Sega has cancelled a planned sequel to 2010 Platinum Games brawler Bayonetta, according to reports.
Our June issue, which goes on sale May 9, features reviews and extensive Post Script articles for all the biggest games, including Dragon's Dogma, Fez and Tribes: Ascend.
Richard Lemarchand, lead designer on the Uncharted series, has quit developer Naughty Dog after eight years with the studio.
Last week, Fez programmer Renaud Bédard told us he was unlikely to work with developer Polytron again because he was exhausted after working alone on the same project for five years. "Being a lone programmer is a great experience," he said. "You do everything in the game, but you never have anybody to learn from or bounce ideas off.
Activision's Prototype 2 debuts at the top of the UK all-formats chart for the week ending April 28, keeping FIFA Street and FIFA 12 in positions two and three respectively.
Last week's number one, The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition falls to number six as Mass Effect 3 exchanges places with Kinect Star Wars, rising on place to four.
Next week's XBLA release is Fable Heroes, a fourplayer brawler made by a 15-man team at Lionhead. It was born at the studio's annual Creative Day, a two-day event where staff are given freedom to work on whatever they choose, which we covered back in E228.
I wish somebody would let Jonathan Whiting make an actual Zelda dungeon. I’m pretty sure the Oxford-based game designer would be up to the task. For Ludum Dare 22, he produced the creepy, claustrophobicmazes of Craequ, after all, which turned a fairly standard muddle of blocks and teleporters into some truly brilliant puzzles.
Nintendo will adopt a simultaneous digital and retail release policy for its own Wii U games when the console launches later this year, the company's investor briefing reveals.
Nintendo will adopt a simultaneous digital and retail release policy for its own Wii U games when the console launches later this year, the company's investor briefing reveals.