Peter Molyneux talks PC vs Console development
The good folks over at Switched managed to snag a video interview with my favorite personal role model (I want to BE him) Peter Molyneux. He talks about developing games for PC vs Consoles, the future of gaming and a few features for Fable 3. Say what you want about Pete, but the guy has [...]
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PlayStation Move is a “Wii-too,” Fils-Aime says
Sony’s recently christened PlayStation Move motion controller is a “Wii-too,” Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime feels.
“Looking at what PlayStation is doing, it feels very ‘Wii-too,’” the executive told the LA Times in a recent interview, adding, “In terms of Microsoft, we’ll see when they actually show off their software.”
Microsoft is expected to show Natal and introduce its launch line-up at E3 in June.
“I think our competitors will be challenged in a number of ways,” Fils-Aime continued, “bringing fun experiences to life, because in the end that’s what the consumer wants.”
Microsoft and Sony “will be challenged on providing the great value we have always provided,” he believes. “Our consumers have a system that they love. Is that consumer suddenly going to stop and go do something else?”
If you hear Fils-Aime tell it, at least in Move’s case the answer is ‘no’.
Square Enix “to explore the possibility” of a FF7 remake
Square Enix’s Yoichi Wada has said that the company is “going to explore the possibility” of creating a Final Fantasy VII remake.
Speaking at a recent Final Fantasy XIII launch party, the president and CEO told Siliconera, “We’re going to explore the possibility – whether or not we’re going to do it, if we’re going to do it, and the platform.”
A remake of the classic title has been on fans’ minds and wish lists for quite a while now, with Square Enix reps being forced to comment on the possibility in the past; last summer FF13 producer Yoshinori Kitase hinted that news on the oft-requested remake would perhaps arrive at a later time, and more recently followed that up with: “If we were to recreate FFVII with the same level of graphical detail as you see in FFXIII, we’d imagine that that would take as much as three or four times longer than the three and a half years it has taken to put [FF13] together,” suggesting that should a remake indeed happen, Square may take a non-HD approach.
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Capcom’s ‘Dojo Edition’ SSF IV Is Now Available For Pre-Order
Capcom has started taking pre-orders on the “Dojo Edition” of SSFIV, which retails for $79.99 each. Super Street Fighter IV’s new characters include Street Fighter’s first Tae Kwon Do-styled fighter Juri. The game also features all new user-selectable Ultra Combos. [Product Page]
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Red Dead Redemption Box Art Revealed
Rockstar Games revealed today the official box art for the upcoming Red Dead Redemption game. Set against a classic American background, the art highlights a solitary John Marston.
Red Dead Redemption will be available on May 18 on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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Dark Horse Loves Mass Effect
Mass Effect fans have spoken! Well, their wallets have at least. Dark Horse Comics’ Mass Effect mini series, Redemption, has sold so well that following it’s 4-issue run (which ends on April 7th), the publisher plans to keep the writing team together (Mac Walters and John Jackson Miller) for a new, ongoing monthly series. Where Redemption was set as a…
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EA Sports to Sue Over South Park Episode
In the wake of the season premiere of South Park comes news via Daily Informer that EA Sports is planning to sue the creators of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. As mentioned in the article following the episode there were several references made to EA Sports Tiger Woods 11, including supposed footage in which it had turned into a fighting game between Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren.
When I first watched the episode I wondered how it would be perceived by EA Sports. I ultimately came to the conclusion that it was good publicity for the game and that they would probably get a laugh out of it as well. The crowd that watches South Park isn’t likely to care that a joke is being made at their expense, if anything it was free promotion for Tiger Woods 11. However it now appears they had a completely different reaction.
EA Sports put themselves in this position by continuing to support Tiger, believing that the dollars he makes them would still be worth it. Realistically they couldn’t have expected that they would avoid being a target for doing so when many other companies ended their endorsement deals with him. Rather than worry about jokes on South Park maybe EA should consider how the text messages that were exposed on the web this last week make him, and by association them, look a lot worse.
