No Man’s Sky Dev Denies Surprise Release
No Man's Sky won't be getting a surprise release this week, according to developer Hello Games.
A rumor recently surfaced, in which "friends of VG247 are claiming PS4 owners could be in for a massive treat tomorrow, saying the game will release on PSN this week." Hello Games' Sean Murray has since taken to Twitter to debunk this report.
.@dojo_ninja I heard that rumour that NMS is stealth releasing on Oct 27th. It is false
What You Wear in Final Fantasy 15 Will Affect Battle
Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata has revealed why the game's main cast of characters all wear black.
"The clothing worn by the four main characters is the official battle gear of the Kingdom of Lucis," Tabata said on the game's official forums (via Kotaku). "Noctis is a member of the royal family and the other three characters are parts of various Lucian national organisations and they are each wearing the specific battle dress relevant to their individual stations."
Miyamoto Wanted to Make Goldeneye More Family-friendly
Ex-Rare producer Martin Hollis has spoken about some of the changes Shigeru Miyamoto suggested for the N64 title Goldeneye.
During a talk at this year’s GameCity festival, via The Guardian, Hollis revealed that Miyamoto conversed with Rare via fax towards the end of Goldeneye’s dev-cycle.
“One point was that there was too much close-up killing –
found it a bit too horrible,” said Hollis. “I don’t think I did anything with that input.
"The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”
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EA Reveals More Star Wars Battlefront Beta Stats
EA has released some more information about what happened during the recent Star Wars Battlefront beta.
We already knew it was the biggest beta in EA history with 9 million players, but did you know that according to the announcement, those players logged over 1.6 billion minutes played? That's enough to watch the original Star Wars trilogy 4.2 million times!
Darth Vader was slightly more prevalent than Luke Skywalker during the beta, appearing 5,938,148 times to Luke's 5,904,806. Vader also force choked nearly 1.4 million people during his time in the snow.
Red Fly Wants to Re-pitch Cancelled Darth Maul Game
Red Fly Studio wants to breathe a new lease of life into its cancelled Darth Maul game.
Speaking during a Reddit AMA, Red Fly developer Dan Borth answered some questions regarding what the game would be should the team manage to find a new home for it.
According to Borth, the game will see a young Darth Maul – aged between “9 or 11” – through to adulthood and before the events of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
“We wanted to show what he went through to become a Sith,” writes Borth. “Showcase the torture The Emperor put him through. Show how you as the player would have made the same mistakes and ended up a Sith.
What Would You Like to See In PlayStation’s 4.0 Update?
Sony is asking PlayStation 4 players what they want to see in the next major PlayStation 4 update.
Neogaf user Saint of Killers shared details of an invite-only questionnaire, which asks players to rate what are the most important features from a list that includes friend online notifications, appearing offline, custom backgrounds, avatars, PSN ID changes, and folders.
Coffin Dodgers Is Coming to Consoles
Milky Tea Studios and Wales Interactive have announced that Coffin Dodgers will be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in early 2016.
"We feel that its natural home is on console," said Jon Holmes, founder and managing director of Milky Tea.
Coffin Dodgers is a zany kart racing game where retirees race on their mobility scooters and battle against the Grim Reaper and his zombie army.
Game modes include single-player story, time trial, a 3D open world, and a 2-4 local multiplayer mode. Coffin Dodgers was released on PC earlier this year.
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Star Wars Battlefront: 14 Important Fixes We Want to See
Let’s get this out of the way upfront: the Star Wars Battlefront beta was awesome. Whether stomping the Rebel Alliance on the icy fields of Hoth, capturing loot-laden escape pods on Sullust, or felling scores of terrible-aiming Stormtroopers on Tatooine, it delivered on the promise of being part of the Star Wars universe. But as much as the beta got right, it also raised some issues that DICE needs to address prior to launch next month to ensure that Star Wars Battlefront is the best it can be.
Here’s our list of 14 issues that we encountered during the Star Wars Battlefront beta.
Matchmaking is a fantastic tool which, in theory, means you can be in a game with a couple of button presses. It’s also a feature that’s best served alongside a server browser, particularly when players are connecting to dedicated servers (which they are in Battlefront). Like the Battlefield games DICE made before it, Battlefront is in need of a server browser to offer a manual level of control over the map, mode and favourite place to blast fictional avatars from far, far away.
A Super Mario Maker Post-mortem
So it turns out Super Mario Maker isn’t that great at making Super Mario games.
Now that we’ve been creating and playing for more than a month, the main criticism you see being repeated is that it’s difficult to find levels that really feel like Super Mario. 1-ups and coins mean nothing, there are no real secrets, there’s no progression, and so on. For me, this is not a negative at all.
The 100 Mario Challenge — which, besides the actual creation, is undoubtedly the crux of the game — is like a direct, temporary insight into the gaming psyche of one random player in the world after another, using the common language of Super Mario.
No Super Mario game would feature a level in which a goomba action hero tries and fails to rescue his family, followed by an epic and original boss fight that fires cape feathers and bob-ombs constantly into your face, but Maker is not a Super Mario game.