Vincent Martella (aka Greg from Everybody Hates Chris) has been confirmed to be doing a voice for a character in the English version of Final Fantasy XIII.
Patrick Plourde, the lead designer on Assassin's Creed 2 at Ubisoft Montreal, isn't a big fan of that whole "fail early, fail often" thing, ubiquitous as it may be among game design talks."Oftentimes I visit sites like Gamasutra or go to talks like GDC, and one thing they always say, this recent trend -- it's interesting but it doesn't relate to me," Plourde said during a session at the Montreal International Game Summit today, referring to the "fail early, fail often" principle of design. "There's a stage in the game design process where you need to experiment and not be fearful of failure," he acknowledged, "but at the same time, it leads to a lot of fail."
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may not be the last game in the Prime series. With Other M on the way next year, some might have thought that the Prime series had come to an end but, as Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe told ONM, the series may still have a future.Asked whether Samus will ever return to DS, Tanabe (who oversaw Retro Studios' series for Nintendo) said "We are always planning to make new games in the Metroid Prime series. Depending on the timing and the situation, we cannot deny the possibility of realising it on DS or DSi."
CVG: It was so amusing that we'd spent far too long this morning speculating over naughty words, but rumours that Ubisoft was set to recall Rabbids Go Home from UK shops due to 'inappropriate language' have been rubbished by the publisher.According to some reports, the game had included language that could be deemed to be offensive by some players.
Sumthing Else Music Works, through its licensing relationship with Gearbox Software, LLC, has announced the Borderlands Original Soundtrack featuring the original musical score from the highly acclaimed videogame Borderlands. Developed by Gearbox Software, Borderlands delivers one of this year's most explosive and entertaining Role-Playing Games (RPGs) by combining the most addictive gaming elements found in First-Person Shooters (FPS) with the deep character development of RPGs. The album includes music from the game composed by Jesper Kyd, Sascha Dikiciyan, Cris Velasco and Raison Varner as well as bonus music tracks by these artists and Tim Larkin.
Speaking to IncGamers, Bioware's Adrien Cho confirmed the return of the omnicidal mechanical horrors in Mass Effect 2."The Reapers will still play a very important role in Mass Effect 2," said Cho.
A packshot of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm -- the third expansion for WoW -- has appeared on Amazon.co.uk. It has not been confirmed yet whether this will be the final cover-art, but it is the first one to appear on Amazon. In addition to this packshot, WoW-fansite buffed.de also presents several pieces of fanmade cover-art for WoW: Cataclysm.
