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Saturday, May 4, 2013
News::The Night of the Rabbit Preview (Invision Game Community)
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News::Star Trek Review (ITF Gaming)
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News::JUST STOP IT!
NO!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
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News::Borderlands 2 developer gifts fans with free in-game items all weekend long
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News::A Future In Football
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News::World of Tanks to launch first "Bookazine" - press release
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News::Interview: The crew at Yacht Club Games talks Shovel Knight (Part I)
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News::New Screens for Batman: Arkham Origins
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News::How Our Perception of Shepard Affects The Mass Effect Universe
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News::Talking About TinyKeep With Creator Phi Dinh
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News::Corsual's Chartilifax Dragon Boss Strategy Guide - Neverwinter Online
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News::Spoilerific Staff Talk: Bioshock Infinite - Part III
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News::Top Ten in Game Vistas
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News::Anamanguchi wants make Endless Fantasy even bigger
Anamanaguchi just finished Endless Fantasy, their new 22-track record that's been in the works for the last three years. This is not the end of the story though, as Anamanguchi wants to go BIG.
The chiptune band has put up a Kickstarter with the goal of raising $50,000 to make more awesome music videos like the one for MEOW, the first single off of Endless Fantasy. The band has reached their goal already, but any extra funding will go towards making even more cool things. More music videos, better promotion, better tour lighting, collaborations with other artists, and merchandising.
Some of the higher tier backer rewards are pretty cool too. Rewards include having the band teach you how to make sweet chiptune jams, give you their custom modded tour NES or Game Boys, the cat head 4chan's Moot wore in the MEOW music video, and creating your own personal theme song. There's even a reward where they'll play a show at your house and give you their sh*tty van.
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News::Something About Japan: Shuhei Yoshida on the ‘war for the living room’
Japanese game news site 4Gamer.net sat down with Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida this week to canvass his thoughts on the future of the game industry – and how PS4 will fit in with it.
He also detailed limitations of the Share button and explained how Sony intends to make PS4 more attractive to consumers and to developers.
To begin, Yoshida confirmed that Sony’s goal when announcing PS4 at the PlayStation Meeting in February was to establish the machine first and foremost as a console for gaming – but that the console would not budge from its place beneath the TV set.
“In terms of the ‘war for the living room’, we have no intention of abandoning that approach. After all, Sony is a company that has a long history of making audio-visual products that are designed for the living room, so this is a natural course for us. If anything it’s the other companies that have changed course by moving into this space.”
Rather than a dig at Nintendo or Microsoft, this appeared to be a reference to Apple and Valve, both of which are slowly revolutionising the way we consume digital content, and the rise of smart TV.
“Recently there has been a lot of talk about smart TV and devices that can also play games,” he said. “When we first introduced PS4, we wanted to avoid giving the message that it can also do this and can also do that. We wanted to show a focus on just the most important aspect of the console.
“We want to change for the better the way people play games and the way people make games. Yes, you can use this console for things like watching a Blu-ray or Netflix, but that is not its main purpose. The hardware is designed specifically for games. After all, new games will never be in short supply.”
Asked specifically how he would like to change the way games are made and played, Yoshida said: “I’d like to emphasise ease of use. How the controls feel, how much time you spend waiting around for it to turn on and off, things like that. It’s about giving more consideration to the user experience. On portable smartphones and tablets, you can start playing as soon as you want to and quit whenever you like. PS4 will be a home console that can do that too.”
Yoshida explained that Sony’s challenge with PS4 was less about cramming it with top-spec innards and hitherto unimagined new features but instead to make it friendlier for third-party developers to make games for.
“Even we (SCE Worldwide Studios) had a hard time developing for PS3 (at first). But third parties had real trouble developing or porting games, because (the system) was so different. Of course, the PS3 is still showing unrealised potential with new games today. It’s difficult to believe that games like The Last Of Us and Beyond: Two Souls are running on exactly the same hardware as those early games. Those developers have studied hard to make a great PS3 game. But it’s taken a long time (for developers) to reach this point. This time we’re considering how to create a better development environment for third parties from the start.”
Yoshida confirmed that inclusion of PS4’s massive 8GB RAM was a response to demand from developers who had struggled with PS3’s sparse RAM. But he also stated that specs are not the only consideration in making PS4 a system that is easy to develop for.
“There is a saying that the ease of making something goes hand in hand with the ease of doing business. So we want to make it easier to do business and to build an ecosystem.”
Yoshida admitted that it is getting harder to secure big-budget exclusives for any given console, with third-party developers mitigating the growing cost of console game production by taking their titles multiplatform to reach the widest possible audience. This in turn makes it harder for platform-holders to differentiate their console from the competition.
“In that case,” he said, “we need to make sure users consider the PS4 version to be the best and the one they want to play. That might mean that the graphics are better, the controller is more comfortable, or the point I mentioned earlier about the console being more user-friendly, like you don’t have to turn the power on and off or you can switch between your game and Netflix at will. Those things will become key.”
Yoshida explained that the origin of the Share button, which will allow PS4 owners to upload video from their game at almost any time, was rooted in this concept too.
“We were trying to think of a way to make it easier for users to upload video, and one day a member of our in-house production team just said, ‘How about a Share button?’ We called out in unison, ‘That’s it!’”
Yoshida’s own desire to make videos easy to share was a result of his addiction to Dark Souls, clips of which he would seek out on Japanese video-sharing site Niconico Douga. “I wanted to play Dark Souls all day long, but I couldn’t do that because I was too busy. So instead I would watch people playing it live on Niconico whenever I had some spare time. By doing that, you can find other ways to play the game and read comments by other users. I felt that sharing videos is a really important part of enjoying games.”
He said that the Share button will have its limitations, however, and that users will not quite have free reign to upload whatever in-game footage they like.
“There will be parts of a game that the maker does not want people to be able to see,” he said. “For example, on Vita, developers can in certain scenes disable the feature that lets users take a screenshot, and (the Share function) will have a similar mechanism. The creator may not want to make video of the final boss sharable, for instance.”
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News::Ubisoft claims it has proven the Assassins Creed franchise is relevant
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News::Team Fortress 2: Balloonicorn Plush Coming Soon
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News::Tyranny of King Washington: The Redemption Review I Expansive
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News::Sega and Gearbox respond to Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit
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News::Avalanche Studios has faith in the F2P model, will start creating F2P titles on consoles
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News::Browse Destructoid with your arrow keys like a boss
Would you like to browse Destructoid posts by just using your arrow keys? Here you go.
The tool was created by the folks at Nextly, a cool browser app that lets you skip from one post to another at the click of a key, and also lets you import your social feeds (or explore other favorite feeds, like Reddit). They're currently in beta and are curious to know what you think.
Do want?
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News::Wargaming details World of Tanks: Blitz
Wargaming's first mobile title is called World of Tanks: Blitz. We played it not too long ago, and this new video from the studio shows off some of the gameplay. Not much is shown off, but from we do get to see it doesn't look all that bad.
Chris Taylor also pops up at the end of this promo video, and he details what's been up with his studio after getting acquired by Wargaming. Don't expect much though as there's no real info given about their upcoming free-to-play MMO project.
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News::PC Game Deals: Star Wars, Tomb Raider bundles for cheap
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News::This Surgeon Simulator cake is super gross
The guys behind Surgeon Simulator 2013 had a special cake made to celebrate the game's success. It's themed after what you do in the game, and well, it's pretty damn gross. So gross that I put it below the fold in case you're a big baby that can't handle gross looking things.
Baby.
Read more...
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News::RaceRoom Racing Experience Impressions (TruePCGaming)
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News::Combat Pilot Review Part 1 (TruePCGaming)
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News::Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Overview I Expansive
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News::Game Preview - Anomaly 2 - - Blackman 'N Robin
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News::Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Review | Bag of Games
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News::Mega Man Unlimited fan game goes J-pop in new trailer
It's been a while since we heard news on Mega Man Unlimited , the balls-awesome Mega Man fan game that fooled even Capcom into thinking it was legit! You may remember my interview last year with project lead Philippe "MegaPhilX" Poulin -- if you don't, do give it a read so I won't have to repeat my torrent of praise and support for this surefire masterpiece.
Caught up? Good, moving on.
Mega Man Unlimited has just entered the alpha phase, which means it has finally begun testing. To celebrate, Philippe has edited together a very Japanese trailer, complete with J-pop theme song and everything. I'm sure you'll agree, though, that the highlight of this video is clearly the platypus miniboss. I think I'll name him "Perry."
Megaman Unlimited - Japanese Style Trailer [YouTube]
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News::Here's a look at Watch Dogs on the PlayStation 4
Ubisoft has shared some new details and some gameplay of Watch Dogs running on the PlayStation 4. A couple of the developers behind the game detail how Ubisoft is harnessing the full power of the PS4, leveraging the high-resolution textures and advanced special effects. The pair also discuss some of the connected features, from the environment itself and to other players as well.
I wasn't totally sucked into Watch Dogs when it was revealed at E3 last year, but the more I see of it the more interested I get. Watch Dogs is out on November 19 in North America, and November 22 in Europe for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii U, PS4, and whatever the new Xbox will be called.
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News::CC Impact Presents God Mode [Capsule Computers]
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News::Starcraft II World Championship Series America 2013 Week 1 Recap
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News::CC Impact Presents Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine [Capsule Computers]
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News::IGN- Mars War Logs Review
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News::Rumor: Big announcement for The Sims series next Monday
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News::Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall | Review (Only Single Player)
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News::Science Fiction meets Cthulhu in new Magrunner: Dark Pulse Trailer
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News::What the hell is wrong with your ass, Alucard?!
Asslevania: Symphony of the Farts.
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News::Dishonoreds Void Walkers Arsenal pack arriving on 14 May
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News::Doujin Classic: Lethal Application
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News::Hope for Gotham City in Batman: Arkham Origins
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News::Runescape 3 Detailed, Jagex Expanding MMO Franchise To Mobile And Smart TVs
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News::CalmDownTom asks: Should I be excited about... Kerbal Space Program?
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News::Dracula IV: The Shadow of the Dragon Unveiled
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News::Runescape 3 Design Director Mark Ogilvie Details New Game Experience
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News::Project CARS - Prototype Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 Showcased, Community Multiplayer Trailer
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News::Cyberpunk Shooter/RPG Contract Work Releases a Demo
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News::Too Much Violence in Gaming?
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