Altern8 writes: "I've always been fascinated by the origins behind ideas. For the most part, it's easy to imagine how our favourite videogame concepts came into fruition. It's not impossible to conceive Hideo Kojima viewing James Bond at an early age, and mentally forming the foundations for his own solid take on Cold War espionage. Or that the first thing Capcom's Shinji Mikami thought upon seeing PlayStation technology was how he'd finally be able to scare the living daylights out of wannabe zombie survivalists."
“I love a good old puzzle game and Zuma is one that I used to play all the time and now you can, too, thanks to EA Play and Game Pass.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
TheXboxHub take a look at the best and worst of the Xbox Live Deals With Gold sale for 8th-14th Dec 2015
With today’s Friday Funday blog post of the day, PopCap Games listed some of their more popular games and the titles that they were almost given. It has been said before that Bejeweled was originally named “Diamond Mine”, but there are a few more examples worth mentioning.
In other news, Plants vs Zombies was almost sued to oblivion.
It's probably best they went with what they did.
That would have been funny.
Did you know that the original name for Pac-man was Puck-man? Not because he looks like a puck, but because paku-paku means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they were afraid of people changing the name, like scratching out the middle part of the P.-the homeboy Scott Pilgrim
I would have called it super zombie ultra combo maximum edition, PLANeTary survival
