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January 11th, 2016, 21:34 Posted By: wraggster
After breaking records with their Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign, the developers at Ys Net are taking an... interesting stance toward fans of the project. You see, as a result of the wildly successful crowdfunding campaign for another entry in the cult classic franchise, not everyone who wanted to get in on the action was able to before it ended. So Ys opened up a "slacker backer" period where folks could pledge their support (and dollars) via Paypal, adding to the $6 million already promised to the developers from Kickstarter backers. All good, right?
Well so as to not anger the folks who got in before the original campaign deadline, the developer conducted a poll to see if the "slackers" should have access to the previously promised rewards. The results are in.
Despite a majority of respondents saying they wanted the Kickstarter exclusive rewards (4,670 responded in the affirmative, 6,432 could take it or leave it and 4,009 said to keep the rewards exclusive), the developer has gone with the smallest vote here. Sure, that makes sense. Ys' official reasoning:"Considering the strong response from those of you who felt that the exclusive rewards should remain exclusive for the Kickstarter, those exclusive rewards will not be made available on the PayPal page as originally promised."
On one hand, here's to a video game company actually maintaining the integrity of the word "exclusive" for once. But on the other, the PayPal backers were initially promised access to this stuff. It's pretty excremental of Ys to deny them that even after poll results indicated that backers largely would be fine with offering the rewards to folks who were late to the party, though. But hey, worse things have happened to people who've backed a game on Kickstarter before.
http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/06/s...acker-rewards/
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December 3rd, 2015, 22:40 Posted By: wraggster
Yu Suzuki has offered his Kickstarter backers a new look at Shenmue 3, offering an update that's an abridged version of a talk the veteran designer recently gave at the Chuapp X 2015 event in China.
Suzuki's talk went into detail about the scope of Shenmue 3 and where it fits into a series which was originally to comprise 11 chapters, with the first Dreamcast game taking in the first chapter while its sequel featured the second chapter as well as elements of the fourth and fifth.
"The composition for Shenmue 3 has been finalised, and will begin with Chapter 5 as the continuation of Shenmue 2, to move on past Chapter 6," wrote Suzuki in the update. "The story has been written to align with this structure; and the planning for the game elements that will go along with the story have been completed. This project was conceived to be scalable, since the game would necessarily need to be adjusted based on the Kickstarter."
Suzuki also teased the return of Ine-san, the housekeeper players will be familiar with from the the first game, and detailed the progress made so far on Shenmue 3.
"The basic systems have been put in place and we are currently testing the Destruction (when objects break) and High Ground (environmental interactivity) effects," Suzuki said in the update. "Unlike the development from 15 years earlier, we have assets already available to us and we are in an era where we can create prototypes even without a programmer. Programs, artwork and planning have become more closely related, realizing a new type of work flow for a new age. This new work flow utilizes both game engines, which used to be very expensive, and allows for work to be done on a more open, individual basis. I hope this will lead to everyone more fully enjoying their work."
Shenmue 3 broke Kickstarter's funding records for a video game soon after it went live at E3 this year, and is on schedule for a launch at the end of 2017. We caught up with Suzuki at this year's TGS to check in on its progress, and found the director of classics such as OutRun and Virtua Fighter to be hard at work on the keenly awaited sequel.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...k-at-shenmue-3
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November 29th, 2015, 20:30 Posted By: Metareview
Xump by Retroguru is a simple one screen puzzle game initially released in 2005 by Psilocybin Development. This overhaul is a rewrite featuring new graphics, new levels, new music… simply new everything. Ported to Dreamcast by Indiket.
Help Xump and his human master Holger to disarm mines on fields located somewhere above our atmosphere. Collect coins by destroying fields or mines but do not fall of the playing field. There are 48 levels plus hidden 32 original levels if you can unlock them.
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Changes:– Fixed minor highscore generation bug
– Fixed “end screen” text
– Reduced spelling / grammar mistakes
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November 14th, 2015, 16:01 Posted By: Metareview
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 Reicast Git (2015/11/14) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds....More
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October 31st, 2015, 07:23 Posted By: Metareview
Playing as Volgarr the Viking, use your sword and spear to slaughter your foes in bloody combat. Battle Gigantic bosses in every world and find secrets that lead to unknown paths. Holding onto Volgarr’s gear is key; his very life depends on it!
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The Dreamcast version is Freeware but if you appreciate the game for Dreamcast you might want to buy the commercial version from Steam? The game is available to buy for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (requires SteamOS).
Changelog:* (Taron) Added support for Achievement and Records tracking
* (Taron) Fixed World 4 Boss Theme music sometimes not playing
* (Taron) Added support for graphics clip rects (scissor test), to hide elements that aren’t supposed to be visible (most notably the treasure pile being visible under the floor in the Home Base room).
* (Taron) Fade out between maps is now properly fading to/from Black instead of White
* (Taron) Swapped the order of the Water and Undead worlds to restore the original intended order of those Worlds (they are only out of order on other platforms due to late tester feedback and they were never swapped back due to not wanting to mess up Leaderboard scores, which doesn’t apply here).
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October 25th, 2015, 14:35 Posted By: wraggster
Series creator Yu Suzuki has said that he can’t promise 60fps performance in Shenmue 3, although he seems he can guarantee that its female characters will be sexually attractive.
“For the moment, I’m thinking about 30 frames per second,” he told DualShockers when asked about the game’s PS4 framerate. “60 might be too difficult, but I’m not sure yet.”
However, while Suzuki cannot confirm how the game will appear technically, he is ensuring that visually it will tick certain boxes.
“They are being improved,” he replied when asking about changes to early character model prototypes. “The person who originally created Shenhua, is collaborating with us on her character. Thanks to him, Shenhua is looking a lot cuter.
“There will be many new characters. There are the four main bosses. There will be Lan Di from the previous games, and two more fighters. The fourth, on the other hand is a strategist, and she will using more cunning than head on fighting. She is an extremely beautiful and sexy, but cruel woman.”
And then when asked about romance in the game, the developer added: “Yes, it will be an important topic in Shenmue III, and I will try to portray the differences in how men and women think in the game.”
Suzuki then went on to admit that he himself isn’t really a gamer.
“I don’t really play other games, because if you play games it’s too easy to be influenced by them, and even if it is unintentional, one ends up losing their originality. On the other hand, I’m watching movies,” he admitted.
The difference in approach to both female representation and wider equality issues between Eastern and Western game developers is not only widening but increasingly being brought into focus.
While games such as Metal Gear Solid, Tekken, Tomodachi Life and Dead or Alive find themselves clashing with modern Western values, American and European developers such as Blizzard,EA, Ubisoft and NetherRealm have openly adopted a more balanced approach to gender representation and sexual orientation, no doubt spurred by the efforts of vocal critics such as Anita Sarkeesian.
Last month UK industry veteran Andy Payne said that there was no longer any excuse for the sector’s inequality blind spot. And Japanese companies should not go completely without praise, withSony and Square Enix in particular making some very positive moves in the right direction.
It was revealed yesterday that the Western release of Wii U title Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water will ditch the skimpy costumes found in the Japanese release in favour of less revealing Nintendo-themed clothing.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/shenm...-girls/0157757
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October 24th, 2015, 07:40 Posted By: Metareview
Fruit’Y – Playing with edibles is heavily inspired by the Kaiko classic Gem’X, which has been seen on computers such as the Commodore Amiga 500, Commodore 64 and Atari ST. The game consists of two boards of fruits. The left field belongs to a cute tiger who needs to reproduce the right field 1:1 being able to proceed to the next level. Sounds easy?! Possibly it does, at least for the first few levels!
Public downloads are available for these fine systems: Playstation Portable, GP2x Wiz, Dreamcast, Wii, GameCube, GCW Zero! Along with other systems not covered by PDRoms such as Amiga OS4, MorphOS, Linux, Windows, NetBSD, TI Nspire CX, …
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October 9th, 2015, 15:52 Posted By: Metareview
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Reicast Git (2015/10/09) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds....More
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October 5th, 2015, 21:51 Posted By: wraggster
Developer Yu Suzuki has said that the game’s $6,333,295 Kickstarter total is not enough for him to do everything he wanted with Shenmue 3.
"I could do with a bit more money,” he told Eurogamer. “The game itself doesn't have to be gorgeous visually – a lot of the money these days goes into the graphics. If we perhaps compromise on the graphics and put more into the story, we can make a good game. The most important thing, to me, is that the game's interesting, and that it's something people want to play."
Prior to the completion of the game’s Kickstarter, Suzuki suggested that $10m was the number he thought would allow him to achieve his vision. While the crowdfunding drive fell short of this, however, it has become clear that the game is also receiving investment from elsewhere, although the specifics of this remain vague.
One thing we do now know is that Sony is, as has been previously suggested, contributing to the game financially.
"Kickstarter's not the only source of money. There's also funding from Sony and Shibuya Productions,” Suzuki added. “Before we started Kickstarter, we had goals set around the budget – so if we only got $6m, we'd create Shenmue 3 based upon what we could do with that $6m.
“We're still trying to gather funds. Obviously, the more money we have the more we can do. Even if we don't get as much budget as the previous games, we'll still make this game."
Indeed, last month Ys Net launched a second crowdfunding drive for the game directly via PayPal. Shenmue 3 still has a Christmas 2017 release date.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/shenm...r-game/0156852
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October 4th, 2015, 13:57 Posted By: wraggster
Sega is set to offer 200 employees ‘voluntary retirement’ as it aims to improve profitability.
The publisher expects to make a loss of £9.85m for the second quarter of the 2015 financial year. It has put much of this down to the delay of the release of its new pachislot and pachinko titles and to money set aside for early retirements. It stated however that the reduction of expenses resulting from losing staff could save it £10.9m a year starting from March 2016.
It has adjusted its operating income expectations for the first half of the current fiscal year ending September 30th to £32.8bn yen from £76.6m, a fall of 57 per cent.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/200-j...t-sega/0156654
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October 3rd, 2015, 05:10 Posted By: Metareview
Fruit’Y – Playing with edibles is heavily inspired by the Kaiko classic Gem’X, which has been seen on computers such as the Commodore Amiga 500, Commodore 64 and Atari ST. The game consists of two boards of fruits. The left field belongs to a cute tiger who needs to reproduce the right field 1:1 being able to proceed to the next level. Sounds easy?! Possibly it does, at least for the first few levels!
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This game is being released next week at the GameStage Expo 2015 in Linz, Austria, 9.-11. October 2015 on a “pay what you want/donation” basis. If you plan to visit the Retrobörse Linz, which happens in the same building as the GameStage Expo, but only on the 10. October, you may want to check this out too. Spanish people will get a chance to grab the game at Retrobarcelona from 14.-15. October 2015! For all who can not get the game at any of those three mentioned events, can order the game via DragonBox-Shop at a bargain of 2.99 EUR which basically only covers the physical production costs.
Public downloads and ports will follow one week after Retrobarcelona!
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September 29th, 2015, 07:41 Posted By: Metareview
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Reicast Git (2015/09/29) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds....More
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September 27th, 2015, 08:50 Posted By: Metareview
Do you love Saber Rider? You do? You love the Dreamcast or the PC-Engine? You Do? Read on…
Team Saber Rider currently collects money via Kickstarter to realize a run’n’gun shoot-em-up game based on and licensed from the original 1986 animated space western series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs!
For only 49 US$ (without shipping) you could either get a physical Dreamcast copy or a physical PC-Engine copy. The funding looks good so far, but only 8 days to go!
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September 27th, 2015, 07:01 Posted By: Metareview
The Alice Team seeks funding for their new upcoming Dreamcast game Alice Dreams Tournament, ongoing for the next 29 days. If everything goes straight Alice Dreams Tournament will be a crazy Bomberman like game with six original game play modes. On successful funding the game could be yours for only 25 EUR.
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September 23rd, 2015, 15:51 Posted By: Metareview
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Reicast Git (2015/09/23) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds....More
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September 22nd, 2015, 13:06 Posted By: DCemumaniac
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Metallic released a WIP version of Demul. Changes:
- NAOMI 2 emulation rewritten almost from scratch, must be really close if not the same as real hardware, a lot of optimizations, can use separate thread (DX11NG);
- shadow render fix (Cosmic Smash);
- romset sync with current MAME.
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News source: http://forum.emu-russia.net/viewtopi...p=24311#p24311
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September 18th, 2015, 17:21 Posted By: Metareview
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Reicast Git (2015/09/18) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds....More
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