Am I buggin’ you? I don’t mean to bug you Remember FMV games? Back in the ’90s they were briefly the hot new thing. Games likePhantasmagoriaand7th Guestwere considered cutting edge adventure games. Perhaps you even bought a CD-ROM drive for your computer just to play them. Eventually people realized that FMV games were terrible. Many of them were barely even “games,” and the technique was pretty much dead well before the turn of the century....
E3 is the biggest videogame show of the year and pretty hard to get in to unless you work for a big gaming site or have lots of money to throw around. Enter Perfect World Entertainment withtheir current contestgiving out 25 three-day passes to E3 2011! All you have to do to enter the contest is justLike theRusty HeartsFacebook page, an upcoming anime action MMORPG from Perfect World. Yeah, that’s it....
More time to promote and polish When I spoke with XSEED executive vice president Ken Berry last year, he told me his studiolives and dies by pre-orders. For a small team that localizes games for a niche, but enthusiastic audience, pre-orders determine whether certain retailers will continue to carry their products. It seems that concern also extends to XSEED’s parent company, Marvelous, which just postponed the release of one of its upcoming games, a PlayStation Vita brawler calledUppers, because not enough folks plunked down cash to reserve the game pre-release....
See how many trophies you earned and hours you spent PlayStation is hosting a year-in-review for 2019, and along with stats about your video game habits, you’ll come away with a PS4 dynamic theme and an avatar meant to reflect your gaming persona. You can participate in the 2019 Wrap-Up byheading over to the official PlayStation website, but it only works if you’re over 18 years old, played PS4 for at least 10 hours, and have a PlayStation Network account with the collect-additional-data toggle turned on in the console’s system settings....
This news may not be exciting to most of you, but I’m the one who gets to write the blog posts and I loveRune Factory. So it pleases me to let you know thatRune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moonis all finished up and ready for retail. And, in a month, we can have it in our hot, little hands. What interests me about this third installment in the farming sim / action-RPG series is the story....
Wii U and 3DS box art for the upcoming WayForward projects As you’ve already heard, WayForward is helminganother pairof Cartoon Network games. There isAdventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!, a follow-up to last year’sHey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!, slated for 3DS, Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. In addition, there isRegular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land, a 3DS-exclusive adaptation of the exploits of everyone’s favorite park-dwelling slackers....
The classic adventure returns with Kickstarter It’s not the first time, nor the second, but a timeless adventure such asShadowgateis always welcome to be remade again and again. At the helm of this new version isZojoi, a company founded by Dave Marsh and Karl Roelofs who coincidentally are also the original creators of the original game. While they promise to keep all the classic adventure and puzzles intact, they are also stating that they will go further to really kick things up a notch, with high res artwork, tons of new puzzles and rooms, object specific animations and a new dual soundtrack, with the choice between a cinematic score or the original NES soundtrack which is regarded as one of the classic system’s finest....
Bogus Glass Bottom Games’ adorable skateboarding simSkateBirdhas unfortunately been hit with a new delay and is now expected to arrive later this fall. The developercites several bugsat the umpteenth hour as having slowed shipping, with the title now expected to hit Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch platforms on its new release date of September 16. “This wasn’t an easy decision,” said Glass Bottom Games founder Megan Fox. “ButSkateBirdwas always a game about doing your best, and we owe it to our backers, fans, and fellow bird enthusiasts to ship the game in its best state....
If you like sports, or physics, watch the video. Just, dear God, mute it first. I’ve been playing soccer — both real and virtual — for probably more than a decade now, and I’ve never scored from a free kick. For one, there’s always three or four dudes, generally standing about 10 yards away, whose only job is to bone you over. Trying to make a soccer ballcurlaround an obstacle is hard enough — putting it past a goalkeeper (again, his only job is to sh*t things up) is damned near impossible....
Compares legit loading to evil THIEVED loading Anewly discovered patent, filed in 2011, points to a new anti-piracy measure under consideration by Sony — a method of challenging illegitimate software by comparing load times. According to the filing: “A system and method for detecting piracy of a software product that is distributed on a particular media type is described. Embodiments of the invention track a title load time of a software product that is distributed on a particular media type, and compare it against a benchmark load time for that media type....
Mark Cerny rumor ‘totally bogus’ Ah, so here’s a thing. Director Fumito Ueda just gave an interview with Game Informer wherehe put the delay on “a corporate decision by Sony” and not just technical issues. “There are always delays in production, as you know. Technical being one of them, but there were many others that were out of my control as well,” he said. “I probably would have been comfortable with the end result … The PS3 was not restricting me from doing something....
‘We understand the frustration’ As we noted earlier this week,Final Fantasy VII Remake‘s pre-load date has been bumped up a bit. In the physical realm, copies are already being shipped in some regions, allowing select folks to play it early. But what about the digital edition? It’s a no go on the early release, says Square Enix. Noting the “frustration” of the situation on their official support center, a Square Enix rep explains that they will not move up the digital date, as the “bulk of [their] shipments to retailers across the globe are still scheduled to arrive in stores” on the April 10 release date....
Users could access ‘thousands of games’ for theoretical service Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has been chatting about Sony’s digital plans for the PlayStation 4, detailing how the system is looking to be supported heavily by a cable-style subscription service. “We’re shifting our platform more and more to the digital side — PS4 will be similar to PS Vita in that every game will be available as a digital download, and some will also be available as a disc,” he toldThe Guardian....
