PD Design Studio has revealed a brand new Wii U eShop game called Dusty Raging Fist, which is based in the same universe as a lesser known game named Dusty Revenge .
It's a sidescrolling beat 'em up that features co-op elements, such as team resurrection and team up moves (think Streets of Rage). PD Design Studio's Keng Jin opens up a bit in an interview with Nintendo Life about developing for the Wii U, stating, "In terms of development, we don’t see a huge difference," but that the GamePad requires "new thoughts" to take into consideration and that it makes the process "exciting."
For once, it's nice to see a developer comment on the GamePad calm and collectively, and not like it's a major Earth-shattering design block. If all goes well, Dusty Raging Fist will launch later this year.
Side-scrolling fighter Dusty Raging Fist [Nintendo Life]
Disney has started a steady reveal of the worlds from Disney Infinity . First they showed off Monsters University , and today, it's the Cars world's turn to shine.
For those of you who don't remember, Infinity will feature two modes. One is a mode that restricts characters to their specific worlds, with franchise-centric missions, and the other is a sandbox that allows different IPs to interact.
In the Cars world, you'll visit Radiator Springs, racing through the town as Lightning McQueen, Mater, Holley Shiftwell and Francesco Bernoulli. I'm just going to assume no one saw the terrible Cars 2 and don't recognize those last two names, but yeah -- they're from Cars 2.
Everyone has their opinion of how Sony's PlayStation 4 event went, but if there's one thing we can all agree, on, it was that there was more than the average amount of market-speak involved.
Like most flowery presentations, you'll hear "ecosystem" and "synergy," an awful lot, along with a little extra helping of that Fils-Aime hyperbole. Cheesy executive jokes? In a hardware event? Oh, they went there.
For me, the absolute lowlights were the buzz-killing "I got tear gased" speech (1:14), "old man physics," and the creepy as hell Watch Dogs guy (0:18). Personally, I don't think it gets any better than "borderline insane" DriveClub guy (1:02), who I would absolutely want to spend a day with just to feed off of his enthusiasm.
Believe it or not, we’ve never fired a shotgun at a penguin, but we imagine Vita action-adventure Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken’s portrayal of such an event is quite accurate. It’s a moment that says a lot about the game itself: a blend of the real and the fantastical that veers wildly between moments of slapstick humour and disturbing drama, settling most often for a jet-black brand of comedy that tends to involve the murder of – or occasionally suicide by – flightless birds.
Rocketbirds’ systems, however, are a little safer. When the action hots up and our protagonist has Nazi penguins to shoot, it most resembles Metal Slug. Elsewhere, the more puzzle-led stages offer a mix of locked doors, environmental puzzles and backtracking that recalls Metroid, with the odd crate-shifting aside thrown in for good measure. In the main, its conundrums are intelligently assembled, though we soon tired of hunting key cards. The biggest deviation from the template comes in some clunky airborne shooting interludes that compensate for their awkwardness with brevity.
Otherwise there’s a polish here that belies the game’s browser origins, even if the Vita-specific additions – a tilt-controlled camera, rear touch for aiming grenades – are little more than token gimmicks. Above all else, its sheer force of personality overcomes any mechanical deficiencies. We’ve certainly never seen a poultry-based torture sequence set to a contemporary rock song before. And as for that shotgun, well, shooting penguins has rarely been quite so satisfying – or so we imagine.
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Treyarch recently let the world know that there will be another Call of Duty: Black Ops II Double XP weekend happening, starting today. The event is confirmed for all platforms, including the 360, PS3, PC, and Wii U.
As usual, it'll run from 10AM PST to 10AM PST from Friday to Monday. I actually still do these things, so maybe I'll see you on!
Otherwise, stick around for our Halo 4 event next Friday.
Treyarch [Twitter]
Electronic Arts has made an unspecified number of staff redundant across a number of studios worldwide.
EA’s Montreal and Los Angeles offices were the major studios hit, though other “smaller locations” have also suffered cuts.
The cuts have come about as a result of the company gearing up for next generation development, along with other new initiatives, clashing with expectations that teams will have to grow to sustain momentum and handle asset creation.
“Thousands of our existing employees have been retrained and redeployed to work on the new platforms and initiatives,” said EA Labels president Frank Gibeau. “But when it is not possible to redeploy a team, we soften the tough decisions with assistance.
“This week we let some people go in Los Angeles, Montreal as well as in some smaller locations. These are good people and we have offered outplacement services and severance packages to ease their transition to a new job.”
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A couple weeks back, brentalfloss the comic began an arc parodying the dark comedy children's book The Gashlycrumb Tinies -- that book's author, Edward Gorey, is the subject of today's Google Doodle, by the by. Anyway, "The Game Over Tinies" features entries for every letter of the alphabet, each representing a game character's untimely demise. And it's deliciously clever.
Since my previous post, the comic covered the remaining letters, K-Z, which appeared in strips #145, #146, #147, and #148. The heroes and villains on stage this time include Mario (of course), Kirby, Final Fantasy VI's Ultros, and even SoulCalibur's Voldo. Most deaths are quite appropriate for their respective characters, but some are so out of left field -- I'm looking at you, X -- that they are nevertheless funny.
I really enjoyed these, and I hope you do to. I wouldn't mind plunking down money for a physical collection of all the strips!
Tommo and SNK Playmore have announced 15 more games for the Neo Geo X console, which will be made available on a single cart in April.
Neo Geo X Classics will include a data transfer cable as well as the first system update for the console. No price has been confirmed yet, nor the exact date, but the european AES cart of Kizuna Encounter has exchanged hands for thousands of pounds in the past.
Whatever the price, it’ll probably be less than that. The other games you can expect are:
- Art Of Fighting 3
- Blazing Star
- Breakers Revenge
- Fatal Fury: Mark Of The Wolves
- Kizuna Encounter
- The King Of Fighters ’96
- The Last Blade 2
- Metal Slug 2
- Samurai Shodown 3
- Savage Reign
- Sengoku
- Shock Troopers
- Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory
- Top Hunter-
- World Heroes Jet
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