The rockstar team  that did Max Payne 3 is closing. Wow, I would not want to be a Rockstar team working on a game not named GTA, they dont last very long.

Dvader said:

The rockstar team  that did Max Payne 3 is closing. Wow, I would not want to be a Rockstar team working on a game not named GTA, they dont last very long.

Dvader said:

The rockstar team  that did Max Payne 3 is closing. Wow, I would not want to be a Rockstar team working on a game not named GTA, they dont last very long.

That was the Bully team!

Remember that article? They needed to sell something like 4 million at $60 to recover the developments costs? They sold 300k then it's at bargain bin prices? Now the studio is on the cutting room floor? This is bullshit. Well at least they are retaining the people. It sounds like they are mashing up the Toronto and Vancouver teams, but Toronto haven't been the lead dev on any game, so they must be sending the V guys to Toronto because logistically Toronto is better. This does not bode well for a Bully sequel.

Have you played Bully D?

Michael Fassbender, produce and star in Assassins Creed

This sounds too awesome to actually happen.

The picture made me LOL

gamingeek said:

"If you start to make the entry bar really high, more studios will die, more publishers will die, there'll be less titles on platforms, etc."

There you go. Higher powered consoles, bigger budgets, entry bar is really high leading to etc etc.

I agree that its gone on too long and I would prefer the normal 4 to 5 year lifespan with $300 consoles over the 6 to 7 year lifespan with $400+ consoles. But I don't buy that as a reason for developers switching to mobile...that makes no sense. If they were tired of the current level of console hardware, wouldn't they just switch over to PC development? I never see anyone playing games on their phones honestly...and even if they do, its a totally different audience. If you wanna make AAA console games, you're not gonna go mobile, you're gonna go PC where you can reach the next level RIGHT NOW.

Fake Chinese consoles, see story in updates

This one blows my mind, a blue Xbox with a dualshock and........... a gun.

Do you use that stand to play?

Japanese game studios need to adopt a Hollywood level of willingness to spend money if they are to catch up to their peers in the West.

Mikami said:

That's according to ex-Capcom producer Shinji Mikami, who revealed in PSM3's latest issue that his personal interests are leaning more towards Western developed titles.


"Japan used to have the lead in the game industry, but now it's quite clearly America," he admitted. "To be told that Japanese games suck is a bit harsh," he added, responding to the criticisms made earlier this year by Fez developer Phil Fish.



"But personally, 80% of the games I play at the moment are not Japanese. Skyrim, Batman...games like that are more interesting to me right now. Japan needs to make more good games if it wants people to think otherwise."


Mikami agreed that Japan still produces high-quality games, alluding to Gravity Rush, Yakuza, Monster Hunter, Catherine and Super Mario 3D Land, but said these are few and far in between and skew too much in favour of Japanese tastes.


"Yes, there are amazing games, just not enough of them... So many are based on anime or fantasy - games that only appeal to Japanese people. Most gamers overseas aren't interested in anime," he said.


Mikami highlighted Okami, which melded Japanese mythology with a cel-shaded aesthetic and a Legend of Zelda gameplay framework, as an example of the taste discrepancy between Japanese and Western audiences.

"We made Okami at Clover. It was such a breathtaking game, yet it didn't sell. If that's the case, westerners obviously don't like that sort of game. Maybe they prefer something a little more straightforward."


He ended his sombre introspection by saying Japanese game developers need to be more like Hollywood movie studios and commit bigger budgets to create better experiences.


He also praised his former employer and Metal Gear maestro Hideo Kojima for their efforts in this department.

"Hollywood spends like 200 million dollars producing a movie, and you can make an incredible movie with that sort of money. But Japanese movie studios don't spend anything like that. The difference in [the] scale of the budgets [is] the same in games. Japan needs to make games like Hollywood makes movies. I think Capcom and Hideo Kojima's team are trying hard on that front."


"I hope Japanese developers can take this hobby that we originally propagated and once more offer something special to the world."


In his indictment of the Japanese game development scene earlier this year Keiji Inafune, another former Capcom staffer, said Japanese devs 'need to accept they've fallen behind' and start over.

Yodariquo said:

You clearly don't know me very well

Archangel3371 said:

Played some Kid Icarus: Uprising. The game looks pretty good and the 3D effect is great but damn is it ever awkward to play. Holding the system with the one hand while simultaneously moving and shooting can really cramp your hand. Sliding the pointer around the touch screen to move the reticle around is ok but quickly sliding it to each side and quickly moving the analog slider twice in a direction to dash takes some getting used to. Man this game could have been much better if the 3DS had dual analog sliders.

Dvader said:

Archangel3371 said:

Played some Kid Icarus: Uprising. The game looks pretty good and the 3D effect is great but damn is it ever awkward to play. Holding the system with the one hand while simultaneously moving and shooting can really cramp your hand. Sliding the pointer around the touch screen to move the reticle around is ok but quickly sliding it to each side and quickly moving the analog slider twice in a direction to dash takes some getting used to. Man this game could have been much better if the 3DS had dual analog sliders.

It's has such awful controls. I hav yet to finish it partly cause it feels like work to play it


GG I have yet to play Bully. It's sitting on my shelf.

Why are the controls awful. Is it like Metroid Prime Hunters, that it causes cramp?