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Bethesda “miss a lot of the humour”.
Long-in development MMO Fallout Online will launch in the second half of 2012, Interplay has promised.
In an interview with Edge magazine Interplay president Eric Caen said 2012 will also see a Fallout Online beta.
Caen’s comments will no doubt reassure fans troubled by the legal dispute between Interplay and Fallout 3 creator Bethesda over the game.
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Nearly 400 games submitted to the annual event, marking a year-on-year increase.The US-based Independent Games Festival (IGF) has received a record-breaking number of entries for its main competition category. The number of entries has increased by 30 per cent on last year, bringing submissions to 391.
The IGF entries this year include 150 titles for mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, and Android.
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He who dares wins.
Atlus, the publisher that brought Demon’s Souls West, has posted a profit. And the two events are entirely linked.
Last year’s operating income loss of $1.2 million transformed into a positive $5 million this year (1st September 2009 to 31st August 2010), according to Siliconera.
Index Holdings, the parent company of Atlus, picked out Demon’s Souls as the reason why. A slide of Atlus’ released games was half filled by the box-art of From Software’s celebrated action-RPG; on the other half, nine titles struggled to be seen.
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Coming soon, says developer.
The developers of Super Meat Boy have identified a bug that’s mucking up the game’s auto-save routine and expect to fix it soon.
That’s according to Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen, who told Joystiq to expect a fix “soon”.
It’s not entirely clear what causes the bug, but judging by tweets from the developers it has something to do with replaying levels.
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A strong debut for Kirby’s Epic Yarn can’t knock the handheld RPG off the top of the latest chart.Pokemon Black/White held the number one spot in the Japanese software charts for a fifth consecutive week. Nintendo’s DS game sold 168, 541 units in the week ending October 17.
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“I won’t ‘dumb it down’,” says designer.
Battlefield developer DICE has promised the third instalment in the series will be just as enjoyable on PC as it is on consoles.
Posting on the EA forum, designer Alan Kerz acknowledged, “PC players have a fear that BF3 will be ‘consolized’.
“PC players have their own set of requirements… Anything that feels like it might have been “ported” from a console is going to get flamed hard,” he wrote. “It’s a damn sight harder to please a PC player, they have higher expectations.”
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Metal gears of war.
Here’s what we were picking from: Out This Week.
Start as you mean to go on. At 8am on Monday, our review of the wonderfully, viciously pure indie platformer Super Meat Boy announced that this was going to be no ordinary week of new releases. Tom declared himself “crazy in love” and slapped a 9/10 on it. By Tuesday evening, we’d awarded three more. We’ve just closed the week out with a fifth.
Late October is the business end of the videogame year, with a ton of high-profile new releases, but even so there’s no accounting for such an outburst of quality. Maybe we were just all in a really good mood (Just Dance 2 certainly cheered me up). But it does make Game of the Week a tough choice.
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GFW Marketplace ups the ante.
Microsoft aims to land a hammer blow in the battle with Valve’s Steam and Apple’s App Store for PC videogame download supremacy next month with the relaunch of Games for Windows Marketplace.
The relaunch is set for 15th November. The idea, according to Microsoft, is to turn the store into “a destination for games for PC gamers”.
“Sure, we’re going to have Live-enabled titles, and we love those, but that’s not all you’ll find here,” Peter Orullian, a group product manager, told Joystiq.
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“It was completely mind-blowing”, says one.
In two weeks five modders from the Team Fortress 2 community made between $39,000 and $47,000 selling items through the game’s new Mann Co. Store.
The royalty figures were so high they exceeded PayPal deposit restrictions, so Valve flew the highest earners – Spencer Kern and Steven Skidmore – to its door to hand the cheques over in person.
“It was completely mind-blowing, the size of the return that we’re getting on these things,” Kern gushed to Gamasutra.
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Interplay president Eric Caen comments on ongoing spat between the two publishers.
Speaking during an exclusive interview in issue 221 of Edge (available from UK newsagents on Tuesday 26), Interplay president, Eric Caen, has revealed that Bethesda turned down an opportunity to purchase the rights for a Fallout MMOG from his company.