There’s plenty of news outside of the reveal to discuss, but there’s only one way to take this week’s featured discussion — Microsoft’s jumbled messaging behind the Xbox One reveal.
Talking points: The WCW Cruiserweight division; next-gen horsepower; GTA V special editions; Freedom Wars; does anyone still care about Final Fantasy XIV?; Square Enix of America prez calls it quits; Super Stardust lives on; what about Mirror’s Edge 2 now?; Killzone: Mercenary won’t be brutalized by GTA V after all; your annual Need for Speed game revealed; Rhode Island selling Kingdoms of Amalur; play and download The Last of Us at the same time; PlayStation Plus; Xbox Won (for most confusing reveal)!; multiplayer and reboots.
Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
