Kinect Sports Rivals Put Off to 2014

It has been announced that Kinect Sports Rivals will be delayed. This game was previously expected to release on Xbox One.

Polygon reports the Rare title is now expected in northern spring 2014.

It had been down for a holiday 2013 release, in the Xbox One’s launch window; the new console releases in November.

Rare will use the extra time for necessary polishing, but it will still be on show at PAX prime and gamescom next month.

Kinect Sports Rivals is regarded as some kind of a showcase for the new version of Kinect, which is described as far more accurate than the Xbox 360’s. Climbing, wake racing, soccer, target shooting, bowling and tennis will be included in it.

Sony, Dreamworks Planned to Produce a Half-Life Film

Have you ever read the book Generation Xbox, about video games invading Hollywood? I have read it and found something interesting in it.

Seems that at one point, years ago, Valve (and its agents) met with both Sony Pictures and Dreamworks over the possibility of making a Half-Life movie.

According to Valve's agent at the time, Larry Shapiro, "the Valve kids' jaws [dropped]" when Steven Spielberg was present at the meeting with Dreamworks.

So where'd it all go wrong? Seems a few things, mostly that Valve didn't like what its share of the profits would be, and there were also disagreements over sequels and problems getting a production timetable together. You know, the usual stuff that kills video game movies.

Last year, the book was published. The author is Jamie Russell.

From gameguyz.com 

Smash Bros director makes apologies for deleting characters

The game Smash Bros is coming soon for Wii U and 3DS. In the announced roster, many familiar faces are included, but don't expect every character from previous games to come back. Director Masahiro Sakurai is apologizing to fans in advance about potentially lost characters. "We're going to put in as many characters as we can, we really want to do that, because it's good for the fans and good for all of us," he said. "But in the event that we do have to cut some characters, I'd like to apologize in advance to those fans."

Sakurai told NowGamer that he doesn't expect every character to return simply because "we don't have the time to fully recreate every single character who's been in Smash Bros at this point." He points out that "adding new characters is not a simple addition--it's really multiplication. The amount of work, adding a character is multiplied and becomes bigger and bigger as you go."

Until now, all entries in the series have had a larger roster. But there are still some roles cut in favor of new ones over the years. For example, Dr. Mario, Mewtwo, Pichu, Roy, and Young Link were all cut when the franchise jumped from Gamecube to Wii. If the next Smash Bros does end up cutting a few characters, we do have a suggestion: one of the three Star Fox characters, perhaps?

From gameguyz.com