition for Halo 3/4 then whine that it's for "console scrubs," because that's how neckbeards roll.

That's exactly what was on my mind. The PC gamer attitude is prevalent enough for a 'PC Master Race' meme to develop. They see console games as overly simplified, inferior things - but petition for specifically console created games to appear on their platform. Then they complain that x-console game plays and operates like a console game. And don't get me started on how companies have data supporting that certain games and franchises would literally be wasteful to port to a PC versus what they'd gain after the fact.

Tekken producer Harada noted on Twitter that there is no gain in porting Tekken to PC and the Tekken community loses their fucking minds like he's on some Cliffy B 'talking out ass' thing. He wasn't and isn't. C'mon, kiddies.

The best thing about the "PC Gamer Master Race" meme is that it originated in mocking PC elitism. So I just amuse myself with that.

Gamers in general are falsely entitled and lack self-awareness. It seems like PC gamers tend to have even more of it.

And yeah, it doesn't make sense to port some games. I like the butthurt behind controller optimised games existing on the PC after people begged, pleaded and threw tantrums to get it there. If I developed for a game like that, I'd close shop.

Which is kind of a shame. There's less and less reason to buy a console, so if I could get my "consolised" games on PC as well, I'd probably never buy another console.

Life is poetic like that.

Life is a boat.

Little League's Yale giving his spin on Metal Gear Solid. Can you identify the kid-ified characters?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/5753907fd...azoo1_1280.jpg

Daily Gaming News:
1) Namco teasing Tekken X Street Fighter might be cancelled for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in favor of being released only for next gen consoles.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/tekk...atform-release

2) A recent batch of rumors involving the Next Xbox include having a "massive" hard drive, no ability to play from actual discs (only used for installing), and requires an "Always On" internet connection.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...not-supported/

3) According to recent rumors, Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been renamed as Final Fantasy XV and is a PS4 exclusive due to Sony joining as co-developers for the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ps4-exclusive/

4) Microsoft announces the Xbox Live Spring Sale starts next week and lasts till April 2nd. Square Enix is currently having their own Spring sale from now till March 27 involving a 25% discount on retail games and a 50% discount for digital games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...off-next-week/
http://www.destructoid.com/square-en...w-249175.phtml

I thought Squeenix's sale already ended.

Big sale on Origin going on this week. Too bad Origin is shit on PC.

Daily Gaming News:
1) DICE announces a free in-game dog tag for Battlefield 3 is available for anyone who visits the Battlefield 4 teaser website while also teasing sea battles will be a feature in BF 4.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-bf3-players/
http://www.destructoid.com/battlefie...s-249281.phtml

2) According to Capcom Unity, Capcom vs SNK 2 is planned to be released for PSN next month with the release date to be decided by Sony.
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-vs...l-249222.phtml

3) Valve has recently launched a new service for Steam called "Early Access" which allows games to be purchased and playable while they are still in development.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-early-access/

That B4 teaser trailer was ass.

CvS2 as a straight port is not what people are asking for.

Early Access is a bad idea, if not a punchline in the making (in regard to most games being unfinished when they release anyway).

Capcom is rereleasing Ducktales. It'll be called Ducktales:Remastered.

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to Bioware, switching Star Wars The Old Republic from a paid to a free-to-play model has been a huge success with over 2 million new subscribers gained since its relaunch.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ic-f2p-switch/

2) Capcom is denying reports of a new Mega Man game being in development although they did tease they are still considering making one in the future.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/pax-...nt-says-capcom

3) According to rumors, the next Call of Duty game will be called "Call of Duty: Ghosts" and will only be available for next-gen consoles. Other rumored details include dynamic loading screens, the movement system has been tweaked a lot, Spec Ops is being dropped, and takes place in a near future setting.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...lease-details/

I seriously doubt we're seeing a next-gen only Call of Duty this early on.

Though it might well promote the sale of next-gen consoles.

Odds on Capcom trolling the userbase?

Pretty fucking high.

Right.

Grant Kirkhope playing games he composed music for with Egoraptor & Jontron. Some cool little titbits of information about the making of the games and the music. A lot of it is just generally chat, though. Strong language.

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Anything noteworthy in the Steam Indie sale?

The list is long, rife with repeats, and random if you go back to it.

Technically, I can already name a bunch of noteworthy games. Just wondering if anything else pops up.

Daily Gaming News:
1) According to a recent rumor, DICE is expanding who can join the upcoming Battlefield 4 open beta to include those with Battlefield Premium subscriptions. Previously it was promised only those who pre-ordered MoH Warfighter would get access to the beta.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...m-subscribers/

2) Double Fine's Kickstarter project was debuted during [AX East over the weekend and is named "Broken Age."
http://www.screwattack.com/news/pax-...-been-revealed

3) CD Projekt Red is planning on releasing 4-5 games between 2014-2016 with at least two of the projects being smaller titles to go along with The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 as their top priority within the timeframe.
http://www.destructoid.com/cd-projek...e-249476.phtml

4) The developer of Fez and recent Sony-exlucive Indie developer, Phil Fish, has recently ranted on Twitter claiming the Vita is perfect while claiming both the DS and 3DS are "BS" handhelds. Among his list of claims include no DS/3DS game ever worthy of using 2 screens, the Vita's back panel not being a gimmick, and anyone buying Nintendo handhelds having actual mental problems.
http://www.destructoid.com/fez-creat...t-249467.phtml

Phil Fish needs to slow down...

Phil Fish is just a massive douchenozzle, it would be more like news if he wasn't being obnoxious and short sighted.

At the same time, being a douchenozzle is why he gets attention. Because being a dickweed makes you an icon.

I forgot to get Antichamber during its release sale, so I bought it last night.

Daily Gaming News:
1) The president of Square-Enix, Yoichi Wada, announces he will be resigning from the company after it is expected the company will post a loss of around $138 million for this fiscal year. The biggest source for the loss was their recent restructuring plans which cost them around $106 million.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/squa...ada-steps-down
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ada-to-resign/

2) Also revealed by Square-Enix was the news of the Tomb Raider reboot, Hitman Absolution, and Sleeping Dogs all failed to meet their sales expectations and prevent a financial loss from being posted for this fiscal year. Square-Enix blamed the North American market for the slow sales compared to other regions.
http://www.destructoid.com/tomb-raid...x-249692.phtml

3) Tecmo Koei announces they have split up Team Ninja into two smaller development groups although no official reason was given for the split.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...te-dev-groups/

How the fuck are games that sold 3.4(TR) and 3.6(Hitman) million copies a fucking failure? Oh right, anything that doesn't get CoD's sales figures is a huge flop.

Anything that doesn't get CoD's sa.... Oh. It was rhetorical.

But yeah. I'm surprised they were expecting more than the sales Sleeping Dogs got. Nearly 2 million is awesome for a new franchise.

Yes it is.

Maybe if they stopped putting out terrible FF13 sequels and a rushed MMO, they wouldn't be hurting so bad.

Come to think of it, FFXIII2 didn't sell much better than Sleeping Dogs. Maybe they should take that as a sign.

And they are remaking HD versions of FFX and FFX-II

Instead of FFX - II, they should remake FFVII in HD, it would sell waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

Square Enix already sells FF7 as a digital download for PC. Are there really that many people who care about an HD remake, but don't want to bother with installing mods to update the graphics?

Konami are showing off all the features of the FOX Engine at GDC at the moment and it looks damn impressive. Slaps the pants off of anything that Epic have show off with Unreal so far.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Similar to Valve having a new service for Steam that allows people to pay and play unfinished games still in development, Sony states they are considering doing the same for the PS4, PS Vita, PS mobile devices, and PS3.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-is-o...4-249719.phtml

2) Former employees from Crystal Dynamics, Criterion, Atari, and EA Visceral Melbourne studios have formed a new studio called Space Dust.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-dust-studios/

3) While Epic Games stated Warzone mode would not be included in Gears of War Judgmenet, it was recently discovered the mode is actually located on the game's disc. To help defuse the potential negative backlash, an employee from the studio explained how to unlock the mode and play it for free.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...judgment-disc/

Betting it's real time as well.

They said that the entire MGSV trailer was real-time. The talk was really interesting too, although quite a bit did to over my head.

Most people don't give a shit about the PC as a gaming platform period.

Really? I'd be interested to see the proportions there.

I'd expound on that by talking about the types of gamers being courted between console and PC games, but that would be a very long discussion.

Thank God there's no accountability within the PC market, eh?

Dudebros v neckbeards?

They are one in the same, just different languages.

lol

Sleeping Dogs isn't really fully a new series. It's the True Crime series just without the name.

I'm sorry, VSG's right. If you count browser games, it's a pretty comical statement.

True Crime was a name tacked on to an existing game in this case. It was never a True Crime game in any sense other than hoping the name would draw attention. Considering that it was dropped, I doubt this was a major factor.

Yes. People have asked for a VII remix since PS2 hit the markets. It is (arguably) the most popular and widely recognized installment of the entire series. It would break records, I would imagine.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Batman: Arkham Origins is currently rumored to be getting released for both current and next gen consoles later this year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...les-this-year/

2) While Crytek themselves have stated they have no interest in buying the Darksiders series, their US branch (Crytek USA) has announced they will make a bid for the IP when the next THQ auction occurs.
http://www.destructoid.com/crytek-us...e-249890.phtml

3) EA claims DRM is a failed strategy to use in gaming although once again took no blame for the SimCity mess stating they had no role in the game's development nor the idea to use DRM.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-drm-is...y-249891.phtml

I'm not even going to read the article, though I'm assuming it actually covered what the EA exec actually said.

You know, where he actually defended SimCity's always online and the like as a "service" rather than DRM, defended the practice in SimCity. This is kind of a big difference, as it means EA probably won't turn over a new leaf so much as try and rebrand DRM "services."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...d-end-strategy

Yeah, so basically SimCity doesn't have DRM. And it's also an MMO.

Calling it an MMO would be the wise thing to do, then you have a much more manageable case of "SimCity was never a multiplayer game" and such. Then comes AE on why they wanted SimCity to go that route. Either way it's easier than trying to defend DRM.