Today on Headline
RePLAY: Millions of hours are clocked into Disgaea,
Sony’s new solution to the Kinect and BioWare’s official statement on the attacks targeting Jennifer Hepler.
Holy numbers dood! Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention on the PS Vita has only been out for two months and Nippon Ichi says that players have already accumulated over 10 million hours of playtime! And here I thought the ability to ramp up to the hundreds of billions in damage was insane!
In celebration, Nippon
Ichi is releasing a patch that adds seven characters as save icons.
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention was released as a launch title for
the PS Vita in Japan, but we won’t be seeing it here until this spring.
*Source: Siliconera
Sony’s answer to the
Nintendo Wii was the PlayStation Move. Now, Sony responds to the Microsoft Kinect
with… the Kinect?
Kotaku has uncovered a
patent filed in late 2011 for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE
GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which involves connecting a camera into a PlayStation as a
medium to read player movements and positioning in a 3D space.
The patent was filed
by Richard Marks, the man responsible for the PlayStation Move. Kotaku notes
that like any other patent, it does not mean that Sony is releasing such a
product. All it means is that Sony is considering the idea.
*Source: Kotaku
I reported yesterday
that BioWare writer Jennifer Hepler was being viciously attacked on the
internet for her writing, opinions on game design and Twitter response to attackers.
In light of the
attacks, BioWare issued a statement today in support of Hepler:
“Jennifer is a valued, talented employee who has been with BioWare
for many years and we hope will be with us for many more. It is awful that a
few people have decided to make her a target for hate and threats, going so far
as fabricating forum posts and attributing them to her, and singling her out
for projects to which she has not contributed (i.e., Jennifer is not even a
part of the Mass Effect writing team). All of us at BioWare support and will
continue to support Jennifer fully, and are happy to see so many people out
there are also supporting her during this difficult time.”
BioWare is also making
a donation of $1000 to Bullying Canada in Hepler’s name.
*Source: BioWare
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