Today on Headline
RePLAY: Final Fantasy XIII-2’s ending explained, BioWare responds to the Mass Effect: Deception controversy and Resident Evil for the Game Boy Color is
released to the world.
WARNING: INCOMING
SPOILER!
Final Fantasy XIII-2
ends with the most infamous words that can ever be put into a videogame: “To Be
Continued.” Many interpreted it as a hint for Final Fantasy XIII-3 while others
assumed that DLC will conclude what XIII-2 started. At the Taipei Game Show
yesterday, Director Motomu Toriyama went on record to explain XIII-2’s
ambiguous ending.
According to Impress Watch,
translated by Andriasang, Toriyama explained the “To Be Continued” screen was
to encourage players to search out the number of Paradox Endings hidden away in
the game. Additionally, the intent was to continually expand XIII-2’s world via
DLC like the upcoming Lightning Episode.
It’s not an outright
denial of a XIII-3 in the future, but it’s not exactly a hint either.
*Source: Andriasang and
Impress Watch
Remember Mass Effect: Deception, the tie-in novel
to BioWare’s flagship franchise that was so littered with lore inconsistences that
fans protested with a public Google Doc documenting it all out? BioWare isn’t
exactly pleased with the novel either:
“The teams at Del Rey
and BioWare would like to extend our sincerest apologies to the Mass Effect fans for any errors and
oversights made in the recent novel Mass
Effect: Deception,” said Chris Priestly, BioWare’s community leader. “We
are currently working on a number of changes that will appear in future
editions of the novel.”
“We would like to
thank all Mass Effect fans for their passion
and dedication to this ever-growing world, and assure them that we are
listening and taking this matter very seriously.”
It’s a victory to fans
and credit to BioWare that errors like these get addressed. Mass Effect: Deception was the first
novel in the Mass Effect universe to
be written by another author other than Drew Karpyshyn.
*Source: Eurogamer
Capcom enjoys
reminding us that the original Resident
Evil exists by re-releasing multiple versions of it, but did you know that
there was one being developed for the Game Boy Color? Capcom canned the title
late into development due to quality issues, but it lives on in the ownership
of an unknown third party.
The unknown owner has
acquired two prototype carts of the unreleased game and was willing to upload
the ROMs for a price: $2000.
A fundraiser was set
up to meet the $2000 goal and was met way before the February 29th
deadline, meaning the carts have been released to the public.
For more details and
screens, check out the forum thread at ASSEMbler!
*Source: ASSEMbler
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