Gadgets and Video Games

Earlier this month, Take-Two announced the potential movement of one of the titles planned for release in its fiscal fourth quarter, extending from August to October. The choices were: LA Noire , Mafia 2 , Max Payne 3 , or Civilization V . During our demo of Mafia 2 on Wednesday, we were told the game would make its Q4 release, removing it from the list of potentially delayed titles.

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Q4 release for Mafia 2 (re)confirmed; Payne, Noire, Civ V still on hit list

Meeting with Gaikai’s founding fathers — ( from left to right) Rui Pereira, Andrew Gault and David Perry — this morning, we chatted about the company’s unique take on “cloud gaming,” particularly how, unlike competitor OnLive , there will be no fee to play streaming games using its servers and in-browser app, and what it’s doing to “reduce friction” in trying (and eventually buying) games online. Saying that Gaikai “isn’t trying to be PlayStation 4 or take out the next Wii,” Perry described (and demoed) the concept of embedding instantly playable games on any website. A publisher can, for instance, have a clickable pop-up appear when people are looking at one of its games on Amazon, which quickly launches an overlay window running the full game, with whatever time limit the publisher chooses. After this period, players can opt to buy the game for unlimited streaming, download it, or have a physical copy shipped to them

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Gaikai will be fee-free, utilize 300 data centers in the US

While Mass Effect 2 ’s in-game DLC pipeline, The Cerberus Network , continues to transport new weapons (and soon, a new vehicle) to players for free, BioWare has announced the game’s first pack of paid downloadable content. “Kasumi’s Stolen Memory” finally completes Commander Shepard’s dirty dozen, adding a confident female thief to your anti-Reaper repertoire. It’s currently scheduled to launch for Xbox 360 and PC on April 6th. After downloading the DLC, players can get in touch with Kasumi on the Citadel, either in the middle of an ongoing Mass Effect 2 game or after the completion of the main story (lesson learned from Mass Effect 1 DLC!)

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Mass Effect 2 DLC ‘Kasumi’s Stolen Memory’ lands on Apr. 6 (don’t forget!)

click to visit the new Albion Peter Molyneux has made it clear that Fable 3 is ditching as much of the 2D interface from Fable 2 as possible. Speaking at GDC , he finally showed us exactly how Lionhead will achieve this. According to Molyneux, Microsoft user research revealed that a majority of Fable 2 players understood fewer than half of the features in the game.

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Peter Molyneux explains Fable 3 menu, morphing systems

Yoshio Sakamoto has had a rather diverse career with Nintendo, having worked on games like Metroid , WarioWare and Tomodatchi Collection . Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asked the Metroid: Other M producer to speak at GDC to “explore the secret of creating games for such a dynamic range of titles.” One of Sakamoto’s greatest inspirations seems to be film, noting directors Dario Argento, Luc Besson, John Woo and Brian de Palma as key figures. In particular, he found Argento’s “Deep Red” to have a profound impact.

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Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto reveals Metroid: Other M’s cinematic inspirations

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Filed under: Features Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq (“LGJ”), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : While I’m still waiting for my copy of Dante’s Inferno , I have been checking out the review sites, Achievement guides and message boards in preparation for the arrival of the game. One question that keeps being asked over and over again, between many different boards, is “How is EA not being sued over this game?” While the overwhelming majority of these posts reference God of War , I have even seen mention of a “license” to Inferno (as a part of the Divine Comedy ).

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LGJ: Dante’s Infringement (or lack thereof)

Receiving a live demo of Fable 3 from Lionhead, er … head and Microsoft Games Studio boss Peter Molyneux during today’s X10 event, we learned that it, in his words, “is all about power and uniqueness.” Well, that and Charles Dickens. (More on that in a sec.) Yes, the game is up, running and actually looking pretty far along at this point

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X10: Fable 3 impressions (spoiler: we’re not pissed off)