I've been playing The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct on Wii U.

Basically its actually FUN to play with, even though it looks like a Dreamcast game & is an obvious slap together cash in. The controls are good, and they set up the Gamepad to be similar to Zombi U where you can tap the screen to select weapons and health items. In fact the game feels like it wants to BE Zombi U, without the scares or dificulty level. Zombies are stupid as fuck but that also makes it kind of comedic in a way. So its not great, but worth checking out if you're a fan of the show, on the cheap.

I just saw the Ouya controller and the first thing I thought was... PS4?

Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix has revealed that its internal sales expectations for the game's first month were nearly double its eventual 3.4 million haul.

The company thought its Lara Croft reboot could sell at least 5-6 million units in four weeks - a huge figure, but a total still designed to be conservative, just "80-90 per cent" of what Square Enix thought was the game's real sales potential.

It's clear that Tomb Raider fell short vastly of what Square Enix wanted, even without that extra 10-20 per cent.

Sales expectations for other Square Enix releases Sleeping Dogs and Hitman Absolution were similarly higher than their final totals.

3.4 million copies in 28 days means 5059 copies were sold an hour.

Sleeping Dogs has sold 1.75 million copies to date. Square Enix had aimed for 2-2.5 million.

Hitman Absolution has sold 3.6 million to date. Square Enix wanted 4.5-5 million.

Again, these expectations are based on Square Enix's lower, more conservative estimate of 80-90 per cent of sales potential.

"We put a considerable amount of effort in polishing and perfecting the game content for these titles, receiving extremely high Metacritic scores," Square Enix said in a new financial statement.

"However, we were very disappointed to see that the high scores did not translate to actual sales performance, which is where we see the substantial variance in operation profit/loss against the forecast."

Square Enix announced last month that it was bracing itself for an "extraordinary loss" at the end of the just-finished financial year. It will now conduct an expensive "fundamental review" of the company. Long-term president Yoichi Wada has also been shown the door.

This industry.

gamingeek said:

This industry.

And sometimes we wonder why Pachter's so successful...

Square is insane. What kind of morons do they have running their finance division?

Dvader said:

Square is insane. What kind of morons do they have running their finance division?

Right now? Poor ones.

"Why MS needs to unveil its next Xbox and quickly" well no shit. This has become the biggest PR nightmare for any system prelaunch ever. Everything surrounding the durango is negative, EVERYTHING. Meanwhile everything surrounding the PS4 is magical wonderland of positivity. MS has to stop the bleeding now. But assuming everything is true how can they?

Unless something drastic changes Sony has next gen on lock down.

SteelAttack said:

Hey british dudes, what are your feelings about the passing away of Maggie? The ones old enough to have been affected by her decisions, I mean.

She was a very divisive character but I was quite upset to see the amount of venom and hatred directed at a corpse.  Disgusted even.  There are cunts throwing Thatcher Death Parties around the UK.  There will be no one-minute silence observed at the football grounds because she stumped on hooliganism.

She did a lot of things which needed doing which were never going to win her any popularity.  She fucked with the trade unions.  That rescued the UK economy but it pretty much sealed her fate as a politician.  She wasn't going to have any future in politics after that if it weren't for the Folklands/Malvidas war which pretty much won her the election (even though it wasn't something she needed to do).  She was also instrumental in how the West won the Cold War but she doesn't get credit for it ... and besides many British have romantic thoughts about communism still (so long as they're not the ones suffering it).

That doesn't look like a younger Batman.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham Origins™ and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate™, the next instalments of the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise. Batman: Arkham Origins will be available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 system, the Wii U™ system, and Windows PC. Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate™ will be available for the Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system, and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system. Both titles are scheduled to release worldwide 25th October, 2013.

Developed by WB Games Montréal, Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships.

Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2.5-D game developed by Armature Studio that brings the Batman Arkham experience for the first time to Nintendo and Sony handheld systems. A companion game to Batman: Arkham Origins, players can continue the storyline of the console version and discover more details of the Dark Knight’s past.

“Batman: Arkham is a huge triple-A videogame franchise and we are delighted to expand the experience with Batman: Arkham Origins,” said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “WB Games Montréal has an incredibly talented team building upon Rocksteady’s award-winning gameplay and technology to deliver a deep, immersive, quality experience fans will love.”