Quality certainly outweighs quantity, and this is a principle that Visceral Games plans to live by. In an interview with Gamasutra, Visceral's general manager Nick Earl made it clear that one major project a year will suffice for their studio. "What I've learned being general manager of the studio for the past nine years is you can overload a studio, and conversely, you can do extremely well financially, and at the end of the day, we need to be able to do that to continue to attract investment and be able to do the sort of creative endeavors we want."
Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot to report on in the world of Xbox Live updates this week. The most notable release is probably the new DLC for BioWare's sci-fi RPG, Mass Effect. The new content will be heavy on the combat and take up about 2 to 3 hours of your time. You can grab it for 400 Points. In addition to that, Microsoft continues to roll out full downloadable 360 games with their Games on Demand service. This week they have added two racing games, Burnout Revenge and Need For Speed: ProStreet, and FIFA 09.
Keep on moving past the break for the full list of releases.
It was not very long ago that there was a lot of confusion surrounding the release of Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus. Beyond the temporary removal of Wii Sports Resort from Nintendo's upcoming games lineup of the time, there was also the fact that two of EA's titles, Tiger Woods PGA 10 and Grand Slam Tennis, were firmly locked in for a June release.
As we would come to learn, the MotionPlus would be launched over a month ahead of Wii Sports Resort, allowing EA to have first dibs at taking advantage of Nintendo's latest peripheral.
So how does EA feel about that? "Being out there with the peripheral before Nintendo surprised and worried us a little," said EA Sports Senior Vice President Steve Chiang to Game Informer, "but I think that shows Nintendo's openness to working with third parties."
It seems more third parties, from EA to High Voltage Software to Visceral, are speaking well of Nintendo's support of third-parties as more of them start to warm up to the Wii. With any luck, E3 will bring even more good tidings.
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