Uggie & Betty
BuzzFeed has the inside scoop as two stars (with an enormous generational gap) make out in public. Steamy! Sultry! Scandalous!
(Via GoNintendo)
A Little Less Angst
Masahiro Sakurai on Kid Icarus: Uprising’s tone, courtesy of MSNBC:
We didn’t make it too serious. This is evident in the situations where characters are joking while they fight. I feel like in recent games, the plot moves forward with too much angst and pain. I think it’s nice to have something bright for a change.
“I Can’t Continue To Make Shooters Over And Over Again”
I don’t know when we decided as an industry that in order to sell five million copies of a game you have to make a Michael Bay film. There are other options.
Should Our Opinions of Games Be Based on the Actions of Their Creators?
As the medium matures, more and more creators find themselves thrust into the spotlight — and that means more and more creators have the opportunity to let their bad behavior and personal convictions come between them and their audience.
Where Do Gamers Draw the Line Between Creator and Creation?
Next-Gen Platforms Won’t Solve Creative Industry Issues
“If it comes it comes; when it comes, it comes. I’m not a tech guy, particularly. I’m a design, story, character guy. I think most of the problems we have to solve are creative ones, not technical ones. Obviously we make software, so there’s always a technical element to what we do, but I will make games that do whatever I want them to do at the end of the day, and I will use whatever technology [is] available.”
(via GoNintendo)
Iwata Asks, April 1st
An image circulating NeoGAF reveals a new Iwata Asks interview with Sony Computer Entertainment chairman, Kaz Hirai:
Iwata: Today we are talking about the struggles of the handheld market. For example, how your handheld market is struggling against our handheld market. [Laughs]
Hirai: Very funny, Mr. Iwata.
Iwata: I am being a kidder towards you. It’s good for Sony that 3DS is selling so well –it gives them more space to store unsold Vitas. [Laughs]
It is also a wonderful and glorious fake for April Fool’s Day.
Never Explain, Always Stimulate
I read an essay by the great master H.P. Lovecraft where he said that you should never attempt to explain what happens, as long as what happens stimulates people’s imagination, their sense of the uncanny, their sense of anxiety and fear.
(via The Overlook Hotel)
Religious Video Games
Piki Geek asks Is “Jesus: The Video Game” Possible?
No. Games are about giving a person control; religion is about taking that away. Therefore making a game based on religious tales would be counterproductive and impossible without heavy reinterpretation. Having religion be an important factor in the life of a character is something altogether different.