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The boss of Nintendo America has said that CEO Satoru Iwata did not tweet an apology for fans following the reaction to the company’s E3 Digital Event on Tuesday. An online translation of a tweet sent by the exec said: "Thank you for watching. We take opinions of this year’s …
Read More »Shenmue 3’s budget will be a lot bigger than $2m
Kickstarter is far from the only source of funding for Shenmue 3. The original Shenmue famously cost $47m to make, which has played a big part in Sega (or indeed any other publisher) stepping forward to make a new entry in the series. That’s also the reason why, once the …
Read More »Metroid Prime 4 will never be made for Wii U, could be an NX title
If Samus Aran is to grace home consoles again, it’s not going to happen on Wii U. The announcement of 3DS spin-off Metroid Prime: Federation Force earlier this week was met with outrage from the fandom, many of whom are demanding a ‘proper’ Metroid game on Wii U. This looks …
Read More »Stephen Elop is leaving Microsoft
Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop is leaving Microsoft a little over a year after overseeing its purchase of the Finnish mobile firm. Former executive VP of operating systems Terry Myerson is to fill his shoes, overseeing a newly formed group called Windows and Devices. We are aligning our engineering efforts …
Read More »Microsoft has unannounced Kinect games in the works
Kinect may have been totally absent from Microsoft’s excellent E3 presentation, but the company says that software is still in development for the machine. Xbox’s general manager of global games publishing Shannon Loftis told Polygon that not only is the device still coming to Windows 10, but also that unannounced …
Read More »Fallout Shelter is making more than Candy Crush Saga
Bethesda’s Fallout smartphone experiment is off to an incredibly strong start. Venture Beat reports that the recently release Fallout Shelter has knocked Candy Crush Saga from third place in the top-grossing mobile games charts. King’s title has been more or less a constant presence in third place, earning around $2.55m …
Read More »Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been abandoned – rumour
The future of Beyond Good & Evil 2 looks even more uncertain today following fresh rumours of its demise. Speaking on a GameSpot video ahead Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, one journalist admitted that he had been informed that the game had been abandoned, although the inability to corroborate the claim …
Read More »Yoshida: PS3 asked too many compromises of The Last Guardian
The arrival of PS4 is one of the main reasons why development of The Last Guardian has taken so long to develop. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku that the team working on the game was struggling to realise its vision on PS3. In fact, he even admitted …
Read More »Dark Souls III is not the last in the series, Miyazaki assures
Despite being described upon its unveiling as the final episode”, Dark Souls III does not in fact mark an end to the action RPG series. It might, however, mark a change for From Software as it’s the last title that went into development before Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki was …
Read More »Iwata apologises to raging fans over poor E3 showcase
Nintendo has promised to do better” at E3 next year following the angry reaction from many fans to last night’s showing. Thank you for watching,” Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata said on Twitter, as translated by one user. We take opinions of this year’s Digital Event seriously and will …
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