Eurogamer Reviews Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls
9/10 "a huge improvement for Diablo 3; it does what was needed and a whole lot more"
eurogamer.net impressions
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~~Square-Enix president claims company has lost its focus
Will return to JPRG roots
youtube.com
gamingeek
~~This is what happens when a Real Games Journalist
Is free to ask whatever he wants...
computerandvideogames.com
gamingeek
Ubisoft will support PS3 and Xbox 360 for years to come
But not Wii U?
computerandvideogames.com
gamingeek
Splinter Cell: Blacklist director leaves for Arkham Origins dev
Maybe we can finally get a good stealth Batman game now
gamespot.com
gamingeek
European downloads - April 3 (GBA games and more)
Metroid, Mario, Advance Wars and more
gonintendo.com
gamingeek
Capcom Earnings Tank on Poor Mobile Market
"weak mobile sales are having a grave impact on its bottom line"
gamasutra.com news
aspro
Internet Responds Irrationally To Oculus Purchase
"...we did not expect to be getting so many death threats"
arstechnica.com news
aspro
Carmack Comments on Facebookification of Oculus
"The deepest issue I find here stems from the way business is done in technology today: companies exist and operate only to get acquired"
eurogamer.net news
aspro
Iwata's internal approval rating drops
Now only over 77% approval, down from 92%
mcvuk.com impressions
gamingeek
MS acquires 80 wearable tech assets in $150m deal
Kinect Fedora, Bing Jockstrap, Surface Bra
mcvuk.com
gamingeek
1/4 Scale "Master Arts" Princess Zelda for $350
This or PS4.... this or PS4... decisions decisions...
first4figures.com
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EA Frostbite Twitter "Beheads" unfunny, mean, Wii U troll
What that means is anyones guess. No lunch break today ooooh
gonintendo.com
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~~FPS Wii U title to be revealed this week, says insider
But it is April Fools day...
gonintendo.com
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Nintendo Developing VR Platform to Rival Morpheus and Oculus
Har de har har
nintendolife.com
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~~Nikkei article looks at Nintendo's cash reserves
Third year of losses, analyst commentary and more
gonintendo.com
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~~PS4 sales drop off in Japan
"Momentum for the system appears to be slowing"
videogamer.com
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~~GBA on Wii U VC - details
On lighting, resolution, screen-smoothing and more
nintendo-insider.com
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EA's Peter Moore apologizes for dickish Wii U jokes
"Our apologies to partners @NintendoAmerica & fan @FrostbiteEngine ’s poor attempt at April Fools not condoned by EA : unacceptable/ stupid"
gonintendo.com
gamingeek
Rift Signs Another Valve VR Hostshot
From this we can surmise Valve VR is not a priority for Gabe.
eurogamer.net news
aspro
Sony Japan Looking to China
Opens up new department to take advantage of lifted ban on consoles.
gamasutra.com news
aspro
Amazon Shows Metacritic Scores Now
I want a filter to only show games under 4.7.
arstechnica.com news
aspro
Persona 4 Gets ESRB for PS3
The PS2 turned critically applauded Vita game.
gameinformer.com news
aspro
BLOOD DRAGON III: VIETNAM WAR 2
April Fools? First one was announced on April Fools too!
destructoid.com news
phantom_leo
Persona 4 coming to PSN as a Playstation 2 Classic
Play the masterpiece without buying a Vita
vg247.com news
robio
Amy Hennig joins Visceral Games to make Star Wars!!!!
Creative director for new Star Wars game!!!!!
www.ea.com news
Dvader
NWR Mario Kart 8 Preview
We played Mario Kart 8. It's more of the same, but that means it's awesome electric fun, generally.
nintendoworldreport.com impressions
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Gamesradar Mario Kart 8 Preview
"Anti-gravity karts? Check. Possibly the best visuals a Nintendo game ever saw? Ditto. A slew of new racers that we never expected to be included in a Mario Kart title? You'd better believe it!"
gamesradar.com impressions
gamingeek
Mario Kart 8 devs talk graphics and using Wii U’s power
Balance, Rainbow Road is “really spectacular”, more
nintendoeverything.com
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SNP: Scottish devs will be better off without the rest of Britain
They cannie take... our freeeeedom
mcvuk.com
gamingeek
~~Cortana confirmed as Windows Phone 8.1's Siri
"Cortana, can you fix Halo 2?"
videogamer.com
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Now Microsoft Studios is hit with layoffs
"There are times when decisions need to be made to realign plans and refocus our efforts," says Microsoft.
videogamer.com
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How inFAMOUS: SS Used the PS4′s 8 (4.5) GB of RAM
I/O (input/output) speed was a big problem, even from the hard drive. Input/Output speed is the communication speed between the drive and the CPU.
dualshockers.com
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~~Why Mario Kart 8 is fast becoming Wii U's most exciting game
CVG
computerandvideogames.com impressions
gamingeek
Gorgeous Mario Kart 8 retro tracks compared to originals
What's this? A positive Eurogamer Nintendo story? Check if hell's frozen over.
eurogamer.net
gamingeek
The best Mario Kart on Nintendo's most disappointing console
Really, this is a headline?
videogamer.com
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Shin'en using second gen Wii U engine on upcoming projects
“With FRN we wanted to get more realism. That was not possible with our old tech. So we implemented a lot of new stuff that allows us to get there"
nintendoeverything.com
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Mario Kart 8 interviews
Devs on lack of track editor, potential for 3 riders in the future, customization and blue shell use
gonintendo.com
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~~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
gamesindustry.biz
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'Physically impossible' for X1 performance to match PS4
Just Add Water CEO Stewart Gilray has stated in an effort to dismiss inaccurate reports attributed to Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning.
videogamer.com
gamingeek
~~Super Smash Bros. Direct officially announced
Visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct on Tuesday, April 8, at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT for a Nintendo Direct providing new details on Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.
gonintendo.com news
gamingeek
Persona 4 comes out on PSN on April 8th
THAT'S JUST FIFTY-TWO DAYS BEFORE MARIO KART 8!!!
kotaku.com news
phantom_leo
~~SEGA interested in more Nintendo collaborations
Working on new Sonic game outside of Sonic Boom
gonintendo.com
gamingeek
Watch Dogs specs revealed - 8 core i7 CPU recommended
wtf? x1 and ps4 dont even give games 8 cores, let alone i7s
steampowered.com
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I've played it exactly ONCE since getting it, then I moved on to CastleVania, Witch and the Hundred Knight and Deception without looking back yet. I don't feel compelled to play at all.
Incidentally, I've traded Witch and Deception in just a few minutes ago. Witch has a glitch in it that boots you back to the PS3 dashboard randomly and NIS has no clue what's causing it or how to fix it. You could play two hours and **BLINK!** back to dashboard, all progress lost! No time for that!
Deception is clever, but tedious. I tried and tried and tried again, but it just didn't do it for me. I'll stick with LoS2 and Dark Souls 2 to occupy me for now.
Oh, and Mercenary Kings! Out of all the games I just mentioned, next to Dark Souls, that's probably the best of the bunch!
Opinion Question Time: If Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros. sell boatloads of copies would it --STILL-- be too late to save the Wii U?
Looking at the Wii U upcoming release list, there's literally next to nothing. If both of those games sell a million systems apiece, it would --STILL-- take Ninty and devs close to a year to start putting out titles again. Too little, too late?
I'm not even entertaining that idea. I'm just trying to get through it. I've gotten through the first two bosses, and I've finally gotten back on track again so I'm making progress again. I really just want to finish it right now. If I hit another one of those roadblocks though I'll probably put it up for good. It's really crossing the line between hard but fun to just frustrating.
Unless Nintendo has secretly been sourcing out IP's to other developers over the past few months (like they sort of suggested they would) there really isn't any saving the Wii U through software. Until it reaches an insane pricepoint (like the Gamecube's $99 price) I don't really see a hell of a lot of movement for it post Smash Bros.
I suppose the other alternative is just say, "fuck it" to any of the processing power of the Wii U and go hard after a niche audience that will accept retro graphics for new games, and then flood the console with tons of new retro games. Not sure there's more than a million or so people who'd really want new old school Mega Man X games though.
My gut feeling tells me that MK8 will shift more then a million units. Still, one game doesn't make a generation. I don't think Nintendo will be able to turn around the WiiU like they did the 3DS, by virtue of it taking much more time and resources to make games for the U. I don't think this will pose much of a problem for them this gen, but if they don't play with the big boys next gen, and they don't strike gold like they did with Wii, I can see Nintendo being d00med next gen.
Oh there is THE ROADBLOCK to end all roadblocks in this game. I might as tell you now to save you the trouble.
When you get the super bomb... go to the area with the glass tube that you run through, its under water. Use a super bomb in the glass tube and it will shatter allowing you to enter the next area.
Those two games alone? No. But f they were to release a Galaxy 1&2 HD collection, Galaxy 3, and a new Zelda this year. That would probably save the U.
The wii U is dead, its over nothing can save it. The question is how long will nintendo continue to drag its corpse along.
Wow Infamous is boring.
PS4 killer app!
Nintendo needs some third party mp exclusives. Not happening but...
I finally figured this out about 2 hours ago. And yeah, WTF???? I was about the lose my damned mind trying to figure out what else was left for me to explore before that.
Mario Kart 8 will be interesting to watch though. MK Wii sold over 35 million copies. That's like mythical. You get one or two games like that a generation. If they can find a way to convince even 25% of those people to come on board for the new version, it'd certainly go a long way on keeping the system around for a while. Iwata might even keep his job too.
One other thing to consider: Is Nintendo being judged too harshly? Even if the Wii U sold well, would there be that many more games available? Looking at the PS4, there's --N-O-W-H-E-R-E-- near the amount of games being produced for IT at it's time in it's life-cycle than the PS3 and 360 when they were this old. There's less developers and less publishers willing to even try to produce AAA games these days due to cost constraints and the super-attractive lure of putting out a cheap to make, pay to play game that will just generate revenue with minimal effort. I look at the PS4 and I can count on one hand the titles I want for IT. It's future right now doesn't look much brighter than the Wii U. The future seems to be about either cheap to produce games --or-- games that the publisher can charge a monthly fee for to max profits. I think we'll see even less games than every one is anticipating in the future --and-- I suspect people will find ONE **or more** game(s) **FFXIV, Everquest** where they will be paying a subscription fee to take up the majority of their time. I can see myself paying for FFXIV, for example, buying The Witcher 3, Destiny and Batman, and picking up random Indie games on PSN...
...and THAT'S IT!
Maybe it's not JUST Nintendo?
No its still the lack of any support on Wii U. PS4 will have every third party game going forward. You will play the next FF, the next RE, the next MGS, the next GTA, the next CoD, the next AC, the next Tomb Raider, the next Deus Ex, the next Mass Effect, the next Far Cry, and so on. You will get absolutely none of that on Wii U.
So while Sony and Nintendo both are slowing down production it wont be as noticable as it is with Wii U.
Spread those out and it doesn't equal much over the next few years. I know what you are saying, but there's going to be gaps in between. What's going to fill them? There's not so many little devs out there anymore. Indie yeah, but it's going to be sparse!
Yeah, I can see the lack of big developers and the second guessing by the ones still around as being a major factor this gen. Game releases are going to be sparse for years probably.
Hmm, out of all of those game franchises listed, I'm only going to be buying one. Can you guys guess which one?
This week, I've been having a ball on a private island, driving four wheeler, hang gliding, and riding on jet skis. Oh, I've also killed several hundred pirates and hunting a mystical knife for some fuck called Buck.
what about you dudes?