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GTR63 · 05-09-2012 2:11am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Lets see if Crapcom bother their arse localising it since they refuse to release Miles Edgeworth investigations 2 and Layton vs. Ace Attorney in the West.

Surely we'll be getting Layton vs Ace Attorney. I'm hoping Layton's name could get it greenlit for us in the whest. Europe that is not just Galway
:-P

GTR63 · 06-09-2012 2:23am

Following a report by Pocket Gamer that Ace Attorney 5 for the Nintendo 3DS is being released in western territories, we decided to write in to Capcom ourselves, in order to confirm the situation.
Brian Keltner, PR Manager at
Capcom confirmed to us:
“Capcom is planning to
release Gyakuten Saiban 5
(Ace Attorney 5) in the
West. We’ll have more news
soon.”
As previously reported, Phoenix Wright will return as the main protagonist in Ace Attorney 5.
The game takes place on year
after the events of Apollo Justice.

Varied · 06-09-2012 6:12pm

I wonder what direction it'll go, I hope Phoenix is the main character although if its set a year after Apollo its doubtful.

Edit: I should start reading articles before posting. :rolleyes:

gizmo · 09-09-2012 11:44am

Interesting postmortem on the development of Starcraft from Patrick Wyatt, former VP of R&D at Blizzard.

Tough times on the road to Starcraft

gizmo · 13-09-2012 3:39pm

****ing Bayonetta 2 on Wii U! :eek:

Bayonetta 2 Is a Wii U Exclusive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIot0Otq7MA

humanji · 18-09-2012 10:47am

Dragon Age 3: Inquisition has officially been announced for some time in 2013. The developers have said that they've learned from the mistakes they made last time and are working hard to improve what players loved. But this is exactly what they said when they were promoting DA2, so I've little faith in this being any good.

Otacon · 18-09-2012 10:52am

gizmo wrote: »

****ing Bayonetta 2 on Wii U! :eek:

A game I would have loved to play, on a system I will not buy.

gizmo · 18-09-2012 11:26am

humanji wrote: »

Dragon Age 3: Inquisition has officially been announced for some time in 2013. The developers have said that they've learned from the mistakes they made last time and are working hard to improve what players loved. But this is exactly what they said when they were promoting DA2, so I've little faith in this being any good.

You left out one bit of important info, it's being built with Frostbite 2. This could be important not just for the improvements on the graphics side but also for their ability to create a more expansive and detailed world.

On top of this, it also indicates that they're putting more work into the sequel with the move away from the Eclipse/Lycium engine and, presumably, the bulk of the work that had gone into them for DA:O and DA2.

SilverFox261 · 18-09-2012 11:41am

humanji wrote: »

Dragon Age 3: Inquisition has officially been announced for some time in 2013. The developers have said that they've learned from the mistakes they made last time and are working hard to improve what players loved. But this is exactly what they said when they were promoting DA2, so I've little faith in this being any good.

DA2 was a huge disappointment but it felt extremely rushed imo. Almost as if they were afraid of losing the momentum of the first and rushed the development. I think there were enough good things in the first game to warrant giving the developers another chance with DA3 though.

gizmo · 18-09-2012 3:41pm

EA creates 300 more jobs at its Irish support center

\o/

Kiith · 18-09-2012 3:49pm

EA you evil bastard!! :pac:

Great to see that some tech companies are still expanding in Ireland.

Fritzl Funderland · 18-09-2012 3:51pm

its in the game

Lumbo · 18-09-2012 3:54pm

Popcap office closing with the loss of 90 jobs in the next few weeks.

EA are great :rolleyes:

super_furry · 18-09-2012 4:04pm

Lumbo wrote: »

Popcap office closing with the loss of 90 jobs in the next few weeks.

EA are great :rolleyes:

http://blog.popcap.com/2012/08/21/popcap-update-from-john-vechey/

Yeah, they are.

Genghiz Cohen · 18-09-2012 4:13pm

super_furry wrote: »

http://blog.popcap.com/2012/08/21/popcap-update-from-john-vechey/

Yeah, they are.

A Counter!

EA Lead wrote:

"So with PopCap, what we found is that there are some areas inside PopCap that were duplicative of what EA was doing; a lot of central resources, legal, business affairs, those types of things, so we accelerated the integration there,"

Source

Kiith · 18-09-2012 4:18pm

Seems like a perfectly normal thing for any business to do after an acquisition of this kind.

Genghiz Cohen · 18-09-2012 4:21pm

Lie about who made the call to fire people?

Lumbo · 18-09-2012 4:22pm

super_furry wrote: »

http://blog.popcap.com/2012/08/21/popcap-update-from-john-vechey/

Yeah, they are.

Yeah I've read that BS. I've talked to the staff of Popcap. That blog and the reality are two very different things.

Kiith · 18-09-2012 4:32pm

It's a business. It sounds like it makes sense from a business point of view. And there will always be people trying to put a positive spin on things like this. The CEO of Popcap can't exactly come out and say that EA are a bunch of ****ers who told him to fire a load of staff.

He needs to keep it positive.

Genghiz Cohen · 18-09-2012 4:36pm

...so it's ok to lie then?

Lumbo · 18-09-2012 4:36pm

Kiith wrote: »

It's a business. It sounds like it makes sense from a business point of view. And there will always be people trying to put a positive spin on things like this. The CEO of Popcap can't exactly come out and say that EA are a bunch of ****ers who told him to fire a load of staff.

He needs to keep it positive.

I do agree with that.

I just found it sickening at the time that he was being held up like some sort of hero because he wrote a blog, which is far from the truth.

gizmo · 18-09-2012 7:48pm

BioWare's founding doctors have resigned

So, looks like Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have finally resigned from EA Bioware. I'd be interested in knowing whether they had to stay on for a set period after the acquisition but either way, I'm most definitely interested in seeing what they do next.

degrassinoel · 18-09-2012 8:31pm

More interested to see what happens with bioware with the doctors gone

gizmo · 18-09-2012 11:53pm

degrassinoel wrote: »

More interested to see what happens with bioware with the doctors gone

Based on the direction of the company from pre-EA / post-D&D to now, I'd wager very little will change. Dragon Age III, however, should be a good indication of whether EA understands the need to keep some level of depth in the Bioware franchises in the future.

degrassinoel · 18-09-2012 11:55pm

Hopefully they do, and will continue to have the level of excellent storytelling through game that bioware have given us over the years.

gizmo · 19-09-2012 12:12pm

There’s a New Ninja Gaiden Franchise. It’s Dead Rising Meets Team Ninja

Do not know if want.

gizmo · 03-10-2012 10:36pm

'Gears of War' design director Cliff Bleszinski leaves Epic Games

Should be interesting to see how future Epic titles fare without him.

humanji · 08-10-2012 1:37pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19869466

Don't know if this was reported before, but it's pretty mad. I wasn't sure if it should be posted in this thread or the gaming humour one. In something that looks like it was right out of Southparks "Make Love Not Warcraft" episode, a hacker has massacred entire cities of PC's and NPC's.

gizmo · 11-10-2012 12:14pm

Microsoft Support now accepting requests to change Microsoft Account Regions

Pretty awesome news for those of us who have moved countries after setting up our LiveID / Gamertags.

ShadowHearth · 24-10-2012 9:54pm

Sorry for bad link, I am on the phone.
Zynga lost 160 mil so far. 150 people lost jobs so far.

http://m.kotaku.com/5954626/zynga-has-lost-160-million-this-year-so-far

So..... Wasn't that support to be the future of gaming... And how casual farmwille games were the killers of gaming as we know...
Still sad news that people are losing jobs, but surely it was just a bubble...

Potential-Monke · 25-10-2012 1:05pm

I reckon Zynga lost money because anything they've bought they've messed up...

Krusader · 26-10-2012 7:52pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Sorry for bad link, I am on the phone.
Zynga lost 160 mil so far. 150 people lost jobs so far.

http://m.kotaku.com/5954626/zynga-has-lost-160-million-this-year-so-far

So..... Wasn't that support to be the future of gaming... And how casual farmwille games were the killers of gaming as we know...
Still sad news that people are losing jobs, but surely it was just a bubble...

Zynga rehashed the same **** over and over again, people got bored

johnny_ultimate · 05-11-2012 2:58pm

Shinji Mikami's latest (and last? :eek:) effort may well be the game for everyone who hates the direction Resi has taken: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/11/05/shinji-mikamis-horror-game-coming-in-late-2013-has-resident-evil-remake-artist/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+siliconera%2FMkOc+%28Siliconera%29

gizmo · 20-11-2012 5:35pm

Two Steam sales coming up?

ShadowHearth · 20-11-2012 6:03pm

21-27 of november? tomorrow?

**** no...

CastorTroy · 20-11-2012 6:40pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

21-27 of november? tomorrow?

**** no...

Just when you were getting used to having money again after the last sale.

Nody · 20-11-2012 6:41pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

21-27 of november? tomorrow?

**** no...

Hello salary; good bye salary...

Dacelonid · 20-11-2012 7:16pm

Isn't there something about there being no midweek sales or daily deals the day before a Steam Sale?

gizmo · 21-11-2012 3:37pm

Mirror's Edge 2 is in production at DICE, claims former EA studio boss

Kiith · 21-11-2012 3:55pm

gizmo wrote: »

Mirror's Edge 2 is in production at DICE, claims former EA studio boss

About bloody time. 1st one was great.

Also, love that gif :P

degrassinoel · 21-11-2012 4:18pm

Jeremiah Johnson isn't it?

humanji · 06-12-2012 1:57pm

Total War developers will be making Warhammer games!

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/total-war-developer-to-make-warhammer-games-6401161

There is no emoticon for the joy I'm feeling!

Gunmonkey · 06-12-2012 2:02pm

Saw that....its finally occured

......maybe they Mayans were right.....I dont think the world could handle a CA developed Warhammer strategy game.

Dave_The_Sheep · 06-12-2012 2:18pm

humanji wrote: »

Total War developers will be making Warhammer games!

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/total-war-developer-to-make-warhammer-games-6401161

There is no emoticon for the joy I'm feeling!

If they do it with their normal attention to detail and actually get the universe... this could be awesome. Imagine Total War: 40K, Ork Waagh/Tyranid invasion campaign, thousands of Orks or Tyranids swarming around the place. Mmmmm. Animal.

[edit: Well, ****bags. In my enthusiasm, I didn't notice that this doesn't include Warhammer 40K. Crud

Still, one can hope for the future.]

Nody · 06-12-2012 3:15pm

Well Tyranids of WH is Skaven. Unlimited numbers of small buggers with some big monster in between; only difference is Skaven also got awesome guns to match (or you could make a case for Lizardmen and Undead as well I guess)...

Dave_The_Sheep · 06-12-2012 4:15pm

Nody wrote: »

Well Tyranids of WH is Skaven. Unlimited numbers of small buggers with some big monster in between; only difference is Skaven also got awesome guns to match (or you could make a case for Lizardmen and Undead as well I guess)...

Yeah, I like Warhammer, but I'd much prefer the 40K universe. I'll still play the sh*te out of this, assuming it's in any way decent.

Varik · 07-12-2012 3:05pm

Glad 40k is staying with relic.

Eurocom have gone fully now, 75% redundancies last month was not enough to keep them going with the rest of the staff being let go now with them ceasing trading.

Kiith · 10-12-2012 4:58pm

New South Park: Stick of Truth trailer up. Looks brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5D-ocDvxQ

gizmo · 11-12-2012 3:39pm

Hrm, I don't want to derail the Steambox thread or bring back the abomination that was the PC v Console cost thread so I'll just chuck this in here...

PS4: new kits shipping now, AMD A10 used as base.

hooradiation · 11-12-2012 4:44pm

gizmo wrote: »

Hrm, I don't want to derail the Steambox thread or bring back the abomination that was the PC v Console cost thread so I'll just chuck this in here...

PS4: new kits shipping now, AMD A10 used as base.

After the clusterfuck that was the Cell, I'm glad Sony have decided to stop taking all the drugs when designing their hardware.

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