Monthly Archives: February 2010
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 09:47 GMT
PixelJunk director: Games marketing “narrowly focused” at “the people who read NeoGAF”
PixelJunk Racers and Monsters director Rhod Broadbent has spoken out against current promotion methods, saying the norm is to aim at accruing sales from “the people who read NeoGAF”.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Trade
Tags: marketing, Neogaf, pixeljunk, Q-Games, Rhod Broadbent
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 09:16 GMT
“Our best work” is still to come, says BioWare
Thought Mass Effect 2 was something special? BioWare’s best is yet to come, according to co-founder Ray Muzyka.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 08:58 GMT
Q-Games: “We don’t currently have anything for motion controls”
If you were hoping the next PixelJunk might take advantage of PS3′s wand controller – rumoured to be called Arc – it sounds as though you’re out of luck.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, PS3, Xbox 360
Tags: arc, Duncan Flett, PixelJunk Shooter, project natal, ps3 motion controller, Q-Games, Rhod Broadbent, Shouichi Tominaga
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 08:19 GMT
Leaked Sega docs point at Vanquish coming to PS3
The recently-revealed Vanquish is apparently coming to PS3, if Sega documents dated back to last year are any indication.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 07:48 GMT
Sega will trade exclusivity deal for Shenmue III funding
Sega’s apparently said in the latest issue of Famitsu 360 that it would develop Shenmue III as a platform exclusive – provided the relative hardware manufacturer paid for it.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 06:57 GMT
“I’m not allergic to Xbox 360,” says PixelJunk Shooter boss
Q-Games’ oeuvre may be currently Xbox-phobic, but, if comments made by PixelJunk Shooter director Shouichi Tominaga are any indication, there’s hope for 360 titles from the Japanese developer yet.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Japan, PS3, PSN, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: Duncan Flett, pixeljunk, Q-Games, Shouichi Tominaga
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 06:32 GMT
Bungie: Reach “not a Natal title”
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Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: bungie, Halo: Reach, project natal
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 06:27 GMT
Q-Games casts PixelJunk Dungeons’ future in doubt
Q-Games has dropped a heavy hint that PixelJunk Dungeons may never see light of day as a standalone game, saying that the top-down dungeon crawler’s elements will show themselves in future PixelJunk projects.
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Posted in: Development, Hot, Japan, PS3
Tags: Duncan Flett, Dylan Cuthbert, PixelJunk Dungeons, PixelJunk Shooter, Q-Games, Rhod Broadbent, Shouichi Tominaga
Mon, Feb 01, 2010 | 21:41 GMT
Q-Games on piracy, PixelJunk Dungeon and a mistrust of marketing
Nathan: “Pat! I’m going to Japan!”
Pat: “I’ll ask Dylan Cuthbert if you can pop along to Q’s offices in Kyoto and do an interview.”
Nathan: “Awesome.”
[10 minutes later]
Pat: “It’s all good. He said yes.”
Nathan: “I’m so, like, doing this thing. Hopefully I’ll get to speak to PixelJunk Shooter director Shouichi Tominaga, PixelJunk Monsters and Racers director Rhod Broadbent and recruitment and PR chap Duncan Flett.”
Pat: “That would be very cool. And Dylan, too?”
Nathan: “I have a feeling he won’t be there on the day.”
Pat: “Me too. We didn’t want to speak to him anyway, right?”
Nathan: “Right. I think.”
Hit the link.
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Posted in: Action, Development, Hot, Japan, PS3, PSN, Racing, Shooter, Sony, Strategy
Tags: Duncan Flett, Dylan Cuthbert, pixeljunk, pixeljunk dungeon, PixelJunk Monsters, pixeljunk racers, PixelJunk Shooter, Q-Games, Rhod Broadbent, Shouichi Tominaga
Ace Attorney 5 in the works, original trilogy getting HD brush up