Headline RePLAY – 4.5.12

Today on Headline RePLAY: BioWare announces Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, the co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog joins Nintendo and more details on notch’s 0x10^c.

True to BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka’s words, the company is releasing “Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut” sometime this summer, a free DLC package intended to expand, clarify, and provide closure to the controversial ending events of the game.

“Since launch, we have had time to listen to the feedback from our most passionate fans and we are responding,” said Dr. Muzyka. “With the Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut we think we have struck a good balance in delivering the answers players are looking for while maintaining the team’s artistic vision for the end of this story arc in the Mass Effect universe.”

“We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player,” added Casey Hudson, Mass Effect 3’s Executive Producer.  

The Extended Cut includes “additional cinematics” and “epilogue scenes” to the ending in order to “provide additional clarity and closure to Mass Effect 3.” In addition, BioWare stressed that the DLC does not include new endings nor are there any planned.

*Source: EA, BioWare

Hirokazu Yasuhara is the co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog and directed the early titles personally— and he’s joining Nintendo of America in Redmond, Washington.

It would’ve been inconceivable a decade ago: one of the men responsible for SEGA’s blue, furry mascot joining forces with its industry rival.

And now it would just raise a few eyebrows.   

According to Gamasutra, Yasuhara left Namco Bandai last month and is now an official Nintendo employee at Nintendo Software Technology, a North American Nintendo subsidiary.

*Source: Gamasutra

Markus “notch” Persson has been Tweeting all sorts of new information about the interestingly titled 0x10^c, an Elite-like space simulation game. 

An unofficial FAQ collected by @Mayeu, provides the details:

• Multiplayer will have a monthly fee; price is currently undetermined.
• Players will be able to build their own ships.
• The game will have simple graphics.
• Duct tape can fix ANYTHING for short periods of time.

For more details on computer programming, physics and why notch says free-to-play is a scam, check out the source link below!

*Source: 0x10c Unofficial FAQ

Headline RePLAY – 3.19.12

Today on Headline RePLAY: Hideo Kojima hints about a film project, a complaint to the FTC and BBB is lodged against EA and BioWare for Mass Effect 3’s ending and speaking of endings, Tetsuya Nomura talks about Kingdom Hearts 3D’s.  

At Smithsonian Museum of Art, Hideo Kojima was asked if he was interested in making films, a lifelong passion that influenced the way he makes videogames.

Kojima noted he is always interested in filmmaking, but does not think Metal Gear Solid would work as one. However, the Metal Gear creator added that something is in the works.  

“I’m working on something, and I hope in the near future I’ll have something to announce,” said Kojima.

*Source: Joystiq 

The battle over Mass Effect 3’s ending has reached new heights when a fan took the cause to the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission. The complaint lodged against EA and BioWare was for “false advertising.”

“After reading through the list of promises about the ending of the game they made in their advertising campaign and PR interviews, it was clear that the product we got did not live up to any of those claims,” said “El_Spiko” on the BioWare forums.

“This is not something I was happy to do,” continued El_Spiko, “but after the terrible ending that was in no way the product that had been advertised to me and the lack of any kind of response from BioWare/EA to address this, I felt it was one of my only recourses. I’ll be returning my copy of the game before the end of my 30 day return policy if the ending still hasn’t been addressed by then.”

El_Spiko encouraged like-minded fans to do the same and send complaints to the FTC and BBB.

While El_Spiko’s claims may be valid, BioWare has addressed the endings last week and most recently on Facebook.

*Source: Gamepur

Kingdom Hearts series director, Tetsuya Nomura, sure likes his surprise endings as he speaks to Famitsu magazine about Kingdom Hearts 3D’s main characters and its ending.

“If I had to say who the key persons were, I’d say they are the silver haired boy and Axel,” said Nomura. “This time at the end of the story, there will be the longest cutscene of the whole series where the true form of Ansem and Xemnas, as well as their goals and many other truths will be revealed all at once.”

Nomura added Kingdom Hearts 3D should take about 35 hours to complete.

*Source: Siliconera