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Former Rare staffers on past rumors, talk Donkey Kong racing, more


Not Enough Shaders has conducted interviews with the three founders of Crash Lab – Steve Ellis, Martin Wakeley and Lee Musgrave. All three worked at Rare for a lengthy period of time.


Some of the more important tidbits from the interview can be found below. There’s a lot of talk about rumors from the past, cancelled projects, and more.


- Crash Lab is interested in any device that makes sense for games
- Free Radical was working on TimeSplitters 2 HD in 2008

- Jet for Gemini for the Game Boy Color was being worked on by Bits Studios

- Rare never worked on a Timber 64 game

- Pro-Am64, which featured Timber, turned into Diddy Kong Racing

- Rare’s move to keep its handheld division was made so that the team would be experienced if Microsoft ever made a handheld

- DS team essentially phased out since resources were needed for Xbox/Xbox 360 games

Musgrave on Donkey Kong Racing…


“Ha! – yes, I made that video! . . . Donkey Kong Racing was obviously pretty heavily tied to Nintendo as a franchise, and as Rare approached the finalization of a buyout deal with Microsoft it was clear that the game had no future, at least with the ape’s as characters. We switched it around to be a Sabreman game, and there was a great early Xbox prototype – but someone, somewhere decreed that it was a little too old-school for the kind of ‘revolutionary gaming experiences’ that the Xbox was capable of delivering, and so it started down a path of meandering changes, updates and ‘evolution’ that finally saw it run out of steam and fall over. There were some great ideas in the game as it developed though, and I still look back to the early racing game design and think we could have done something great with that.”

Musgrave on Donkey Kong Racing’s gameplay…


“It was a pure racing game, the underlying software mechanics were actually based on car physics, but it also incorporated the idea of riders jumping between different animals mid-race, to always be riding the ones that were bigger or faster . . . we had some awesome gameplay in place, and it was lots of fun – we even had a multiplayer version working – and when you fell off, you had to tap-tap-tap (HyperSports style) to run on foot and catch up with an animal. Fun, but it lost some appeal without the DK universe around it, and Microsoft were unsure of its potential with Xbox gamers I think.”

Kotaku Resident Evil 6 Review

Should you play it? "No."

"Resident Evil 6 feels like a ton of gene-splicing has been happening in Capcom's dev studios and the result isn't a miracle cure for what ails the franchise. Instead, it's a misshapen hunchback filled with bad DNA. You could try killing it with fire, but it will probably come back."

Concept Grand Prix Wii U, published by Nintendo

Remember this rumour

Wii U racing game in development, will compete with Forza and Gran Turismo


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Nintendo is working on a new Wii U racing game, according to latest rumors.

Nintendo is working on a new Wii U racing game, according to latest rumors. It appears that new Wii U rumors are now emerging by the day, and the latest rumor suggests that Nintendo is working on a Wii U racing game that’s meant to compete with PlayStation 3′s Gran Turismo and Xbox 360′s Forza Motorsport. While Nintendo has had Mario Kart for a long time, and we’ll definitely see Mario Kart on the Wii U, they never had a dedicated racing simulator like the other consoles.

The new Wii U racing game, called “Concept Grand Prix”, according to DualPixels, will be based around simulation and players will be tasked to build their cars from ground up. The game would have all sorts of customization options which the player can use the Wii U controller to customize.



According to the source, Concept Grand Prix is developed by Lucid Games, which is a development studio comprised of ex-Bizzare Creations staff. Bizzare Creations was behind the Project Gotham Racing series. It’s unknown how long the studio is in development on the new Wii U racing game, but the first details are expected to be unveiled at E3 2012.



While Concept Grand Prix sounds interesting, it’s not the first Wii U racing game to be announced. Back in January, developer Slightly Mad announced that its upcoming Project Cars will be coming to the Wii U.

So Amazon France has now listed the game for sale. Appears it's legit.

Lucid Games:

Established in February 2011 by senior developers from Bizarre Creations, Lucid has set itself out to be a small team with big ideas and the skills to deliver them.


Our performance over the past year has proved we are just that. We've successfully won contracts to build dynamic new IP, settled ourselves in to a shiny new office in the heart of Liverpool's creative quarter and completed a number of technically challenging work-for-hire contracts.

Small team, 20ish people.

It is through Hideki Kamiya's Twitter account that we learn that Bayonetta 2 news will come as early as next week, via some Japanese magazines (including/probably Famitsu). The appointment is made and we're hoping to see the first pictures of this exclusive Wii U game.

Also:

Game Informer on NBA2K13:

Today is October 2, which means two things to NBA fans. One, training camp officially starts for teams around the league. Two, NBA 2K13 hits store shelves. So where is our review?

I've played the game a great deal of hours over the past two weeks, but given the online debacle from last year's launch we wanted to test the retail version before we made a final judgment on the game. In doing so, we encountered a connectivity issue that could cripple the game if it's pervasive.

After every game in the offline Association mode, the game interacts with a server to tally the Virtual Currency you earn. In my experience, when this occurs I receive a server error that prevents the game from rewarding me VC and kicks me back into the main menu without saving my progress.

Obviously, a game-crippling bug would drastically alter my opinion of the game, so before we post my review we're waiting to determine whether this is an non-pervasive issue that can be corrected server side or if this is a more egregious bug that renders the mode unplayable. We've reached out to Visual Concepts for comment, and we'll follow up when they respond.

For those of you who have already picked up the game, have you encountered this bug as well? Please share your experiences in the comments.

And:

A year subscription to Xbox Live Gold is currently 23 percent off at Amazon, making the regularly priced $60 card just $46.40. The deal is available for both physical cards that must go through a mail apparatus and for the online game code, which will immediately show up in your inbox. - Joystiq

gamingeek said:

Kotaku Resident Evil 6 Review


Should you play it? "No."

"Resident Evil 6 feels like a ton of gene-splicing has been happening in Capcom's dev studios and the result isn't a miracle cure for what ails the franchise. Instead, it's a misshapen hunchback filled with bad DNA. You could try killing it with fire, but it will probably come back."

Kill it with fire.

I might get it for the PS3 (maybe Wii U). I'm still bummed that it's open world though.

No one checked it out? Doooo it.

Some screen grabs in our wii u thread here

Ugh...

The new Devil May Cry 2