Video Game News and Miscellany

It really started with that Evony game, I think. Showing mostly naked women looking like something off a Harlequin book cover with phrases like "Play a game with me, Milord" and such crap.
 
It really started with that Evony game, I think. Showing mostly naked women looking like something off a Harlequin book cover with phrases like "Play a game with me, Milord" and such crap.
The ESRB actually flat out told Evony they needed to focus less on that aspect in their ads or they'd bump up their rating.
 
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/16/lead-simcity-developers-leave-maxis-to-form-indie-studio/

Former SimCity Creative Directer Ocean Quigley, Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz, and Lead Architect Andrew Willmott have left EA to form an indie studio, Jellygrade, calling themselves “recovering ex-AAA game developers.” The trio is now working on “a simulation about the dawn of life on earth; about lava, water, rock and the emergence of the first primordial creatures,” according to a tweet from Quigley.
 

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http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/07/16/lead-simcity-developers-leave-maxis-to-form-indie-studio/

Former SimCity Creative Directer Ocean Quigley, Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz, and Lead Architect Andrew Willmott have left EA to form an indie studio, Jellygrade, calling themselves “recovering ex-AAA game developers.” The trio is now working on “a simulation about the dawn of life on earth; about lava, water, rock and the emergence of the first primordial creatures,” according to a tweet from Quigley.
Sooo.. they're remaking SimLife?
 
Heh, Nintendo jacked the usual SNES VC price for it too.
The game is actually pretty rare and in small supply. This means that, for the vast majority of people, this is probably the only way they can get it legally. I'm okay with a little price gouging, as long as it can help ensure future releases.
 
Using real life scarcity to set virtual prices is slimy but totally in keeping with what Nintendo thinks of Earthbound fans.
 
Turned my Wii into an emulation box. Still don't feel bad about it. Most use it's ever gotten.
Yeeeeep. I've entirely enjoyed my sons playing through SNES classics. Oldest (clone of myself) took to Earthbound which made me crazy proud. He's also gotten pretty far in Link to the Past.
 


So, new Ace Combat is announced using quotes from the older games in the series (the ones that weren't garbage, fuck you Assault Horizon). You can even see a glimpse of Stonehenge and the heavy command cruiser from the earlier games. Then it shows that it takes place on Earth and is announced as PS3 only. Meaning it's probably the 3rd entry into the shitty F2P games Namco has been releasing and it's going to be a pay for mission/plane/everything colossal clusterfudge.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Optimistically, I hope it's not as shitty as Assault Horizon. Fuck that game. Didn't even have the awesome computer tactical replays of the missions.
 
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