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How To Turn A European Video Game American
Author: Tiffany Shoman
Is America ready for Metro: Last Light ? Maybe! after a few tweaks.
Last December, the game publishing giant THQ went bankrupt. The handful of THQ games that were still in development went up for auction, including the nearly complete Metro: Last Light, the anticipated sequel to 2010s Metro: 2033, by the Ukrainian development studio 4A Games. Last Light, a first person shooter that tells the story of the various factions fighting for control of the Moscow Metro system, now home to the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse, was purchased at auction by Koch Media in January and released this week to outstanding reviews.
BuzzFeed has obtained the notes of an anonymous “game doctor” from an unnamed American publisher that bid unsuccessfully on the rights to Last Light. The notes, republished below, detail the publisher’s plans to help 4A polish the game for an American audience.
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Hello, friends,
First: congratulations on making Metro: Last Light. You’ve successfully identified the first and most important factor in breaking through here in the American game market: You made a first person shooter. Look: that's no small thing. Believe it or not, in this market for games, there are still people making role-playing games and adventure games and all manner of dollar-store crap. So take a moment to pat yourselves on the back.
Ok, moment over, and that's the last nice thing I'm going to say. Listen up. If you want this thing to sell at all in America, you will follow the advice I'm about to give you. It takes brass balls to succeed in this first person shooter market, and I've got them. This game is weird, and not in a good way like Bulletstorm, in a European way like BioShock, the success of which still boggles my mind. You need to make some changes for this thing to succeed.
My first note: that title! Fellas, listen: the only thing I would keep about that title is the colon. Pro tip: the colon is like the handgun of English. If you pull it out and point it at something, people have to pay attention. I'm working with the people at Activision to make it Call of Duty → Ghosts, but I'm not sure we're there yet, as a country. Give it time. Anyways! Metro: Last Light. It sounds like a worker bee going home at the end of a twelve-hour shift. I need a nap just saying it out loud. All the great first person shooters have names that really slap you around and won't leave you alone. Even in “Crysis”, which lacks a colon, that “y” tells me there's something just a little different about this crisis, something awesome. Suggestions, feel free to ignore: Nuke City: Russia. Blast Radius: Critical Distance. Ranger Force: God and Country. Warpocalypse. If none of these appeal, try mixing and matching.
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‘American Idol’ to introduce live onscreen Twitter polls this week
Author: Alexander McQueen
Like many various other shows, American Idol has actually long integrated Twitter hashtags into its viewing experience, but the prominent vocal singing contest will take its social media campaign one action further, with the intro of real-time Twitter surveys. This Wednesday, the show will begin incorporating onscreen polls about contestant performances and judges’ choices, while getting feedback with Twitter.
As the New York Times reports, a sample question would ask “Do you agree with the judges this evening?”, followed by two hashtags. Twitter users can respond with either hashtag (affirmative or unfavorable), consequently enhancing viewer engagement and offering Idol‘s manufacturers possibly important feedback. Survey outcomes will be displayed and updated …
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MetroPCS widens Rich Communications Services to all North American carriers
Author: Brian McKinnell
There’s been a degree of irony to MetroPCS’ support for for Rich Communication Services when it’s been limited to the one carrier’s network in the US — where’s that universal chat and sharing we were promised? The carrier plans to live up to those lofty expectations with word that its Jibe Mobile-developed Joyn service will talk to devices on any North American carrier that supports the spec. That currently doesn’t equate to ubiquitous access when RCS isn’t widespread, but it’s a start. We’ll just have to wait for the expanded service to deploy later this year, and for more hardware to hit the streets.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile
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Sudden death of American engineer in Singapore raises questions
Author: Mark Jeffries
Shane Todd’s girlfriend discovered him hanging in his Singaporean apartment 6 months ago, a abrupt tragedy that local authorities deemed a self-destruction. But six months later, Todd’s girlfriend, family and the FBI are still wondering exactly what exactly took place. Todd had actually simply put in his last day as an employee of IME, a Singaporean government research institute, where he had actually been working on a high-powered amplifier with commercial and “big” military uses. The amplifier was being co-developed with the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. Todd’s moms and dads say their son was increasingly uneasy at his job and “said there were things he had done that could get him in trouble with the United States government.” The Singaporean examination is still continuous. However after …
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NRA blames ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ ‘American Psycho,’ and music videos for gun violence
Author: Brittany Turner
After briefly suspending its operations on social networks, the National Rifle Association is holding an interview to attend to last week’s shooting in Newtown, Connecticut– and amongst other things, it’s placing some blame on Hollywood and the games industry. Polygon estimates NRA exec vice president Wayne LaPierre as saying that a “callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow sector” of game, flick, and video developers “represent life as a joke, depict murder as a way of life, and then have the nerve to call it enjoyment.”
Some of LaPierre’s remarks over games echoed conversation in recent days: he whined about “vicious terrible game, with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Vehicle, Mortal Kombat, and S.
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Nintendo Wii U North American sales top 400K in first week
Author: JohnnyBells
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says Wii U sales crested 400K units in its first week, according to internal sales information. That’s just component of a 1.2 million equipment sales week that Nintendo’s appreciated around the past seven days– which consist of the important Black Friday– where the Wii saw 300K devices sold, and portables controlled. Nintendo’s 3DS sold 250K, while the aged DS moved 275K– not too shoddy for an eight-plus-year-old console! CNET snagged the data from Fils-Aime in a post-Wii U launch phone interview, where he characterized 3DS sales as continuing on a “record-setting speed” (now at even more than 6 million devices sold-in to North American stores).
When it comes to the seemingly paltry launch sales of the Wii U system Fils-Aime says it’s a question of his business’s capacity to keep it in stores and not of lacking need. “Retailers are also doing their finest to obtain the item to shop racks. But when item hits retail, they’re selling out immediately,” Fils-Aime describes. Without providing any type of concrete guarantees, he includes, “We are looking to have as much item into retail as feasible. “
Filed under: Video gaming, HD, NintendoCommentsSource: Cnet
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Sandvine: Netflix up to 29 percent of North American internet traffic, YouTube is fast on the rise
Author: Matthew Baker
When we last checked in on one of Sandvine’s traffic studies, Netflix had just edged past BitTorrent as the largest source of internet traffic in North America while YouTube was still a small-timer. A year has made quite the difference. Netflix is up to 28.8 percent in a new study, while YouTube has moved up to second place with 13.1 percent and demands even more than ordinary web requests. Rivals like Hulu don’t register in the top 10, and YouTube is by far the ruler of mobile with nearly 31 percent of smartphone traffic headed its way. Overall usage is moving up rapidly, no matter what kind of network the continent uses — the typical North American chews up 659MB per month when mobile and a hefty 51GB through a landline. There’s little reason to dispute worries of the impact on bandwidth-strained internet providers, although we suspect most would disagree with Sandvine on what’s to be done. The company naturally sees the study as a chance for business with carriers wanting to curb usage or charge extra through its tools; a generation that grew up with internet access, however, would likely see it as a better excuse to roll out more capacity for all those streaming videos.
Filed under: Networking, Internet, HD
Sandvine: Netflix up to 29 percent of North American internet traffic, YouTube is fast on the rise originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Nov 2012 04:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTC Windows Phone 8S hits the FCC with North American 3G, gives the US a horrible tease
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Unlike Nokia, all of HTC’s Windows Phone effort in the US this fall has been focused on the high-end, with the Windows Phone 8X. That makes the FCC appearance of its budget cousin, the 8S, borderline terrible for American fans of HTC’s hyper-colorized design. The phone getting clearance has support for both AT&T and T-Mobile HSPA bands without the LTE that either American carrier would want. Given that the 8S is formally destined for Canada (and not the United States) without a named provider, we’re most likely considering an example for a budget Canuck carrier such as Mobilicity or Wind. A minimum of the frequencies will certainly be a comfort to gray market US importers who want HTC’s Windows Phone aesthetic on the cheap.
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Here’s how to donate to the American Red Cross
Author: Angela Stephens
Typhoon Sandy hit quite near to residence. While we’re all safe, and we have had incredibly small issues in the splendid system of things, not everybody has actually been so lucky. A great deal of people have lost power, accessibility to their companies, and many have actually even lost their houses.
One of the very best means to assist those in requirement after Hurricane Sandy is to contribute to the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross provides required catastrophe relief for thousands of people every year, and we make sure that they, and the sufferers of Typhoon Sandy, would be grateful for your contribution. We’re delighted to assist fundraise on their behalf.
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