travo said:

I'm very curious at how Amy Henning will shape the new SW.

The main character will be called Brake. He'll wear a scarf and go on a search for the ancient Jedi treasure. There will be cover shooting.

gamingeek said:

Smash just got awesome

I posted a comment to that post; I wonder if we will hear bells when Isabelle shows up in Smash Bros.

Since when Isabelle walks we hear the bells in her hair.

Animal Crossing development: Are Japanese women the future of its gaming?

Animal Crossing: New Leaf shows that mixed-gender teams can defy both Japan's gender gap and its industry's troubles

The Last Of Us is a rare kind of game. It's both critically acclaimed and commercially successful; a title which admits no compromises between its game experience and its storytelling. It's won absolute stack loads of awards and it's hard to find anyone bar a handful of stalwart curmudgeons begrudging it those achievements. It's a great game, one which will likely be considered a stand-out gem of the last generation of consoles, one which justifies, if any justification were necessary, the AAA development process, the core game experience and the need for dedicated gaming hardware.

It's also, to the slack-jawed astonishment of many gamers, being significantly outsold by the Nintendo 3DS' Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The latest installment in Nintendo's series of irrepressibly cute and tough to define titles has sold almost 7.4 million copies worldwide; The Last of Us has done 6 million. Both are commercial successes, but Animal Crossing is by far the more remarkable; not least since it's on the 3DS (installed base: 44 million) while The Last Of Us is on the PS3 (installed base: 83 million).

I don't mean to compare apples to oranges or to raise fanboy hackles with this comparison. These are radically different games targeting completely different markets - I'd like us to think of the commercial success each of them has achieved as a remarkable affirmation of the sheer creative breadth and demographic reach the games medium has attained. I make the comparison simply to point out that even while The Last Of Us has won critical and commercial acclaim in a way which has been noisy and impossible to ignore, Animal Crossing: New Leaf has been steadily turning itself into a true blockbuster title - a platform-seller, a multi-million seller, a big, commercially important game.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-04-03-are-japans-women-gamings-future

Interesting editorial, it touches upon women developers particularly in Japan and the attitudes towards women in the workplace there.

Why the hell is MS bothering to port Titanfall to the 360?

And the only reason I would have to buy an XBone ATM is gone.

There's no way I'd have one powerful enough for many years.

edgecrusher said:

Just started final fantasy 10 hd.

Right off the bat I'm reminded of one thing I liked about this game; Tidus is a popular big mouth guy instead of the usual ultra quiet guy who hasn't come out of his shell in life.

You might like the Crystal Bearers then.

Pretty sure I'm going to bork my NAS.  Trying to upgrade to firmware 5.0 and I don't have a clue what I'm doing.  Fingers crossed!

edit: well, that went well.  Great to see how foolproof most software has become by  now.

Here's a quick fun fact. On the eShop there's no way to see the exact sales of a particular game. However, you can get a relative estimate of how games are selling compared to one another by looking at how many people have rated a game. With that said, Earthbound (a premium priced game at $10) has the second highest number or ratings than any other digital download only game on the eShop, with only Super Metroid slightly ahead of it (which got the bulk of its sales at the $.30 special sales price). That means more people have probably bought it than any of the available Mario or Zelda games.

And of course we'll still never see Mother 3 or another installment of the series.