China’s Tencent Games is releasing a new MMO called Age of Guns. The game features a dual-wielding hero that looks like it was picked up from the Japanese character design reject pile. But check out the Age of Guns‘ newest trailer.
Check out the latest batch of screenshots for the upcoming Devil May Cry reboot. Fans might well be disappointed with the stylistic ditching of Dante’s iconic white hair (which actually does appear in his Devil Trigger mode), but there’s no denying that these images scream style.
I’ve never as besotted as others are with Devil May Cry’s Dante. He looks like Carmen Sandiego-turned-serial-killer and has all the action hero swagger of a male hairdresser. So news certain fans of the series have made death threats to developers Ninja Theory over the character’s new appearance are… well, either disconcerting or hilarious. Probably both.
While I enjoyed the Japanese-developed Devil May Cry series and adore English developer Ninja Theory, I had absolutely no interest in this new DmC until I saw this video.
Tameem Antoniades, Chief Creative Officer at Ninja Theory certainly thinks so. In an extensive five page interview at Gamasutra, he discusses the issues the led to Enslaved’s struggle at retail, and problems with video game storytelling amongst other things. But one topic that keeps re-occurring is gaming’s tendency to support conservative, tried and tested gaming experiences.
DMC: Devil May Cry isn’t only getting a new trailer at this year’s Gamescom, it’s getting new screens. Funny that!
Devil May Cry is getting reworked as DMC: Devil May Cry — a fresh take on an old favourite.
