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Despite Zynga's recent setbacks, Farmville is still a relevant brand. Or at least, that's what Zynga is banking on, having tapped director Brett Ratner to make a half-hour animated show based on the property. Brett Ratner might be familiar as the director of Rush Hour, Red Dragon, and X-Men Last … [Read more...] about Farmville Getting TV Animated Series

Former Wii U exclusive Rayman Legends is going multiplatform and has been delayed for six months as a result. However, the Wii U version of the game is complete and will just be held back to wait for the other versions. According to an anonymous developer posting on a Spanish forum (and picked up on … [Read more...] about Rayman Legends Delayed For Multiplatform Release After Developers Crunched To Complete It

Current Wii U exclusives Bayonetta 2 and Wonderful 101 are extremely unlikely to ever grace other consoles because they're being fully funded by Nintendo, according to Hideki Kamiya, co-founder of Platinum Games. Recent former Wii U exclusives Rayman Legends and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge are now … [Read more...] about Bayonetta 2 & Wonderful 101 Are Nintendo-Funded, Will Remain Wii U Exclusives

Despite the exploit which allows players to farm valuable resources, effectively negating Visceral's addition of microtransactions to Dead Space 3 in the first place, EA has stated that there are no plans to patch it. The publisher asserts that the exploit was actually planned as an alternative way … [Read more...] about Dead Space 3 Exploit Is Intentional, EA Not Patching It

Game streaming can never be a viable replacement for local processing, as Gabe Newell made the case at DICE. The main point the Valve boss makes is that cloud gaming is not a technology that can scale. Ironically, its success would be its undoing. Another hurdle would be lag-sensitive … [Read more...] about Valve On Why Cloud Gaming Will Never Be Mainstream

Sumo Digital, as opposed to series creator Media Molecule, is making LittleBigPlanet, according to VG 24/7. The company was apparently tapped to make the game by both Sony and Media Molecule, as the LBP creators are hard at work on PS Vita exclusive Tearaway. Sumo Digital is no stranger to the … [Read more...] about LittleBigPlanet 3 Being Made By SumoDigital

The Ouya is getting a boost in the form of two independent studios pledging support. Paul Bettner, of Words With Friends' fame, together with the peerless Double Fine are set to populate the Ouya's store with their creations. The Cave and Reds, as Double Fine Adventure is now known, will be making … [Read more...] about OUYA Getting Double Fine Adventure, Words With Friends Creator’s New Game

Ouya, the Kickstarter-grown home console with mobile phone/tablet innards, will also be subject to mobile-style yearly iterations, according to Ouya's Julie Uhrman. The company plans to avoid punishing early adopters by making all Ouyas backwards compatible and marrying games to user accounts for an … [Read more...] about OUYA Creators Already Planning OUYA 2 & 3

The Mass Effect game currently under development at Bioware has nothing to do with the previous games in a narrative sense. Bioware has made it clear that Commander Shepherd's tale has ended with Mass Effect 3, but community manager Chris Priestly went one step further, explaining the only narrative … [Read more...] about Bioware’s New Mass Effect Game Is Emphatically Not Mass Effect 4

Cloverfield or Lost alone would have been more than enough to make anyone's name, but J.J. Abrams now has Star Trek and Star Wars feature films to his. Gabe Newell isn't as household a name among non-PC gamers, but a man of no smaller achievements, having built a company quintessential to the PC … [Read more...] about Star Wars Director & Valve Founder Talk Storytelling In Films & Games At DICE

After making a mint from indie blockbuster Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson offered to fund development for a sequel to Double Fine's brilliant Psychonauts. The negotiations were kept out of the public eye, but ultimately fell through when Tim Schafer's studio asked for more than Notch was … [Read more...] about Psychonauts 2 Not Getting Funded By Minecraft Creator Notch