Video Games

Final Fantasy Remakes Coming to Xbox?

In a recent interview
with Official Xbox
Magazine,
Final Fantasy XIII-2 producer Yoshinori
Kitase hinted that it would be possible to remake an older Final Fantasy game (please, please FFVII) for the Xbox 360. When asked if Square Enix needed Sony’s
permission to remake Playstation 1-era FF
games, Kitase responded with “Well,
XIII and XIII-2 are only two years apart so obviously we have to stick to the
same platforms, otherwise we would have to give XIII-2 to the people who
haven’t played the previous work, but if we were to remake an old game that’s
ten years old or whatever, or make a sequel to that particular title, we don’t
have to worry about the same issue…Multiplatform is great if it’s possible.”

Gabe Newell Still Blames Microsoft for No Free Team Fortress 2 Updates

It’s often easy to forget that Team Fortress 2 is also an Xbox 360
title, due to the fact that it has none of the free updates that PC users
enjoy. In a recent interview, Valve CEO Gabe
Newell once again bashed Microsoft’s restrictions on DLC: “The coding part is a one-time fixed cost. The much larger problem is
the restrictive nature of the customer relationship where the console owner
won’t let you try to discover the best value proposition for each customer. On
the PC we’ve done 150+ updates for Team Fortress 2, while on the Xbox 360 we’ve
done two. We have lots of content we’d like to give to our Xbox 360 customer
for free which we are precluded from doing given the restrictions under which
we have to operate.”

Syndicate – Dub Step Anyone?

For anyone that doesn’t know, the original Syndicate was a tactical shooter originally released in the 1993 with a few expansions released as well as a second game later in the 90’s. The third game, coming next year, tosses out the idea of a tactical shooter in favor of a first person shooter approach. The game is set in 2069 and the government is no longer run by politicians, but rather large groups known as Syndicates and everyone wants to be “Chip’d” by their respective Syndicate in order to gain access to everything and anything that anyone could imagine. EA has recently released a new trailer for the game and it seems to be shaping into a very interesting experience.

Notch Leaves Minecraft For New Project

Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft announced yesterday that he’ll be stepping down from his leadership of that game.  His hand-picked successor as Lead Developer will be Jens Bergensten who has been on the development team for quite a while now.

Gift Buyer’s Guide: Xbox 360 RPGs

If there is a person on your shopping list that knows what you mean when you say “+90 damage points,” then this buyer’s guide is for you. RPGs are the type of soul-sucking games that trap players for hours, or days at a time. With that in mind, it’s probably the ideal gift to give to a gamer, as they won’t have time to play anything else. Why buy multiple games when you can save money and buy one large RPG? Here is a list of the top Xbox 360 RPG games you can buy this holiday season:

Bioware Talks ME3 Gameplay Improvements

Bioware’s web video series Pulse has revealed some of the new changes made to Mass Effect’s gameplay in the third entry in the series, slated for March next year.

Things of note are the new unique abilities each class is getting. For example: my Shepard, being an Adept, will receive a new pull ability that makes shield carrying enemies easier to take down by making them drop the heavy armored shield they walk around with. Likewise, the more close range Vanguard class, which is known for the teleportation charge attack, will also receive an area effect damage ability that, while making you vulnerable by using your shield as its power source, will likely kill everything it hits.

Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Ver. 2012 Changes Detailed

Capcom has detailed its meaty changelog for the Version 2012 patch of  Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition, which is quite a mouthful! If you’re not already on board with counting frames and pulling off Focus attack dash cancels into Ultra, you’ll probably want to skip this. Capcom also released a trailer showing some of the flashier changes.