- Halo 4 creative director Ryan Payton leaves 343 studios before a single game was shipped. Payton claims that he was "no longer creatively excited" and formed his own independent company. Payton is the guy responsible for MGS4's overhauled mechanics and is pretty well regarded. That's a pretty big shakeup - what does it say about where Halo 4 is at if the guy jumped ship a year before it was scheduled to release? http://www.gamespot.com/news/6332841/halo-4-creative-director-jumps-ship
- Guardian Heroes re-dated for October 12. I've seen it on torrent sites so it certainly seems to be done, but "oops".
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet getting some DLC next week. It's something called "Shadow Hunters" - I can't find any info on it thus far. Tons of stuff out this month on the Xbox Marketplace - http://majornelson.com/2011/09/06/coming-soon-to-the-xbox-live-marketplace-9/ - I'm actually pretty curious to see if Crimson Alliance is good. And Bloodrayne is getting pretty good press, too.
- I thought this was funny: Ubisoft messed up printing Online Pass codes for Driver: San Francisco and had to scrap the whole program. http://t.co/Ue0i03q
- Dead Island had an early version mistakenly posted to Steam. The version had XBOX LIVE SUBMISSION PROJECT VERSION plastered all over it and had dozens of bugs. More funny stuff. http://pc.ign.com/articles/119/1192610p1.html
- Square and Sony's stock dropped hard following the DQ10 announcement. It probably has more to do with the crashing Euro than anything else, but hey, it's fun to claim everything is doomed! http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/09/06/dq_shock/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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