Happy Thursday everyone! Today, we have the Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy Reviews (#4), Nickelodeon getting into the eSports business (what??.. #11), and Guillemot pitching a new Splinter Cell game (#18). Enjoy!
1- Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon coming west in October (Source: Nintendo Everything, Brian)
2- Nintendo can give fans an amazing gift by slowly killing the 3DS.. (Source: Polygon, Ben Kuchera, credit to NeoGAF user Poetic.Injustice)
This is literally the title of the article.. Not joking
3- ‘Zelda,’ ‘Overwatch’ and the failure to represent Middle Eastern and South Asian identities in games (Source: Mic, Rye Khosravi, credit to NeoGAF user, Poetic.Injustice)
Video games often blur the lines between Middle Eastern and South Asian countries until characters are nothing but vague brown stereotypes. It’s a real issue, not just because it does a disservice to the complex people and stories from this part of the world, but because it reinforces a simplistic understanding of their cultures, which can create real-life problems.
4- Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy Review Thread
Should you buy it? Eh.. maybe. If you’re a die-hard crash fan like I am, then definitely. If you’re a newcomer, I would look at some gameplay first.
5- The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game: Official Announce Trailer
6- EVE Online developer gets sent…. a bag of dicks (Source: PC Gamer, Steven Messner)
7- Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy: Complete PS4/Pro vs PS1 Graphics Comparison!
8- Ace Combat 7 PS VR Gameplay – Hollie Becomes A Fighter Pilot!
9-Nintendo Classic Mini SNES – 160,000 available day 1 in France
That’s actually quite a bit in just France. Makes me hopeful they will have enough for US.
10- 112 new things in XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Yes, seriously)
11- Nickelodeon enters esports as part of $15m funding round for Super League Gaming (Gamesindustry.biz, James Batchelor)
Super League Gaming has completed another successful funding round to the tune of $15m – and it marks the first esports activity from kids’ broadcaster Nickelodeon.
While Super League Gaming organises tournaments around the usual, popular esports titles such as League of Legends, it also specialises in more kid-friendly events such as Minecraft competitions – something that helped secure the interest and funding of Nickelodeon.
12- PayPal Issue Reportedly Causing PSN Bans For Some Users (Source: Gamespot, Chris Pereira)
13- Older Article but thought it was interesting:Marvel Games Exec Talks Batman: Arkham’s Lasting Influence (Source: Gamespot, Matt Espineli)
14-Nintendo Switch leak reveals potential guest logins, save data transfers (Source: Eurogamer, Tom Phillips)
Nintendo documents designed for Switch developers have been published online and sparked debate around references to as-yet unrevealed features such as save data transfers and guest logins.
Eurogamer has verified the document as legitimate but it is now at least six months out of date – from late 2016.
15-Sony pulls “World’s Fastest Platinum Trophy” game from PSN (Source: Eurogamer, Vic Hood)
16- “We quit our jobs, remortgaged our houses” – how relentless passion made Cuphead a reality (Source: Gamesradar, Alex Gilyadov).
After multiple delays, many tradeshow appearances, and plenty of opinionated feedback… Cuphead will finally release on September 29. It’s been a long, hard road to get here for StudioMDHR Entertainment and its captivating 1930s cartoon platformer. Cuphead was unveiled at E3 2014 and playable a year later at E3 2015. Its bold 2D art style, which recalls classic, mid-20th century animations, and engaging, tough boss battles catapulted Cuphead to everyone’s most anticipated list. But, after it was quickly made known the game only contained boss fights with barely any platforming levels linking those battles together, people grew disappointed. The excitement for Cuphead died down…
Just another example how much pressure indie devs go through.
17- Miyamoto: PC Didn’t Have as Much Attention as Nintendo @E3 2017; Company “Aware” of PC Market Size (Source: WCCFtech, Alessio Palumbo, credit to NeoGAF user Poetic.Injustice)
Nintendo’s games used to be only available on their own consoles. However, the company recently launched a massive mobile initiative with games like Pokémon Go, Super Mario Run and others.
It’s not that surprising, then, to read that during today’s Nintendo’s 77th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders investors asked Nintendo executives whether they planned to create games for PC since they are already on two-thirds of the gaming market (console and mobile).
18- Ubisoft plans to develop a new Splinter Cell game (Source: DSOGaming, John Papadopoulos, credit to NeoGAF user almostjuliuscaesar)
A lot of Sam Fisher fans were disappointed at this year’s E3 as Ubisoft did not reveal anything at all about a possible new Splinter Cell game. However, and according to its CEO, it appears that the French company is indeed looking into developing a new part in its Splinter Cell series.
19- Falcom President Wants to Release Missing “The Legend of Heroes” Games in The West (Source: Dualshockers, Azario Lopez, credit to NeoGAF user Dragoon En Regalia)
Falcom has developed some of the most beloved JRPG series to date, with a history spanning over 30 years, the studio has been making a dent in the western gaming market over the past couple of years.
One of Falcom’s biggest series, The Legend of Heroes, began in the late 90’s as the Dragon Slayer series and is still seeing entries to this day with The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III announced for PlayStation 4. The series has seen success in the west, for example: even though the final entry, Trails in the Sky the 3rd, was originally released in 2007 in Japan. It held a top spot on the Steam charts upon its western release in May 2017.
