Promoted from our Community Blogs Why do I hear explosions!? Did the cops find my highly illegal brothel and are bombarding the place? YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! Oh, wait, were those just fireworks? Eh, it’s an honest mistake. Still, I wonder why people are firing them all of a sudden… Is it because today’s the 50th week of Comments of the Week? Why, it must be! After all, it isn’t like it’s New Years or anything!...
Lovely Stuff ININ Games has announced thatCotton Reboot!–the all-new remake of the classic kawaii shmup– will be headed west on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in early 2021, expected to be around the same time frame as its February release in Japan. As a quick refresher,Cotton Reboot!is a remake of the X68000 port of the 1991 arcade releaseCotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. It concerns the adventures of a young, mischievous witch-in-training, who teams up with a sexy space fairy to free the latter’s homeland from a malevolent force known as “The Evils....
LinkedIn profile shows major career move CD Projekt RED are currently beavering away at their exciting and impressive-looking action-RPGCyberpunk 2077. But, if theLinkedIn profileof their creative director is to be believed, the team are down one major player. First spotted byResetEra’s Gerwant, it appears that Sebastian Stępień, who has been with CDPR for some 12 years, has transitioned to a new role withWarcraft-makers Blizzard Entertainment. Stępień’s work at CDPR includesThe Witcher 2 & 3, as well as his recent work withCyberpunk 2077,so it seems like this is quite a coup for Blizzard....
An interview with Swery65 Deadly Premonitionis, by far, one of the most polarizing videogames ever made. In fact, within the survival horror genre, it has won anofficial world recordfor its extreme split of critic opinion — earning a 2/10 review score from IGN at the lowest, and a 10/10 from Destructoid at the highest. Developer Hidetaka Suehiro — known better to fans as Access Games director Swery65 — couldn’t be happier with the viral success his game has enjoyed, and asDeadly Premonitiongears up for its Director’s Cut re-release, Destructoid chatted with him about cult followings, controversial content, and “feeling” life in a videogame....
Live long and prosper Doctor Whois travelling blue telephone boxing its way to the 360 version ofMinecraftthis September thanks to a deal between BBC Worldwide, Microsoft Studios and Mojang. “The first pack [$2.99/£1.99/€2.85/] will include a character inspired by theTwelfth Doctor, plus five other Doctors, each of their on-screen companions and some of the Doctor’s most well known adversaries including his arch-nemeses,the Daleks. “The deal will bring more packs as time goes on, introducing many of the most recognisable characters from the past 50 years of Doctor Who....
Dust 514, CCP’s upcoming free-to-play PS3 first-person shooter MMO, will see an expansion in 2013 that will bring new features inspired by direct fan feedback from this weekend’s EVE FanFest in Reykjavik, Iceland. At a keynote presentation,Dust 514′s executive producer, Brandon Laurino, revealed the following details for the expansion: Details on an upcomingDust 514PS Vita companion app were also revealed during the keynote. It’s currently under development for a 2012 release, with the tentative nameDust 514: Neocom....
Massive Japanese videogame magazine Famitsu has put out a list of the best selling videogames released in Japan between 1996 and 2010, that also managed to to achieve a Gold Star ranking via their review system… EVER! Why all the stipulations? Why not include games that were released before 1996, and/or didn’t get a good grade from Famitsu? I’ll be darned if I know, but I’ll hazard a guess; Famitsu must think that their readers don’t care about games that are over 15 years old and/or didn’t get a top score from their review team....
Make a good first impression So I have this thing where I constantly want to “check in” on people who are forgotten. Take Hajime Tabata for example. When he was working onFinal Fantasy XV, people knew who he was. And when the game came out; people knew for sure! Tabata’s development style, particularly his approach to endless DLC, was controversial, so it was the subject of many heated conversations. Then in late 2018, he just kind of…left the company....
Have you noticed how live service games don’t really finish? Ever? Oh, theymost definitelyshut down. Heck, sometimes they even crash and burn spectacularly, as was the case with EA’sAnthem. Neatly finished with a bow on top, though? Hardly ever. But why? Now, I’m not interested in mulling over live service game failures here. That tired old topic’s been tackled time and again to remarkable effect, and I’ve got precious little to add to the discussion....
Fire bad Firefighters in Colorado Springs are blaming a Wii for starting a RV fire. They believe the Wii console itself, and not the cables, started the fire. According the victim the console was turned off when the fire was started by a spark coming from the console. I’m no expert, but I wouldn’t be rushing to unplug your Wii consoles, with other 110 million consoles sold I’d expect we would have heard of a few more fires by now....
Accessible after you finish the game Firewatchmaker Camp Santo is rolling out a new free-roam mode that lets players take in the soothing sights and sounds of the Wyoming wilderness without distractions like objectives getting in the way. For this type of game, with this type of look (I amstillin awe!), that’s a wonderful addition. The patch should be ready on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One by the time you read this....
Same slicing concept though After years of success as one of the top mobile games on the platform,Fruit Ninjais getting a rework. According to developer Halfbrick, both the iOS and Android versions will be getting new features and a completely transformed UI. Basically every menu is getting reworked, new gear and unlockables are being added, and “almost every item” will have a unique effect on gameplay, which “breaks” the score ceiling and adds new strategies to the mix....
It seems the gears of Funcom’s PR machine are turning for it’s next MMO projectThe Secret World. They have devoted this week to shedding some light onThe Secret World‘s resident puppet-masters and occult-yuppies, the Illuminati. The Illuminati seem to have an insatiable hunger for wealth and power, doing anything they can to maintain them as the hidden domineering force in the lives of the common folk. Funcom has also released a bunch of Illuminati character and environment art, as well as a neat littlepersonality test, off of the main site, to see which of the factions your beliefs best align with....
