by Filippo DinolfoThis week, Brandon is back with us. We talk about comics, fighting games, and the unfortunate demise of one of the net’s best gaming sites.
2/1/2015 Show Notes
- What are we playing?
- Patrick
- Drift Stage – Kickstarter near $50K
- The Legend of Heroes III
- Brandish: The Dark Revenant
- I am in a great deal of trouble with this game.
- Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (for the background video)
- Filippo
- Defense Grid 2
- Forza Motorsport 5
- #IDARB
- Brandon
- Starfox Adventures
- Chrono Trigger
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Patrick
- Destructive embraces AO rating in latest Hatred trailer, ball in Gabe Newell’s court.
- Zielinsky is clearly not going away, promises to be interesting at the very least.
- Viz is republishing Shotaro Ishinomori’s “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past” manga.
- Zoe Quinn and Alex Lifschitz launch Crash Override anti-harassment network
- Staff runs the gamut from PR to law enforcement and counseling.
- Gamergate a prime motivator, brought CO together, but not a GG counter-entity.
- Even willing to help GGers being harassed, which it seems is now a thing.
- Nintendo launches YouTube partnership program…
- …but not everybody is thrilled, as it may mean Nintendo gets editorial control.
- PewDiePie may be ready to lead the charge against it.
- Curtailing our own Nintendo footage until this all blows over/sorts itself out.
- Masahiro Sakurai mulls retirement in what was supposed to be routine fanmail reply.
- Ups the ante from his past rhetoric. Hard to blame him, but hope he reconsiders.
- Wonder Boy makes a random comeback as Monster Boy. What year is this, again?
- Michiru Yamane is involved. This is going to be something special.
- Square Enix not far behind with PS4-exclusive Minna no Spelunker Z.
- Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax beats the odds, makes it to North America in 2015.
- Tomonobu Itagaki tees off on current state of Dead or Alive franchise.
- Some valid criticism, but some key aspects (ie: skill gap) needed to happen.
- Katsuhiro Harada wants to produce a genre-spanning fighting mega-crossover.
- Acknowledges doing it right would ignore/alienate casuals, gives zero fucks.
- The Game Awards will return, Keighley confirms
- Just had to get it away from Spike to save it.
- Repackage it as E3-lite. A year-end blowout with GotY coverage and previews.
- Still don’t know what beat 4.8M PS4s over the holidays, but 6.6M Xboxes moved in total.
- Includes 360, so there’s still doubt whether XOne’s lead over PS4 was significant.
- Xbox Revenues down 20% year over year.
- Sony announces event next month to reveal “New PlayStation Initiative”.
- Sega cutting 300 jobs worldwide, relocating and scaling back US operations.
- Don’t sound alarms yet, maybe just some housekeeping with the addition of Atlus.
- AOL shuttering Joystiq.
- For their part, Joystiq are handling the talk well.
- A shame, they pioneered a great op-ed, personality-driven path for gaming media.