DaVinci Online, originally known as Project Renaissance (link), has been signed up by ChangYou for the North America and Western Europe market. According to foreign reports, there will be 4 different languages upon release, including English, French and Spanish. DaVinci Online is the maiden project for Korean developer Bridea (fused from Bright Idea), with core staff coming from Webzen who worked on the doomed Huxley. More information about this Unreal 3 powered game can be found here (link).
It seems the mega China MMO powerhouses located in North America are now shifting more towards publishing external games rather than focus on their own titles. Perfect World Entertainment led the way with the signings of Rusty Hearts and RaiderZ, and now it is ChangYou's turn. DaVinci Online is reportedly ready for Closed Beta testing before the year ends, and it seems the game was developed with the English market in mind according to the screenshots below.Other than the traditional PvP modes, there will be PvE maps as well.
TERA Japan went into the Open Beta phase yesterday and according to the numbers revealed, it was a resounding success. The highest number of players recorded stands at 48,624 on Open Beta day. 3 emergency servers (see below), 2 PK and 1 non-PK, had to be added to accommodate the numbers.
For now, TERA Japan has a total of 10 servers, 7 non-PK and 3 PK. However, fears from industry watchers still stand once the game goes commercial (link).
Perfect World recently revealed Saint Seiya Online (link) being in development and claimed that a beta phase will begin before the end of the year. However, another fellow China developer has claimed the rights to release the first Saint Seiya MMO. In fact, the sequel was playable since June.Yes, this is the unofficial bootleg version of what Perfect World is going to offer, with no apparent contract signed with SEGA.
How does the game work? Well, players will have to choose a side first, be it the Golden Saints or the Specters. Then, choose a "Guardian" to follow, which will give characters a special skill. The funny thing is, both Saints and Specters share the same skills and Guardians...
Upon entering the game, there will be different tutorials for either side. There are 4 classes to choose from as you can see from the videos, each with different skills. I only tried the skills of each classes and did not actually play the game, since the 2.5D graphic was really hurting my eyes...
The game has many features related to horoscopes, including bonuses and skills etc. So how is the Golden Cloths activated? Well, you got to hit a certain level before right-clicking the container box in the inventory.
At lower levels, you can only access the Bronze Cloths, followed by Silver and Gold. This transformation is only temporary as it consumes mana until it is fully depleted. Yeap, no Golden Cloths in the cash shop! The game will be awesome with better graphics and design since the content is very much "completed" in a sense. And there is PvP as well!
Since being announced along with the Wii price cut in May, no additional titles have been added to the Nintendo Select line of budget Wii titles. That will reportedly be changing soon with the addition of some other quality titles.
Retail sources have indicated that four more Nintendo games will be joining the budget line, according to Kotaku: Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Punch-Out, and Mario Strikers Charged. That's not a bad offering of titles for $19.99 each, particularly from Nintendo, a company that traditionally likes to maintain the premium pricing of its games for longer than most. There's no word on exactly when the games would get their new, discounted prices, but it'll be happening sometime in August.
When you're sitting in a room with Seth Killian (Capcom Community Manager and Evolution Championship Series veteran), Derek Neal (Producer for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition and EVO veteran) and IGN's Fighting Master Mark Ryan Sallee (yeah, he went to EVO too), and they start talking about SF3 tournament players, it can get hard to really follow the conversation. Unlike Sallee, I'm the casual SF3 player in the office -- a guy who appreciates the game's amazing 2D visuals and smooth animation, but lacks the tournament chops needed to play on the same level as these experts.
Despite our differences in skill, it's hard to not recognize Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition (SF3: 3SOE) as a revival effort for the last great fighting game from a bygone era. It's a piece of history from back when television aspect ratios were still 4:3, and no one had ever heard of high definition video games. The arcade scene in the U.S. at the time seemed to be dead, but Street Fighter III still stood as a landmark of that period thanks to an unprecedented effort by Capcom to outdo anything seen in a fighting game before. Just look at Elena's idle animation alone and you'll gain a genuine appreciation for the amount of love crammed into the SF3 series of games.
Here I was thinking that I had done something significant by finally going over 50,000 Gamerscore recently. Meanwhile, the Guinness World Record holder for highest Gamerscore has reached a new milestone, surpassing the 600,000 mark.
Raymond Cox, better known by his Gamertag Stallion83, reached exactly 600,000 with the 40-point Homewrecker Achievement in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, according to his website (via IGN).
His list of games played on Xbox Live is absolutely enormous -- he's played 880 different games, many of them the same game but from different regions. He's earned 84% of the Achievements across those games for a total of what is, as of this writing, 600,445 Gamerscore.
The EVO fighting game tournament is really quite an event. Since assuming the EVO name in 2002, it's grown both in size and the amount of attention it gets each year. The rotation of games has changed over the years from Tekken Tag Tournament to Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to Mortal Kombat, and the players and crowds are as passionate as ever.
If, like me, you're not a huge fighting game fan, the event probably isn't something you would consider attending. Even so, that doesn't make it any more difficult to appreciate a lot of what goes on there, as proven by the recent video of Noah, the eight-year-old sensation who entertained the crowds this year.
The video above was one of three put together by former 1UPer Richard Li. It's a collection of many of the moments from this year's tournament finals, which took place in Las Vegas late last month. Regardless of your fighting game knowledge level, it's an enjoyable watch as it does a fine job of capturing the emotions of both the players and the crowd as it watched the action.
To some folks, the mere existence of Fruit Ninja Kinect could mean the sky is still falling -- where casual games end up filling shelves and homes while edging out traditional core experiences. For context, Fruit Ninja started as a popular fruit slicing smartphone game developed by Halfbrick Studios and downloaded over 20 million times across five platforms since its April 2010 debut. This basic version is available for .99 cents -- but now for $10 (and a Kinect), you could play it on an HD console with your entire body serving as the controller. Before you go all Chicken Little on me about how another baby game is coming to your hardcore console, splash some water on your face and consider this: Yes, bite-sized casual games like this rarely transition well to traditional core platforms like the 360, but what if Fruit Ninja Kinect turns out to be one of the best examples of simple fun using Microsoft's motion based peripheral? Is it anything but expected, considering Fruit Ninja itself is one of the few mega successful smartphone games wrapped in the cultural zeitgeist of casual games?
The first thing you'll notice when playing Fruit Ninja Kinect is that the environment here is much different than playing on a handheld device, even though the core concept is fundamentally the same. Traditionally, Fruit Ninja is a game where you swing and slice fruit that's been tossed in the air like a modern day samurai with a Ginsu knife, but only using the power of your finger instead. There's not much to the game fundamentally, and it's designed as quick entertainment.
Since being released in May 2010, Red Dead Redemption has impressively sold in more than 11 million units. That accounts for the number of games sold to retail, as opposed to the number sold through to customers. It was announced as a part of Take-Two's financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2012, which ran from April 1, 2011 through June 30.
Net revenue was down to $334.4 from $375.4 during the same period a year ago. That's no surprise, as fiscal 2011 enjoyed the strength of Red Dead's launch, whereas L.A. Noire -- while doing very well with 4 million units sold-in -- couldn't match its success. This all contributed to a GAAP loss of $8.6 million, as compared with income of $27.4 million last year.
Before you go blaming Duke Nukem Forever for the decline, Take-Two said it expects the game to make money despite the... poorcritical reception. Strauss Zelnick said today, "Although it received disappointing reviews from critics, the release is projected to be profitable for Take-Two."
Besides what we already know about, Nintendo has additional plans to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of The Legend of Zelda series, and one part involves fan participation. Nintendo today announced the launch of a new Zelda website and a contest where users can submit Zelda-inspired flipnotes to be featured on various Nintendo outlets.
The new anniversary website doesn't have much to it, at least as of yet; there is a very brief history of the many games in the series, video of the orchestra playing Zelda music at E3, details on the flipnote contest, and wallpapers like the one above.
The initial release of the radio drama based on Snatcher will be free. The collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Goichi "Suda 51" Suda was announced last month but that particular detail was unclear at the time.
Kojima revealed the news on Twitter (as translated by Andriasang), where he also made it clear the project would still need to make some money -- he just isn't sure about the specifics of doing that.
Sdatcher, as it's called, isn't being created for profit, but there are people who need to be paid. One way money will be generated is by releasing a CD version of the drama after it's made available as a free download. We don't know exactly when that will be happening; the initial announcement pegged it as coming alongside episode 300 of Hideradio, Kojima's Japanese podcast. Of course, the show isn't set to a specific schedule, so it's not especially helpful in trying to peg down an exact (or even a vague) date.
In less than two years, the Super Mario Bros. movie will be 20 years old. And while many would not consider it a classic, it is an undeniably interesting project. Back in 1993, videogame movies weren't commonplace like they are today; it was uncharted territory to take a game and attempt to make a film out of it. As the first of its kind (at least in North America), the writers had a great challenge in trying to come up with a comprehensible plot based on a franchise that had, to date, put very little emphasis on its story.
That was hardly the movie's only problem: production managed to be overbudget as early iterations failed to work out for one reason or another. In an extensiveinterview with Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive, one of the movie's writers, Parker Bennett, outlined how things came to be, including the many problems that were faced in the creation of Super Mario Bros.
There were numerous scripts written for the movie -- including one that would have seen a Die Hard-inspired Bruce Willis cameo -- but what ended up being used "wasn't a coherent script," in Bennett's opinion. There were concerns that viewers wouldn't understand what was happening, which led to Bennett and co-writer Terry Runte doing an "incredible amount of looping." Also known as automated dialogue replacement, or ADR, that is the process where lines are recorded after a scene has been filmed so that they can be dubbed into the movie.
I just played two hours of The Witness and I'm not sure how to define it. I'm guessing I'll struggle with that until I reach the ending, though the copy of Mulholland Drive next to designer Jonathan Blow's TV suggests that's not a sure thing. And until I find out the game's inevitable spoilers, I'm not sure I want to ramble on forever about it.
Then again, maybe I'm trying too hard. It's a puzzle game. You show up on a deserted island with blue screens scattered around, and each screen has a move-a-ball-from-the-beginning-to-end puzzle on it. Solve these and you open doors, unlock more puzzles, and eventually create enough energy to open a secret room at the top of a big mountain off in the distance, at which point spoilery things happen. That's the game on a superficial level.
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Wargaming.net finally unveiled its World War II-based MMORPG World of Warplanes by launching its official website and releasing the first in-game screenshots. The official website also give a brief introduction for the classes Continue reading World of Warplanes Unveiled Official Website and First In-game Screenshots.
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A few months ago, a rumor said Dragon's Call 2.0 was in development. The rumor is true! The first part of DC 2.0 will be released at 2:00pm August 18th. Continue reading Dragon's Call 2.0 Patch Notes.
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The closed beta test for the North American version of Bounty Hounds Online (BHO) brought by Wicked Interactive has started. The master of stealth and assassination, the Agent is always around when you least expect it. Continue reading Bounty Hounds Online Short - The Agent.
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How is TROY Online different from other MMORPGs? How does such an exciting worldview apply in the game? And does the worldview have a big effect on how the game is played? Find the answers here. Continue reading Big Day Coming! TROY Will Give You Another Historical Life.
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