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:
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.
If you grew up watching anime, chances are you spent a good chunk of your childhood punching air and tossing imaginary kamehameha’s in front of your TV while watching Dragonball Z. If so, get ready to relive your childhood in a brand new, equally embarrassing manner, as it looks like a brand new Dragon Ball Z game is being designed specifically for Microsoft’s Kinect.
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.
Guilty Gear is back! … Kind of. It’s been 4 years since Guilty Gear Accent Core was released, and outside of the weird action/strategy hybrid Guilty Gear II for Xbox 360 in 2009, there hasn’t been much news regarding Arc System Works’ rock metal themed fighter this generation. Thankfully, Sol Badguy and crew are poised to make their comeback tour sometime soon, as Sega announced today that they’ll be porting the latest version of Guilty Gear over to arcades, XBLA and PSN.
Today Ubisoft announced that the long awaited next real entry in the main Assassin’s Creed “trilogy” will finally be released on October 30th, 2012. Ubisoft has bided their time with their popular free-roaming action franchise, spending the last two years releasing safe (but mostly enjoyable) side-stories that told the further adventures of AC2′s protagonist, Ezio. Now, Ubisoft is promising the next “true” installment of the series, which will bring the series’ generation spanning story arc to a close.
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.
Tomonobu Itagaki is a guy who speaks his mind. The former head of Tecmo’s Team Ninja and creator of the Dead or Alive series has a reputation for making his opinion known, and his outspoken attitude has caused him to get into some very heated public arguments with other members of the Japanese game development community. The sunglasses-clad Itagaki has been out of the headlines lately, as he and his new team at Valhalla Game Studios prepare the upcoming third person shooter Devil’s Third for release, but today he stopped by the game developer focused DICE Summit in Las Vegas and spoke about his experiences as a game director.
Gotham City Impostors was released today for Xbox Live, PSN, and PC; hopefully I have the willpower to stop playing long enough to tell you about it.
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