General Gaming News II: Steam Helpdesk Site Leak

**Ratatapa** · 2013-03-07 17:09

Ea are idiots that's all

**6souls** · 2013-03-07 20:29

http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/03/07/vqs.jpg

Source of image is a Russian site http://assassinscreed.su/ nothing else is known at the moment.

**BadKarma** · 2013-03-07 20:41

FUCKING ALREADY?

**Kaisha** · 2013-03-07 20:48

Can't wait for it to be a Facebook game.

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-07 21:02

probably another webseries or portable game

**-Zer0-** · 2013-03-07 22:47

Or...it could be the Japanese/Chinese AC!

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-07 23:03

I think Ubi Digital Arts did Lineage, which was why I figured web series or something.

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-08 16:50

oops

**Ratatapa** · 2013-03-08 17:37

[IGN link removed]

Hope people bring a portable 3g to connect to EA servers to enter the room

**6souls** · 2013-03-10 19:48

F-Zero AX Playable on Gamecube with Codes

In 2003, Nintendo and Sega released a futuristic racing game titled F-Zero GX for the Gamecube, co-developed by the two companies in collaboration and CO-produced by Shigeru Miyamoto and Yakuza director Toshihiro Nagoshi.

This game had an arcade counterpart called F-Zero AX, which shared tracks and features with the Gamecube version, and also had a few tracks that could be accessed on the Gamecube, but only with significant difficulty.

Last November, a group of F-Zero enthusiasts discovered that the Gamecube optical disc for F-Zero GX not only has the entire F-Zero AX game on it as well, but that it’s fully playable. The game can be accessed using Action Replay codes, which allow you to boot it up and play the arcade version.

While the discovery was made in November, it was only widely-publicized earlier this week by a site named RetroCollect. You can watch a video of the hidden F-Zero AX content in the video above.

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/09...-zero-gx-disc/
http://tcrf.net/F-Zero_GX#Leftover_F-Zero_AX_Code
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/hac...f-zero-gx.html

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-11 13:03

http://kotaku.com/5989910/leaked-sta...ii-source-says

Last October, we saw a listing for Star Wars: First Assault, an unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game developed by LucasArts.

Today, Kotaku can reveal that Star Wars: First Assault is a downloadable multiplayer shooter that was originally slated for release this spring. The game supports up to 16 players—one eight-person team of rebels and one eight-person team of Stormtroopers—as they face off on Star Wars worlds like Bespin and Tatooine.

And according to one person familiar with the project, First Assault is "step zero" to the heavily-rumored, highly-anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront III. If First Assault sells well—assuming it is released at all—the third Battlefront could be next.
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A few weeks ago, Kotaku reported on the status of Star Wars 1313, a game that could be in trouble thanks to unrest and uncertainty at LucasArts, the storied studio that has developed or published every official Star Wars video game to date. We mentioned a Call of Duty-style first-person shooter codenamed "Trigger."

That's First Assault. And according to our source, who is familiar with the project but says he is "no longer familiar with the goings-on" at LucasArts, this game is a downloadable "predecessor" to Battlefront III—part of the studio's strategy to show that there's a market for Star Wars shooters running on the Unreal Engine.

The story of Star Wars: Battlefront III is long and well-documented. Commissioned as the third game in the Battlefront shooter series, Battlefront III has bounced from developer to developer over the past few years. Although LucasArts has yet to officially announce the game, leaked footage and images show what could have been, and development studio Free Radical has claimed the game was 99% finished when LucasArts killed it.

Star Wars: First Assault, our source says, would lead up to Battlefront III. This new Battlefront would use nothing from the Battlefront III that has already been in production at studios like Free Radical and Slant Six, our source says. Instead, LucasArts would build Battlefront III based on code from First Assault.

Leaked Star Wars Game Is 'Predecessor' To Battlefront III, Source Says

According to our source, a small team has already been prototyping vehicles for Battlefront III. Current code allows you to fly a TIE Fighter or ride an AT-ST walker.

There are no vehicles in First Assault, nor are there Jedi. LucasArts intentionally decided not to use the Battlefront name so expectations wouldn't be too high, our source says. And the game is almost done.

But Star Wars: First Assault may never actually make it out of the studio.

Last September, when executives at LucasFilm—the parent company of LucasArts—found out that Disney had signed an agreement to purchase the company, things got murky. LucasFilm froze all hiring and new game announcements, our source says. They had planned to announce First Assault and launch a closed beta by the end of September—which explains the Xbox listing leak on October 1—and First Assault was supposed to be out this spring.

So since September, employees at LucasArts have been working on the game with no knowledge as to whether or not it will actually come out. According to our source, LucasArts is "bleeding talent" as employees wait to see what executives at Disney and LucasFilm want to do with First Assault and other games the studio is working on.

Leaked Star Wars Game Is 'Predecessor' To Battlefront III, Source Says

The status of First Assault—like the status of Star Wars 1313 and other projects that LucasArts is currently working on—remains unclear today. The new direction of LucasFilm is also unclear—just today, the company announced that they would no longer be releasing new episodes of the Clone Wars television show on Cartoon Network.

We've reached out to LucasArts for comment and will update should we hear back from them.

For now, our source says, the only way to get games like First Assault out of carbonite might be for Star Wars fans to speak up.

"Fans should tell Disney/Lucas loud and clear they don't want shitty titles from random developers; they want games to be taken seriously, and they will only pay for quality," the source said. "I believe that if Disney/Lucas lets LucasArts die, it means the death of Star Wars as a storied game franchise is right behind it."

**6souls** · 2013-03-11 19:50

Originally Posted by Qalbert

http://kotaku.com/5989910/leaked-sta...ii-source-says

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-12 11:46

more:
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**Qalbert** · 2013-03-13 14:25

Leaked Footage Of Star Wars’ Newest Take On Battlefield And Call of Duty

**Ratatapa** · 2013-03-13 20:14

Nintendo found guilty of 3d patent stuff

[IGN link removed]

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-14 14:50

**Qalbert** · 2013-03-14 14:57

**Guitarman** · 2013-03-15 00:43

Meshing two articles for this travesty:

While Ubisoft had the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games in recent years, the rights have now moved over to Activision. The first TMNT game from the new publisher is Out of the Shadows, which will be downloadable this summer on XBLA and PSN.
Check out the announcement trailer below and get a glimpse of the first of three Activision games featuring the Turtles.