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Namco Bandai, Capcom, and Sega team up for Project X Zone

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Apr 242013

Coming up this year is a tactical RPG for the 3DS, Project X Zone, however in Japan it came out back in October of 2012. This game, which is being published by Namco Bandai Games, will feature characters from three major video game publishers… Capcom, Sega, and of course Namco Bandai. It also seems to have anime styled cut scenes. Project X Zone is a follow up to Namco x Capcom (2005), and it will be featuring over 200 characters. These characters include, but aren’t limited to..

Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li from Street Fighter (Capcom)
X and Zero from Mega Man X (Capcom)
Jin and Xiaoyu from Tekken (Namco Bandai)
Kite and BlackRose from .hack (Namco Bandai)
Akira and Pai-Chan from Virtua Fighter (Sega)
Ulala from Space Channel 5 (Sega)

Project X Zone sounds pretty epic, but I have two questions.

WHY IS THIS COMING OUT ONLY ON 3DS?
WHY ISN’T THIS A FIGHTING GAME?

I mean seriously what the hell. When I heard about this I expected a fighter, now I can’t say I dislike RPG or the tactical sub genre either… But seriously. You had a chance to make a bad ass fighting game and didn’t. Then, you go and throw it on the 3DS, but I honestly look forward to this. Also, I noticed that this game hasn’t really gotten any press in the U.S., which is pretty bad for the sales point of games. Either way, I’m looking forward to Project X Zone. I’m excited to see characters like Arthur (Ghosts’n Goblins), Frank West (Dead Rising), and Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) in a new game, yay for crossovers.Project X Zone has a set release date in North America for June 25, 2013.

Here is the trailer for Project X Zone…

Project X Zone official website

BOOBS, PARTIES, & GDC: U MAD?

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Apr 012013

Well, well, well. GDC has been fun this year, no? I love to hear about all these stupid issues people have had over this event. The female GDC issues amuse me most of all. This is my opinion, so shut up for a bit and listen, okay? Supposedly Mojang threw a party with paid models to be there. Whether or not this is true I just don’t know, and with the way this got why would Notch admit to it anyway? This blew up like crazy sh*t. With the Mojang party I don’t really know what to say. Honestly I don’t give two sh*ts whether the Indie game company hired women (and then lied) or didn’t hire (and were accused of lying). You can’t really disprove a negative, anyways.

What I find more interesting is the losses of IGDA members. First of all, Brenda Romero was the co-chair of IGDA Women in Games Special Interest Group and she gave it up because of booth women, aka ‘Booth Babes’, at GDC 2013. Now, I personally do not mind ‘the booth babes’ or cosplayers or whatever at gaming conferences. It comes with the gaming/nerdy territory. But ladies it’s a party.. At a bar. What did you expect? It’s not really part of the GDC, its an after party, hosted at a bar/club. Really. Its something that is obvious. Does that mean every time you see a Hooters girl you feel uncomfortable? Or if you go to the mall and you have the woman in her extremely revealing clothes; does that make you feel uncomfortable? Grow up. I understand wanting females to be treated right in game development, trust me I do. But how the hell does whining about go-go dancers at a party matter at all or even make women seem serious? When I was younger I always wanted to go to E3, especially after seeing the pretty awesome ladies wearing techno type outfits. But thats just me. On another note, the women that worked at the party were hired because they said ‘yes’ to the job. I know for sure they had a choice to be ‘objectified’ or not. I mean seriously. The only reason you’d feel uncomfortable is if your worried that they have something you don’t have, but what does that matter either? The women, like Brenda Romero, were there because they are developers not because they were sex icons. So, why would they feel that by having dancers at a party it made that all women are just there for men’s pleasure. Please tell me how that makes sense at all.

I hope the crap with women in the gaming industry dies down a bit. Being that not all women want to scream ‘sexism’ because of a freaking party. At that rate why not just make everything fair and hire male dancers for parties, too. Lets just be ‘sexist’ all the way. Oh, whee sarcasm. Look at the bottom photo.. OH NO BLOOD AND A CHEER LEADER OUTFITS? WHAAAAT? HOW COULD YOU NOW WE NEED TO CENSOR LIFE! Yeah, censor one thing what will come next? Why put the booth babes out of jobs? Ladies take it the hell easy and stop being crazy. Men just stop being morons.I have now solved everyone’s problems, the end.

What do you guys and gals think?

DO NOT PIRATE F*CKING GEARS OF WAR JUDGMENT. MICROSOFT WILL BAN YOUR A$$ FOR LIFE, YOU PR1CKS!

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Feb 192013

Yes, you read correctly pirates, Microsoft isn’t taking piracy of their games lightly. It’s a month before the official release of Gears of War Judgment, March 22, and the game already has piracy issues. A complete copy of Gears of War Judgment appeared overnight on torrent sites. Eurogamer was informed this by Microsoft…
“We are aware of isolated cases in which Gears of War: Judgment content has been popped on the web and are working closely with our security teams and law enforcement to address the situation immediately, consumers should be aware that piracy is illegal and we take vigorous action against illegal activity related to our products and services.”
This is similar to Halo 4′s piracy leak before it’s release last year. (However, the Halo 4 leak was closer to the actual release date.) Users who had been found with illegal Halo 4 copies faced ‘Microsoft’s banhammer’. Anyone who played the illegal Halo 4 risked being banned from Xbox Live for life. life. No guys, no, I don’t mean one year… MICROSOFT IS SERIOUS YOU NUMBSKULLS. They will keep true to their word, so think about that before you steal People Can Fly’s hard work on Gears of War Judgment. Think about it, I mean you’d be stealing a companies’ work, do you know how long they take making it? Do you know how much work they put into making a full fledged 3D game with good graphics? Too much work to have some guy steal it cuz’ he doesn’t want to wait a month or he’d rather it for free. Work isn’t free. If thats how it is, then I suppose game makers should stop making games in general, right? If we live in a world where everything can be free.
Either way Microsoft promises to treat these illegal actions the same yet again…

“Playing pirated copies of games, such as Gears of War: Judgment, is a violation of the Xbox Live Terms of Use and will result in enforcement action, such as account and console bans.”

This has happened before in the Gears of War series.. Gears of War 3 was also illegally leaked, except it wasn’t the full game. The pirated version appeared for 2 months before the official release date of Gears of War 3, and it ruined a large number of the campaign’s plot. Gears of War Judgment is also the first game to be developed at the Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly, Epic Games subsidiary. The original team for Gears of War is now working on mysterious and currently unknown projects.

Here is the newest official Gears of War Judgment trailer, it features the character Baird talking about the multiplayer game…

Official Gears of War site
Source

Dead Space 3 Will Have In-Game Purchases Like a Mobile App

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Jan 242013

Dead Space 3 will now have the ability to purchase goods in-game…. For real money. What is this? Is Dead Space 3 some sort of Mobile App. Apparently the producer John Calhoun thinks so. The Producer of Dead Space 3 said that these micro-transactions exist because they intend to court in mobile gamers. Here is a small section from an interview that Computer And Video Games had with the producer…

“There’s a lot of players out there, especially players coming from mobile games, who are accustomed to micro-transactions. They’re like ‘I need this now, I want this now’. They need instant gratification. So we included that option in order to attract those players, so that if they’re 5000 Tungsten short of this upgrade, they can have it. We need to make sure we’re expanding our audience as well. There are action game fans, and survival horror game fans, who are 19 and 20, and they’ve only played games on their smartphones, and micro-transactions are to them a standard part of gaming. It’s a different generation. So if we’re going to bring those people into our world, let’s speak their language, but let’s not alienate our fans at the same time.”

Now everybody plays mobile games, I’m sure of it, but I actually never buy in-app purchases. They really tick me off a lot. So the idea of in-game purchases happening in a real video game makes me a little mad. Why would this even ‘court’ in mobile gamers anyhow? This seems stupid to me. People who use this will most likely be lazy Dead Space players, honestly. The only redeeming part to this issue with Dead Space 3 is that you can still earn the items and weapons in a good ol’ fashioned way. By working hard and kicking butt, the real gratification came from knowing you played hard to earn something. That’s the way I remember from games I grew up playing, not the way games are now where you can spend real money to unlock the next stage. I mean what the heck?

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