Poor Clover studios. Its critically acclaimedOkaminever sold well, the studio got dissolved, and now, to add insult to injury, Capcom had decidednot to credit the developersin its beloved adventure game’s Wii port, effectively severing ties between Clover and its creation. “I feel dejected, and not only because my own name has been erased from my creation,” confessedOkamidirector Hideki Kamiya on hisblog.”Of course we have pride in our work and we want to scream ‘We made this!...

As you likely already know, the nextKingdom Heartsgame is called …Dream Drop Distance. Really, Square Enix? Just when I thought the series couldn’t get evenmorepretentious with names like358/2 DaysandBirth By Sleep, you really know it out of the park with what is both a pointlessly obtuse name and an awful attempt at wordplay. Unfortunately, the names only speak of the content within — which has managed to become so contrived and waffling over the course of multiple spin-offs, that any interest I may have had inKingdom Hearts 3has been summarily executed by Square’s need to over-explain and over-complicate what was once a perfectly simple plot — not to mention dialog that consists of the words “heart” and “darkness” repeated roughly 150,000 times per cutscene....

Many on sale for a Cyber Monday Print media about video games is on the rise again, so we had a lot of options to work with this year for a book-specific gift guide. No need to focus onjust one publisher anymore. In fact, it’s arguable that we have too much material to work with this year. That’s also why books that we’ve previously covered, likeA Profound Waste of Time,Super MarioAdventures, andDiablo III: Book of Tyrael/Diablo III: Book of Cain, won’t be explicitly included in the list below....

RememberDust: An Elysian Tail, that crazy action RPG with the animals and the animations and all that? It’s been a while, huh? It ought to be ready later this year for XBLA, but I don’t think I can wait much longer. Before anyone pulls the “furry” card, let me preempt your snarky comments with a simple “f*ck off.”Dustis looking like a damn fine game with incredible levels of detail, and I’m mad at myself that I waited until Sunday to play it....

Sony of Japan has announced that the 120GB HDD PlayStation 3 Slims are just not enough anymore. Starting July 29, PS3 Slims will now either come with a 160 GB HDD or a 320 GB HDD. The smaller end models will go for¥29,980 (about $340) while the 320GB system will go for ¥34,980 (about $400). Japan will be seeing a white colored PlayStation 3 Slim also coming out on July 29....

No Xbox Live Gold membership required Microsoft has caught some flak in the past for releasing “free-to-play” games that still required an Xbox Live Gold membership, meaning that they most certainly weren’t truly free-to-play. That won’t be the case withProject Spark. Mike Lescault, the community manager for Team Dakota, confirmed toRedditthat Microsoft is makingProject Sparkcompletely free across all platforms. He began by correcting a commenter that assumed the usual Gold provision would apply by saying “You do not need an Xbox Live Gold account to playProject Spark....

The best part of Christmas: waiting for clogged servers! It’s Christmas time, and that means it’s the season of giving…and getting! I assume some of you out there are gifting hardware to relatives or immediate family members, and with modern hardware comes a certain degree of responsibility. Yep, updates!This Reddit thread from Letmeplatreminded me of something really important: consider updating your hardware before you gift it. Often times, Christmas day servers explode with demand I think it was the 3DS era that I started thinking about updating gifts ahead of time....

From Phantom Pain to VR Missions Oh heck yesMetal Gear Solid VR Missions(PS1) for $3. The PlayStation Network is having aMetal Gear Solidseries sale through April 4. It spans PSP, PS Vita, PS3, and PS4 and, well, the series’ life on PlayStation. There’s evenMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance – Ultimate Editionfor $7.50. I still haven’t played that game, but I hear it’s amazing. Hmm. There are classics, too.Ground Zeroesis $5 thoughMetal Gear Solid V: Phantom Painis only down to about $40....

PlayStation classic set for comeback? Popular import outlet Play-Asia has updated its store with a listing for what appears to be aPS4andNintendo Switchport of classic PlayStation RPGSaGa Frontier 2. The site claims that the ’90s sequel will launch on the aforementioned platforms on August 25 of this year. “SaGa Frontier 2introduces a complete renovation of the RPG genre,” reads the blurb on the store listing. “Traditional computer polygonal fixtures are replaced with lush, hand-drawn watercolor graphics supported by an awe-inspiring musical score....

No longer a mystery Earlier this month Sega let us know that they would bepulling a number of gamesfrom the Android and iOS marketplaces for “quality concerns.” Now we know exactly what those games are. While you can get a full look at the list below, they’re mostly ports of retro games. Sega notes that although you can’t buy them anymore you can re-download them — in other words, they didn’t pull a Konami &P....

Cape Feather Ever sinceSuper Mario Worldintroduced us to a Mario with a cape, I’ve had a fascination for game mechanics that allow you to glide. Nothing has quite captured what Nintendo accomplished so long ago, butThe King’s Birdtook me right back to those SNES days of old. This is a speedrunning platformer based on gliding around the environment where a solid grasp of momentum and timing is the key to success....

Sharper shadows TheShadow of the Colossusremake is nearly upon us, so Sony is amping up the hype train by taking us behind the scenes with Bluepoint Studios’ work. While each video is short, you do get to understand how Bluepoint approached the project and what its decision was for tackling such a beloved game. What is a real treat is the interview with composer Kow Otani.Shadow of the Colossushas one of the greatest soundtracks ever recorded, regardless of medium, so it is very intriguing to learn about why he chose specific instruments and what his score was trying to evoke....

Gaming is, without hyperbole, the biggest industry we have right now; more so than film and music. Billions of dollars in revenue are generated every year, and video games are set to become more lucrative, it seems. But, if you’re from the US, it might interest to know that gaming has different trends, depending on which state you look at. That’s according to a recent study conducted byProdigy Game, which has analyzed data from across America to see who’s more obsessed than others....