Scalebound was one of the highest profile cancellations of the past year. Platinum Games’ dragon-based action game captured the imaginations of gamers around the world when it was first announced at E3 2014, before the launch of the Xbox One. However, as time went on, footage and news stories started to slow down, and on the occasions that the game was finally shown, I was left...
If you're playing Vanquish on a powerful computer and enjoying the increased frame rate modern PCs are capable of, you're also playing a much harder game than you need to be thanks to a bug linking your framerate to the amount of damage you take. A fix, however, is imminent. Once a NeoGAF poster pointed out the bug, Platinum was quick to issue a beta patch on Steam that...
NieR: Automata’s “3C3C1D119440927” DLC delivers both its absurd name and contents on worldwide on May 2, as confirmed by Square Enix. Both the PC and PlayStation 4 versions are scheduled to get it on the same day. The content is notable for adding the first alternative costumes for all three main characters and adding boss fights based on both the CEO of Square Enix and Platinum Games...
If you’ve been plugging away at the newly-released Bayonetta on PC, you might’ve noticed an update this week. It didn’t take long, though, because the whole update is a whopping 22KB. Some curious users dug around in the game folders and found something that seems to point pretty obviously to Vaniqush, also developed by Platinum Games, getting a release on PC sometime in the near future...
Bayonetta’s surprise release on Steam this week earned developer Platinum Games a much-needed round of applause. 2016 was sort of rough for the company with a few duds and cancellations, but 2017 is already looking up! NieR: Automata is one of the best-reviewed games of 2017, and Bayonetta shows that the company can work its way around a complicated PC port. So, what’s next? If it were...
Platinum Games’ American producer, JP Kellams, is leaving the company, he announced this week. After nearly a decade with the studio behind games like Bayonetta, Vanquish, and the recently-cancelled Scalebound, he’s looking to branch out, he said. Kellams wrote: 15 years ago, I came to Japan to fulfill my childhood dream of making games with my heroes,” he said. “No matter how hard...
This is the part where I tell game developers to stop wasting my time. I have a lot of responsibilities these days and plenty of games I would rather play. If I wasn’t reviewing NieR: Automata or thoroughly looking forward to it, something this dumb would have been the last straw for me to move onto something else. I’m that strict when it comes to my free time and being jerked around....
Scalebound, the open world RPG from Platinum Games, might be dead, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft is done making new games. Responding to the uproar that followed the decision, Xbox boss Phil Spencer took to Twitter to address some fan concerns. At the time of the announcement, Spencer had called the decision “difficult,” but said that it was “better for Xbox gamers,” suggesting that...
The gaming world is still reeling from the cancellation of Scalebound, but I doubt anybody is taking it harder than those who sunk over two years of hard work into it. Platinum Games and Director Hideki Kamiya himself both issued statements on the cancellation overnight, and both apologized for feeling they let down their fans. Platinum Games’ official blog had the company’s statement...
Microsoft’s Xbox One and PC game Scalebound was officially canceled yesterday, bringing to a close two and a half years of speculation that the game might never come out. Many took the news hard as they are fans of Director Hideki Kamiya, but it was Microsoft who came down the hardest. In fact, it wants to expunge all evidence that the game even existed. As of writing, all Scalebound...