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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Super Meat Boy Creator's New Game Delayed

Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen's new game The Legend of Bum-bo has been delayed.

McMilllen announced on Twitter the game has been pushed back to the first half of 2018. The delay is due to McMillen and co-developer James Id having expanded the scope of The Legend of Bum-bo since its initial announcement back in 2016. McMillen promises to share more news and a teaser trailer for the game sometime in February.

Not much is known about The Legend of Bum-bo, other than it's some kind of a turn-based puzzle RPG. It's also not known which platforms the game will be released on. James Id, who is responsible for all The Binding of Isaac trailers, is handing programming and 3D elements, such as art.

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Xbox One Kinect Adapter Discontinued

Microsoft has confirmed to Polygon that it has ended production of the Kinect Adapter - the USB accessory required to connect the motion sensor to the Xbox One S, Xbox One X, and Windows devices - stating that it is refocusing attention on "higher fan-requested gaming accessories".

Back in October 2017, Microsoft announced it had ended production of the core Kinect accessory. At the time, Microsoft stated it would continue to support Kinect users but it would appear that support is also beginning to wind down.

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Tuesday, January 2, 2018

5 Minutes of Video of a Star Wars Space Shooter That Never Happened

Don't get your hopes up: this Star Wars space shooter is never going to exist.

So says Travis Baldree, co-founder of Double Damage (and of his previous studio, Torchlight developer Runic Games). This five-minute demonstration was "cobbled together" in 2016 from bits of other Star Wars games and Double Damage's own Rebel Galaxy (read the review) to show EA what a potential game might look like, with some flashy results. Unfortunately, the project wasn't approved for development – which means it doesn't qualify for any future list of "canceled Star Wars games."

While it appears far less complex as the Star Wars: X-Wing games that inspired it, there's a lot to like about this unnamed game. We see the original-trilogy-era Millennium Falcon and an X-wing engage in dogfights from both third and first-person perspective, blasting away at TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors, a Star Destroyer, and even Boba Fett's Slave-1. The concept included the ability to freely switch between ships and hyperspace-jump between areas. You can see the shared DNA with Rebel Galaxy in the interface, including the menu, the shield and radar display in the lower left, and the throttle control in the upper right. There's definitely some vertical movement, though it's not clear how much.

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Overwatch Dev Teases New Event, Characters, Map

Blizzard has teased new content for Overwatch in 2018 including a new event, characters, and the release of a new map.

In a developer update video, game director Jeff Kaplan talks about what the Overwatch team has planned for the game in this new year.

Kaplan confirmed the new Blizzard World map announced last year which features a Blizzard-themed amusement park will be coming "very soon" with "tons of great Easter eggs" as well as other "great new maps" to come in the future.

He also discussed about a new Lunar New Year event, much like last year's Year of the Rooster event, which will feature "pretty significant content that players are going to be very happy with."

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Destiny 2 Going Offline for Maintenance Tomorrow

Destiny 2 will be taken offline for several hours tomorrow for server maintenance in preparation for Hotfix 1.1.1.2.

As detailed on Bungie's official website, server maintenance is scheduled to begin on January 3 at 7am PT/10am ET/3pm UK (January 4 at 2am AET). Maintenance is expected to last five hours, ending at 12pm PT/3pm ET/8pm UK (January 4 at 7am AET). During this timeframe, players won't be able to log in to play Destiny 2.

Details about Destiny 2's next expansion, Gods of Mars, surfaced last week thanks to a PlayStation Store leak. According to the leak, the upcoming DLC appears to be scheduled for release in March, and will feature a new area called the Frigid Vale of Mars.

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The Surge Gets Fictional Split-Screen Mode on Netflix Show

New Netflix show Dark features sci-fi action-RPG The Surge being played in a split-screen mode - a mode that doesn't (and likely never will) exist.

The German series includes a scene where two people are playing via split-screen co-op. A representative for developer Deck13 explained on Reddit the series' producers contacted Deck13 months before production started about possibly including the mode on the show for story purposes.

The producers were looking to include a game in the scene and went with The Surge principally because both the game and Dark were developed in Germany. "We agreed and allowed them to even fake a splitscreen if it fitted better for their idea," the representative said. "Some kind of creative rework one could say."

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Alongside Bayonetta, Platinum Wants to Publish a New IP

Platinum Games has two designs in mind for brand new IP, and wants to change its approach and self-publish this game.

Atsushi Inaba, head of development and producer at Platinum revealed the independent studio's new focus in an interview with Game Informer.

"Up until now, obviously we've worked on original IPs for a wide variety of publishers," Inaba said. "We've also worked on other Hollywood IPs for other publishers as well. But we're becoming more and more interested in the idea of self-publishing and doing our own title."

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