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05/05/2021

Playing as a samurai warrior in a feudal Japan in a game where sword combat is emphasized, there is bound to be a fair amount of bloodshed. Blood splatter in video games is no new feature, but Ghost of Tsushima takes it a step further. Depending on how an enemy is stabbed, blood will get splattered on Jin's clothes, gear, the enemy, and even the environment. The direction and type of attack influence the splatter, as well.

Source: screenrant

03/05/2021

"It went down well with the internal testers", said Miyamoto. "It was a different feeling than the one we experienced with Donkey Kong. The testers who were playing Super Mario Bros just didn’t go home. They stayed really late into the night just to play it."

10/04/2021

Fumito Ueda (lead designer) believed that "a real horse ... doesn't always obey. It's not like a car or a motorcycle, it won't always turn when you say 'turn!'"

He also admitted that the team had to work out a good balance of how often Agro would ignore commands to allow for playability over realism.

Source: vgfacts

09/04/2021

The handbook advises players to look at their opponent's screen view for the advantages it offers. (Normally, to do so would be to violate an unspoken, cardinal rule of split-screen gaming.) As the Huffington Post discovered, the manual’s last piece of advice for winning in Battle Mode is, simply, to “Always keep an eye on your opponent’s screen.”

Source: Mentalfloss

05/04/2021

Some characters in the game are visually and/or mentally based on characters from the film, as well as some events that take place

Source: gta.fandom.com

04/04/2021

One member of the small team working on the game was a guy who toiled on nothing but Batman’s cape for over two years straight. He had to come up with over 700 unique animations and sound effects in order to capture it’s full flappy glory.

Source: uproxx.com

23/03/2021

Silent Hill was inspired by many different towns the main one being Centralia situated in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia is a ghost town whose residents abandoned it because of a coal fire back in 1962. The town now has just 7 residents and is now classified as a ‘ghost town’. However even though it’s a ghost town it isn’t populated by a secret cult or have any monsters roaming the street, so all you Silent Hill geeks can pay it a visit on your next trip to the States.

Source: sportskeeda

23/03/2021

KINGDOM HEARTS
“The Square Enix Japan office happened to be in the same building where Disney’s gaming division was,” KINGDOM HEARTS director Tetsuya Nomura said at the panel for D23 Disney fan club convention in 2017. “It just so happened that our executive producer, Mr Shinji Hashimoto, and a Disney executive rode the elevator together.” “They would have conversations saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice for us to do something collaborative?’ So rather than having either Square or Disney approach the other with a formal business plan, it was all down to being in the same building!”

Source: nxtmag

22/03/2021

There were several video games that were still in development when the 9/11 terror attacks happened, which caused the games to be changed before release.

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro was originally going to conclude with a battle that took place on top of the World Trade Center, while the airplane combat game called Propeller Arena was canceled.

Source: screenrant

22/03/2021

There were several video games that were still in development when the 9/11 terror attacks happened, which caused the games to be changed before release.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty needed its ending changed prior to release. There was going to be a sequence where Arsenal Gear crashed into Manhattan and flattened several buildings, while the final battle between Raiden and Solidus was going to conclude with him draping the American flag over Solidus' co**se.

Raiden's name was also changed in Japan. It was originally written in katakana but was changed to kanji, as the katakana for Raiden was too similar to Bin Laden.

Source: screenrant

21/03/2021

Unlike the regular Earth zombies you and I face every day, a shot to the brain will not instantly kill the cosmic undead quite so easily unfortunately. Instead, limb dismemberment is the way to go. Shoot off their legs, and they’ll slowly crawl to you grasping at you with their arms. Remove the arms and all they can do is run and bite. Three or four clean limb removals should do the job to destroy them. Some necromorphs can regenerate limbs, salamander style. I’ll let you work out how to destroy them.

Source: gamersdecide

17/03/2021

A lot of people are under the impression that Red Dead Redemption is the first game in the series, and at its time of release was a simple stand-alone game that had been created as something totally new.

However, the reality was that Redemption was actually a spiritual successor of the 2004 video game, Red Dead Revolver, with the main objective being to scale up the game to reach Rockstar's high standard. It did take on many ideas from that original game as well, focusing on the shooting mechanic and making sure the weapons from the game were inspired by real weapons.

Source: thegamer

13/03/2021

Originally, The Legend of Zelda was meant to be a game that spanned in-universe time periods, beginning in the canonical “past” and ending up in the “future,” with the Triforce acting as a mode of transport between them. The series hero’s unusual moniker was meant to symbolize his role as a link between the eras. But Nintendo’s current position is that he is a “link” between the player and the game.

Source: mentalfloss

11/03/2021

So much time has passed since the Trophy/Achievement system was integrated into gaming that it’s hard to remember when games didn’t have them. In fact, Trophies weren’t added to the Playstation 3 until 2008, two years after its initial release. This was in direct response to the Xbox's Achievement system, which had proved to be incredibly successful.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was one of the very first games to implement a Trophy system, which had to be added via a post-launch patch, as the game had already been out for almost a year. It was also the first - and at the time only - game to contain a Platinum Trophy; the much coveted award given to anyone who obtains every trophy in a game.

In this way, Uncharted arguably set the standard for all that Trophy collecting that would become synonymous with the Playstation brand.

Source: whatculture

09/03/2021

Sekiro is largely modeled after the real world and a specific time in history. The name "Japan" is specifically mentioned within the game, which tells us that Sekiro takes place in some kind of fantastical, re-imagined version of our own world. It is largely modeled after Japan's Sengoku period, a turbulent and politically volatile time known for its social upheaval and military conflicts. It is also known as the Age of Warring States, and took place roughly between the years of 1467 and 1615.

08/03/2021

Once you’ve reached a certain point in the game, a secret shop will appear in the main hub and propose you “spend money to get certain things done”.

You guessed it, for in-game currency you can now unlock any of the game’s Trophies. No need to sweat this particular Trophy you’ve been trying to unlock, just spend a few thousand G and you can get it right now! Will you be as proud of yourself for getting that Platinum, though? That’s another story.

Source: playstation blog

07/03/2021

Katsuya Eguchi got the idea for Animal Crossing from his early years, when he'd just moved from Chiba Prefecture, Japan to Kyoto. Eguchi wanted Animal Crossing to feel like that: moving to a new town alone, away from friends and family, and building a life for yourself there.

Source: twentytwowords

06/03/2021

Following this public backlash to Mortal Kombat, the video game industry oversaw the formation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Though not a federal agency like television and radio’s FCC, the ESRB has been a mainstay in gaming since 1994, assigning levels of age appropriateness to titles based on violence and adult content.

Source: mentalfloss

05/03/2021

There's no doubt a market for gamers who enjoy a little bit of X-***ed content given the plethora of adult titles on the Steam market, so it's no surprise that, when implementing a character who wears a skirt, some players are bound to take a cheeky peek.

Capcom knew this, and, in hilarious fashion, they added dialogue and animations that take notice of this peeping-tom behavior, as Ashley will cover herself and make remarks if you try to catch a glimpse.

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03/03/2021

In honour of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus setting foot on the Americas, the 1893 World's Fair, held in Chicago, was given the title 'The Columbian Exposition'. Some of the highlights of the show included Nikola Tesla's demonstration of alternating current, George Westinghouse's polyphase system as a means of distributing that current, all manner of guns and the first ever instance of a moving public walkway.

These technologies, and the sense of wonder that they inspired in people of the time, came to play a major role in shaping BioShock Infinite, and dictating how it presented its themes to the player. Even the name of Infinite's city locale, Columbia, was taken from the fair.

Source: redbull.com

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02/03/2021

Altaïr's full name is Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, which means "the bird" and "son of none." Any fan would immediately realize how meaningful that name is for his character. First of all, birds are a big part of the series. They are symbols to assassins and often mark the safe places to jump and hide.

"Son of none" would refer to Altaïr being an orphan from a young age. He was raised by the assassin's guild.

Source: thegamer

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27/02/2021

The Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes are actually a thing. In honor of the fifteenth anniversary of the original two game’s release in Japan, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will release this year in late 2021.

No firmer release date was given at this time, but a logical guess is that it will release somewhere between September and December based on the history of the franchise.

Source: twinfinite.net

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26/02/2021

Geralt of Rivia isn’t actually from Rivia, but a far less regal place named Kaedwen. The games and the books tell us that he chose this region as his birthplace to make himself appear more “prestigious” to his clients, as the Queen is also from Rivia.

Source: telltalesonline

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25/02/2021

"Journey shows us not only that games can be an art form, but that video game consumers have an appetite for something more than just the next big first person shooter."

I read this interesting article in the Forbes website yesterday. I'll put the link in my description in case someone is interested too 🤓

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24/02/2021

A lot of people like to believe that Kratos is a purely fictional character. The truth, however, is that Kratos actually gets his name from Cratus (or Kratos), the Greek god of force, strength, and power. God of War Kratos deviates a great deal from his namesake however. As it is written, Cratus is not actually a demigod, but instead a full God born of the titans Pallas and Styx. He had three siblings, Bia, Zelos, and most notably the essence of victory itself, Nike (not the brand).

If you are looking to brush up on your Greek translations, then you may want to check out a little play known as Prometheus Bound, which features Cratus himself. In the story, Cratus is one of the few Gods put in charge of leading the Titan Prometheus to be chained to a rock for all eternity after he stole the power of flame and gave it to humanity.

Source: thegamer.com

23/02/2021

It turns out that one of gaming's biggest Easter Eggs wasn't always the plan. Initially Samus was a man.

"We were partway through the development process, when one of the staff members said 'Hey, wouldn't that be kind of cool if it turned out that this person inside the suit was a woman?'" explained game director Yoshio Sakamoto.

Source: digitalspy.com

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22/02/2021

Fifa 94 was also called 'Fifa International Soccer'

The first ever Fifa game and was released on 15 December 1993.

It was pretty ground-breaking, as it used isometric technology, instead of 16-bit style which was popular at the time.

The game only included national teams, and real player names were not used.

It was pretty famous for a bug that allowed you to score goals by standing in front of a goalkeeper, and running away from referees to avoid getting a card.

You could play it on consoles like the SNES and SEGA Megadrive.

Source: bbc.co.uk

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20/02/2021

Each character in Far Cry Primal speaks a strange language that is unlike anything present in previous entries. That is because Ubisoft worked alongside pre-historians and linguists to create three distinct languages based on the Proto-Indo-European Language (otherwise known as PIE).

Source: gamerant.com

20/02/2021

To accommodate Red Dead Redemption 2's development, Rockstar decided to merge all its studios into one massive team, consisting of over 2,000 people, from motion-capture actors to game designers, since 2010. The size of the main script plus the side quests and NPC interactions "would be eight feet high," according to Houser.

Source: gamerant.com

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20/02/2021

According to the player’s manual that accompanied the game, it was Sonic’s “power sneakers” that afforded him his renowned speed, not any innate superpowers.

(Who cares thought, still a huge Sonic fan)

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20/02/2021

Super Mario’s Odyssey’s Luncheon Kingdom seems to stand out in terms of its aesthetics. It has a very unique art style that is very much unlike the others. The Luncheon Kingdom drew its inspiration from the thrill of travel and food. In an interview at Gamescom, Yoshiaki Koizumi stated that when he travels, he looks forward to eating food that he has never eaten before and food that is unique to those countries.

As the Luncheon Kingdom is clearly heavily inspired by food, they wanted the kingdom’s music and aesthetics to reflect Europe (specifically Italy, which is famous for its cuisine). Taking in all that the Luncheon Kingdom has to offer, the inspiration isn’t hard to miss. This theme creates a unique flavour that we haven’t seen before in a 3D Mario game.

Source: switchaboo.com

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19/02/2021

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