Today
on Headline RePLAY: Final Fantasy Versus
XIII is not cancelled, Wheatley is sent into space (for real)
and ex-EA COO predicts Nintendo becoming just a software company.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII was not cancelled,
Square-Enix CEO Yoichi Wada revealed via Twitter today, responding to
cancellation rumors that arose last week.
Wada
added that he’d just taken part in a periodic meeting for the title, even
hinting that the cityscape could “make you lose your footing.”
|Source:
Andriasang
There
is an unauthorized stowaway on board a Japanese spacecraft now in Earth orbit
on its way to the International Space Station (ISS): Portal 2’s Wheatley.
Right
now, the orb-shaped robot from Portal 2
is cruising on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s latest H-2 Transfer
Vehicle, or the HTV-3, which launched last Friday, to resupply the ISS. Wheatley
is in the form of a miniature two-dimensional picture thanks to an unnamed NASA
worker.
“Thanks
to an anonymous tech at NASA, Wheatley is actually going to actual space,”
wrote Valve on its website.
Wheatley
is in spaaaaaaaaaaaaceeeeeeeee!
|Source:
Space
Ex-EA
Chief Creative Officer Bing Gordon believes that Nintendo is on the road to
becoming a software-only company because of the market “pressure” that
handhelds are under.
“I
think Nintendo’s already on track to become primarily a software company,”
Gordon told GamesIndustry International. “We saw that with SEGA back in the
day; SEGA made some missteps and became primarily a software company.”
Gordon
noted that even though Nintendo has better creative talent and leadership than
SEGA did, there is a lot of “pressure” in the handheld market for Nintendo due
to the company’s direct competition with Apple.
“I
think the handheld is going to be under a lot of pressure,” he said. “I can
imagine a day when Nintendo wonders—and maybe it’s generational change—when
Nintendo wonders if they ought to take some of their best games and make them
apps.”
|Source:
GamesIndustry International
