One of the surprise hits of E3 2013 and a strategy game cheats|https://strategynewsbase.com/ we quickly fell in love with was Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare . Think Dungeon Defenders but with far improved and polished graphics thanks to it being built on the Frostbite 3 game engine. We found out last week that on Xbox One, EA is delivering fans an exclusive mode called 'Battle for brainz.' The strange part is that this is the only splitscreen mode in the game, pitting two plants against waves of incoming zombies. That's right, only one platform will have splitscreen for Garden Warfare . Next-gen? Why wouldn't the game support splitscreen multiplayer for all its modes on all consoles? Especially a super simple wave-based survival mode we've seen in dozens of game
We don't know whether the term “ninja” will be officially used to define the protagonist, but he appears to perfectly blend the concepts of samurai and ninja, which are absolutely popular even among the western mass market audie
The only relatively weak spot is that they have dropped the inFAMOUS franchise to work on a new IP, and that is objectively an element of challenge. One of the elements that can overcome that challenge is certainly flavor, and they picked the flavor that can certainly make the audience notice and remember the game: Ni
Persona 5 had a fraction of the marketing budget of its biggest western competitors, but it made it up with stellar production values and its strong Japanese flavor , which is exactly what Pachter indicates as a crippling factor. The game is basically a playable high school anime , and high school anime are popular even in the w
The reason why Sucker Punch moved away from inFamous and created something completely different is that they have done something for a long time, and they wanted to try something else. It was a “huge risk,” but according to Harper it was “so worth
Crossing over $1,000,000 in total prize pool is an impressive accomplishment, but the amount of games is worth noting as well. In 2016 ten games eclipsed the $1 M total, six did it in 2013, and the first broke onto the scene in 2005 ( Counter-Strik
(Image: https://www.freepixels.com/class=)No one had ever taken out Faker when he played on his favorite champion, Leblanc, which is why it was surprising when EDward chose not to ban the character for the decisive game 5. But it turns out, they had a plan. Faker took the bait, only to see his unkillable streak as Leblanc come to an
The team went to Tsushima twice with two different groups of developers. The second time, it was during a festival commemorating the Mongol invasion, and that was an “amazing experience” according to Harper. They even visited a local high school to see historical Mongol artifa
For the trailer, Sucker Punch actually performed motion capture of live horses. Four horses were involved in the shoot, and there were three people following them around to pick up the mocap markers falling off their c
The map above below measures about 18 km by 25 km. According to Wikipedia , Seattle covers an area of 142.5 square miles (369.2 square kilometers). Yep. That's 100 times bigger than the map in the game. Of course, that kind of size would have probably been really impractical for the game, and populating it with models and content would have taken a much longer time without using procedural tri
Fox explained that there is something to learn every day while making the game, as they're trying to recreate a place in a foreign country in a past era. Katami-san himself added that he's learning as well despite being Japanese, given that Tsushima is a rather obscure place even in Ja
Yet, this is not the first time that Pachter talks negatively about the Japanese gaming industry, calling Japanese publishers (excluding Nintendo and a few other exceptions) “not relevant any longer” to making consoles successful, mentioning that Japanese games “don’t matter in the larger scheme of things”, or downplaying the two million units shipped by NieR: Automa
These details come from eSports Earnings, which tracks tournament and league prize pools along with player earnings. While there's no guarantee that the numbers are wholly accurate or all-encompassing, they are without a doubt representative. Here's the list of games that have crossed the impressive $1,000,000 threshold in 2017 (so f
The sale price has not been disclosed, and neither company is on the record confirming the deal. But if it pans out, it could potentially lead to more opportunities on television for eSports, thanks to MTG's connections in that a
Japanese games don't normally sell millions of units, and this is indeed a fact, but assuming that it's simply because they're Japanese is a case of confusing correlation with causation. The reason behind the sales number is normally due to a combination of lack of marketing push and sub-AAA production val
Harper thought for a moment that he'd lose his job, and Fox describes it as the “freak-out moment” at Sucker Punch, but luckily no one else picked the news up. The much-feared leak mentioned yesterday by Shuhei Yoshida did not hap