Sony’s drum-beating charmer of a strategy game, Patapon 3, is soon to hit PSPs in North America. The game will launch at retail and on PSN on April 12 for the low price of just $20. Bargain! Multiplayer makes a return in this second sequel, along with a single-player campaign and four-player co-op.
Hopefully we’ll have a release date for Europe/Australia soon. Will this be Patapon‘s encore? Could the NGP’s touch screen breathe new life into the series?
In an interview with Capcom-Unity today, VP Christian Svensson did some elaborating on how Marvel vs. Capcom 3 finally came to pass after nearly ten years since the last entry in the series.
“It starts with a champion.” Svensson said, “Someone who believes in an idea enough to put some work around it and pitch it at the highest levels of the company. In Marvel vs. Capcom 3′s case, it was Jun Takeuchi on the creative side and me on the business side…part of the reason I was a champion for MvC2 and MvC3 was because of all of the fan demand. If it hadn’t been for that fan demand, MvC3 wouldn’t have happened. The ideas we’re asked for all the time by fans in this forum and the suggestion box give us all food for thought. We consider many ideas as we plan our product roadmap. Some are interesting creatively. Some are interesting from a business perspective. We strive to have both boxes ticked when someone steps up to champion an idea.”
So there you have it–it’s all thanks to the fans. And some person who calls himself the vice president of Capcom–whatever that means.
It’s been reported that during Ubisoft’s third quarter financial results investors call yesterday, company president Yves Guillemot revealed that a new, “packaged” Assassin’s Creed title would be launching sometime this year. A straight forward indication that Ubi is nowhere near writing the final chapter for a franchise which saw its latest iteration sell 6.5 million copies since it was released last year.
Guillemot was mum about the game itself, but did let loose the fact that there would be more info coming out later this year, in May, coincidentally close to the E3 event to be held in early-June.We’ll just have to wait and see what’s in store for the series.
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