Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid series and prolific tweeter, made an announcement today via his favorite social networking platform that their is indeed another Metal Gear Solid game in development, and that Kojima Productions is currently hiring en-masse as they gear up production on the next title in their flagship franchise. More details will apparently be unveiled at this year’s GDC, but here’s what little we know:
Every Tuesday (starting today!) I like to take some time to focus on the hardworking and dedicated “YouTubers” within the gaming community. This week we’ll focus on my favorite comedic and instructional Minecraft channel – Docm77, specifically his Minecraft World Tour.
It seems that over the past week I’ve been typing the names “Tim Schafer” and “Notch” in the tags on my posts an awful lot. Obviously most of this revolved around Double Fine’s vastly successful Kickstarter campaign and Notch’s hopefully cautious comments about Psychonauts 2. Yesterday Mojang had their successful Humblebundle event. Now, however, Mojang is making Schafer look like a boss, completely by accident.
Mojang’s 3 day game jam via humblebundle, which just ended a minute ago, has managed to raise almost $500k for charity. While it would be awesome to report that the charity was the Give Tim Schafer More Money to Make Psychonauts 2 Foundation, it isn’t. Those who donate get to choose from four much more reliable and less make believe charities such as Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, charity: water, and the American Red Cross. Contributors choose which, if not all, charities they would like to contribute to, and how their donations are distributed.
With some initially positive reviews, it appeared as though Gotham City Impostors might have been able to glide itself towards success. I spent some time with the game last week and agreed that it was a uniquely fun experience. However some players have reported to Joystiq that there is a glitch which resets all previously earned and purchased in-game goods. I really need to stop jinxing the games I write about.
Hardware manufacturer Razer, best known for high quality (and uber-expensive) PC gaming accessories, announced today that they’re producing a line of peripherals designed specifically for Bioware’s upcoming Mass Effect 3.
Damn it! I spoke too soon, maybe I jinxed it. On his blog, Notch is backpedaling a bit as he distances himself from any potential involvement in Psychonauts 2. Well he isn’t distancing himself from the project itself, but maybe initial reports were a little too eager when reporting on the collaboration between Notch and Double Fine.
Despite Minecraft’s official release, there are still updates coming in. Snapshots released by Mojang allow people to test the unstable version of the update and report bugs and issues. I’ll point out the most important ones that are of interest to players. These are all from the Jan 19th to Feb 15th snapshots from my own observations collected over time.
On any given day I can normally find one or two stories about gaming and the industry to sink my teeth into, but not today. For some reason today’s news is filled with a digital smorgasbord of treats, so I will reply in kind.
Here’s a batch of gaming news to get you through the humpday blues. I’ll try and refrain from rhyming in the future.
According to gi.biz, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, had some interesting things to say at the D.I.C.E summit in Las Vegas. Sweeney feels there are too many platforms in the market, predicting that, “Over time these platforms will be whittled down to a competing set of platforms to maybe three winners worldwide.”
The folks over at Bethesda decided to unwind after completing their work on Skyrim… by doing more work on Skyrim. Who can blame them really? With a world as robust as theirs, who wouldn’t want to fiddle around. The rules of this in-house Game Jam were simple, developers took a week to add anything they want to Skyrim… anything.
Well it’s official, Joystiq and Kotaku are both reporting today that Blizzard is taking Valve to court over the use of the name Dota in Valve’s upcoming Dota 2. This is a confusing issue, seeing as Blizzard didn’t really develop Dota, and one of the people who did, Icefrog, now works for Valve. This is going to be tough to explain.
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