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Switch version coming up as well

PS4 port incoming according to PEGI. http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/?searchString=Thimbleweed+park

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/43yzpm/nintendo-explains-why-they-didnt-focus-on-indie-games-at-e3 I don't get Reggie's comments about AM2R being a commercial product when in fact it was a free fan game?

http://www.pcgamer.com/tim-schafer-on-the-making-of-full-throttle/

As can be seen from those old threads, I really loved Prey. Such a nice game, it's one of the fps games that has been in my replay list for a long time. One cool surprise about Prey was that if you own the disc version, you can get it to your Steam library with the cd key. I don't think there are many games that had that enabled in Steam?

http://the-witness.net/The Witness is an exploration-puzzle game, to be released on multiple platforms in late 2011, when the game will hopefully be finished. It’s a game by a small independent development team, headed up by Jonathan Blow, designer of the critically-acclaimed game Braid, which is of course well known here at Thumbs. Now please share your opinions about this, I think the concept art looks very interesting and I hope Jonathan Blow can achieve his goals with this project. The development blog is here: http://the-witness.net/news/

I played the free plays quite a lot of Badge Arcade. It was fun for what it was, but that ending was brilliantly handled. In Europe we got four free demos last week. Really good week. Demos of Dr Kawashima Brain Training 3DS , Hey Pikmin, Ever Oasis and Miitopia.

That was really heavy for an episode. I still don't know what I watched. It wasn't Twin Peaks, but it was an explosion of visual and audio signals. I almost lost my mind listening to the tragic Hiroshima song while Lynch put out an artistic display of explosions within explosions. Then the episode turned out to be a silent movie homage and then a 50's b&w scifi horror homage. This is some crazy show. I don't like these turns that this episode pulled, but I can't stop watching it. Most of my friends already gave up, but I'm signed up to see this ship sail to the horizon or to the rocks in the end.

The new 3.0.0. update apparently brought some new features instead of the good old stability updates. Register a channel to receive News for specific games To register, head to News > Find Channels Add friends from your Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Friend Lists To add friends, head to your My Page on the top left of the Home Menu > Friend Suggestions Receive notifications when your Friends go online To turn this ON/OFF, head to System Settings > Notifications > Friend Notifications Find paired controllers within communication range by activating the vibration feature To search, head to Controllers > Find Controllers Change the user icon order on the Home Menu To change order, head to System Settings > Users > Change Order Select from 6 new Splatoon 2 characters for user icon To edit your user icon, head to your My Page on the top left of the Home Menu > Profile Change the system volume from the Quick Settings To access Quick Settings, hold down the HOME Button Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the screen Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communication. Update connected controllers To update, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Update Controllers Added a feature that suggests deletion of software data if there is insufficient space when downloading other software To use this feature, head to System Settings > Data Management > Quick Archive * User save data is not deleted General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience, including: Resolved an issue that caused game software updates to fail and prevented the software from starting Improvements to prevent unintended HDMI input change with certain TVs while the console is docked in Sleep Mode

Shame that this podcast series did not happen in the end. I knew about Harry Potter already in the late 90's/early 2000's I suppose because of the first book's movie coming out, it was impossible to avoid the media hype. I had never read any of the books and to this day I have avoided seeing all the movies because I didn't care. Some time ago, maybe three or four years ago I came upon the Stephen Fry narrated unabridged audio books and decided that now time is right to listen to these books through and finally know and understand what are these about. Well, in the end these books were quite a lot of fun. I bet I would've been a fan if I had read the Finnish or English versions of these in the 90's. I have no need to see any of the movies regarding Harry Potter because I don't care about those, but Stephen Fry narrated the books really well.

I have also disliked heavily this sequel since it was announced. Even more after seeing the trailers. It just doesn't have any of the original's feel. Modern movie makers just don't know how to make a dirty looking movie. It all feels artificial in this one Also, the original was such catastrophic mess that it only became the cult legend movie that it is after massive constant rewrites, background fighting and huge production issues. It was just somehow pulled together in the end to become a mind blowing movie. I wonder if Villeneuve and his crew have even gone to Japan to get the artistic views that Scott got when he went walking the Tokyo streets at night and seeing the industrial harbour of Kawasaki.

This is excellent news and I hope their future brings them also other games than just Hitman after Hitman. I would really love a game like Freedom Fighters to appear from IO Interactive again.

Well, John Romero is not let near AAA projects anymore, but he is still an excellent coder and a gaming legend. So his reputation sure is a bit better these days.

I feel like I'm less and less interested in Beyond Good & Evil 2 with every new information that comes out. I'm just not into incredibly huge procedurally-generated worlds in games. I'm feeling a bit of Molyneux hype in those Ancel's words: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-15-beyond-good-and-evil-2-lets-you-create-your-own-character This below I suppose everyone guesses especially now reading that above article: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-14-michel-ancel-doesnt-think-bg-and-e-2-is-a-switch-exclusive-and-he-would-know Though it's nice that he says the photographing wildlife will be part of this game as well.

Wasn't Sakamoto the guy responsible for Metroid Other M as well? The Metroid 2 remake reminded me of this: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/08/exclusive_mercurysteam_has_been_working_on_a_metroid_prototype_for_wii_u_and_3ds So the rumours were true in the end. Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga remake for 3DS looks amazing.

After a year of silence, comcept updated their Kickstarter. You know, the one about Mighty No 9 where they made an ugly mediocre badly running game for some of the promised platforms and forgot to give people the physical and even some digital items they had pledged for. My hope now is that this sudden purchase of comcept by Level-5 does not mean that Inafune will ruin Level-5 as well. Everyone needs to be really careful with what Level-5 puts out from now on. This was truly one of the worst Kickstarter I put money on, I totally fell for the hype. I should've known there was a reason why Inafune was kicked out of Capcom.

AM2R was quite beautiful, this MercurySteam looks really ugly. Completely wrong kind of game for 3DS because most 3D games look like crap on 3DS. As a 3D enabled 2D graphics game this would've been a mindblowingly good looking game. MercurySteam's history is also filled with not that good games and also games that I personally have not been intrerested in that much.

https://e3.nintendo.com/games/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-switch/ Skyrim will be published by Nintendo Well, I would assume that means they will promote it big time later this year.

Spider-Man is Sony produced so yes, looks like it's PS4 only.

Wtf was that Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer? I didn't get the feel of the BG&E IP at all. Unnecessary swearing and all that. Online systems, what? Where's the real BG&E? I mean the city looked amazing. It was a heavy Fifth Element like world, but I totally was put off by the swearing monkey guy. There's an interestingly lot cleavage shots in the trailer so that's a bit of a departure from the tone of the first game. It seemed like it tried so hard to be "a cool as fuck yo mothafucker!" trailer. The city and the space was cool, the characters not. Also if it's not a proper single player game then I'm not interested. I have no time for some forced co-op adventuring in a heavily online connected game. I have no problem with it being a prequel, Jade was awesome as was Pey'j, but at least according to the initial artwork Ancel released, Pey'j will be in the game, but as a young pig. Also didn't the weird slob moustache pig in the beginning of the trailer say "Pey'j..." to the golden pig item? Still, like with Shenmue 3, I don't believe for a second that BG&E2 is coming out still for at least three years. I can't give up on hope, Michel Ancel has never made a bad game. I didn't exactly like the trailer reveal, but since this was just a animated trailer instead of gameplay and they are supposed to even after all these years be just in preproduction phase so he has time to change many things. This was a funny comment on the Eurogamer comments about Ubisoft :

By the way, I don't own Xbox One and also don't plan getting one, but I just really like the way they are going with the backgrounds compatibility. That's how it should be done. Really well done with the original Xbox and 360 games on Xbox One. And Tacoma looks great, only two months anymore for that to be released.

Is the Fuck Notch about his Twitter behaviour?

Ori and the Will of the Wisps looks excellent. Best game of E3 so far right there. Shame it's not coming to Win7.

Just watched Hardcore, oh man this fps perspective action movie was so good and insane r rated movie. I think it came out originally in theaters last year? Sharlto Copley also put maybe his best performance since District 9.

Shenmue 3 has been postponed until second half of 2018. Yu Suzuki posted a Kickstarter update just moments ago. I'm not surprised at all, they have not really shown anything in the past two years. It will take years still before Shenmue 3 is ready, but that is ok as he has Sony's backing so money isn't a problem. I just hope Sega will get Shenmue 1 and 2 re-released on PC.