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Okay, I'm listening.

If this is why it was delayed til September, then I'm okay with that.

Today's News:
1) Hideo Kojima states the official reason for no Metal Gear Solid Legacy set for the Xbox 360 is due to the set being "too big" and wouldn't be able to include Metal Gear Solid 4 due to legal reasons.
http://www.destructoid.com/the-metal...4-252922.phtml

2) According to sources close to Eidos Montreal, the Thief reboot project is currently facing several big setbacks leading to several high-level employees recently leaving the company.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...el-departures/

3) EA's on-going feud with Nintendo continues after announcing Madden NFL 25 will not be released on the Wii U with no official reason given. The company could also end up being hit with a fine by the NFL if the league determines it broke terms in the current contract.
http://www.destructoid.com/yikes-mad...r-252893.phtml

Enzo had it coming.

Recently read the article in the last Game Informer about Thief and I was under the impression that all the holes had been plugged on that sinking ship of a project.

Pretty worried right now. It's like the game is cursed or something.

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Today's News:
1) Ubisoft announces South Park: The Stick of Truth is still on track to be released later this year although at the moment is not officially listed among the games they are planning to release in 2013.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sout...k-truth-update

2) Some recent Battlefield 4-related news include DICE releasing a new teaser screenshot for the game and rumors of the initial planned DLC for the game being leaked by a recent survey.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...shot-revealed/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-details-dlc/

:drool:

I just saw that on wired

Gamestop will stop accepting PS2 game trade-ins on June 1st.

:(

Most of the GameStops here don't even sell PS2 games anymore.

Ah well.

Today's News:
1) EA announces they have signed a multi-year deal with Disney to become exclusive publisher for the Star Wars series along with EA's studios being the exclusive developers for the games.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ea...now/1100-4633/

2) Some Nintendo-related news as this month's Club Nintendo game rewards include Super Mario RPG (Wii VC) as part of the 4 games available and a former developer stating Star Wars Battlefront 3 was in development for the Wii before it was cancelled.
https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=201924

3) According to an internal memo from Microsoft, the Next Xbox will permit offline gaming to be possible.
http://www.destructoid.com/internal-...t-253184.phtml

4) A sequel to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is rumored to be occurring with the Creative Director teasing the idea of Blood Dragon being made into a series/franchise if approved.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...making-sequel/

For those who are interested in another list, ESPN is counting down the top 25 Sports games of all time. They started today and got 25-21 up right now. Here's the link to the page with an introduction and what not.

http://espn.go.com/espn/playbook/fea...deo-games-ever

0 people with any grasp on reality were surprised.

Yeah that's kinda meh.

Today's News:
1) According to reports, Ubisoft has once again fired the creator of the Assassin's Creed series with the official reason being due to a "difference in visions" for the franchise. The creator alleges that is not the actual reason and instead he was just abruptly fired today.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/7/4308...-a-second-time
http://www.screwattack.com/news/assa...-fired-ubisoft

2) Marvelous announces XSEED studio has been renamed to Marvelous USA as part of their restructuring plans and have purchased Atlus Online studio (renamed to Marvelous Online).
http://www.destructoid.com/xseed-now...e-253218.phtml

3) The pre-order bonus for Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX was revealed to be a special edition artbook along with the announcement of a September 10 release date in the US for the PS3 (Sept. 13 for Europe).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...nus-announced/

You made a great game people love that's not how we do things at Ubisoft! You're fired!

Late Night News Edition
 

Barely a day after EA got the license to the Star Wars series, the company managed to find a loophole to back out of having to make Star Wars games for the Wii U (and 3DS). The company stated future Star Wars games will use the Frostbite 3 engine while claiming the Wii U can't handle it.

According to the original terms of the agreement, EA was required to make games for all platforms for the series with the only exceptions being social and mobile platforms (Disney covers those platforms themselves).

http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-star...e-253262.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/frostbite...s-253295.phtml

lol EA

At this point, I don't give a fuck. Just release Battlefront 3 please.

I think I am finally on the "I hate EA but I will still play their games" bandwagon.

Today's News:
1) Freebie - For those interested, Doritos Crash Course 2 was released today for free on XBLA although currently only playable for Xbox Gold users.
http://www.destructoid.com/doritos-c...y-253194.phtml

2) A bunch of EA-related news with EA's FIFA license has been extended till 2022, no Star Wars-related games will be arriving until Spring 2014, Battlefield 4 will not have any ties to actual gun manufactures, and roughly 900 people were laid off from the company's recent restructuring plans.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ea-h...e-through-2022
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-frostbite-3/
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ea...ers/1100-4635/
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/8/4311...-restructuring

3) According to the creator of the Assassin's Creed series, Ubisoft also fired the series producer yesterday.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rice-desilets/

4) Capcom recently released their fiscal report for 2012 which revealed a drop of around 55.8% in overall net income compared to last year. The company did have an increase in net sales by about 14.6% but also saw losses in regards to ordinary (down 7.85) and operating income (down 17.6%).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...al-2013-plans/
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202107

Star Wars is now Nintendont.

EA, you mean. They're taking this Origin thing to heart. Whatever.

EA bitches at Steam for lowering the market on old games and now they are offering Sleeping Dogs for 8.50.

Public interest on that brand must be low, so why not give it away cheap. That's all that is.

Bought The Movies for PC from CEX. Wondering if it contains Securom. It says it contains protection to stop piracy but it's not specific. Always paranoid about installing stuff on my PC that may have Securom. Anyone know if it does or doesn't?

Nah, a simple CD check and non-online serial number.

If it were in a vacuum, that would be all it was. But they've done a bunch of sales. They never reach Steam levels in terms of scope or price, but EA is doing exactly what they bitch about.

Which is no surprise. Corporate ethics.

If you're that concerned, why not research it before you buy?

It was a spur of the moment thing. I was in the shop and it was just £3. I thought it was old enough that it might have been pre-securom.
I did a little Googling when I got home and can't really find an answer one way or another. Just people speculating before it was released, I think.

Today's News:
1) EA states neither Dead Space 3 nor Crysis 3 managed to hit their sales expectation targets with Dead Space 3's sales being lower than Dead Space 2's sales.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...cording-to-ea/

2) Some fiscal report-related news as Konami's 2012 fiscal report revealed a 15% decrease in overall revenues while their digital sales were up by 17%. Sony's fiscal report revealed their first overall profit since 2008 but the Playstation Division saw net losses of around 12.2% for sales and 94% in operating income.
http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/09/kona...-series-at-e3/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...th-ps4-launch/

3) Sony's fiscal report also revealed the company is currently not expected to be hit with a major fiscal loss during the launch of the PS4 later this year.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-not-...h-253433.phtml

4) The vice president of Epic Games states both Microsoft and Sony are currently pushing for the free-to-play market to become a strong focus for their next gen consoles.
http://www.destructoid.com/epic-micr...n-253424.phtml

Good for Dead Space 3.

Shadow Warrior reboot on the way. Thrilled and worried at the same time. At least Gearbox isn't doing it tho.

Today's News:
1) Sony rumored to be officially debuting Gran Turismo 6 next week as part of the series 15th anniversary celebration this month.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...mo-6-next-week

2) Capcom states they are expecting a "significant" spike to occur in development costs for the next gen to the point the company is moving towards more in-house development to help keep costs down.
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-ex...s-253437.phtml

3) Tecmo Koei announces Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate will be arriving later this year and includes all the exclusive features the Vita version of Dead or Alive 5 contained along with several new characters and stages.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/xbox_...first-trailer/

NextBox is almost certainly going to be called Xbox Infinity. The infinity symbol also doubles nicely as an 8, giving brand cohesion with Windows 8.

The Infinity logo is being claimed as a fake according to Reddit/Imgur.

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http://imgur.com/r/gaming/keclS5o

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What in the fuck?

I picked it up on Steam, I'm horrible at it but it can be pretty funny.

fag cock 3: blood gibbon

Today's News:
1) According to Square Enix's 2012 fiscal report, the company posted a 13.7 billion yen ($138.6 million) loss for the year with "weak" sales in North America and Europe being blamed the most.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202468

2) Namco is currently rumored to be working on HD remakes for Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World with both being PS3 exclusives.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...emakes-on-ps3/

3) Double Fine studio states they are currently in the process of trying to regain their IP ownership in regards to Costume Quest, Stacking, Brütal Legend, and Iron Brigad. The first two games are currently owned by Nordic Games while Brutal Legend is partially owned by EA and Iron Brigad is partially owned by Microsoft.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/doub...uee-franchises

Today's News:
1) Ubisoft revealed the pre-order bonuses for Rayman Legends will only be available at Gamestop and GAME. Each platform has their own set of exclusive goodies as well.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/ubis...rayman-legends

2) According to the writer of ZombiU, a sequel is currently being considered by Ubisoft with a prototype version being used to test out several ideas and plans for the potential game.
http://www.destructoid.com/zombiu-se...t-253674.phtml
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202568

3) Bioware states they are considering on making several spin-off games for the Mass Effect series with the games to potentially revolve around Javik or Garrus.
http://www.destructoid.com/mass-effe...s-253638.phtml

GT6 announced for PS3 coming this holiday.

People are already crying it's not PS4. I'm enjoying it.

So it's PS3 only?

LOL!

Some of the info is embargoed until Friday and some are rumouring that it's for an upscaled PS4 version. I can't see why they wouldn't announce that today though rather than just PS3 today and PS4 only 2 days later.

It would be strange for it not to be up-ported to PS4.

New Scribblenauts game, "Scribblenauts: Unmasked" is a DC Comics "crossover". Will have at least 2,000 DC Characters in it.

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At least 130 of them are various Green Lanterns, and every Legion of Super-Hero member ever or something.

Kinda crazy.

Today's News:
1) Microsoft rumored to be dropping the MS Points system in favor of a real currency system once the next Xbox launches.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-of-next-xbox/

2) EA announces they have opened up a new studio called DICE LA specifically to develop Star Wars games and lend developer help for the Battlefield series.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-is-ope...s-253767.phtml

3) According to Ubisoft's 2012 fiscal report, the company managed to generate a net profit of $83.3 million, Far Cry 3 has become a "cornerstone" franchise and possible candidate for the yearly release schedule, and 2 previously unannounced projects will be revealed soon to the public.
http://www.destructoid.com/ubisoft-h...n-253766.phtml
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202635

4) Update to Hasney's GT 6 news as Polyphony teases a PS4 version is very likely and one feature they are considering is the ability to transfer saves/progress from the PS3 version to the PS4 version. Also hinted it won't be released this year in order for them to fully focus on the PS3 version.
http://www.destructoid.com/polyphony...n-253781.phtml

Not huge news but, Nintendo being dicks, but not as big of dick as Sega was over Shining Force, and making copyright claims on newer Mario games Let's Plays. Not taking them down though, like Sega was with Shining Force LPs.

http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-...s-253793.phtml

Oh, so they just haven't necessarily announced it, and people are flipping out based on assumption?

Even more lol

It would be, indeed.

Of course, this rumour has hit like ten times in the XBox 360's lifespan, so take it with a grain of salt.

Also, EA claims they're done with online passes going forward. Someone said this news was old, but I haven't seen it, so I'm mentioning it.

The downside is, of course, they've already labeled SimCity an MMO now.

Kind of want the points to stay. Can usually get XBLA games 25% off what they should be or their Steam/PSN counterpart by hunting down some cheap points cards.

They announced Sims 4 as well, but said that one will be offline.

I doubt it's a change of heart out of goodness. I think their micro-transactions model is paying off. I'd expect that in all games going forward to replace the passes/always on. It's probably a better solution, as long as the micro-transactions aren't gameplay altering. Just shortcuts and cosmetic.

It's also possible the profits they were making in OP didn't match the perceived lost revenue from the policy.

Today's News:
1) Update to LoDownM's Nintendo-Youtube news as according to GameFront and other speculation, Nintendo will only target newer games and videos over 10 minutes for their ad claims. They also hinted for those who want to keep their ad revenue to just split the LP videos into several smaller videos instead.
http://www.gamefront.com/nintendo-fl...play-channels/

2) According to Konami, Castlevania Lord of Shadows managed to become the highest selling game in franchise history.
http://www.destructoid.com/lords-of-...r-253848.phtml

3) Even though The Last of Us for the PS3 hasn't been released yet, Sony might be considering plans to turn the game into a potential series or trilogy based on recent domain purchases.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ast-of-us-2-3/

4) Sales - Amazon is currently having a huge PC sale with around 1500 games going on sale and discounts going as high as 80% off.
http://kotaku.com/moneysaver-special...sale-506977987

Ya, I grabbed quite a few games I had wanted off Amazon.

Can I use somebodies american address to buy BF3 premium?

Sucks that UK get shit all deals...

EDIT - got it, used some cool site which creates an address for me.

I just used some Domino's pizza place in NY.

Metal Gear Rising Revengance is coming to PC, Kojima just confirmed it on his radio show.

Let us celebrate with some Rules of Nature blasting out.


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Oh finally some MGS action for PC guys :D

Today's News:
1) Update to Microsoft dropping the MS Points system as The Verge reports the system will be phased out on August as part of the next dashboard update. The beta for the new dashboard update was also reported to begin next month.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...xbox-live.aspx

2) The EA-Nintendo feud took another turn recently as EA announces they have currently dropped all game development for the console while the Senior Software Engineer at EA Sports recently trashed the system on Twitter. The tweets ended up being deleted especially after the Senior SE inadvertently trashed Origin and not caring about the PC market.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=202900
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/...ny-ea-studios/

3) Ubisoft rumored to have cancelled Rainbow Six: Patriots after Gamestop removed all pre-orders for the game recently. Gamestop hinted this is only done when publishers send out official cancellation notices to them.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...es-pre-orders/

4) Freebies/Deals - Best Buy's pre-order bonus for Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D includes getting the 3DS VC version of Super Mario Bros Lost Levels for free.
https://twitter.com/videogamedeals/s...88379598807040

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Damn it. R6: Patriots was gonna be the title that got me back involved in the franchise. Had Rogue Spear a looooooooooooooong time ago on my PC.

So, how does it work? Do they give Tom Clancy an I.O.U? Even though Splinter Cell: Blacklist drops in a few months?

Probably drop the franchise as a whole for a while since I think Patriots was meant to be a reboot or change in direction for the Six series.

Think Ubisoft actually owns the Tom Clancy name in regards to games so they don't have a strict requirement to make games unlike EA with the NFL or THQ/Take Two with the WWE who only own licenses for those series.

What? No mention of Trion apparently collapsing?

If so, then that's not looking good for Defiance.

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In fact, it specifically affects Defiance and not their other games.

Wait, what?

Today's News:
1) McLaren Automotive teases they will be making a gaming-related announcement during Microsoft's Next Xbox show tomorrow with current speculation involving it involving a new Forza or Project Gotham Racing game.
http://www.destructoid.com/mclaren-h...t-254106.phtml

2) EA announces they will be debuting the "next generation" of the FIFA series during Microsoft's Next Xbox show.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ws-xbox-event/

3) Konami confirms the PS3 exclusive Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection set has a release date of July 9th for North America and is priced at $49.99.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ate-confirmed/

They may also be showing the first gameplay of EA's UFC.

McLaren you say?

Love these Steam trading cards :D. Got some spare beta codes if anybody's interested?

Has anyone got dota codes?

I dump all mine into this here bot. You can get one from there too.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dota2bot

Today's News:
1) Sales - PSN currently offering an "Ultimate Deals - Ultimate Edition" sale from now till May 27 and includes 10 bundles each containing a game and all their DLC with discounts going as high as 65% Off (75% for PS+ members).
http://www.destructoid.com/10-games-...n-254129.phtml

2) Microsoft announces Xbox One will have at least 15 exclusives for its first year with Forza Motorsport 5 and Quantum Break being the first two games announced. FIFA 14's Ultimate Team mode was also revealed to be exclusive to Xbox One. Watch Dogs, Thief, Battlefield 4, and Assassin's Creed IV were confirmed to be having Xbox One versions.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ne-exclusives/
http://www.destructoid.com/watch-dog...e-254181.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/you-don-t...e-254197.phtml

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Neat.

I like John Walker but he started this "OOH it's a shit PC" stuff as soon as the PS4 was announced. See how well that comes up as there's less reason that ever to upgrade your PC and there's a mass market systems with far more tightly engineered things. John Carmack has been seeing the benefit of having these new architectures that don't have to jump through the hoops of a desktop system, and Walker just went "Nyeeeah but it's not a PC", to John fucking Carmack.

I wonder where PC gaming is going to go. I think there is going to be a big obstacle with the market of people who can play these new games on their PC is going to plummet.

Today's News:
1) Warner Bros announces Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition will be arriving on the PC this summer (July 3 for digital, August 2(EU) and 6(US) for retail) with High Voltage Software working on the port.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/22/mo...or-pc-in-july/

2) EA announces they will show off their early plans for the Star Wars franchise during E3 next month.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-e3-c...s-254289.phtml

3) EA also released a teaser image for a new Need For Speed game that will also be debuted and shown off at E3.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...or-speed-game/

I've got a civ 4 gold edition code on Steam. Anybody have any steam games to trade for it?

I'd be interested. Though I doubt I'd have any games you'd want and I've never traded on Steam before.

It's a code I have so id send you it on here and you just activate it on steam.
What games do you have?
Pretty much just want something, I have civ5 so no need for 4 imo.

All I have that I'd get rid of is Half-Life, which I think everyone and their dog has, Prison Tycoon 3 or any of the three Kohan games which are good but not really my thing.

I've never played a Civ game.

Is that Half-Life 1 or 2?

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Sweet, now you say you don't know about Steam Trading... Is the Half-Life a trade-able gift?

How would I find out?

Top left of steam, click the envelope and click on the gifts.
Pretty much you can't trade games you've played, you can only gift games which you've either bought/received as a gift or got via a holiday event.

I'll go check that out now. I played Half-Life for, literally, 1 minute and then stopped. Has that screwed me?

I clicked the envelope and got to a page that just says GIFTS. No clue what's next. I'm not a PC gamer.

If it's in your library, you can't gift it.

Damn. That doesn't really make any sense. Of course it'll be in the library with a X amount of time played on it. Do Valve think people buy games purely to trade later?

Yeah, you click buy as gift. Our if you buy a bundle, you sometimes get the spares. The pre-order bonuses go to your inventory too.

I assumed "Buy as gift" meant I'd be buying it and it would go straight to you, for example. If I want to trade with Extreme Angle, which I'd imagine is different to gifting because I'm getting something in return, I'd have to have bought the game, not played it and just waited for someone to want to trade it?

It would have been quicker to just buy the game I hoped to trade for. Why would anyone trade a game they hadn't at least played once?

Buy it in the sales and then trade it for a similarly priced game once the sale ends.

Unwanted games in bundles, like my CIV lol. Plus people buy games cheap as gifts when they are on the daily sale, then trade them later for a more expensive game.
Torchlight 2 was £5 2 weeks ago, last week Xcom was £10. While Xcom was on sale people offered to trade their Torchlight for Xcom. £5 profit. yet the person who wanted torchlight paid £6 less than the standard Steam price.