- Breaking news here folks! Destructoid just fired one of their writers over a comment about Felicia Day.
- Nintendo now shares ownership of the Fatal Frame series with Koei. Now we’ll see some spooky photography on the Wii-U.
- The Wii-U online service will be free. At least Nintendo isn’t testing the stupidity of their fanbase in this way.
- Developers are having a hard time with the Wii U’s controller. The console just isn’t powerful enough to drive the screen on your TV and on the tablet.
- An additional circle pad or the circle pad pro won’t be bundled with the 3DS. Probably because the size of it makes it makes the 3DS barely a handheld.
Why, it’s as big as an Xbox!
- Kaz Hirai has stepped down as the chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment. Before you start seeing this as Sony’s death knell, Kaz Hirai is still in the company as a board member.
- Remember those LulzSec guys? Two plead guilty to hacking the Sony. Is there anal rape in British correctional facilities?
At least they acted classy.
- The Lords of Shadow developers are through with Castlevania after LOS2. They plan to work on Contra. What do you think about “Gears of Contra”?
- Atari turned 40 years old recently. They’re definitely in the gaming retirement home.
- More Dishonored gameplay. How can a steampunk Deus Creed go wrong?
- Hey, are you Hindu? Are you offended by SMITE? Why aren’t you playing SMITE?
The real one isn’t as busty.
- EA is expanding the “Battlefield Premium” season passes to other games. We can only hope that every game will have a season pass.
- After Prototype 2, Radical Entertainment is essentially no more. The ones left to stay are surely making the next COD map pack.
- You can watch EVO in glorious 720p this year, but you’ll have to pay up some money. Most of the money will go to game design scholarships and better audience chairs. Of course, you’ll be able to watch a stream of EVO online for free.
What? I have to get the sandwiches?
- The E3 Best of Show awards are out. The Last of Us was the big winner.
- Interested in making Source Engine videos like “Meet the Pyro”? Sign up for a free Source Filmmaker invitation.
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Dear god that picture.
Ryan Perez had an extremely valid point, and I’m astounded that Destructoid would act so childish.
+Fatal Frame getting revived sounds nice.
+Pyromania shaped up to be fantastic.
-EA seriously isn’t pleasing anyone. Activision was under so much heat last year, and even the year before that. By copying their business strategy, EA took all the PR hate with along with it.
@ Destructoid: I continue to be amazed at the degrees some people will take political correctness to. We live in a culture that pretends it doesn’t defecate; a culture that burns words at the stake prior to turning around and talking shit behind a best friend’s back. I will die waiting for a day where humans will be willing to acknowledge the fact that each of us wears forty masks, each for a different time, place, and person.
Do people really think Felicia Day’s day is going to be ruined by some chubby guy’s comment on Twitter? Do you have any idea how much harassment she endures on a daily basis just for being female in a supposedly male-dominated industry? Would you like to know how much sleep she loses over text debates about her on the internet? None. She’s a big girl. She’s been doing this for years.
I’m not going to attack Destructoid, because they’re probably just reacting to the 40 minutes of ADD-relieving drama that undoubtedly just hit Tumblr, Twitter, or whatever else fad-of-the-year social networking orgy “autistic pangender asexual demiromantic trans-Asian(sic) cat otherkin” feminists hang out on now. I’m going to attack overly sensitive people:
Stop it. Grow up. Find something to do. Stop pretending to be offended by every little thing for the sake of creating any amount of drama to fulfill yourself with. Maybe you should play a video game instead of defending a grown woman who is currently 1) totally unaware that someone Tweetered about her, and 2) laughing hysterically while scaling her mountain of money.
… also, I wish you could play Jesus or Allah in Smite, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
@ Rick – They won’t grow up. Especially not in the game industry. It’s like the old speech Jason Rubin gave at GDC. Even though its a “game” industry its run by the Marketing teams. Media personalities like Day are pretty faces they parade around at parties and events and wield them like a branding iron to assure everyone else that being “such a nerd” is something cool, attractive people do. It’s not even about making good games, as evidence of the piles of DLC and constant core audience blaming, it’s a matter of creating an image and selling people that.
They’re selling an idea that’s got less substance than vaporware. The clamoring of those oversensitive groups wouldn’t even reach land if there wasn’t a marketing frigate carving a path through the violent waters.
I agree with that sentiment generally. The industry’s in a pretty horrible stage of arrested development right now when it comes to communicating to its consumers. Honestly, GYP has been a breath of fresh air when looking for articles on gaming because of its lack of self-censorship in the name of profit.
Is anyone in the group going to be writing about the Mass Effect Endings? I never beat the game fully – I got to a point that felt satisfying in terms of narrative towards the end and haven’t returned – but I’d be interested to see what it attempts by people who can produce coherent articles.
Our ME3: Extended Cut editorial will be going up on the site any day now.
“Media personalities like Day are pretty faces they parade around at parties and events and wield them like a branding iron to assure everyone else that being “such a nerd” is something cool, attractive people do.”
I have no idea what they really want. They parade these girls around who don’t play games and act like victims when called on it.
Nobody cares if girls play games or not, but if you’re going to highlight it, at the very least parade around the ugly girls with acne scars that DO play games. I knew an overweight 45-year-old woman in HR that plays Civilization V. She had five skin tags on her neck to my two. She was a formidable opponent.
“Gears of Contra”…. oh God it hurts.
Sorry, but I read this for video game news. Not video game “journalism” news. I’m pretty sick of hearing about different internet dramas wherever I turn.
I’m sorry too. We can both be sorry.
Video game industry news is video game news. If you care about the latter but not the former then you’re being an irresponsible consumer.
I’d say Felicia’s so-called fans probably have scarier, more disturbing thoughts about her than the guys questioning her fame.
We should offer Ryan Perez an unpaid internship. And ask him to write all his articles about Felicia Day.