As 2014 glides to an end, the year that lies behind us has proven a tempestuous one — full of both gains in gaming and setbacks alike.
While the games themselves have been largely entertaining (if not entirely without controversy), the culture, politics, and events surrounding games have been of great interest.
We've spoken to several figures working in every area of the games industry — developers, publishers, press, and public relations — about both the biggest trends of the year, and what we can expect from the coming year. First up, a look back at 2014.
If you've got an Alien itch you can't quite scratch until Alien: Rolumus releases, GameSpew has rounded up the best Alien games to tide you over.
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.
Tomb Raider Timed Exclusivity vs Street Fighter 5 Full Exclusivity
Game developers releasing unfinished or downgraded games.