Hiroyuki Kobayashi Talks Devil Kings, Japan Game Biz
Hiroyuki Kobayashi may be renowned as the producer of Resident Evil 4 and the Devil May Cry series, but right now in Japan he’s probably best known for his role in Sengoku Basara (aka Devil Kings ), a series of Dynasty Warriors-y action games that has become wildly popular in Japan in recent years. “We came up with the project plan for Basara around the time game sales began to slow down in Japan,” Kobayashi recalled in an interview printed in Famitsu magazine. “We thought a lot about how to to make a game sell here, and during the trial-and-error phase, we went to a bookstore and found a section devoted to the Warring States period.
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Hiroyuki Kobayashi Talks Devil Kings, Japan Game Biz
GDC Europe 2010: Warren Spector Cites Oral Storytelling As Medium Games Should Learn From
In a grandiose keynote titled, “What Videogames Can Learn From Other Media…
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GDC Europe 2010: Warren Spector Cites Oral Storytelling As Medium Games Should Learn From
Square Enix’s Next Game Involves Throwing Bears Around
In Japan, Final Fantasy creator Square Enix has unveiled a new WiiWare game called Kumange, which is a “throwing action” game involving mansions, paper bears and picture books. According to Japanese gaming site Andriasang (as translated from the game’s official website ), The Tales of Bearsworth Manor (as it will be called for its English language release) allows players to “make use of the [Wii remote] to throw things in order to solve puzzles.”
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Square Enix’s Next Game Involves Throwing Bears Around
Ubisoft Announces Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2
It was revealed last week that Ubisoft still has two unannounced Tom Clancy games in the works, and now that mystery has been at least halfway solved: Ubisoft announced today that Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 is in development and slated for release later this year
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"Innovative and New Take" Coming For Madden NFL 11
Following the release of early sales figures on Madden NFL 10 , an internal EA note from CEO John Riccitiello revealed that he was disappointed with the title’s performance. So it perhaps shouldn’t come as a great surprise that, during an EA conference call today, Riccitiello revealed that coming in fiscal year 2011 (i.e.
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NPD’s Top 10 Selling Games of 2009 List Topped by Call of Duty
Despite launching in mid-November (November 10, to be exact), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 is the best selling game of the year, according to new figures released by the NPD Group. As the November NPD figures revealed, the 360 version alone sold an astonishing 4.2 million units, with the PS3 version posting a very solid 1.87 million.
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