aspro said:

So within the next hour Bethesda is going to be teasing something at gamespot. (Hopefully not another shit game from Splash Damage).

Here is an image of what will be teased

Looks like Wolfenstein or Doom 4.

Apparently the game has something to do with #1960 since the leaked images all have #1960.

Nintyfan17 said:

I think mine might be like that aswell; Some parts get cut off on my screen.

Mine was about 2 inches too big on all sides.

Dvader said:

Its going to be GT6. What a complete waste. The sony thing I mean.

It's a bank holiday here, no UK news.

Wait isn't that MGS Ground Zeroes?

The Sonic rumor is already proven to be false.

Gamesindustry.biz said:

Publishers Betting On "Fewer, Bigger, Bloodier"

The traditional game industry's growing reliance on violence is marginalizing the medium in short-sighted and self-destructive ways

The gaming industry depends on violence to drive sales more and more every year.

Given the amount of public scrutiny gaming has been under since the Newtown shooting last year, that might be an uncomfortable truth for many in the industry. But it is a truth.

As the graph below makes clear, there's a growing disparity between the number of games that receive an M-for-Mature rating and the amount of US retail software sales they make up. In 2005, 12 percent of the games rated were mature, compared to 15 percent of games sold. But as the generation went on, the gap between those two numbers became a small chasm. In 2011, the M rating was responsible for more than one of every four dollars spent on games, but fewer than one of every 10 new games.

Consider that those sales numbers are in units instead of dollars, and the current M-rated market share is likely even more disproportionate. After all, the platforms least likely to host M-rated content (the Wii, DS, and 3DS) are also the ones with lower average selling points. Another interesting note: M-rated titles grew their percentage of total sales even from 2006 to 2009, when the Wii's E-rated lineup and T-rated rhythm games were supposedly reshaping the industry.

The rise in violent games has also been reflected in the industry's most visible successes. M-rated games actually made up a larger percentage of the industry's offerings in 2005 when the current generation started, but the NPD's top 10 best-selling games chart that year featured no M-rated titles. For the last three years, at least half of the annual top 10 has been rated M.

Analysts contacted by GamesIndustry International brushed aside concerns about the game industry becoming more violent.

"I'm certain that the number of violent games isn't materially greater than in the past, but the number of overall games is lower," Wedbush's Michael Pachter said. "Violent games sell better than kids' titles generally, so more E-rated game projects are cancelled, and the same number of M-rated projects are approved when publishers decide to cut back on the number of titles published."

So the explanation for the traditional PC and console sector's increasing reliance on violent games appears to be, "It's what sells."

Since the industry's 2008 peak, Nintendo's Blue Ocean turned toxic halfway through the Wii's lifespan. The Guitar Hero phenomenon lived fast, died young, and left a savagely exploited corpse. And dedicated handheld gaming has been a hapless victim in the blast radius of the ongoing smartphone explosion.

In light of these difficulties, publishers have grown more conservative. Instead of boldly reaching out to new customers, they've played to the young male audience they see as their base. They have embraced a more selective philosophy when it comes to releases, trimming their slates to the safest bets, the faithful standbys, the evergreen offerings. On investor conference calls and Powerpoint presentations, the strategy is "fewer, bigger, better." In reality, it's closer to "fewer, bigger, bloodier."

And then begins the diatribe after that, for the rest read the article.

Dvader said:

The Sonic rumor is already proven to be false.

Delete it when its false dagnabit.

You guys want to try some Luigi's Mansion online?

Dvader said:

You guys want to try some Luigi's Mansion online?

I can tonight.  Mp is fun.

I will be watching a basketball game tonight so yeah.