Not many great things are remembered from the 2008 E3 press conference, but, we’ve learned, when Jack Tretton promises something, you can take it to the bank.
Nintendo promised to keep the world smiling at last year’s E3. The company made a few other predictions too, with less than stellar results…
Join us in reliving the hype of last year’s Microsoft E3 press conference with the know-it-all hindsight of what did and didn’t come true. Sorry, Microsoft, but you were not perfect in predicting the future…
Today NCsoft confirmed to Kotaku that they are indeed laying some folks off from their Austin offices.
“We are announcing that 21 positions are being eliminated in the Austin office of NCsoft in the area of product development”, an NCsoft spokesman told Kotaku. “Primarily this is related to products which we have not previously announced and were in prototype phases. We are also cutting some positions on the Dungeon Runners team after deciding not to port the client to other platforms at this time”.
Among those let go, Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings.
The news comes a day after parent company Korean-based NCsoft announced a bump in sales but a drop in operating profit and net income. The news is a stark contrast to rumours that surfaces earlier this week that 140 to 160 people were going to be let go and the office possibly shuttered. At the time NCsoft told Kotaku that the rumours were “not accurate at all” and “pretty outrageous”.
This is downright odd.
Just two days after word hit that Activision was taking inventory of future Sierra titles, including Ghostbusters The Video Game and Brutal Legend, and trying to decide which to publish and which to mothball, I received this in the mail.
That’s right, a preview copy of Ghostbusters The Video Game. The letter, written by the Evil PR Ninja Monkey (that’s actually his title) at Activision Blizzard says that the hands-on preview code is not embargoed and that I can write about it as soon as I’d like to.
According to the included fact sheet the game has a spring 2008 release date, but of course since the sheet isn’t dated I have no way of knowing how accurate it is.
Sounds like someone is trying to reassure the gaming public. Now about that Brutal Legend code?
