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Angry Birds: Space contains more than interstellar adventures and flying poultry—it could carry dangerous malware.
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Icon Games reports that Nintendo forced them to remove Wii-related sales data from their company blog.
It’s not uncommon for indie studios to post sales numbers for their games. Sales figures demonstrate how their game is moving, and help generate a little extra press. But one developer is claiming that Nintendo didn’t take kindly to their efforts to publish WiiWare sales figures.
Icon Games, the London studio behind barroom games like Arcade Pool and Arcade Darts, had listed its cross-platform sales on a public blog – including data for Nintendo’s WiiWare store. Unfortunately for Icon, Nintendo apparently contacted them and requested that the information be removed.
The claims were made in another official company blog, in which Icon questions Nintendo’s reasoning for removing the numbers and claims that disallowing public sales data makes it harder for them to run an effective business. While this may be a stretch, it is a bit puzzling as to why Nintendo wouldn’t want developers sharing sales numbers.
As for Icon’s posts, it’s a rambling mess that manages to posit that Nintendo’s refusal to allow the publication of sales figures would somehow prevent a developer from securing a small business loan, or stop them from being able to accurately plan their financial future.
Honestly, both sides of this argument look ridiculous. Nintendo should allow people to publicly share sales figures, and Icon should stop pretending like the inability to publish numbers on a blog is the same thing as not being able to see them. Surely they don’t bring screencaps of their blog to the bank to convince the bank of Icon’s financial solvency.
[Edge]
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Bethesda releases a quick clip from the special edition DVD, “Behind The Wall: The Making of Skyrim.”
Skyrim is just under two weeks away from release, and many RPG lovers (read: me) are pretty freaking stoked. Bethesda is looking to capitalize on this hype as much as possible, and has released this quick clip from their behind-the-scenes DVD:
This three-minute clip covers the making of the Skyrim trailer and features developer commentary on how they went about putting the whole thing together. If you’re a fan of Oblivion or Fallout 3, you may even recognize a few friendly faces as the video roams the back halls of Bethesda’s labs. The video clip is just one part of the documentary developed for the game, but gives a good indication as to what kinds of content you can expect.
Of course, if you want to watch the rest of the video, you’ll need to pick up a collector’s edition of Skyrim. I would do that, except it costs an absolutely ridiculous $149.99, thought it does seem to be packed with cool stuff.
If you opt for the CE, here’s what you’ll find:
Alduin Statue. Created in conjunction with the IP Factory, this collector's only statue stands 12" tall and is made of high quality PVC. Modeled from actual in-game 3D digital files, it showcases Alduin, the World Eater.
The Art of Skyrim' Official Art Book. Featuring over 200 pages of striking, full-color illustrations, sketches and models, this stunning 9 3/8" x 12 1/8" coffee table book showcases the characters, creatures, environments, and weaponry of Skyrim.
The Making of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' DVD. This documentary DVD contains exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage, including interviews with the Bethesda Game Studios team.
Are you getting excited about 11/11/11? Did you pick up a collector’s edition, or does the high price point turn you off?
I’m sure there are some Elder Scrolls fanatics that are okay with buying a game at that price point, but personally, I would opt for one regular copy of Skyrim and one regular copy of Skyward Sword.
Via Bethesda
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The EVE Online developer claims it spread itself too thin on unproven projects and now needs to focus more on the EVE universe.
CCP is, in my opinion, an excellent developer. They are incredible at working with their community, and for that they deserve a top slot in the upper-echelon of game development studios. However, I would wager I wasn’t alone when I felt skeptical about the prospects of their new titles, Dust 514 and World of Darkness.
It appears CCP didn’t feel too great about those new properties either and after taking a hard look at its development principles and business model, has decided to dramatically cut back staff and focus more exclusively on keeping EVE alive and well. The studio wants gamers to know that development on both World of Darkness and Dust 514 is slated to continue, but I’m getting a bad sensation that at least one of the projects will eventually be scrapped.
Here’s part of the official statement:
As we reexamine our outward relations, we are also taking time to reevaluate our internal goals. In doing so, we have come to the conclusion that we are attempting too many things for a company our size. Developing EVE expansions, DUST 514 and World of Darkness has stretched our resources too thin.
Rather than allowing this to persist, we have made the decision to sharpen our focus. Sadly, this means reducing our staff. We estimate that around twenty percent of global positions will be affected by this process. These will be predominantly in our Atlanta, GA office, although select positions in our Reykjavik, Iceland office will be affected.
We are very sad to lose some of our talented and dedicated colleagues to this necessary process. Naturally we are making every effort within our means to help them find alternative employment. Decisions like these are difficult for all those involved and extraordinarily sad for all of those whose lives are affected.
Following this reorganization, we must do a better job by focusing on these priorities:
For the immediate future, our mission is to enrich the vast EVE Universe by strengthening the continuous development of EVE Online while preparing to bring DUST 514 to market on the PS3. We do this in order to realize our ambitious and challenging plan of joining the two in a cross-platform, truly massive online world.
World of Darkness will continue development with a significantly reduced team. This team will continue to iterate and expand on the gameplay and systems they have designed. We will also redeploy creative teams in Atlanta to support the launch of DUST 514.
It sounds like CCP is dedicated to bringing both titles to fruition, so hopefully they can see it through. EVE completely changed the way a multiplayer game could function and was one of the first titles in which you could turn being a bad man into a good living – a real change from the imagined individuality of other MMOs.
Do you think these layoffs indicate tough times for CCP’s games, or are they merely a natural step back from a company that overstepped its means?
Via GameSpy
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The Burnout series is synonymous with fun for me. Being a PS2 owner from way back when I was a cursey teen instead of a cursey adult (or someone in their early 20's) as I am now, it's like a Pokémon evolution except not cool and really just learning about controlling my emotions and maturity and all that lame stuff. Included in that evolution was getting a PS3, and eventually being excited about the release of Burnout Paradise. I actually owned a PSP at one point and playing Burnout Dominator was bliss for me. Long bus rides filled with angsty or beat-punching music as I swerved corners and took badasses down whilst everyone just kinda looked at the weird fat kid and wondered where his guardian was.
Burnout Paradise was a personal low in the series. Despite, friends having the initially pre-release, I convinced myself that a free-roaming city was actually "really cool" and that it totally wouldn't be "lame" and you'd have a lot more freedom. I was wrong. Really wrong. I don't know about you but being in a free-roaming cityscape and having no sense of direction, as well as a poorly intuitative, linear map design really doesn't bode well with someone thinking in free-roaming mode. So burned by that Burnout experience, the announcement of another Burnout game spurred the pessimist in me and I was excited once again, but when I saw the first video's for it, I wasn't too pleased. I was less than pleased and the optimist inside me died...just a little...not too much, I hope.
I did go into Burnout Crash with less than a positive aspiration for what the game actually might be. I know people don't like people who waffle on, so let's just say Burnout Crash is good and there is a demo you can play, it's free, it'll give you a good indication of what it's like except for some modes but let's also say that Burnout Crash is initially underwhelming.
The 2D opening is cutesy to say the least but so mediocre it doesn't really register on my mental spectrum as being a video game. It reminds me of the animated sequence in Catch Me If You Can and I'm half expecting the little ute (or pick up truck for our US readers) to hit a tiny Leonardo DiCaprio and send him flying against a 2D wall...but yes, it's underwhelming and my memories of Burnout begin to fade, like the opening screen does. I left the opening on too long to start writing the opening paragraph, the visuals humming away in the background with my PS3 and then a song begins.
This is where my opinions change by a simple video and musical manipulation. The song by The Primitives, aptly titled - at least for this game - Crash and I'm brought back to a simpler time in my childhood called the 90's, when this song was not written. It's an 80's New Wave pop song and whilst I became a fan of New Wave some time in my late teens, the song still resonates and I'm back to apart of what makes the Burnout series amazing, the mind numbing, heart racing music. When I say mind numbing, I don't necessarily mean it in a bad way, it's just beautiful background fodder. Much like the Clair De Lune in Burnout Paradise or Shotgun by The Outline in Burnout Revenge, it brings you into a different element when it comes to the game.
One of my fondest memories of Burnout Paradise is watching the sun slowly set just as Clair De Lune began and I started a Takedown Race and watched the shadows stretch and pull the landscape of the city as I raced from night into day and won with 12 Takedowns when I only needed 5. I get weird when it comes to games and music. Most pieces just wash over me and I just shrug my shoulders, but when there's a piece that's memorable, it really sticks. Whether it's the beautifully whimsical music from Legend of Zelda, a series I've barely played or the block rocking minimal piano and beats of Minecraft - it all sticks in my mind like Tetris tessalated musical blocks.
PICTURE OF MARIO MUSICAL BLOCK
Of course, the Burnout series is just more than music and so I actually start playing Burnout Crash and stop listening to the Primitives for the 12th time....and I press start and the song actually starts to play in full, kicking off with a lovely little animated explosion of the pick-up. The menu kicks in after a failur to login to the PSN/Autolog network and a voice gives me a warm douchey welcome, sadly often associated with Burnout games. No one I really know is a frat kind of person and I feel EA keeps those voice over guys for that reason, I kinda liked it when it was the chick running Crash FM, but meh, that was then, this is now.
So far, the visual design is nothing like the little opening animated feature, with a nice little neon sign design floating as the menu and I kick off the game itself (after adjusting the sound settings, music up, voice over off). So after I'm told I'll be on the wildest ride of my life I choose the first mission and go on a bit of a rampage and you know what, it's fun. It's consistently fun, it's a whole lot of fun. Seeing those little cars coming, which is indicated in-game by a yellow arrow, and noticing all the little details on the houses and cars and just everything, I want to look at it closer but also destroy it at the same time. It's like being Clockwork God with a magnifying glass, but alas, my creations are not my own, only the destruction. But alas, before all the destruction there's a tutorial and it's a bit annoying.
Last time I was in a gaming DMV I decided not to play the game, that game was Driver, I was 8, things were different. Here it's nice little tutorial that tells you about all the great things including the "Crazy Special Feature", which didn't exactly hype me up despite the vocal inflection and after playing Bastion last week I feel all voice overs need better voice actors or better writers, seriously. There could have been a lot more to do with the wacky voice-over, there are a few amusing lines here and there such as the description of the area being remembered as "all field" and the voice over actor pausing and being like "oh...it still is", I laughed at that, but the humour was far and few between and like Dreamworks movies, relied too much on pop culture than raw wit.
Old system of "More stars to unlock more cars" gives you a good old sense and even with the top-down look, Burnout Crash becomes a lot less like the Burnout series minute by minute. What I feel is Criterion should have just called it Crash. I understand that they may have possibly been sued by Universal for use of the fluffy Bandicoot character, but using the brand recognition of Burnout really doesn't work here. It's a real identity crisis where it's clear they want to re-establish their brand for whatever reason. I remember Burnout selling like hotcakes, with every iteration since the 3rd one, and personal favourite, Takedown. The actual game itself does get a big hand from musical and sound cues, but a better focus on gameplay and making the game a lot more interesting, in regards to the voice work and writing, would have been better. For example, whilst the game out and out visually wants to have a rough design, it wants new players to the franchise to remember "to use that Crashbreaker" in an overly excited tone as if the big flashing x button on screen and the fact that other than kinda moving/sliding around the map, there isn't much else to do in-game, other than be amused and giggle when a bank truck comes along and the bombastic voice of Shirley Bassey claims "HEY, BIG SPENDER"...I giggled...like a girl.
Despite my girl giggling, there will be a lot of references young player - new players - won't get and will be baffled why they're in the game at all. Hearing Spandau Ballet's Gold when I blew up a golden truck was amusing for me but may only reach 5% of the people who play the game, seriously after reading the above paragraph, who knew 1. Who Spandau Ballet was/is? and 2. Who Shirley Bassey was? The identity crisis Criterion creates is more of a cultural problem than a gaming problem. Licensing those tracks would have cost them/EA millions, literally, and if it was worth it, I feel like we're on the inside of an in-joke, but everyone keeps beating the outside of it and it just keeps making a hollow thud.
I do want to give a handshake this week to two people, the guys who chose the music and the visual designers. As much as I've bitched about the visuals in the game, I do have to say the mix of eclectic styles of Neon-signed - almost Las Vegas in tone - and the cute top down car creations, it all works. It melds into this odd piece of automotive Americana, filled with the right colours here and there to look it mildly entertaining as well as watchable. When almost every week there's a lot of grey and brown being sloshed around, it's good to see emerald, aqua and crimson red to be thrown into the mix. Sure, the game does have a fairly consistent use of black on the menus, but it adds to the steel and burning rubber style Burnout is known for, and that's where it really takes a different side to the Burnout series.
However, it being a top-down game, it does have it's visual misdemeanours, such as the
The game's reward system is quite classic too. The star system is something I've always favoured in the series, with the whizzing or rushing of the flaming stars to come crashing into my self-gratification coz I pressed da buttons and dey do da ting dat it was programmed to do. The actual gameplay itself is quite simple, you're in a runaway car and you're going to crash. It's a lot more interesting to imagine you're a man who recently just went through the worst day in the world and intend to have the most creative day in the world, which includes ending with a multiple car pile-up, however, he keeps having a Groundhog Day-Quantum Leap scenario where he wakes up in a new car and new body everyday and ends it all the same...or I might be insane.
A few minor gripes about the game itself as there were a few framerate issues, even playing on the first level, but nothing to noticable as the game went on. The gameplay element of The Good Cops was a bit weird and has never really come up in previous parts of the Burnout canon...I guess, there really isn't a canon to a series about cars that gone and done smashed demselves up. However, the game does require a bit of strategy and it would have been interesting, if a bit farfetched, if you could place the cops at an entering intersection of yout choice.
See putting in extra obstacles such as The Ambulance, sometimes makes me feel as though they're dragging out the level, but then again hearing the words "Paging Dr. Beat" followed by the song by Miami Sound Machine, just makes me want to throw on some more 80's tracks and start dancing...nobody wants that. But it is a nice touch, if a bit cheap, I say cheap but honestly it resonates with my pop culture brain like a meth addict and I can't wait for that siren blaring bohemoth to come screaming through the streets again.
Having elements such as Tornados and Magnets are incredibly fun and don't outstay their welcome, the actual gameplay does begin to get stale in the other modes, but it's really just a personal preference and I think you should try out the other modes such as Rush Hour and Pile Up, I highly recommend them but they're not particularly my thing.
Rush Hour is a personal pain as I hate almost all timed missions in games and it just frustrates me. It almost seems like it'd be a lot interesting if it was an extra option that you could turn on or off, even have it as a version of the game like a Quick Match section of the game. Meanwhile, Pile Up is just cause as much destruction as possible, it's fun if a bit boring after a while, all the same gameplay elements are there. A co-op implementation would have been freaking amazing with you having to smash into a friend's car on the same interesection and see who could do the most amount of damage on a stretch of road, like a drag-race + Burnout...just an idea, Criterion.
Other than the music, which turns a bit generic but fun after Crash plays, the sound design is phenomanal with firey auto crashes sifting through my ears and the sound of poker machine winnings as points rack higher and higher like the possible animated body count, if the game was any ballsier...coz that's totally a word. The random sound effects add to the crazy style The money has always been an interesting thing to me, not just money in general, God knows how the economy works, but the actual pricing of each car and the potential for costs and multipliers is just something I've wanted to calculate, make a big chart of, actually do math...yep, definitely insane.
In the corner I'm informed I'm a Wannabe, which gives me the assumption that the writers or designers of the game, and a lot of game worlds for that matter, really have this disdain towards players from the get go, but then again I'm a bit of a wuss who can't take any form of criticism whatsoeverpleaseloveme. But the actual gameplay elements are never really against the player, there is a balanced sense of both challenges and even with a plot-less game, there is a drive - whoa, pardon the pun there, been left over for weeks - to actually see the next intersection, the next car and the insanity that will ensue. For example, really how determined are these drivers, logic is best not put in the way of the Burnout series...especially when car magnets are concerned.
Burnout Crash is not a bad game, it's just not a Burnout game. It does take the basic game mechanics of Crash, my honest to God, favourite part of the series, something I always look forward to and just made it a Downloadable Title. I'm looking forward to the good old days of burning through a city doing challenges and having some real fun, but for now, I guess this will tire me over. It's not expensive, it's a lot of fun, it's great to listen to and look at, it's like the
perfect girlfriend...there's your selling caption for Burnout Crash - Burnout Crash: The Perfect Girlfriend. So Burnout Crash is out, but is it really a Burnout game?
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Admit it, you were baffled too when you first caught wind of the Michael Phelps: Push the Limit game on Kinect. As you may very well know, it's a bit odd to have it on motion control since, knowing Michael Phelps, it's darned obvious that you're going to have to swim in the game. Outside of water, though.
Well, you can now rest easy now, as 505 Games has now sent out a video showing you how that can be done. Contrary to popular swimming belief, you'll see in this video how stretching is not the way to start off a race, but by "raising the roof", hyping up the crowd. Why would you want to do it? Because doing so will actually incease your power and speed for the race.
There's a lot of flailing action, definitely, so you might want to practice on that so you'd actually do it with finesse when you pick up the game later this fall. Michael Phelps: Push the Limit was announced back in June. Have you made your decision yet to go swim in your living room with it?
Via [VG Blogger]
Admit it, you were baffled too when you first caught wind of the Michael Phelps: Push the Limit game on Kinect.
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EA Sports is bringing over something special for hockey fans all over via Facebook. For what can be more accessible than consoles but Mark Zucerkberg's wicked social networking plan, yes?
The hockey game is called the NHL Superstars, and will be free-to-play for all. Also featured in it is the capability to build and manage your own "Ultimate team of professional hockey players". If any of your friends, who are also fans of hockey, happen to be online, you can even go up against them head to head.
Despite those details, however, it still remains a mystery as to what components exactly will govern this game. This information will have to do for now, though, but we do expect more to come from EA Sports in the coming days.
Via [Aunonline]
EA Sports is bringing over something special for hockey fans all over via Facebook.
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