Monday, July 29, 2013

News::Did Yuna? Lightning Returns has a Final Fantasy X outfit

There's quite a bit of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII news afoot courtesy of All Games Beta.


We now know Lightning Returns will feature four distinct areas, the newest revealed of which is a "vast, open-world area in vain of Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" in which you can ride Chocobos and generally gallivant around. I'm also quite interested in the first city where Lightning apparently is investigating a murder. Games tend to do investigation poorly, because failing would mean ruining progress and pacing, so it will be interesting to see if that bit is any fun.


There will also be over 100 shop types. Talk about meeting your critics. It's like when Square was super excited to awkwardly show off the jump button in Final Fantasy XIII-2. "You wanted shops?" Square asks. "How about over a hundred different kinds," game director Motomu Toriyama screams from the rooftops while batting at fan requests flown in on paper airplanes.


Speaking to the legitimately interesting "dress up" portion of the game, certain outfits allow you to alter the colors, while save data from previous games will grant access to Lightning's earlier outfits. On top of that, you can dress Lightning up in Yuna's summoner outfit from Final Fantasy X, which gives her a demure bow post-battle.


I actually thought it was going to be Auron's garb given that her default clothes look similar. A bit less excited with this. Then again, I'm presently mildly less excited about the project as a whole after reading that sophomoric interview about increasing Lightning's bust and adding jiggle physics. Just let me be tentatively excited, Square! Since it seems everyone is fair game, any other outfits you'd like to see? I vote something from Final Fantasy XII.


Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII pics and info from Tokyo event [All Games Beta]


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News::Rockstar reveals 12 new Grand Theft Auto V grabs

News::
Media Molecule’s Vita exclusive Tearaway delayed


Tearaway will now be released on November 22, a month later than planned, developer Media Molecule has confirmed.


The studio has explained on its blog that it needed “a little more time than we anticipated to finish the game; to tie all of the mechanics, story and amazing visuals together into the adventure that we want you to play.”


The UK studio had originally intended to release the game on October 22, and added: “We’re really, really sorry for the minor delay, we promise you hand on heart that the wait will be worthwhile!”


Our most recent time with the game suggested that it will be – you can read our Tearaway preview through the link.


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News::Review: BIT.TRIP FATE | OnlySP

OnlySP: BIT.TRIP has released its penultimate chapter for the BIT.TRIP series with its fifth installment BIT.TRIP FATE. Its time for Commander Video to bring his journey to a close.



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News::Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Dear Video Game Expert—Marsh

News::The Walking Dead vs. The Last of Us

From the article - While both of these extraordinary titles exist in different worlds both offer a chance to throw out the philosophies about what is right and wrong, but which does it better? Does Naughty Dogs The Last of Us construct a more believable world where morals are weak, or does Telltale Games The Walking Dead vividly portray how survival and relationships will be like if the world does end?



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News::Evoland Review | HAL

Isaac Wagner: "There's some magic to be had in the early goings as Evoland evolves, following the design and art trajectory of the games it admires so, but when it stops moving, you'll quickly recolonize Evoland as the poor yet flashy historian that it truly is."



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News::Player Attack TV: July 26, 2013

What would you like to know about this week? Player Attack looks at free-to-play online shooter Firefall, which has finally opened its doors to everyone as part of open beta testing. The team chats with Creative Director Yosuke Shiokawa about Murdered: Soul Suspect, and checks out how things are going with Mad Max, with some help from developer Andreas Gschwari. ...plus, of course, the week's biggest gaming news as well - this is Player Attack!



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News::Satellite Reign Kickstarter ends with environmental destruction

IncGamers reports that Satellite Reign's Kickstarter has now ended, having squeaked past its stretch goal to add environmental destruction.



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News::Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Completion Time Revealed, Will be 'Less Cinematic'

Ubisoft will tell its pirate tale through gameplay this time around, and not a slew of cutscenes.



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News::Now Bloody Playing: Aliens: Stasis Interrupted Part 3


Lisbeth is dead, and we continue our boring journey through space with ... some other person!


Witness the terror of aliens that stand around waiting to die. Be amazed by Hicks' magic pants! Feel shock at the comprehension of Weyland-Yutani's Danger Ammo!


Now Bloody Playing: Aliens: Stasis Interrupted Part 3 screenshot






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News::Paving the Path to Pro: Interviewing a Diamond Player - "Bear Hands"

Shoduran interviews Bear Hands, a Diamond 5 Jungler in League of Legends.



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News::Review: The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief Chapter 1: The Eye Of The Sphinx - Electronic Theatre

As production values at the high-end of videogame development increase so to do the visual quality of smaller productions. Theres an argument that plot delivery is no more accomplished now than it was in the early 90s, that the interactive entertainment medium is not limited but technology but rather imagination, but The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief proves otherwise. This is a videogame experience that lives and dies on its story and the characters therein, and it would easily have suffered without such personality in its visual and aural presentation.



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News::A deeper look into Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag's open world gameplay | GZ Preview

GameZone writes, "There's no question that Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is one of the year's most anticipated games. Its vast scope surpasses what previous games have managed to do, and the introduction of a pirating theme is most intriguing, as you'll be able to do anything from hunt for treasure to overtaking rival vessels to gain their loot. The company recently invited us on board a life-sized recreation of the Dackjaw during San Diego Comic-Con to get a better look at single-player gameplay."



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News::On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 Review | Gorilla Film Magazine

Gorilla Film Magazine reviews On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4, the final part of an episodic, JRPG action-adventure videogame series with an emphasis on humor. The writing is great, but is it strong enough to carry the gameplay?



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News::Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded Review | Awesome Games

Vince from Awesome Games writes: 'In the days before the ubiquity of internet porn, a game that let you stare at some pixelated breasts was a pretty big deal. But twenty-five years later does Larrys misadventures in exploring his own sexuality in the big city have the same cultural relevance? Don your leisure suit and pack your lubbers folks, Larrys back in the town of Lost Wages.'



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News::ChristCenteredGamer TrackMania 2 Valley review

This game is a no brainer there are few games that combine the modern advances in graphics and sound, and the old-school arcade-like 'get the best time' gameplay as well as TrackMania.



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News::'Witcher 3' devs "don't believe in selling extra content"

Examiner: "In an industry where paid downloadable content seems pretty standard, at least on the console side, it's a little rare to see developers flat out state that they hate charging for content. CD Projekt Red's game director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, took some time to talk with Examiner about the studio's upcoming title The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, in an interview that will be fully published on Wednesday. During our discussion, Konrad spoke about providing gamers with extra content, and Projekt Red's stance on the matter."



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News::Pixel Enemy's Race The Sun preview: Endless adrenaline pumping fun

Pixel Enemy previews endless racer Race The Sun



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News::Grand Theft Auto V‘s And Max Payne 3‘s Combat Compared, Side By Side

News::'Space Hulk' Coming on August 15

Space Hulk is a 3D digital turn-based strategy game based on the best-selling board game and set in the Warhammer 40K universe.



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News::Rise of Venice Preview (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "Franchise evolutions are difficult often, in making sure a studio doesnt overreach themselves with new technology or mechanics, theyll cut down or be more cautious in other areas. Rise of Venice is the new trading simulation game from GamingMinds the same people who brought you Patrician IV, and more recently, Port Royale 3. In many ways, it expands and improves on the core mechanics in an expected and steady fashion, but in other ways it marks the next big step in the evolution of the series as a whole.".



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News::Vandal- The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief Review

Vandal:Crowd of clichés come together in an attractive graphical adventure and lets us enjoy the first of three promising episodes.



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News::3Djuegos- Shadowrun Returns Review

3D:At last we can shout from the rooftops that Shadowrun is back.The remarkable tactical RPG adventure stands out greatly for its story, atmosphere and fun combat system.



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News::Meristation- Shadowrun Returns Review

MS;Shadowrun Returns is a fun game. It is solid and with enormous potential. What is being shown now is just a small part of what may be achieved and everyone knows that when the community has the necessary tools, they end up doing great things. Harebrained Schemes has managed where to draw the line between the possible and the ambitious, but seems to have behaved too conservatively and it shows with the lack of content. If those responsible and users know how to profit what has been created, we will have a game that will be worth much more. But all of this is about to happen.



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News::Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches achievements revealed

Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches achievements revealed



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News::Battlefield 4 concept art, seven stunning images

Battlefield 4 concept art, seven stunning images



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News::And Now, Here's Gintama's Sakata Gintoki Beating The Crap Out Of Goku

News::Edge- Shadowrun Returns Review

Edge:Harebrained Schemes presents Shadowrun Returns debut campaign a detective story named Dead Mans Switch with disarming, perhaps even undue modesty. Select New Game and Dead Mans Switch sits quietly atop an empty column, which, if everything goes to plan, will be filled with dozens of other stories set in Jordan Weismans technomagical world, courtesy of the games built-in level editor. A role-playing game in the true, pen-and-paper sense, this universe was built for players to weave their own tales into its fiction, and now they have digital tools to do so. Its taken twenty years for Shadowruns return, but if its fanbase proves dedicated enough it need never go away again.



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News::Gun Monkeys Gets A Price Cut

Dan Marshall discusses why Gun Monkeys has had a price cut and what it means for pricing elsewhere in the indie gaming community.



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News::Men of War: Assault Squad 2 in development exclusively for PC and due in Q4 2013

1C Company revealed today that it's working on the development of Men of War: Assault Squad 2, which will release exclusively for the PC in Q4 2013. Men of War: Assault Squad 2 features new single player style skirmish modes that take players from tank combat to sniper stealth missions. Multiplayer has also been improved, with opponents now battling against each other on new multiplayer 1v1 4v4 maps. You'll also be excited to know that a new 8v8 game mode has been designed for huge battles on massive maps.



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News::Grand Theft Auto IV - Piano Car Mod

DSOGaming writes: "Our reader 'Jonathan Gustafsson' has shared with us a new mod for GTA IV, in which the player gets to drive a... piano car."



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News::Eve Online: Image of 4000 people fighting each other emerges

There's a massive battle going on in Eve Online right now and here's a screenshot of that.



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News::Gamers petition for Steam to add subtitles to game listings

A petition for Valve to add subtitles to Steam has appeared, and is gaining momentum.



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News::Spacious Anxious sounds like Metroid boss music

Musician sleepytimejesse has graced the Dtoid front page before. Last year, he directed I Miss You - EarthBound 2012 , in which various artists used the sound library from EarthBound to produce an entirely new score. He later directed Make Music, Throw Music , the same concept but using Yoshi's Island audio instead


Spacious Anxious is his latest solo venture. It's an original 10-track space trek that samples sounds from multiple games spanning the SNES through GameCube, including Super Metroid, EarthBound, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, Kirby 64, Glover , and others. And yeah, it sounds totally like variations on Super Metroid boss battle themes. Fine by me!


You can score the album from Bandcamp for only $4. Cough it up if you wanna!


Spacious Anxious [Bandcamp]


Spacious Anxious sounds like Metroid boss music screenshot


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News::Check out HydraDeck, the ultimate VR experience (Oculus Rift+Hydra)

In this demo called HydraDeck, the player has to physically dodge and take cover from enemy fire. The author also claims that there is very little motion sickness involved.



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News::Daedalic publishing Journey of a Roach from Koboldgames

Daedalic Entertainment and Koboldgames are working on a new 3D adventure game called Journey of a Roach, which is set in a post-apocalyptic world and is about a cockroach called Jim and his sidekick Bud.



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News::Hands-On Preview: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified A Day in the Life - Electronic Theatre

William Carter: "Agent Da Silva has gone missing while inspecting a recently invaded small town. A newly erected tower in the centre of the Pima County is nothing short of suspicious, and the seemingly zombified townsfolk arent exactly culpable allies. Ive been sent in to locate Da Silva and gather intel on the tower. This isnt going to be an easy assignment, but thats not why I signed up for The Bureau in the first place."



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News::Phil Fish and the hate mob: an internet tragedy


Phil Fish is dead. He’s not dead, obviously. He’s just stopped posting on Twitter, cancelled Fez 2, and apparently abandoned games altogether after the hate got too much. In the aftermath of the cancellation, it’s not hard to see why – just a brief look at the comments on Polytron’s website is enough to make you not only swear off games, but the internet, words, and nerds aged 18 – 35 with very strong opinions about things.


But now he’s gone – and assuming he stays gone – it’s worth remembering just what we all loved about Phil Fish, with “we” in this instance referring to the part of the internet that isn’t currently on blogs accusing him of being a gay criminal or a woman.


Ask yourself whether you’d like a high-profile developer who doesn’t filter their opinions and isn’t shy of coming out with something that’s a bit controversial. The answer, cleverly suggested by the format and tone of the question, is yes. Most people on the internet would probably agree with that. But there’s a hidden clause to that agreement, which is “provided said controversial opinions agree entirely with everything I hold dear, on pain of going berserk and throwing around a few death threats.”


Phil Fish absolutely fulfilled his side of this bargain, with a big chunk of the web fulfilling the other side. It’s tempting to say that Fish tells it like it is, if ‘tells like it is’ wasn’t a euphemism for ‘is a mad bigot with no off-switch’. Phil Fish isn’t a mad bigot; only the most perspective-challenged self-identified fans of Japanese games would accuse him of being a bigot, which is admittedly still at least 50 per cent of self-identified fans of Japanese games.


And the thing is, Fish didn’t even tell it like it was. There’s no pretence that his pronouncements are the objective state of the world; when he said that Japanese games sucked, it was reported as a unilateral attack on Japanese developers, their Japanese mums, and Japan in general, with Fish rearing out of the ocean and kicking over some CGI skyscrapers with ‘ALL OF NINTENDO’S BACK CATALOGUE’ written on them. There was no context and no intimation that hey, maybe there was some discussion and explanation attached to the original statement. You could blame this on Chinese whispers, except that implies a gradual process of a message’s content degrading through retelling, rather than it going straight from zero to a lurid account of Phil Fish draped in a Canadian flag, being disrespectful towards a photograph of Toshiro Mifune while confidently stating to an agog press corps that Western game development’s most cynical freemium child-enslaving bankruptcy enabler was a more satisfying and rewarding experience than Super Mario 64 and Street Fighter II combined.



This refusal to pipe down and stop being mean to angry 18-35 males isn’t surprising when you think of Fish’s history. Fez’s development took in half a decade and a whole series of personal, professional, and financial setbacks. It’s astounding that he and Polytron finished it at all, let alone to the point where it’s a beautiful, brilliant reinvention of gaming’s equivalent of the wheel – the platform game. Fez is an incredible achievement, with the layered, nested levels of design taking you right from the basics of jumping from platform to platform, through the mind-punching flipping of perspective, all the way up to decoding alien languages and working out what the hell those owls are all about. It’s a game that doesn’t hold your hand, but at the same time never deliberately lets you fall – it trusts you with its puzzles so implicitly that it rarely even tells you that there is a puzzle.


The gigawatt-laser intensity required to push that through meant Fish was never likely to use his Twitter account to quietly push out press release-toned news updates and blandly positive statements that he’s looking forward to various things. He didn’t use Twitter for that. He used it to say that “gamers are the worst fucking people”. And why not? Everyone who plays games and reads about them, or has read any online comment section at all ever knows this is broadly true. Most people would joke about it; some people would even take a kind of weird pride in it. But when Phil Fish says it after the internet threatens to pirate his work because they don’t like him, then it’s action stations oh God everything’s on fire.


We’re so used to seeing developers’ public personas through a mesh of corporate hierarchy and external comms policy that seeing someone filtered through the mesh of being a sarcastic real-life person is frightening and confusing. And following this weekend’s announcement, it looks as though those meshes were there for a reason; the corporate mesh deflects and absorbs abuse, deforming and ricocheting off to one side like a bullet on kevlar, whereas Phil Fish’s normal person mesh just lets everything through unhindered, to grim cumulative effect.


The game industry needs more people like Phil Fish, and it’ll be all the poorer for his absence if he’s really gone. The internet isn’t short of people saying things are rubbish, in the same way that there’s probably enough creepy artwork of characters from Mass Effect already, and Sonic-themed erotic fiction is so oversubscribed as to be on a one-in-one-out system. But there are precious few people in Phil Fish’s position who are willing or capable of stirring up such debate, and almost none who are as entertaining. You might hate him, but he made Fez – and as such, he’s probably better than you.


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News::Our Australian comrades report that after being re-submitted for classification, Saints Row IV has a

News::New Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Screenshots Feature Summoner Pets, Armor

If you plan to play a Summoner in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, today Square Enix released a batch of eyecandy for you in the form of some screenshots of the three pets the job will get: Ifrit-Egi, Garuda-Egi and Titan-Egi.



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News::Teslagrad Confirmed for European Release

Rain Games has confirmed that the recently revealed Teslagrad will see a release in Europe. Originally announced for Windows PC, Mac, Linux and PlayStation 3, Teslagrad is also set for release on Wii U this autumn. Teslagrad will be available on all formats simultaneously via their respective digital channels.



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News::New Incredibly Realistic GTA IV: iCEnhancer 2.5 Mod Screens Released

Modder (Hayssam Keilany) behind popular iCEnhancer mod has released some brand new screenshots from iCEnhancer 2.5 BETA 6. Hayssam Keilany originally planned to release iCEnhancer 2.5 mod for GTA IV in early July, however the release got delayed for some unknown reason



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News::Senior producer on updating Strider for the modern era

Szymanski stated how the project was " really a labor of love for me because a lot of people of my generation grew up playing it."



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News::Ashes Cricket 2013 Delayed to November

The game will now come out in November 2013, to coincide with the second series in Australia.



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News::Kings of Legends (Rise of Mythos) Review

The author is giving Kings and Legends 10/10 rating since the game satisfies both his preference for TCG and strategy games.



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News::The Walking Dead: Clementine as a Playable Character?

Should Clementine be a playable character in the new season of The Walking Dead?



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News::Shadowrun Returns Review (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "Shadowrun Returns is set in the sci-fi/fantasy tabletop world of Shadowrun, a futuristic world ruled by megacorporations, technology and magic. It fuses high fantasy with cyberpunk and its as compelling as it sounds. Humans, elves, dwarves, trolls, and orcs are the main races and can all be chosen to be your player character (with various bonuses for each). After that you aim for a speciality, such as Mage, Decker (hacker), Shaman (can summon elemental beings), and Rigger (can control Drones). Shadowrun Returns itself is an isometric RPG with turn-based combat, which Ill get into more shortly but first, plot. ".



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News::Dragon Quest X Gets Android and iPhone Companion App

Nowadays companion apps are all the rage for MMORPGs and the Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online isnt an exception. Square Enix just released a companion app for Android and iPhone that will help the adventurers braving the lands of Astoltia on their Wii and Wii U (and on PC starting from September the 26th), in Japan of course.



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News::GTA V's character switching modded into GTA IV


One of the big game changing new mechanics in Grand Theft Auto V is the ability to switch between three different characters. The trio will work together to pull of heists, but they'll also be living out their own lives when not in the player's control.


Well a similar feature is in the works for Grand Theft Auto IV by modders from the GTA X Scripting YouTube. This is the same group that's modded in the Hulk, Iron Man, and more. This particular mod will allow players to switch between Niko, main protagonist from GTA IV, and the two episodic DLC releases, Johnny, and Luis.


And like in GTA V, the character switching works just about the same way as you zoom away from your character, go high above Liberty City, then travel back down into another character as they're in the middle of whatever it was they were doing. Obviously it's not exactly like GTA V, especially how you can switch characters while the cops are in pursuit as you can't do in GTA V. Still, neat idea. The mod is currently in the works, and will be released at an unspecified time.


GTA V's character switching modded into GTA IV screenshot






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