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‘Nintendo’s Doomed, They Should Go Third-Party!’—Said Everyone, Ever.
Yesterday, former Epic Games designer and Dead Space aficionado Cliff Bleszinski was quoted by GamesIndustry International about what he perceived as the worst turmoil the industry’s experienced since the eighties. The situation was so bad, he suggested, that even Nintendo might throw in the towel and go software-only, like Sega did after the Dreamcast’s meager performance.
Having Gone Six Years Without Saying Anything Offensive, Steve Lyons Gets A Job In MLB The Show’s Booth
Steve Lyons, whose 15-year broadcasting career is dotted with numerous insensitive remarks — one of them enough to get him fired — is taking a seat in a more controlled environment: MLB 13 The Show. As reported by Operation Sports, Lyons said via Twitter at the end of last month that he was recording “lots of VoiceOver work for MLB The Show 2013, and when asked by a follower if he was replacing the third-chair analyst Eric Karros, he replied, “no … [Dave] Campbell.”
He Went To War So He Could Make Video Games
When you’re a problem solver like Joe Ricks, nothing stands between you and your dream. For Ricks, the dream was the holy grail of any kid growing up attached to a controller: making video games. So determined was the cash-strapped man, that he risked it all to get the education he needed. Joe Ricks enlisted and went to war so that he could learn how to make video games.
Jackie Chan Allegedly Missed Being In Aurora Theater
Sometimes when something tragic happens in the United States, Chinese media (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) will jump at the chance to somehow relate it to something happening in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Despite the gravity and the horror of what happened last Friday in Colorado, the Chinese media have done it again, this time linking Chinese movie star Jackie Chan to the tragedy.
According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily, Jackie Chan has going the rounds talking about how he escaped a near death experience in Aurora. Oriental Daily reports that Chan was allegedly invited to for the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado but work obligations got in the way and he had to return to Beijing. Taiwan’s China Times reported that while Chan expressed grief and shock over the incident he seemed to be more worried about how the upgraded security will affect the premiere of his own upcoming movie Chinese Zodiac .
Now if any of this is to be believed, it would make Jackie Chan a really big loser for trying to gain exposure of his live-action Jackie Chan Adventures movie, however please keep in mind that Jackie Chan isn’t exactly the well loved action hero he seems to be.
成龍受邀”蝙蝠俠”首映未成行 逃過一劫 [Oriental Daily via Xinhuanet]
(Top photo: Eugene Hoshiko | AP)
LEGO Getting A New MMO
Online game developer Funcom revealed today that it’s signed a deal with LEGO to make an online game based on LEGO Minifigures.
Nintendo Says Japanese Newspaper Is Making Crap Up. Again.
Late last week, respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei (and seemingly Nintendo’s nemesis of late) reported that the Kyoto-based game maker would be launching the 3DS in South Korea next month. That launch would be followed by a release in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.
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