Speaking at GDC, Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto downplayed his legacy—which includes the Metroid and WarioWare series—by claiming that as few of the titles he has developed have seen a release outside of Japan, he could be considered a “niche” game developer. And, he said, in Japan the Metroid titles are also considered niche, so “perhaps rather than having global appeal, I really am a developer who can only make niche games.”
LucasArts has announced that Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge will come out this summer for Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, PC and iPhone.
As previously speculated, the special edition features updated graphics and a re-mastered musical score. Monkey Island 2 will also allow gamers to have the option to directly control the main character, Guybrush Threepwood, and abandon the old point-and-click system.
Peter Molyneux has set a target for Fable III to sell at least 5 million units before he'll consider it an artistic success.
Molyneux said that the original Fable sold 3 million units, while the sequel saw sales of 3.5 million units. In order for Fable III to be seen as going in the right direction it must sell more than 5 million units, Monlyneux said, although how he reached that figure isn't immediately clear.
Former Command & Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 developers have left Electronic Arts’ Los Angeles Studio to form their own independent studio Supergiant Games.
The team is made up of Amir Rao, Gavin Simon and Darren Korb, with the group’s website saying: “We are a group of former EALA developers who quit our jobs in August 2009 and moved into a house together to make games. It's pretty awesome.”
“We’re working on a game for digital download platforms that we hope to release in 2011.”
MTV Games has announced Rock Band: Green Day, the title is set to lauch later this year across the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.
The title will feature avatars of the band as well as art and locations synonymous with the group. In addition, the Rock Band: Green Day track list will be fully exportable to Rock Band and Rock Band 2.
Epic Games and Valve Software have entered into an agreement to bring Valve’s Steamworks services to all licensees of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3.
Licensees of the industry leading games engine will now be able to fully take advantage of all game features and services in Steam, including: product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking and anti-cheat technology.
On Thursday morning, Lionhead Studios’ Peter Molyneux unveiled new features of the upcoming Fable 3 and discussed the challenge of moving away from the RPG niche.
Describing his love of early RPGs such as Wizardry and Ultima, Molyneux noted that these games depended on stats and numbers. “I lost my girlfriend because she was down the pub and I was still playing Ultima. Absolutely adored it. But again, it was a lot of numbers and stats and it was quite techy, and it required you to memorize an awful lot.”
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