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[vg247.com] GOW director on "single-player is dead"  Calls everyone "Boy" vg247.com gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] Now we know what Retro Studios has been doing Yes, it's been porting DK to Switch. nintendolife.com gamingeek
[youtube.com] ​Raging Justice - Launch trailer Scrolling beat em up youtube.com media gamingeek
[kotaku.com] There will be no Virtual Console on Switch Reggie Fils-Aime quoted as saying: "Let the past die!" kotaku.com news phantom_leo
[nintendo.com] Nintendo's Online Service Revealed Online play for NES Games nintendo.com Nintyfan17
[gamespot.com] Thanos Comes to Fortnite. gamespot.com travo
[eurogamer.net] Capcom just had its most profitable year ever And it's down to Monster Hunter World eurogamer.net news SupremeAC
Nintendo Splatoon news will "shock the world" on June 9th, 2018​ - Weekly Jump magazine says gematsu.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] This week's European downloads - May 10  (ARMS Demo, One Piece Warriors and more)​ gonintendo.com gamingeek
[vg247.com] Shadow of the Tomb Raider cost around $100 million to make $35 million to market​ vg247.com gamingeek
[vg247.com] Sony's main focus at E3 2018 will be Death Stranding Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man "deep dives"​ vg247.com gamingeek
[nintendolife.com] New Splatoon Secret Project Is Set To "Shock The World" Just Days Before E3 - not a Splatoon 2 add on nintendolife.com gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] ​Sega's game profits rose 30% last year gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] ​Nvidia posts record Q1 revenues as profits soar by 145% Says Switch is a big reason gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[gamesindustry.biz] ​“We have to try new models for single-player games” Eidos Montreal: gamesindustry.biz gamingeek
[videogamer.com] Anthem is big on multiplayer  but will still let you go solo if you want​ videogamer.com gamingeek
Bandai Namco working on multiple original Switch titles releases will start this Summer​ resetera.com gamingeek
[gonintendo.com] Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion screens Subway shots gonintendo.com media gamingeek
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Mon, 07 May 2018 00:05:09
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck tittyfuck FUUUUUUCK!!!!

Archie was talking about tittyfucking?

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Mon, 07 May 2018 00:19:34
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Archie was talking about tittyfucking?

Lost my train of thought for a moment.

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Mon, 07 May 2018 00:36:21
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This weekend, I got to play four glorious hours of God of War.  I think I can easily say it’s my favorite of the series.   I’m hoping to have more time to play in June.

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Mon, 07 May 2018 00:46:14
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So Boston is out of the playoffs now. How very unfortunate. How very unfortunate indeed.

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Mon, 07 May 2018 10:01:34
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Poor Marchand is going to have to go back to licking his wife instead.

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Mon, 07 May 2018 21:29:01
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God of War just keeps getting better. This game is so much better than the older titles it's ridiculous.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 03:34:08
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Fuck, fuck, fuck! Fuckity, fuck, fuck!

FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!

SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:

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Tue, 08 May 2018 04:36:35
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LOL Nintendo online "service". Total garbage

Cloud saves... old ass NES games online... voice chat, through a phone app... and the ability to play the same games you play now online for free but you get to pay for it now!

At least you can do a family group so we can all split the cost of a family account.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 12:19:03
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Very strange that the online 'service' doesn't seem to automatically imply you'll need it for all games.  Looks like it's on a per game basis?

Honnestly, with how litle I play Switch online these days, I might as well just opt to not get it.  The fact that the €20 is account based, and not system based is the most offensive bit in my opinion.  €20 is impulse buy, don't care territory.  €35 is an investment.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 14:58:34
No VC.... So the account system that Nintendo created last generation is essentially worthless? Well, it looks like I will need to pick up a Wii U again. Damn.
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Tue, 08 May 2018 16:28:01
Paid Nintendo switch online service? No VC on Switch? Can't backup our saves without paying for online service? Hrm

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Tue, 08 May 2018 18:07:25

Ah, I hate this period before E3.

The gaming news dries up. So boring.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 18:09:18

Considering I play Splatoon 2 every damn day, I don't mind the fee at all. What worries me is that it says a compatible smartphone is required, so if I can no longer play Switch online because I own a fecking Windows phone... that is going burn hard.

I can't even use the Ebay app on this thing, it was discontinued, as was everything else. Great job, Microsuck.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 18:37:18

Well, well, well. So Microsoft is the only one not to put cloud saves behind a paywall. The worm has turned. Nyaa

Anyway the info for Nintendo’s online service is pretty meh. I like that there will finally be cloud save backups. There’s really only 3 NES games on that list that interest me but there will be more announced so we’ll see. It is kind of cool that there will be some kinds of online functionality for those games. No Virtual Console however it’s really just a name and I don’t see why companies still can’t bring there classic games to the system anyway because there’s been a lot of NEO GEO games coming out on it already on a regular basis. The fact that they’re sticking with this lousy app thing for voice chat really sucks though. Anyway there will be enough games that I’ll want to play online to make the $25 CDN a year worthwhile to me.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 20:44:18

Yeah I was thinking that there are a ton of Neo Geo Games already on there and I think the same company has inked a deal to put even more old classics from another system on Switch too. As soon as they released the NES and SNES classic I didn't see a VC coming to Switch. I kept all my old VC games on Wii. Great collection there and I have an SDTV to play them on too. Also I'm a 3DS early adopter so I got all those free GBA and SNES games on there too. As well as a few on Wii U too.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 21:51:46

I have the best virtual console. My PC emulator.

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LOL Nintendo online "service". Total garbage

Seriously....the Switch's online seems worse than the Wii/Wii U era....what a joke. And let's be real, they haven't exactly done much on Switch outside of Mario and Xenoblade other than Wii U ports. They better pick up the pace because that craze is only going to last so long.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 21:54:47
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I have the best virtual console. My PC emulator.

Seriously....the Switch's online seems worse than the Wii/Wii U era....what a joke. And let's be real, they haven't exactly done much on Switch outside of Mario and Xenoblade other than Wii U ports. They better pick up the pace because that craze is only going to last so long.

Yeah no kidding.  There’s no excuse for not bringing most of the VC library to the Switch.  How could they get VC so right two generations ago and now we get the shaft.  Nintendo needs some non port, exclusives stat.

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Tue, 08 May 2018 23:06:56
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Yeah no kidding.  There’s no excuse for not bringing most of the VC library to the Switch.  How could they get VC so right two generations ago and now we get the shaft.  Nintendo needs some non port, exclusives stat.

I can only assume it wasn't that profitable to sell the individual games or they sell better bundled. I don't think its a coincidence that Sony has also said "fuck off" to their back catalog of PS1 games and not really done much with the PS2 library. I think as much as people like to talk about getting old games, they don't usually spend money on them.

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Wed, 09 May 2018 09:33:22
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Switch online is not very exciting.

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Wed, 09 May 2018 15:05:13
travo said:

Yeah no kidding.  There’s no excuse for not bringing most of the VC library to the Switch.  How could they get VC so right two generations ago and now we get the shaft.  Nintendo needs some non port, exclusives stat.

This is not an excuse, what I'm thinking is that from a business standpoint the deals they had in place to release all those games on Wii, was only for that system. And that the rights would have to be re-negotiated again with each rights owner, individually.

From a profit standpoint, I'm guessing the return wasn't that great. Personally I find the prices on some of these older games to be too high. I think cheaper prices would sell more and create more money than the prices they had them at.

Speaking of which, why is Yooka Laylee a full priced game? I was expecting a £14.99 price, not a £34.99.

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