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Balloon Fight brings a Wii U Virtual Console preview
Customizable controls and save points
polygon.com impressions
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Rumor: PlayStation 4 specs, controller details, and more
There is a new controller in the works, but it will instead feature a touch pad that can recognize two-point multi-touch. It can also be clicked.
gematsu.com
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Vigil Games and properties fail to find buyer
Remain as part of THQ's bankruptcy case
polygon.com
gamingeek
RUMOR - First details on Sonic's next outing
- due out on Wii U, PS3, 360, 3DS, PS Vita, PC, and “Next gen” consoles
sonicstadium.org
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Nintendo Patent Covers Massively Single-Player Online Games
Get the benefits of an MMO without actually having to interact with any jerks.
08/12/2011
August 2011 but patent filed Feb 2010
Looks like it might be X.
THQ auction details - Vigil layoffs, Relic to SEGA
We have a few details on the THQ auction that is the big talk of today. A few things have been confirmed via Twitter.
- SEGA has snatched up Relic
- Vigil is seeing layoffs, if not worse
- Ubisoft supposedly acquires THQ Montreal
- Koch Media supposedly acquires Volition
We'll be sure to keep tabs on the situation as the day continues.
Here's a list of purchases so far, including amounts and runner-up bids.
Relic Entertainment
Makers of Company of Heroes
Winning bidder: Sega, $26.6 million.
Runner-up: Zenimax Media, $26.3 million.
THQ Montreal
Makers of 1666 and Underdog, titles under development.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $2.5 million. No runner-up.
Evolve
(title in development at Turtle Rock Studios)
Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million.
Runner-up: Turtle Rock Studios, $250,000.
Volition, Inc.
Maker of Saints Row
Winning bidder: Koch Media, $22,312,925.
Runner-up: Ubisoft, $5.4 million.
Homefront
Released 2011; due for a sequel.
Winning bidder: Crytek. $544,218.
No runner-up.
Metro
Series; due for the sequel Metro: Last Light.
Winning Bidder: Koch Media, $5,877,551
Runner-up: Ubisoft: $5.175 million.
South Park
License; South Park: The Stick of Truth is due for release March 5.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $3,265,306
No runner-up.
Wind Waker remake?
Blue Tongue Entertainment, but they went belly up in 2011.
It sucks not having a PC to play. Even my shitty one. At least I could play stuff in it. All I have now is netbooks and ipads at home. Oh well, at least I know I'll get something better back in a few days.
In the meantime I started playing Rocksmith again.
lol wind waker
Apparently not. I liked the first game, never got to play the second one. Too bad about people losing their jobs.
Where's Bear?
Fixed.
The results of this are such an amazing SAD look into the game industry. Not one company though it was work a few hundred thousand to pick up Vigil, a company with a game that sells millions of copies but this industry is so screwed up they still lose money. Did you see how much Koch overpaid for Volition??? Its crazy.
Relic Entertainment
Makers of Company of Heroes
Winning bidder: Sega, $26.6 million.
Runner-up: Zenimax Media, $26.3 million.
THQ Montreal
Makers of 1666 and Underdog, titles under development.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $2.5 million. No runner-up.
Evolve
(title in development at Turtle Rock Studios)
Winning bidder: Take-Two Interactive, $10.894 million.
Runner-up: Turtle Rock Studios, $250,000.
Volition, Inc.
Maker of Saints Row
Winning bidder: Koch Media, $22,312,925.
Runner-up: Ubisoft, $5.4 million.
Homefront
Released 2011; due for a sequel.
Winning bidder: Crytek. $544,218.
No runner-up.
Metro
Series; due for the sequel Metro: Last Light.
Winning Bidder: Koch Media, $5,877,551
Runner-up: Ubisoft: $5.175 million.
South Park
License; South Park: The Stick of Truth is due for release March 5.
Winning bidder: Ubisoft, $3,265,306
No runner-up.
Why did no one care for Saints Row, wow, Koch totally over bid. Sega went all out for Relic. Crazy that South Park went for $3mil, is that all that game is worth, I think it will be a big hit. Why is Evolve, some IP no one knows anything about going for $10 million????
AND NO ONE GETS VIGIL.
This industry is a total mess.
Just to note, my gaming erection from this afternoon was purely a response to Fire Emblem X SMT, New Mario, Bayonetta, Wonderful 101 and Smash news.
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The Rest:
Epic Yoshi -- Will look beautiful, will have great music but will be so easy i'll get bored after the first hour or two, just like the last game.
New XenoBlade -- Will look beautiful, will have great music but will be so easy i'll get bored after the first hour or two, just like the last game.
Wind Waker -- Will look beautiful, will have great music but will be so easy i'll get bored after the first hour or two, just like the last game.
Pikmin -- Looks awesome, but I don't like the return of the time limit. We'll see.
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Half excited, half meh.
SMT x FE?
Woo!
I know nothing about it yet other than it's Wii U and it has Fire Emblem characters and Shin Megami Tensei characters, INCLUDING THE MAIN CHARACTER FROM SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: NOCTURNE ! ! !
:LOL:
Yup this X game is going to be incredible. Its everything Versus promised and more.
GG good job picking the trailer apart.
...and so far, I don't "get" the Virtual Console, at all. All I see is: "Hey, let's release the same games again and make you pay for them AGAIN! YAY!"