Cliff Blezinski and Phil Fish. Both names have a distinct ring to them in the world of videogames, and by some accounts for many of the same reasons. If you hadn't heard, Mr. Fish recently had what I wouldn't hesitate to describe as, well, a complete freakout on Twitter, which led to him brashly rage-quitting on development of the hotly anticipated and recently announced Fez II soon after. Much like Patrick Klepek over at Giant Bomb, I don't believe for a second that Fish is actually gone for good, and apparently neither does Cliffy B. In a lengthy and surprisingly compassionate and well thought out blogpost, the Cliffster did his best to pull our man Fish up by his bootstraps and get him back in some fresh water. Ha.
DLC! It's all the rage nowadays. Even I'm on board, and that's saying something. In a recent announcement via its own official blog, Capcom revealed that the western version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies will not be excluded from an extra story episode and fancy costume pack that was recently released for the Japanese version of the game. Joy?
As a general rule, once I've decided I trust a particular content creator -- be it a high profile game developer, Quentin Tarantino, or the guy responsible for character design in the latest Fire Emblem -- I take an innocent until proven guilty approach. This generally saves a lot of unnecessary stress, as I have no need to pull my hair out over every seemingly bizarre and logically bankrupt decisions that may happen along the way, and I can just worry about the end result instead.
Block! Block! Apparently Nintendo has been watching Old Spice ads, as CVG is reporting that the company has indeed confirmed its alleged blockage of Japanese indie developers from pitching Wii U games.
Cute but deadly... cute but deadly... no matter how violently I rack my admittedly only mildly Blizzard-concentrated brain, I can't for the life of me come up with a logical explanation for what "Cute But Deadly" could possibly be about.
What's your favorite videogame movie? C'mon, as a gamer you're obligated to have one! What, drawing a blank? Don't feel bad - I'm pretty sure I don't have a favorite game-gone-movie either, unless Scott Pilgrim vs. the World counts. Few silver-screen adaptations of games have been of high quality, and even the ones that have seen some mainstream success (like the Resident Evil films) are more just campy guilty pleasures that you watch drunk in your college dorm room. Am I right guys? Haha... haha... ahem. Anyways, things may be looking up for game-inspired cinema, as titles like Shadow of the Colossus, Deus Ex, and more were discussed at a recent Comic-Con panel centered around a potentially incoming "Golden Age of videogame movies."
The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief certainly isn't the most high-profile release of the summer. Its name may not ring a bell to you, or perhaps it’s not even on your radar at all. And if you aren't a connoisseur or at the very least a casual fan of point-and-click adventures, well, it’s entirely possible you have no clue what I’m talking about. The trouble is, after playing through the first chapter of The Raven and taking some time to digest its finer points, I’m still conflicted about whether the game has what it takes to appeal to, well, anyone who doesn't already know about it.
Have you watched Nintendo's mini-Direct video from last week? By far the biggest (and for some the most exciting) news was the reveal that Earthbound, the highly regarded and in many ways unconventional RPG from the SNES era, will be coming to the Wii U Virtual Console. With all the excitement surrounding that, it's easy to gloss over some of the other worthwhile nuggets of information that Nintendo dropped during the presentation. People must really love Earthbound for a Zelda release date - or release month, anyways - to be left by the wayside. At any rate, we now know that The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds will be arriving this November, as will the inevitable Mario Party incarnation for 3DS.
Well this is a lovely surprise. In a miniaturized Nintendo Direct video posted by Nintendo earlier today, Bill Trinen of Nintendo Treehouse (hey, you can't expect Reggie to show up for every little thing) revealed that the long awaited and heavily requested re-release of beloved SNES RPG Earthbound is coming to the Wii U virtual console. Well actually, it's not just coming - it's already here. You can go download it right now!
Lately I've been in a weird, middling state of mind regarding downloadable content in games. For the longest time, I avoided it like the plague -- spending more than my apportioned sixty dollars per game, under any circumstances, was something I was none-to-thrilled to try, thank you very much. Then Fire Emblem: Awakening hit, I blacked out, and woke up a month later with every single DLC map purchased. Now, I love DLC. DLC rules! I guess it's my lucky day, then, as Bethesda has just revealed when the latest and final DLC pack for Arkane Studios' stealth-adventure Dishonored will be arriving.
