Today
on Headline RePLAY: The producer of Lords of Shadow doesn’t want to be defined by just Castlevania, SEGA shuts
its doors in Europe and Australia and we finally have a release date for Guild Wars 2.
David
Cox wants his legacy to be more than just being “Mr. Castlevania,” he revealed
today, and would like to explore other projects and ideas after the release of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 and Mirror of Fate.
“Well,
I think’s about wanting to leave a legacy,” the producer told VG247 in an
interview. “And I don’t want to be in charge of a series that perhaps over a
certain time is going to decline. I’d rather go out with a bang and leave that
as our legacy in the Castlevania universe.”
Even
if Lords of Shadow 2 ends up being a
bigger success than the original, Cox insists that Mercury Steam is moving on. “We’ll
somebody else can do that. I don’t want to be known as Mr. Castlevania, and we
don’t want the team to be known as the Castlevania team,” Cox continued. “Working
in a creative industry, you’ve got other projects and other ideas you want to
work on. And that’s something that we and Mercury Steam want to do. We want to
work on other projects. We’ve got other ideas.”
Cox
says it all comes back to legacy. “If the game is successful I’m sure there
will be pressure to do more, but the thing is, like I said, you have to think
about legacy,” he said. “What sort of legacy do you want to leave? I’m proud of
the games we’ve made but we’ve got other things we want to do. Other worlds we
want to explore. Other stories we want to tell.”
So,
what does Cox want to work on next?
“I
love Contra. I’d love to do Contra. At Mercury Steam we’ve got an original idea
that I think is really awesome. We’d love to bring that idea to the market and
I’m hoping that the success of Lords of
Shadow 2 will allow us to do that.”
|Source:
VG247
SEGA
Europe today confirmed that it will be closing their offices in France,
Germany, Spain, Australia and Benelux as a result of its “restructuring”
efforts to focus on digital content.
In
lieu of SEGA, Koch Media will handle the distribution of packaged goods in
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Spain. Level03 Distribution and 5 Star Games will
assist in Benelux and Australia respectively starting July 1, 2012.
|Source:
Joystiq
After
weekend betas and stress tests, ArenaNet has finally announced an official
release date for Guild Wars 2: August
28, 2012.
ArenaNet
has also announced that the MMO’s next and final Beta Weekend Event is taking
place on July 20 – 22.
Guild Wars 2 was officially announced in
2007and was first revealed in 2010.
|Source:
ArenaNet
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