Nintendo’s set to finally reveal some concrete details (and hopefully some real games) about their latest console in just a few weeks at E3, but thanks to a pic posted to Twitter by a game tester at TT Games (a tester who’s probably in a lot of trouble right now,) we’ve gotten an early look at what appears to be a finalized version of the Wii U’s tablet-like controller.
The indie game community is rallying together to put a substantial number of their games on sale next week. Why? To send a message to online retailers and publishers that the issue of pricing should be in the hands of the developer, not some retail or marketing exec. The iOS App Store and Valve’s popular Steam service let developers pick their price and give them the ability to put their games on sale whenever they want, and indie devs want this freedom to spread to other download services and platforms. So, in order to show everyone the benefits of open pricing, they’re dramatically slashing the prices of their own games across a number of platforms.
Most of the big publishers have struggled to remain solvent in this economy, but THQ has been hit especially hard in recent years. Despite some surprise hits like the Saints Row series, THQ has had to shut-down many of their development studios in order to remain in business, and now the company is saying that it’s no longer in a position to release Devil’s Third, the upcoming third-person shooter from former Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do things, even when it comes to cashing in on gamers’ nostalgia.
Fighting games have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years, but it appears that the revitalized market may have finally reached its carry capacity. Capcom announced today that Street Fighter X Tekken’s sales have fallen well below expectations, and Capcom is blaming the crossover fighter’s poor performance on an over-saturation of the fighting genre.
Fans have waited 12 years for Diablo 3, and it looks like they’re going to have to wait a little while longer before playing Blizzard’s latest action RPG. The game was supposed to launch tonight, but somehow Blizzard underestimated the popularity of their own game, as the company’s servers were immediately overwhelmed within minutes of the game going live.
Looks like Bioshock Infinite isn’t the only high profile sequel to bow out of the 2012 holiday season: today developer Crystal Dynamics announced that the much hyped Tomb Raider reboot for Xbox 360 and PS3 has been delayed until early 2013.
E3 is less than a month away, and I’m already salivating at the thought of all the new games that I’ll get to see and play. It’s an exciting time for the industry: we’re on the cusp of a new generation of consoles, and there’s lots of high profile, triple-A titles scheduled to come out this Fall… but while I’m sure everyone is excited to see more of Assassin’s Creed III, Resident Evil 6, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, there are a handful of lower key, oft-rumored, unannounced, or un-localized games that I’m hoping will make an appearance at this year’s E3 as well.
I spent a good chunk of the summer of 2003 playing Rockstar’s Midnight Club 2 on PS2. There were a lot of illegal street racing based games last-gen, but MC2 managed to remain ahead of the competition thanks to its unique, track-less style of open world racing, tight controls, and (at the time) very pretty graphics. The series has been strangely MIA ever since 2008′s Midnight Club: Los Angeles, but now Rockstar is giving fans an opportunity to relive their virtual ricer glory days by downloading Midnight Club 2 for free.
Fans of the original 8-bit Kid Icarus had to wait almost 25 years in order to get a fully fledged sequel to the side-scrolling classic, and despite glowing reviews and strong sales, it seems like fans of the new 3DS Kid Icarus might have to wait just as long to see another adventure starring Pitt and Palutena.
Every handheld system since the original Gameboy has been released in just about every color imaginable, and in due time, Sony will undoubtedly have a variety of colors and special themed shells for the Vita. For now though, potential buyers are limited to the standard piano black, but today Sony announced that they’re going to roll out 2 new varieties of Vita hardware for the Japanese market.
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