http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/25/ninja-gaiden-3s-bloody-carnage-comes-to-wii-u

Razor's Edge sounds a bit better.

Why in the fuck did Nintendo's stock rise significantly today?!?!?!?!?!?

Dvader said:

Why in the fuck did Nintendo's stock rise significantly today?!?!?!?!?!?

The same reason my cock rose significantly today?

gamingeek said:

Eurogamer said:

Geoff Keighley is often described as an industry leader. A games expert. He is one of the most prominent games journalists in the world. And there he sits, right there, beside a table of snacks. He will be sitting there forever, in our minds. That's what he is now. And in a sense, it is what he always was. As Executive Producer of the mindless, horrifying spectacle that is the Spike TV Video Game Awards he oversees the delivery of a televisual table full of junk, an entire festival of cultural Doritos.



How many games journalists are sitting beside that table?

This is a great article. It's one of the biggest problems in gaming journalism.

isntchrisl said:

Also, I can't afford new games.

Ahhhh yes the single most incentive for beating games. . . knowing your broke ass won't be buying a new one anytime soon.

robio said:

Ahhhh yes the single most incentive for beating games. . . knowing your broke ass won't be buying a new one anytime soon.

Indeed...

robio said:

Did they ever announce on the Nintendo Direct whether or not the factory fire will indeed cause a shortage of Wii U's or was that expected to be mentioned at another time? For some reason I kept thinking they'd talk about it tomorrow, though I can't figure out why or where they'd do it.

The US Nintendo Directs are very PR-ish. I doubt they'd ever mention something like that. But Reggie did recently say that if people can't get a Wii U it's because they aren't able to make them quickly enough.

aspro said:

They had an earnings release earlier this week, maybe it is somewhere in there.


Hey North Americans hss the U had any promotion over there, as in regular media?


Down here it is like it does not exist outside of the enthusiast group.

I haven't seen anything outside of Youtube ads. I have a feeling it won't be until a week or two before Thanksgiving that we start seeing any TV ads.

gamingeek said:

The writer of this article decided to quit since Eurogamer edited his story due to the people he called out threatening legal action.Here is a recap:

I'll do a short recap:

• Keighley surrounded by doritos followed by gaming bloggers retweeting a hashtag for advertising to win a PS3 makes Florence of Eurogamer curious.
• Florence writes an article saying how things are shady and some sound like straight up PR e.g. Wainright orgasms for everything Squenix.
• Eurogamer/Wainwright send libel threats to Eurogamer, at which the article was edited to remove mentioning of Wainright.
• Wainwright responds in twitter "Apology accepted" and something in the vain of applying her law classes to use.
• Florence either steps down or is forced to resign to avoid any libel threat.
• Both sides deny any threat or are not talking about it directly, but twitter posts hint that such threat existed. Florence is not confirming or denying whether he was fired or he stepped down.
• "GAF and 4chan combine forces to see this standalone complex issue" alongside digital protest from Penny Arcade and more, showing what happened.
• Wainwright's profile shows she is a freelancer for Square Enix. She admitted it and denied doing any reviews for Square Enix or shilling (she is wrong. She reviewed Deus Ex, Tomb Raider and did countless previews).
• All this fiasco is too much for her and she privatize her twitter account. Next thing you know, she starts deleting tweets, videos and articles, and edits her profile to remove any mention of Square Enix freelancing.
• People find some comments of her thanking someone called Korina that used to work at Ubisoft.
• Korina Abbot used to work at Ubisoft and is currently the marketing executive at...Square-Enix.
• David Jaffe offers Keighley Mountain Dew.
• Gaming journalism.

aspro said:

It may be because I have had about 20 hours of sleep over the last 5 days, but in any case, I need help joining the dots on what the big deal is about Geoff Keighley sitting next to snacks.  He was getting paid to sit near them, so ...

It's a funny picture.

I've never enjoyed Mr. Keighley's work, but if you were to substitute any number of writers I do enjoy into that picture it wouldn't change my view of their work.

Games coverage is a commerical enterprise, right?

I don't have a point, I just don't get the outrage.

The Keighley picture is nothing, the man works in TV, he has to be around ads. All the football shows I watch have logos of sponsers everywhere. Good for Keighley for getting ad revenue.

aspro said:

Thanks Vader.  And I thought soap operas were convoluted.  Sheesh.

EDIT: Florence quiting/ being fired would not diminish any libel claim though...  Wonder what happened there.  Wainwright sounds like a complete... oh better hold off, don't want to get sued.

He quit because Eurogamer edited his story, was his choice.