by Filippo DinolfoIt’s a show packed with GDC news this week! Join Fil, Pat, Brandon, and Theresa as they go over some of the major stories that broke this week.
3/8/2015 Show Notes
- What are we playing?
- Patrick: Ridge Racers 2 and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
- Filippo: Defense Grid 2, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Axiom Verge
- Brandon: Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2, and Lords of Midnight (on iPhone)
- Theresa: Pokemon. Civ V, Civ Rev 2
- Lots of interesting demographics information coming out of GDC.
- Charts depict a largely self-solving problem, some of the comments are troubling.
- Do we want a media that enforces almost compulsory progressive content requirements by treating it like an industrywide responsibility? Polygon tipped their ideological hand last year…
- Patrick: A social liberal myself, I resent the implication that there’s anything innately conservative about sites focusing strictly on games’ core merits.
- Charts depict a largely self-solving problem, some of the comments are troubling.
- Capcom confirms Spring 2016 release for Street Fighter V.
- Rock Band 4: It was all but announced. Now that’s done, too. MadCatz publishing. -FD
- DLC transfer situation good, not perfect. RB3 disc content and Beatles excluded.
- Step 1: Leave console gaming behind. Step 2: …collaborate with Game Freak?
- RPGSite, huh? Is Game Freak about to take their RPG genius beyond Pokémon?
- Dead or Alive community soft-bans “sexy” costumes in tournaments/on stream.
- We now have the first Mevius Final Fantasy footage.
- Interplay is planning to dust off Clayfighter.
- GameStop once again accepting PS2 hardware trade-ins, proving the PS2 will never die.
- Oh, hey, another Battletoads teaser. This time in Shovel Knight.
- Valve GDC stuff -FD
- Of course, with all this VR news out of GDC, Rule 34 couldn’t have been far behind.
- Not to be outdone, Nvidia announces Shield console for May launch. -FD
- Not Dreamcast 2 (re: Fil, three weeks ago), but Dreamcast-like under scrutiny.
- $199 price tag, 7.5-gen specs, Android promises great racers/JRPGs.
- Capcom doing their part on the fighting side of things.
- Not Dreamcast 2 (re: Fil, three weeks ago), but Dreamcast-like under scrutiny.
- Unreal Engine 4 now free for developers
- Khronos Group Unveils Vulkan. Next-Gen OpenGL.
- Morpheus locked in for “first half of 2016” launch, may not be available by E3 2016.
- The Project Cafe Rule demands a great holiday lineup and Morpheus info now.
- Uh-oh, Shu Yoshida implies Sony’s breaking the bank to make this happen.
- What do YOU want next from Square Enix?
- Question of the Week: What are your Rules of E3? (Foreshadowing a future episode…)