Botanicula, the latest game by Amanita Design (the Machinarium guys), is out! You should buy it!
As part of its debut, it’s being sold in a bundle with Amanita’s previous two for-purchase games, the film Kooky (based on a storybook, with art direction by Amanita’s founder), and — because why not — Windosill. This bundle is available for any price you want. There is literally no reason that any person on Earth should not be buying this right now.
GoldenEye Spectrum Emulation Unlocked
New ROM hack of GoldenEye 007 for the N64!
Little benownst to the world all this time, GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it. By feeding it a proper Spectrum monitor program and calling menu 25 to load a snapshot, any Spectrum 48x program can be run.
Waiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute.
What.
Never Saying “We can’t do that.”
Two programmers of the SNES game EarthBound, Koji Malta of APE and Satoru Iwata of HAL, in an interview from the September 9, 1994 issue of Weekly Famitsu:
Malta: In that sense, APE really owes a lot to the team at HAL Lab. Even when we brought up some unreasonable, difficult-to-implement request, they never brushed it off by saying, “We can’t do it.”
Iwata: Once a programmer says they can’t do something, future games are done for. What we’re considering nowadays are ways for us to avoid that. Instead we think about how we, as producers, can clearly portray our thoughts and ideas to the recipient customer without saying “We can’t do that.”
THANKS FOR MAKING THE JOB MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE REST OF US, JERKS
Nah but this is actually pretty inspiring.
Asshole of the Week: Aris Bakhtanians
Patrick Klepek at Giant Bomb has a transcript of a recent episode of Capcom and IGN’s webshow Cross Assault. The transcript is of an exchange between Jared Rea, community manager of the streaming video site TwitchTV, and Aris Bakhtanians, a competitive fighting gamer and head of Cross Assault’s Team Tekken.
Rea: Can I get my Street Fighter without sexual harassment?
Bakhtanians: You can’t. You can’t because they’re one and the same thing. This is a community that’s, you know, 15 or 20 years old, and the sexual harassment is part of a culture, and if you remove that from the fighting game community, it’s not the fighting game community—it’s StarCraft. There’s nothing wrong with StarCraft if you enjoy it, and there’s nothing wrong with anything about eSports, but why would you want just one flavor of ice cream, you know? There’s eSports for people who like eSports, and there’s fighting games for people who like spicy food and like to have fun. There’s no reason to turn them into the same thing, you know?
You can’t go to the NBA and say “hey, I like basketball, but I don’t want them to play with a basketball, I want them to play with a football.” It just doesn’t…it doesn’t make sense to have that attitude, you know? These things are established for years. That would be like someone from the fighting game community going over to StarCraft and trying to say “hey, StarCraft, you guys are too soft, let’s start making sexual harassment jokes to each other on StarCraft.” That’s not cool, people wouldn’t like that. StarCraft isn’t like that. People would get defensive, and that’s what you’re trying to do the fighting game community, and it’s not right. It’s ethically wrong.
You giant shitmonster.
Itagaki: Tecmo Tricked Me Into Releasing Dead Or Alive 2
From a piece by Chris Kohler for Wired’s Game|Life blog:
As the deadline of the PlayStation 2’s launch grew closer, the company’s sales general manager approached Itagaki at his desk [about the development of the port of Dead or Alive 2].
“Can I borrow a copy of this so I can play it a little?” Itagaki remembers the manager saying.
“I said, sure, yeah, go on, and I handed him the disc which was still under development,” Itagaki said. “But this disc was never played by them.”
Instead, Itagaki said to the crowd of game developers and executives, “it was taken into a factory for production on that day without me knowing it.”
What the fuck.
Resident Evil ‘Revelaitons’ misprint makes it to retail
JC Fletcher for Joystiq:
Capcom made an embarrassing printing error on the spine of the Resident Evil: Revelations box sent to reviewers — one made more embarrassing by the “revelaiton” today that it’s still on the version of the art sent to retailers in advance of Tuesday’s release.
Reader Zach shared this picture of the stock at the Prescott, AZ store, showing “Revelaitons” all the way down — Joystiq has since confirmed the error with the store.
Whoopsie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgzKKX4z-4
Crysis 2 in a nutshell.
This is the title art by Duncan McLean for the game Fish! by Magnetic Scrolls. I don’t want to be too presumptuous, but I think you’ll agree with me when I say that this should never have existed.
This setting of the picture is courtesy of the fansite The Magnetic Scrolls Chronicles.
John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun got his hands on a development version of Amanita Design’s upcoming game Botanicula and oh man I want this thing when is it coming out come on is it 2012 yet how about now
