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It’s what they should do from the beginning. But clearly the cost is frightening a lot of publishers. This will cause a backlash if they make new consoles and there aren’t enough new games to support them.

 

So don’t bother, current Xbox is more than good enough for the job 

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Platinum's 3rd Announcement is a new Tokyo Studio that'll explore LiveOps game development on Console

 

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PlatinumGames recently revealed Project G.G., an entirely new, self-owned, and self-published game that is being directed by veteran director Hideki Kamiya. Project G.G. is part of a series of reveals that Platinum has dubbed the “Platinum4,” which kicked off earlier this year with the announcement of The Wonderful 101: Remastered.

 

Now, Platinum has also revealed that its third “Platinum4” announcement isn’t a new game, but a new studio.

 

While PlatinumGames’ main studio is in Osaka, Japan, this new studio is being set up in Tokyo and will begin operations April 2020. According to Platinum, the Tokyo studio will explore the possibility of developing “console live ops game development,” referring to games as a service. On the Platinum website, Studio head Atsushi Inaba states:

So far, the name PlatinumGames has been nearly synonymous with single-player action games. But going forward, we’re looking to expand into new genres and styles of play. One of these new challenges for us is console live ops game development. These aren’t games we’d work on until they were done, and that’s all – rather, we’d continue working on them to provide new content long after release. We want to explore this ongoing development pattern in the home console space.

 

Inaba adds that the Tokyo studio will “play a major role” as PlatinumGames expands into live ops game development, and that the starting core members of the studio’s future live ops team are already in place. Among them is director Motoi Fujita, who has worked on “around 8 different sports games for mobile platforms that were LiveOps”.

Lost Order

Service games aren’t quite as new to PlatinumGames as one might imagine. In 2016, mobile game developer Cygames announced Lost Order, a strategy game that was being worked on in collaboration with PlatinumGames and Yasumi Matsuno of Tactics Ogre fame. The game went into closed beta in 2017, following which there has been no further news, indicating that it might have been cancelled. Then, in 2018, Platinum announced another mobile game it was working on: World of Demons, developed in collaboration with DeNA. This game, too, appears to have been cancelled following a soft launch in parts of Asia. The difference, of course, is that these were mobile affairs, while Platinum’s Tokyo studio intends to target consoles with its service games.

 

PlatinumGames CEO Kenichi Sato states: “In December 2019, PlatinumGames entered into a capital alliance with Tencent Holdings. This allowed us to start work on Project G.G., our first entirely original IP, in earnest. It also contributed to our decision to establish PlatinumGames Tokyo – a pillar of our new commitment to building our power as a developer. Between our Osaka office and PlatinumGames Tokyo, we’re poised to make use of the sharpest creative minds in games in both west and east Japan, and expand to even greater possibilities.”

 

Update, 9:17 PM: It is presently unclear just how involved PlatinumGames’ new Tokyo studio is with Project G.G., or if the two are related at all. We’ve edited our report accordingly.

 

 

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I've not used GOG for a while but the changes to its refund policy seems a bit lenient now (30 days) and potentially open to abuse:

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-02-28-gog-didnt-tell-devs-about-its-new-refund-policy-and-many-are-worried-it-could-be-abused

 

Reminds me of when Electronics Boutique use to do a 10 day refund on all purchases - on the upside you could abuse it as a 'free' rental, but on the downside they often seemed to pass off pre-used games as 'new' (but you could usually tell as they had shrink-wrap rather than manufacturers seal).

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BAFTA Games Awards Nominees:

 

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ANIMATION:

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE – Infinity Ward/Activision

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

LUIGI’S MANSION 3 –Next Level Games/Nintendo

SAYONARA WILD HEARTS – Simogo/Annapurna Interactive

SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE – FromSoftware/Activision


ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT:

CONCRETE GENIE – Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

DISCO ELYSIUM – ZA/UM

KNIGHTS AND BIKES – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents

SAYONARA WILD HEARTS – Simogo/Annapurna Interactive


AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT:

APE OUT – Gabe Cuzzillo/Devolver Digital

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE – Infinity Ward/Activision

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

UNTITLED GOOSE GAME – House House/Panic


BEST GAME:

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DISCO ELYSIUM – ZA/UM

LUIGI’S MANSION 3 – Next Level Games/Nintendo

OUTER WILDS – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE – FromSoftware/Activision

UNTITLED GOOSE GAME – House House/Panic


BRITISH GAME:

DiRT RALLY 2.0 – Codemasters

HEAVEN’S VAULT – inkle

KNIGHTS AND BIKES Rex – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents

OBSERVATION – No Code/Devolver Digital

PLANET ZOO – Frontier Developments

TOTAL WAR: THREE KINGDOMS – The Creative Assembly/SEGA


DEBUT GAME:

APE OUT – Gabe Cuzzillo/Devolver Digital

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

DISCO ELYSIUM – ZA/UM

KATANA ZERO – Askiisoft/Devolver Digital

KNIGHTS AND BIKES – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents

MANIFOLD GARDEN – William Chyr Studio


EVOLVING GAME:

APEX LEGENDS – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

DESTINY 2 – Bungie

FINAL FANTASY XIV: SHADOWBRINGERS – Square Enix

FORTNITE – Epic Games

NO MAN’S SKY: BEYOND – Hello Games

PATH OF EXILE – Grinding Gear Games


FAMILY:

CONCRETE GENIE – Pixelopus/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

KNIGHTS AND BIKES – Foam Sword/Double Fine Presents

LUIGI’S MANSION 3 – Next Level Games/Nintendo

UNTITLED GOOSE GAME – House House/Panic

VACATION SIMULATOR – Owlchemy Labs

WATTAM – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive


GAME BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT:

CIVILIZATION VI: GATHERING STORM – Firaxis/2K

DEATH STRANDING Development Team – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

KIND WORDS (LO FI CHILL BEATS TO WRITE TO) – Popcannibal

LIFE IS STRANGE 2 (EPISODES 2-5) – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix

NEO CAB – Chance Agency/Fellow Traveller Games

RING FIT ADVENTURE – Nintendo


GAME DESIGN:

BABA IS YOU – Hempuli Oy

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DISCO ELYSIUM - ZA/UM

OUTER WILDS - Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE – FromSoftware/Activision

WATTAM – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive


MULTIPLAYER:

APEX LEGENDS – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts

BORDERLANDS 3 – Gearbox Software/2K

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE – Infinity Ward/Activision

LUIGI’S MANSION 3 – Next Level Games/Nintendo

TICK TOCK: A TALE FOR TWO – Other Tales Interactive

TOM CLANCY’S THE DIVISION 2 – Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft


MUSIC:

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

DISCO ELYSIUM – ZA/UM

OUTER WILDS – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: LINK’S AWAKENING – Grezzo/Nintendo

WATTAM – Funomena/Annapurna Interactive


NARRATIVE:

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DISCO ELYSIUM –ZA/UM

LIFE IS STRANGE 2 (EPISODES 2-5) – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix

OUTER WILDS – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

THE OUTER WORLDS – Obsidian Entertainment/ Private Division

STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER – Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts


ORIGINAL PROPERTY:

BABA IS YOU – Hempuli Oy

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

DISCO ELYSIUM – ZA/UM

OUTER WILDS – Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive

UNTITLED GOOSE GAME – House House/Panic


PERFORMER IN A LEADING ROLE:

LAURA BAILEY as Kait Diaz in Gears 5

COURTNEY HOPE as Jesse Faden in Control

LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN as David in Telling Lies

GONZALO MARTIN as Sean Diaz in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)

BARRY SLOANE as Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

NORMAN REEDUS as Sam in Death Stranding


PERFORMER IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

JOLENE ANDERSEN as Karen Reynolds in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)

TROY BAKER as Higgs in Death Stranding

SARAH BARTHOLOMEW as Cassidy (Lucy Rose Jones) in Life is Strange 2 (episodes 2-5)

AYISHA ISSA as Fliss in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan

LÉA SEYDOUX as Fragile in Death Stranding

MARTTI SUOSALO as Ahti the Janitor in Control


TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT:

A PLAGUE TALE: INNOCENCE – Asobo Studio/Focus Home Interactive

CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE – Infinity Ward/Activision

CONTROL – Remedy Entertainment/505 Games

DEATH STRANDING – Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

METRO EXODUS – 4A Games/Deep Silver

SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE – FromSoftware/Activision


EE MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR (voted for by the public):

ASSEMBLE WITH CARE – Ustwo

CALL OF DUTY: MOBILE – Timi Studios/Activision

DEAD MAN’S PHONE – Electric Noir Studios

POKEMON GO – The Pokémon Company, Niantic/Nintendo

TANGLE TOWER – SFB Games

WHAT THE GOLF? – Triband

 

 

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The fate of a lot of games of that scale. 

 

It does look like it could be cool (I honestly did Google it).  Ex Media Molecule people making a light Secret of Mana-like.  But the consensus is you need a friend to get the full experience.  I don't have one of those?

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I actually bought Knights and Bikes when it came out on Switch but didn't come around to playing it yet. I remembered reading one or two very positive impressions about it but the big exposure really wasn't there. It's also kind of a weird scenario where it's a game published by Double Fine who are now part of the Microsoft gang and yet it's only available on PS4 and Switch.

 

As for the nominations, I'm glad to see Control in the animations group because I've never seen such a good "running down the stairs" animation in a game. Also kind of happy to see Neo Cab in there, which is another overlooked little indie gem. A bit weird to see Control in the "Technical Achievement" category because that game runs pretty poorly on consoles. And I think it's straight up cheating to put Death Stranding under "Debut Game".

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Did anyone play the PSP Prinny games? No? Ok, was anyone asking for lightly touched up ports of them? No?

 

Well worry not, because NISA are bringing them to Switch as a collection later in the year, the set includes Prinny 1: Can I Really Be the Hero? and Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! and some DLC. 

 

I don't really mean to be too dismissive of them, I always thought they looked decent, and I have a soft spot for Disgaea stuff, so might well pick them up ?

 

 

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