Hey that Yoichi Wada moving to Grasshopper news confused me because isn't he Square-Enix's president?

Isn't it some other Wada that went to Grasshopper, some guy from Marvelous Entertainment?

ASK_Story said:

Hey that Yoichi Wada moving to Grasshopper news confused me because isn't he Square-Enix's president?

Isn't it some other Wada that went to Grasshopper, some guy from Marvelous Entertainment?

Yes. Wada (harvest Moon guy) is the one that went from Marvelous to Grasshopper.  Is Yoichi going as well -- that would be a shock.

The CG is some of Blizzard's worst imo but the class should be fun to play although I usually go with melee.

Epic Mickey video ran like a slideshow for me. Anyone got the SD version link?

So I completed Darkside Chronicles finally. Last boss looked great and now it's unlocked this darkside mode where it just seems to be the final level with Krauser giving a monologue. Is there any point to doing this over again?

It also unlocked tofu mode This is better than the rest of the game, you fight these shader covered blocks of wiggling tofu and as you shoot them they crumble with a physics engine. They even did this bit where two zombie dogs were chasing a lone piece of tofu. Then when you turn the corner the same dogs are being chased by a group of tofu

Plugged in Okami for the first time in like a year. It says that I played 26 hrs and I'm at this snowy village. I'm thinking of polishing this game off for good, how much further to the end? Anyone know?

EDGE mag

Reviews:

Vanquish 8

Medal of Honour 7

Fists of the North Star 5

Lost in Shadow 6

Deadly Premonition 7

Super Scribblenauts 6

EA Sports MMA 6

Shaun White 7

The Ball 6

Final Fantasy: The 4 heroes of light 4

Layton 7

Gods vs. Humans 5

Costume Quest 7

Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9!

...this will EVENTUALLY have A LOT to do with games!

Nice try, but no!

If only we had a movie thread, if only!

Pretty good article here.

Some interesting things below:

Gamesindustry.biz said:

          
               Hard Numbers Article
          
               Article by Rob Fahey
          

The last time this data was pulled, it was a direct result of strong market growth - which had spurred hyper-aggressive, competitive behaviour on the part of the leading firms in the games retail business. This time, the reverse is true. NPD fully admits that it is redacting its data because it has shown an ongoing decline - thus causing negative coverage and arguably unwarranted headaches for the industry as a whole.

Every other indicator, however, suggests otherwise - a fact which NPD has tacitly acknowledged in its decision to cut back on the data it releases, on the basis that this data is no longer as representative of the games business as a whole as it could once claim to be.

Red herring arguments have been raised as an excuse - such as the claim that the decline is all down to problems with Nintendo's market. On the surface, this is true, since it's Nintendo console sales which are slowing while the Xbox and PS3 show moderate acceleration. A longer term perspective suggests that without Nintendo's enormous success in previous years, the industry would have been seen to sharply decline some years ago - we'd be talking about the games business as a whole climbing out of a shocking slump right now, rather than fretting over a relatively minor slow-down.

Right now, however, most of the evidence suggests that the slow decline of retail sales is being comfortably replaced by explosive growth in digital.

As such, the industry is going to project an image of decline for a while, as the bit we know how to measure drops in importance, replaced and outpaced by revenues which everyone recognises to exist, but nobody can quite quantify - digital.

Rather than complaining about what NPD has done - almost certainly in reaction to heavy pressure from publishers and retailers who have a nervous eye on their own share prices - what the industry as a whole needs to do now is to think about how we go about quantifying our success.

Conduit 2 pics

Conduit 2 screen dump (Part 2) In post 7 lie much better screens

Dvader said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Star Wars Episodes 7, 8 and 9!



                              ...this will EVENTUALLY have A LOT to do with games!

Nice try, but no!

If only we had a movie thread, if only!

Rumors need to die already. There is no 7,8,9, maybe after Lucas retires or dies, but not before then.

Here's the link that was removed.

gamingeek said:

EDGE mag

Reviews:


          Vanquish 8


          Medal of Honour 7


          Fists of the North Star 5


          Lost in Shadow 6


          Deadly Premonition 7


          Super Scribblenauts 6


          EA Sports MMA 6


          Shaun White 7


          The Ball 6


          Final Fantasy: The 4 heroes of light 4


          Layton 7


          Gods vs. Humans 5


          Costume Quest 7

The gave Deadly Premonition a 7 -- that shows you how good the game is.  I can;t wait to read their review.