The dark, twisted game from Italian studio Ovosonico, Murasaki Baby, is coming to Vita in North America. You'll be tasked with guiding Baby back to her mother and away from terrifying nose monsters that are chasing her around.
Dale played Murasaki Baby at gamescom, where it was announced for European markets. The PlayStation Blog has now confirmed it for North American release, which is not surprising, given there is no text or narration to worry about localizing.
Maybe the yet-to-be-dated Halo series isn't your speed. Nor is that soccer reality show. Maybe you'd like a TV show loosely based around Nas' life as an up and coming rapper in 1990's New York?
According to Deadline, Street Dreams is the latest program in the works at Xbox Entertainment Studios. Set in Long Island’s Queensbridge, it "takes a look at music, family and the trials and tribulations of the rap game." It will be written and directed by Jonathan Levine (The Wackness, 50/50). Nas himself is also involved in the writing, as well as the music.
Apparently Xbox also has a comedy series about four ex-pro skaters living together in LA in the works.
XBox Developing 1990s Music Series Based On Rapper Nas’ Life [Deadline]
The demo for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is no longer restricted to owners of Mirror of Fate HD and the Lords of Shadow Collection -- it's out today on PlayStation Network and Steam.
If you are sure you're going to get the game, I'd recommend skipping this as it covers an early tutorial section you won't want to go through again. Otherwise, do check it out. Punching people into bloody explosions while riding on top of a towering automaton that's wrecking your castle serves as a cool introductory sequence. It may just be enough to push you over the edge.
Gabriel also says the infamous line from the opening of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It's silly, but much of this game is as far as the 20-minute demo is concerned and there's nothing wrong with that. I do want to fight Satan and his minions as Dracula, thanks.
[Thanks, Emufan]
If you know anything about my movie history you know that I'm absolutely in love with videogame documentaries. Seriously, I've probably watched Indie Game: The Movie like 30 times. So you can imagine my excitement when the Kickstarter for a documentary mini-series about videogames came up. Additionally, it's a mini-series made by the lovely dudes at Area5.tv. That's super exciting.
If Area5.tv isn't familiar to you they made The 1UP Show, and the completely amazing Co-Op. I'm pretty stoked for the show today. We're probably going to play Samurai Gunn and just hang out. You're going to want to be here for this. We're live at 2pm Pacific over on Dtoid.tv. I'll see you guys there.
Facepunch Studios' multiplayer survival game Rust has achieved one million sales, designer Garry Newman announced on Twitter. With the game getting to the top of the Steam charts and consistently remaining in the number-two spot behind DayZ, it was only a matter of time.
One of my major concerns with Rust in its current alpha state is cheating. It's been problematic. Facepunch has rolled out its own anti-cheat solution called CheatPunch which resulted in 4,621 people being detected and banned over this past weekend alone.
"CheatPunch isn't the answer to all of our prayers," wrote Newman. "It's a stop gap solution. It's going to get rid of a bunch of cheaters, but it's not hard to get around (by design). We fully expect cheats to be touted as 'CheatPunch proof' quite soon. That's cool. We're never going to be finished fighting."
The game also got a small update today. No more building structures around players and locking them inside, which is probably for the best even if it was humorous.
CheatPunch [Rust]
Valve held a conference for developers last month called Steam Dev Days and, as promised, a number of sessions have since been uploaded to YouTube. In some cases, presentation slides are also available. While there's certainly a fair bit of technical talk to be found here, if you're here reading this now, you'll be just fine watching this stuff.
Some of the talks that stand out to me as someone who isn't a game developer are: "In-Game Economies in Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2," "Marketing Your Game," "Community and Communication in Games-As-Services," "What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years," and "Is Early Access Right for You?"
Find the links to those sessions and more at the official Steam Dev Days site.
Part of the drawback with games released in an episodic fashion is that you're always clamoring for the next installment. Whether it's The Wolf Among Us or The Dream Machine , some of my favorite recent episodic titles have been hit with delays of various lengths between releases and that's been especially true with Kentucky Route Zero . In a blog post, developer Carboard Computer has revealed that it's still working on Act III but does't have a firm release date.
The post reads: "We are asked sometimes if the project is abandoned. No! Acts III, IV and V are still coming out. We've never stopped working on Kentucky Route Zero, and there's no risk of us abandoning it." Which is reassuring, at least.
There's no update on when we can expect the rest of the game to arrive but Cardboard Computer has a reason not to say. "We publicly announced release dates for Act I and II, and in both cases those dates slipped... it was pretty demoralizing to miss deadlines, and the barrage of negative attention that followed made it only more difficult to focus on work."
I can understand why you would want to avoid announcing another release date when your work process might mean another delay. Still I can understand why people aren't happy with the non-appearance of Act III; Kentucky Route Zero was a crowd-funded game and people want to know that the game they've backed is going to be fully released.
Act III Progress Update. [Cardboard Computer]
