Today on
Headline RePLAY: Infinity Ward punishes Modern
Warfare 3 cheaters, a Nintendo Wii controller can be lethal, another studio head
prophesizes the doom of console gaming and MORE Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance news this week as Platinum Games’
Atsushi Inaba defends the company’s role in the project.
Infinity
Ward isn’t playing around when it comes to punishing Modern Warfare 3 exploiters, the company’s verdict is a whopping
5000-day ban— a 13-year wait.
“If you see this message, it means you’ve been
Permabanned (for something bad),” Tweeted Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling.
Details on
what activities that would result in the 5000-day ban are unknown, but short of
wanting to wait until the year 2025 to play, it’s best not to find out.
*Source:
MP1st & Robert Bowling’s Twitter
Nintendo Wii
remotes can be dangerous, and as one family in Belleville, Michigan discovered,
they can explode. Fortunately, the Fuson family was out of the
house when the controller exploded, because it sent plastic shrapnel all across
the room and even bore a hole through the couch it was on.
Missy Fuson
thinks the controller exploded because the alkaline batteries were replaced
with lithium ones— the exact kind of thing that the Wii manual warns against.
However,
Fuson said the warning was difficult to find and the consequences of using them
weren’t spelled out. “I feel responsible as a mom. I need to tell other parents
that during Christmas, we need to be reading all the manuals for every toy and
make sure that we fully understand what we’re putting in our children’s hands
because the consequences can be deadly,” she said.
Nintendo has
offered to replace the Fuson’s equipment at a discounted price.
The end of
console gaming prophesized by officials in the gaming industry has been going
on for years that it’s almost an art. Bossa Studios head, Henrique Olifiers,
continues the trend by predicting “a horrible premature death” for the PS Vita.
“Valve is
bang on: proprietary stuff is madness, we should be moving to more open
platforms, to interoperability, bringing everyone together. If this is not the
motto for the big console manufacturers, not only will we not be there – they’re
likely to die a horrible premature death, the kind of which I think the Vita
will suffer from,” said Olifiers in an interview with VideoGamer.com.
Bossa
Studios is best known for the Facebook game Monstermind
and its recent recruitment of Yoshifusa Hayama, the former executive producer
of The Last Guardian.
Not a lot
of fans were thrilled to hear that Platinum Games held the reins to Metal Gear Solid Rising: Revengeance. Atsushi
Inaba, executive director and producer at Platinum Games, took to the Twitter
feeds to address fan concerns about the upcoming game:
Let
me begin.
It
seems there are some who wish to imply PlatinumGames was able to achieve what
Kojima Productions could not — interviewers among them.
This
notion is spurious. Clearly, we have not yet produced any results in the world
of Metal Gear.
The
artists at Kojima Productions gave their blood, sweat and tears to bring the
Metal Gear Saga to life.
The
gap is immense. Mr. Kojima tossed his chips on our table, believing we could
handle the task. In other words, he took a gamble.
Many
seem to think the change from MGSR to MGR altered everything about the game,
but this is simply not true.
MGSR’s
concept excited us. We have love and respect for it, as we do the character of
Raiden and the idea of freely cutting anything apart.
I
know reaction to the new trailer is mixed. Yet I also believe our love and
respect shines through.
It
is my hope that you catch a glimpse of the future in the footage.
In
order to achieve that evolution, that future, we at PlatinumGames will continue
to fight, shedding our own blood, sweat and tears.
That
is all.
Inaba’s
response is a humbled one, reflecting Platinum Games’ respect for what Kojima
Productions has accomplished. Even more telling is Inaba’s commitment to MGS
fans that they will continue to shed their “own blood, sweat and tears” into
the project.
