- Nexon has reported interest in acquiring Electronic Arts. An analyst argued that Disney could be interested in the gaming giant. I wouldn’t expect these talks to go anywhere soon.
The Wii-U tablet will use NFC technology.
- A trailer for Rayman Legends was leaked. More importantly, this was showing off the Wii-U’s capability of NFC, or near field communication. Similar to Activision’s Skylanders, you place an action figure onto the Wii-U tablet, and the game will change according to the action figure. A Rayman rabbit was shown, as well as Ezio from Assassin’s Creed.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R game developers GSC Game World have finally closed down after financial turmoil. This also means that S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is canceled. A new studio called Vostok Games has been founded, and they’re working on a F2P MMO called Survarium.
- Dark Souls producer Daisuke Uchiyama spoke with Edge recently. He told them that the usage of GFWL for the PC version of Dark souls was “an ongoing partnership” and “We might have another announcement soon regarding the platform we’ll be using”.
- Timesplitters 4 “not be in development”. Maybe they’ll try next year.
It does look very familiar, but that may not be a bad thing at all.
- Sony is answering to Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. series with a new game called “PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale”. It is a crossover fighting game of popular characters traditionally seen on Sony consoles. The game is developed by SuperBot Entertainment, a new studio. It releases sometime this winter.
- Beta tests for big upcoming games like Guild Wars 2, TERA, and Diablo 3 have started. Which one will take up your free time?
- NVIDIA had a special keynote last night, detailing their next line of Kepler architecture video cards for the enthusiast PC gamer. NVIDIA detailed a new form of anti-aliasing for Kepler, called TXAA. TXAA will have lower resource requirements than previous anti-aliasing standards. GeForce Experience was another one of NVIDIA’s surprises, which aims to take the hard work out of optimizing PC game settings, and promises to be superior to the default settings you see in most games. NVIDIA also showed off their work with a few game developers: Crytek showed Crysis 3 and Warface, a F2P first person shooter. We also saw the Samaritan demo from Epic Games again. Instead of running on three GTX 580s, it will be able to have the same detail and framerate on a single GTX 680. Finally, we saw an unnamed game from an unnamed developer in China. It is set in WW2 China, and had some powerful physics and tessellation capabilities.
This is a good roundup of obscure news, but make sure the next one has more formatting.
nice article. I honestly am only excited for super sony bros because of the possible snake vs. dante fight, Though that is such a long shot because sonyhasnomascots.
Wonder if it’ll have the Katamari Prince.
I really hope the toy gimmick doesn’t somehow find its way into the PC version of Rayman Legends. On one hand I’m absolutely ecstatic that Rayman’s back to stay, but selling dozens of pieces of $10+ DLC that will be in limited supply and require you to physically track them down is just generally shitty business. I guess a lot of younger kids might enjoy this kind of thing, but games built around a business model like Skylanders don’t deserve to succeed if you ask me. There was a time when fun little bonus levels based on your other series were simply hidden easter eggs, and I’m not convinced this toy-based content is going to be worth what they want to charge.
Also I really hope a Legend of Dragoon character or two finds their way into Sony’s Smash Brothers clone. It’s been so long since Sony has done ANYTHING with that property. Dart or Lloyd could easily fill the mandatory “dude with a sword” role. Also Lavitz. I’ll be disappointed if they just stick to PS3-era characters. There aren’t many of them.
No mention of Camera One’s crazy antics? I am disappoint.
Have to agree with the other comments. The site looks really nice, but the articles themselves are a bit of a mess when it comes to layout and formatting
I apologize for the formatting, we’re working on it.
Camera One’s antics? Not sure what you’re referring to, but I’d like to check it out.
>weekly dose
thanks doc
Oh Timesplitters 4- I cry.
Thanks doc.
No, fuck no, not that .gif.