GAMING NEWS Thread 1

Must... resist... Dr.... Mario... joke...

masofdas wrote:

I don't really care about Tomb Raider just thought people would like to know.

Balladeer wrote:

...sarcasm, right?  Needs an emoticon to clarify.  Either that or Jas has wrong-footed me with his post.

I forgot to reply to this, I was reffering to your wii U & Dreamcast speculation not tomb raider.

Don't worry, we got there eventually.  

Medical care; it's not for Norris!

Tender Loins? Minimise your problems with Nintendo Health Thing.

I will try to up date us with some news, but the two maybe big story's

Namco have cancelled Pac-Man Museum for Wii U & 3DS only, which I like to bring up again why does Nintendo work with them.

There has been lot's of Xbox One leaks which by the sounds of it sounds fairly true as the guy leaked stuff before which was correct and M$ are apparently trying to track him down.

The rumors lets say that at the moment, there will be a 1TB disc drive-less version so it will be all digital system, a cheaper white system which I'm guessing will have no kinect and a Titanfall Limited Edition console.

They should just Pac it in, to be honest.

Jay! We need a .gif!

Silent Hill is 15 today.

The Iwata/Miyamoto/Takeda investor Q+A is up in English. A lot of interesting information there.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140130qa/index.html

Random quotes:

Whether a machine is powerful or not only has meaning in the context of whether that can express itself in terms of gameplay to consumers, and I therefore do not intend to go into fine detail about the specific numbers. I apologize for not directly answering your question, but it is my personal belief that explanations of such a nature have little relevance to consumers.

I am not planning to announce any specific themes today, but to give you a hint, “non-wearable” does not necessarily mean it is something that will be used in the living room. I apologize for not being clear, but please allow me to leave it at that today. I will explain in detail when the time comes.

Nintendo to buy back 9.5  million shares (including Yamauchi's) tomorrow. This will cost $1 billion.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140203e.pdf



(Love the Pikmin "Hocotate" reference in their address.)

So here's some news:

MGSV Ground Zeroes, a konami playtester finished all story missions in under 2 hours and speedrunnerss have seen the end in under 5 mins. I'm still buying as to me MGS is a amazing series but what's it going to take me 3-4 hours to finish the story for £39.99 on PS4. Seems a bit overpriced, but hopefully the various ways to do it will make it last longer.

Bioshock Infinite Burial At Sea Ep2 will be longer at about 6 hours.

Murdered Soul Suspect, which sounds like the same plot as ghost trick is coming in June for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PC.

WWE & NBA 2K15 will be coming to PS4 & Xbox One. I'm so shocked.

Disney Infinity 2 is apparently in the works and will include Marvel & Star Wars. I'm Sold

Thatgamecompany, developer of Flow, Flower and Journey, has suggested it may reveal its next game in 2014.

Last of Us & Beyond Two Souls are rumored to be getting PS4 versions in July.

Borderlands 2 becomes best selling 2K game of all time.

The Chinese Room, developer of PlayStation 4 exploration and adventure title Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, has indicated the game will not be released in 2014.

UK Top 10
01. Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, 69% of this is the PS4 version
02. FIFA 14
03. Call of Duty: Ghosts
04. Battlefield 4
05. Lego Marvel Super Heroes
06. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
07. Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition
08. Grand Theft Auto 5
09. Need for Speed Rivals
10. Killzone Shadow Fall

For are member's down-under

1. Call Of Duty: Ghosts
Battlefield 4
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Gran Turismo 6
FIFA 14
Grand Theft Auto V
Minecraft: 360 Edition
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
NBA 2K14
10. Mario Party Island Tour

Mamoru Samuragochi, the deaf composer who was thought to have created the soundtracks for Resident Evil and Onimusha titles, has admitted someone else has been writing his music for almost two decades.

The Arkham Origins DLC for Wii U has been cancelled, due to lack of demand.

Masofdas wrote:

Murdered Soul Suspect, which sounds like the same plot as ghost trick is coming in June for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PC.

I bet the story is no where near as charming or great as the one in Ghost trick.

Doubt it as it's suppose to be this dark gritty game.

If EA don't want to be voted repeatedly as the worst company in the world, they shouldn't keep doing awful awful things like this.  

I want some sort of Gif of EA/Prime Time players Million of Dollars or something about Money at least Jay.

Anyway Call of Duty has been announced for this year there's a shock but there is news this years will be done by Sledge Hammer, with next's being from Treyarch in 2015 , then Infinity Ward in 2016, then back to Sledge Hammer in 2017. This now three year cycle of the different devs hopefully with extra time brings up the quality and maybe some innovation.

GAME have relaunched two of there store at the moment with more to follow as GAMEtronics which are meant to be used only stores and rival CEX. They will offer mint items as they are calling them, from twitter one of the stores is stilling new items which come under mint such as PS4 consoles and a few games which kinda makes sense you might want to get a PS4 after trading in your iPad. If you go to one of these and get a credit you can use in a normal GAME & vice-verse also you can trade in iPads etc in a normal GAME but going to buy such item from them won't be as good as selection should be smaller. There is more stores planned in places with two GAMEs, one staying as GAME the other becomes GAMEtronics and places where they feel it's worth while not sure if that means they will open another store or just convert the one.

masofdas wrote:

Anyway Call of Duty has been announced for this year there's a shock but there is news this years will be done by Sledge Hammer, with next's being from Treyarch in 2015 , then Infinity Ward in 2016, then back to Sledge Hammer in 2017. This now three year cycle of the different devs hopefully with extra time brings up the quality and maybe some innovation.

I can see this backfiring hard.

Not only do they have to predict the market three years in advance, rather than just two, and being on the same project for three years would test even the biggest fan of the franchise and could lead to a lot of staff burnout.

I'm still firmly in the camp that CoD won't and doesn't need to innovate. It's an eSport so they can't mess with it too much online. As long as it remains popular we're going to see the same old yearly tweaks, new maps and different bonus modes.

They should give Call of Duty 2015 to the same team that's making Yoshi's New Island. It would be uninnovatively innovative.

Nintendo Direct?  Nintendo Direct.  Coming on the 13th.  About time we had some Nintendo news and cheer!

Anyone been following the Arkham Origins lack of bug-fixing story? I personally never encountered any, but to state that you're not going to fix your game is just bad practice, and screws over your customers.

Yeah I saw that, for the sake of DLC of all things! Way to sell your DLC by saying you'll have to buy it for your broken game.