Being Dave Cox, head of European development for Konami, can't be an easy job. For one, he's not Hideo Kojima, so he's already got that going against him. Worse yet, he's had to tow the company line and let his upcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow languish out of the spotlight while Castlevania Judgment got all the attention. It seems Konami didn't even have the confidence to allow Lords of Shadow the Castlevania license -- nor did fans. "It was quite a radical departure from what had gone before with Castlevania, and there was a little bit of nervousness that perhaps it wouldn't be accepted as a Castlevania game," Cox told GameReactor. Though he claims the project was approved originally as a Castlevania game and was built from the get-go with the vampire-hunting series in mind, the folks in charge at Konami had cold feet going into the big reveal at Games Convention 2008. "Senior management took the decision that we were going to announce it as Lords of Shadow, see what the reaction is, and if it's a good one then this would become a fully-fledged Castlevania." It was definitely a good one.
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Have you been keeping up with your Commodore 64 releases on the Virtual Console? If so, then you should be very familiar with International Karate. While the game may look extremely primitive by today’s standards, it was quite an amazing achievement back in the day. Since Archer Maclean is taking a bit [...]
In some ways, I feel like 2009 was the year of under-the-radar. So many great games hit Wii and DS, all coming from third parties, yet many consumers chose to ignore them. Henry Hatsworth got a ton of attention online, but didn’t really get all that much in sales. Little King’s Story [...]
Writing in a recent Workshop blog post, LucasArts responded to complaints that its XBLA and PC puzzle-platformer, Lucidity, can be "particularly punishing." A new update, which adds checkpoints in an effort , has been launched on PC and is set to via an update set to arrive on Xbox Live within the coming weeks. "We feel that there is so much great content in Lucidity that we want to open it up and make it more accessible for people to experience." Listen, LucasArts, we respect what you're doing here, we do. But please, for all our sakes, be careful. Listening to the internet is a slippery slope, one that ends in everyone hurling dung and racial epithets at each other. And if you don't agree with that, you're a Nazi.
What is it about BioWare and its dismissive implementation of races starting with the letter Q? Think about it: Tali the Quarian from Mass Effect and Sten the Qunari from Dragon Age: Origins -- on average, did anybody really use either for extended periods of time? It's Qu-acism, we tells ya! Perhaps Tali, who returns in Mass Effect 2, will prove invaluable when the going geths tough. Head past the break to see a video of the Adept class, which has been granted some flashy new tricks.
The fan-translation for Culdcept DS is actually moving along quite nicely. This quite the undertaking, because Culdcept DS is jam-packed with text. I can only imagine how long it’s going to take to wrap this project up, but at least we can see that the project is moving along. Keep tabs on [...]
It's on sale for a few days for $99 and use $20-off code DJHPP1. Free 2-day shipping too.
I played this in store this morning and decided to make the plunge.
The goal of the Dude-a-Day website is to have a drawing every day of some guy, taking inspiration from movies/tv/games and more. Below you can see some of the ‘Dude-a-Day’ drawings that are game related.
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Under development for more than 18 months, Flowerworks combines flowers and fireworks in a groundbreaking action-adventure game, designed from the ground-up for Wii.
In Flowerworks, the player takes the role of Follie – a friendly (but confused!) alien who crash lands on the mysterious planet Elilia, whilst transporting a cargo of Flowerworks [...]
Activision announced this morning that, according to data garnered from the NPD, ChartTrack, GfK and internal estimates, the Call of Duty franchise has accumulated $3 billion-with-a-b in sales over its lifetime. As all but the densest among you have likely deduced, CoD was put over the top by the release of Modern Warfare 2, which moved $550 million in its first five days on sale. For a bit of perspective, $3 billion is pretty darn close to the gross domestic product of the Kingdom of Swaziland, a comparison that's especially appropriate when you realize that 54 percent of Swazis have a Gamerscore over 20,000. ... Oh, wait, this doesn't say "a Gamerscore over 20,000," it says "access to clean water." Sorry, smudge on the page.
Rugby League 3 was originally set for a Q4 release in Australia, but now that is nothing more than a pipe dream. HES has confirmed that the title isn’t going to be hitting before the year closes out, but will instead be launching on March 11th, 2010. No reason was given for the [...]
Another round of Japanese updates for New Super Mario Bros. Wii. I know this stuff is old to most of you, considering the fact that this game is widely available now, but we’ll keep running with updates as long as the Japanese site posts them!
If you’d like to see the latest commercials for New [...]
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The official website for Samurai Warriors 3 has been updated with a bunch of goodies. The video above was added, but we already showed you guys that earlier in the week. Tonight we get a bunch of screens and art that you’ll want to check out. Hit up the links [...]
