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Today, we dabble into the recent Pokemon Direct, BattleBorn Free-to-play announcement, and an interesting look at an Overwatch clone from China.
1- Chinese Overwatch Clone Has Some Giant Balls (Source: Kotaku Luke Plunkett)
Spotted by ponpo and called Hero Mission, this is a mobile shooter that is basically Overwatch, only for a phone, and with the slightest of design edits (most lifted from Overwatch, some from other properties like Mad Max and Star Wars).
Full Article at: http://kotaku.com/chinese-overwatch-clone-has-some-giant-balls-1795839720
2- Battleborn announcement for being free-to-play should be coming soon (Source: Kotaku Jason Schreier)
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/872056680489660417
Official post: https://battleborn.com/en/news/view/en-battleborn-free-trial-faq/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF6GvRDmzwo
3- Devolver Digital announces The Sword of Ditto for PS4, PC (Source: Gematsu Sal Romano)
Via its official website: The Swords of Ditto is a compact action RPG that creates a unique adventure for each new hero of legend in the relentless fight against the evil Mormo. Explore a delightful but dangerous overworld, brave menacing dungeons, and improve your hero in a charming village, during your quest to overcome the evil that plagues the island. Unleash the mystical Sword of Ditto and grab a co-op friend for an unforgettable adventure filled with delightful characters, extraordinary loot, and heroic battles!
Full Article: http://gematsu.com/2017/06/devolver-digital-announces-swords-ditto-ps4-pc#kYhQf2rF0dmTmwHV.99
Official Website: http://theswordsofditto.com/
4- Old School Runescape will have a 2017 Pride Event. Some people do not like that (Source: NeoGAF user CannonFodder52)
Full NeoGAF post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1386180
2017 Pride Announcement for RS: https://twitter.com/JagexWolf/status/871773754497650688
Some negative reactions: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/6fg9ux/an_ingame_gay_pride_event_does_not_belong_in_the/
5- 5 years of Gamedev will Kill you (Source: NeoGAF user Renekton)
Not a new story but definitely worth looking at.
Imgur Post: https://imgur.com/gallery/bGLAQ
Game development itself is great for the most part, but financial realities not so much. We didn’t have a publisher, and didn’t want to do a kickstarter on the very real possibility that we’d fail to finish. So that left us with being completely self-funded, code for spending what savings you might have had, relying on the generosity of your family and the frankly irrational confidence they have in you, and living frugally in a low cost college-town.
6- GOG Summer Sale is live! Free Rebel Galaxy with your 1st purchase.
Store: https://www.gog.com/
7- Asia Nikkei: Apple, Amazon to back Foxconn on Toshiba Chip Bid (source: NeoGAF user ggx2ac)
Full post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1385553
TL;DR: The main point in all of this is how big a shortage could occur for NAND flash memory if Toshiba’s memory business wasn’t up for sale seeing as they had a 16% market share for the first quarter of 2017. Toshiba is one of the supplier for Nintendo’s eMMC chips. There are concerns over manufacturing of Switch units due to NAND memory shortage. Other bidders are in now for the Toshiba chip business which could increase manufacturing once it’s resolved and overall getting more supply to manufacture Nintendo Switch units.
Apple and Amazon wants a stake in the business so they can supply huge amount of money increasing manufacturing https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/05/apple-and-amazon-stake-toshiba-memory-flash-foxconn/
8- Total Annihilation’s Chris Taylor is back and making a new RTS (Source: Eurogamer Robert Purchese)
“My goal is to put RTSes on more screens than ever. I want to move the football way down the field. I want to change, fundamentally, not only the way we play RTS but the way we access the RTS experience.
“What if I told you you could be playing on your dual-screen PC with your quad-core whatever and when you had to run to a meeting you could continue playing on your phone, because you want to, because you’re dying to, because you don’t want to have to wait to get back?
“What if I told you you could just turn the power off on your PC and when you went to your phone you could continue playing without any disruption in the experience? A real continuous experience on any device.”
What would you say?
“I promise it will be something where people will genuinely be shocked,” he adds. “It can’t be a disappointing, trivial little thing that people shrug off.”
Full interview at: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-01-going-pottery-total-annihilations-chris-taylor-new-rts
9- Summary of the Pokemon Direct
- Pokken Tournament DX announced for the Switch releasing September 22nd
- Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, incorporating an alternative story and pokemon, has been announced for Nintendo 3DS, releasing November 17th
- Pokemon Gold and Silver Virtual Console will be released on Nintendo 3da, releasing September 22nd.
- Direct: https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?t=1816&v=ylrhSB3vz7A
10- Xbox One users largely ignore backward-compatible Xbox 360 games (Source: Arsetechnica Kyle Orland, Credit to NeoGAF User Zombie James)
NeoGAF post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1386408
Full article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/backward-compatible-xbox-360-games-are-less-than-2-of-xbox-one-usage-time/
11- Absolver closed beta registration open
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Absolver/status/872143619167318016
Link: http://absolver.com/beta/register
12- Xbox Daily @E3 Announcement Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDh_8Gy6uU
13- Monument Valley 2 announced at Apple WWDC 2017 (available now) (source: NeoGAF user Volotaire)
Full post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1385946
14- Nintendo Spotlight Presentation to be 30 minutes in length (Source: Chris Scullion and Neal Ronaghan tweet, Credit to NeoGAF user Nbz)
Twitter Chris Scullion: https://twitter.com/scully1888/status/872098484001939456
Twitter Neal Ronaghan: https://twitter.com/nron10/status/872098584774279168
NeoGAF post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1386420
15- PS+ games are out. If you are a PS+ subscriber, Grab your free games!
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/home/games/psplus
16- Official PS Blog: New Gold PS4, 9 Days of Epic Deals (Source: PlayStation Blog John Koller)
Full Article: https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/06/06/a-thank-you-to-all-our-fans-new-gold-ps4-9-days-of-epic-deals/
17- Dragon Crown and Odin Sphere dev Vanillaware will release their new sci-fi mecha game 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for PS4 and PS Vita in North America and Europe (Source: Gematsu Sal Romano)
Full article: http://gematsu.com/2017/06/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-coming-west
Official Website: http://gematsu.com/2017/06/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-coming-west
