This information comes straight from Danny Bilson’s Twitter account. Bilson is THQ’s core games VP…
“Big game announcement at VGA award show. Trying to keep the press release from sounding “corporate lame”, because the game is anything but.”
There are a number of possibilities as to what the title might be. It could be Guillermo Del Toro’s new project, or a new game that THQ recently teased for Wii/Move/Kinect. Or it might be something completely different. We’ll find out for sure in less than two weeks!
“We dumped that license because we felt like we needed to own more intellectual property, and we don’t like where James Bond is going with all the creative limitations on it. The percentage royalties you have to pay the licensors are going the wrong way for publishers. The margins are being squeezed. And, to top it all off, the movie-game business is falling apart. Considering the total amount of money we have to spend on those types of James Bond games, and the total amount of man-hours we had to put into them, we thought, hell, let’s work on our own IP. The guys who made James Bond games for us, well yeah, they went on and made Dead Space, and look where we are now; what would you rather publish, retail and play – the latest James Bond or Dead Space 2?”
I have no problem with movie games so long as they’re good games! Problem is, there aren’t too many good movie games out there. I’d definitely support new IPs over movie games, though! It’s good to see EA is in agreement.
First, 5th Cell’s Jeremiah Slaczka was asked if Kinect or Move provide him with any inspiration…
“Yeah… a little. I don’t know. The 3DS is cooler in our opinion.”
Slaczka then elaborated on his thoughts regarding Move/its relation to Wii…
“Move is okay. It’s Wii plus. It’s good for what it is. Ultimately it’s all about the system. If the idea makes sense, then we can do it and we will. But it’s all about the idea.”
Last but not least, Slaczka talked about 5th Cell’s interest in the 3DS, and that the company is in the R&D phase of making a 3DS title…
“[5th Cell is] in the R&D phase [to make a 3DS game]. We have people playing around with it. The 3D camera is probably the most interesting thing that’s the least talked about.”
001, 002, and 003… Those listings don’t really give us any clues as to what the games could be. Are those even the real names? Hopefully we’ll receive some answers soon!
Videos
Nintendo Week 11/29
Super Mario All-Stars Info Video
Disneyland and Epic Mickey Interview
Golden Sun Dark Dawn Djinn Trailer
Super Mario Bros 3 Super Play Movie #1
Ultimate Challenge Art Academy
Tangled – Wii Live Action Video Info Video 2
HB Arcade Disc Golf Info Video
Airport Mania Info Video
Spot It! Challenge Info Video
Frenzic Info Video
Can you believe that five BIT.TRIP titles have already been released? I feel like BEAT wasn’t released that long ago, even though it launched in March of last year. Unfortunately, CommanderVideo’s adventures are almost over. There’s just one BIT.TRIP game left – and it seems like it will be titled “Flux.” The USK has shared the game’s title a bit early, though we should hear some information about the project soon.
In a move that isn’t all too surprising, SEGA has opted to wipe the leaderboards of Sonic 4 due to rampant cheating in the game. Cheaters would hack the game to show impossible run-times in levels that couldn’t be beat, which completely ruins the fun of the game for everyone else trying to play.
Cheating seems to be making a comeback in the last few years, with Wii games getting hit especially hard due to their easy-to-hack online structure. Hopefully we’ll see some decency in the gaming community soon, but until then we just have to deal with it it seems.
This information comes from Warren Spector…
“I would really like to do a Duck Tales game. I love the Duck Tales TV show, but even more people who love them need to go back and rediscover Carl Barks, who is the greatest comic book writer and artist of all time, ever, anywhere in the world. Carl Barks is number one and about half of the Duck Tales stories were based on Carl Barks’ comic books. I want to do a Duck Tales game real bad. I don’t know if Disney will let me do it. And the Gremlins, too.”
Jeez, I feel like we’re always hearing about how Warren Spector wants to create a new DuckTales game. Make it happen, Disney!
The information below is apparently from the latest issue of Famitsu. Again, though, I’ll be marking this as a rumor until we receive an official confirmation…
– Called SD Gundam G Generation World
– Releasing February 24 in Japan
– Tom Create developing the game
– “Generation Break” system a new gameplay element
– Set in a single world
– All participating franchises brought together
