Cheers to reader John Magnum for leaving a comment on the post and reminding me it existed.
MCV says they have informants from both Sony and Microsoft stating that both companies are going to reveal their next consoles during E3 2012.
Just stop for a second; think before you write. Even if you do have exclusive information on consoles that are due to be announced, companies can pull back their announcements at any time if they see it isn’t feasible for the corporation, making you–as a source–look illegitimate for now-untrue rumors.
—QUOTED FOR TRUTH - WouldYouKindly.com, Drew Bergmark: Rumors: Don’t Believe the Hype [January 10th, 2012]
This man knows what he’s talking about.
MCV, Michael French: Next Xbox AND PS4 set for biggest ever E3 [January 6th, 2012]
Citation needed.
Honestly, MCV, reporting a rumour as if it were absolute fact? Either you have a very reliable source you’re not willing to share, or you’re a collective of dunderninnies. I know which way I’m leaning.
VG247: “Rumour – Disney Epic Mickey 2 going co-op, multi-platform”, January 3rd, 2012
According to the preserved text, presented in full below, the sequel to the 2010 Wii exclusive is due in northern autumn, will release on PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360, and feature split screen co-op play. The second player will take control of classic Disney character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
VG247: “Marketing survey suggests Disney’s assessing interest in Epic Mickey 2”, August 27th, 2011
Possible gameplay details listed included optional split-screen co-op with Mickey and Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, and the formats listed for the game were Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360.
CVG: “Epic Mickey 2 going multi-platform with co-op?”, January 3rd, 2012
According to the newsletter Epic Mickey 2 will be “available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii” and a second player can get in on the action, with the painting ability given to one player and the thinning ability to the other.
CVG: “Disney survey reveals Epic Mickey 2 - report”, August 28th, 2011
According to the report, the game will have a two-player split-screen option with Mickey and his brother Oswald The Lucky Rabbit playable, while Mickey’s paint and thinner powers make a return.
It’s being lined up for release on Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, claims the source, making no mention of 3DS, Vita or Wii U.
There are a handful of different ways CVG and VG247 could have approached wording this story (just Google it, and see what other sites did last week), and of course they chose the one which makes them continue to look uninformed/oblivious/lazy/incompetent at their jobs.
In the case of VG247 — not linking to, including tags, or acknowledging that they covered the topic half a year ago, and that it featured nearly identical information.
For CVG — wording their headline as an unnecessary question, when the answer is not only present in the source material and thus in the very article itself, but also, again, in their prior coverage from last August.
Sigh. Happy 2012. Off to a great start.
Oh, lord.
Namco Bandai have announced Tekken Tag Tournament 2 for a release in 2012.
Not much else was made known about the game however.
—Hooked Gamers, Mark Barley: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Announced [Dec 10th, 2011]
Yes, I know: once again someone at Hooked Gamers demonstrates only the most tenuous understanding of what’s going on.
If correspondent Mark Barley had done his research (and by that I mean typed “tekken tag tournament 2” into Google and doing about forty-seven seconds’ worth of reading) he’d have learnt that Namco Bandai announced Tekken Tag Tournament 2 way back in July. In fact the game has been in Japanese arcades since September, and there’s a PS3 “Prologue” demo available included on the recent Bluray release of Tekken: Blood Vengeance.
Still! Never mind, eh?
N4G seem to think that Examiner.com’s list of 2011’s platform-exclusive games is an opinion piece. Which is a bit silly, isn’t it boys and girls?
VGChartz Week - Day One: The Advertorials
Brett Walton and Chris Arnone, VGChartz’ top dogs, will insist on telling you that “VGChartz has always been run in an ethical way and that hasn’t changed and isn’t going to change.” This week, you’ll find out that, actually, that’s not entirely true. Which is a bit ironic.
Destructoid, Ian Bonds: Review: Mortal Kombat: Arcade Kollection [September 10th, 2011]
This is, in fact, not true - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 was only made available for the 360. Mortal Kombat II, meanwhile, was released on the PlayStation 3, although like UMK3 it was pulled after Midway went out of business [Edit: I am informed that MKII is still available on the PSN Store, although why at this point is beyond me.] [Edit II: I am also informed it has, in fact, been taken down and I was right in the first place. Vindication!]
How’s your Sunday going, by the way?
![Kotaku, Brian Ashcraft: A PS3 Controller. Busted in Half. [July 27th, 2011]
Kotaku’s idea of “breaking news”, there.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp065jtBfb1qaim7mo1_500.png)
Kotaku, Brian Ashcraft: A PS3 Controller. Busted in Half. [July 27th, 2011]
Kotaku’s idea of “breaking news”, there.
![VG247, Brenna Hillier: Rumour – PS3 exclusive shooter from EA’s Black Troll [July 27th, 2011]
So an unannounced studio might be working on an unannounced game. But it’s just a rumour! Don’t hold me to it!
It baffles me that stuff like this continues to be classified as news. “Studio working on unannounced project” is bad enough - most studios usually have a few projects on the go, be it tech demos or R&D work, or even fully-blown development that they haven’t shown the world yet - but this? A studio we’re still not entirely sure even exists might be working on a game we know nothing about?
Honestly, VG247. You need to hone your internal filter. Sometimes shit like this should be allowed to slip through the cracks.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loyypzcPGy1qaim7mo1_500.png)
VG247, Brenna Hillier: Rumour – PS3 exclusive shooter from EA’s Black Troll [July 27th, 2011]
So an unannounced studio might be working on an unannounced game. But it’s just a rumour! Don’t hold me to it!
It baffles me that stuff like this continues to be classified as news. “Studio working on unannounced project” is bad enough - most studios usually have a few projects on the go, be it tech demos or R&D work, or even fully-blown development that they haven’t shown the world yet - but this? A studio we’re still not entirely sure even exists might be working on a game we know nothing about?
Honestly, VG247. You need to hone your internal filter. Sometimes shit like this should be allowed to slip through the cracks.
According to a tweet from Boone noticed by SystemLink, the MK creator hinted she may be released in the near future.
Here’s the tweet: “RT @Leo__Roberts @noobde I DEMAND that you make Tanya DLC Noobde: Well then it looks like that’s what has to be done!”
—VG247, Stephany Nunneley: Boone hints at possible Tanya DLC for Mortal Kombat [July 8th, 2011]
Oh, exciting! I tell you what, jes ferralaff, let’s have a look at some other things Ed Boon has tweeted:
RT @MrSoloLobo @noobde I hope the next game is 2013 or later. Noobde: Yea, screw MK!
RT @natster43 @noobde Please have Rain say in his intro “Where there are clouds, there is Rain!” Noobde: Oh damn, has RAIN been leaked?
RT @HLV1993 Priority to the PS3, it’s like the demo and Kratos all over again. Noobde: No! Its just that…. Nevermind, its exactly that.
Yeah. Rain has leaked, NetherRealm give priority to the PS3, Boon doesn’t care about the series at all, and Tanya is definitely going to be the fourth DLC character.
Look, I understand the desire to snag the exclusive. Really, I do. But, as I rather painfully learnt yesterday, you can’t take everything people tweet seriously. Certainly you can’t take Boon seriously, given his propensity for playing around with the people who message him.
Oh, and you misspelt “Boon” in the headline.
Kotaku, Brian Ashcraft: The Bomb Threat Sent from a PlayStation 3 [June 24th, 2011]
Firstly, this quote can be parsed down to “this incorrect statement is incorrect”, which is fucking redundant.
Secondly, Bashcraft has reached this conclusion based on the three examples he gives - the first, a 19 year-old boy who used his PlayStation 3 to post an online threat to bomb the Hiroshima railway station; the second, a 15 year-old boy who threatened to go on a random stabbing spree in Shinjuku train station by making a post via his Nintendo DSi; and the third, a 19 year-old who made the same threat as the 15 year-old who, interestingly, was the aforementioned 15 year-old’s brother.
Three people, I’m sure you’ll agree, does not an adequate sample size make.
What Bashcraft is doing here is making a blanket assumption about the people of a nation based on the actions of two people. Some people might be inclined to refer to such an attitude as “racist” - indeed, it’s not a stone’s throw away from assuming that black people are all muggers and thieves, or each and every American is a fat, self-involved arsehole.
I’ve decried Bashcraft’s previous posts about Japan as “dimishing diminishing” the country’s achievements by fetishizing its more bizarre cultural aspects, but this is the first post he’s made that is outright incendiary. Bashcraft should be ashamed for writing it, and Kotaku should be ashamed for publishing it.
[Corrected minor typos.]
