Shinichi Watanabe, director of the quirky and hilarious anime Excel Saga, is currently recovering from a heart attack at a hospital. (Tip courtesy of tipster Sang.)
VP of development Rod Fergusson, who has previously left Epic to help with the finishing touches on BioShock Infinite, is departing Irrational Games. "Now with the game shipped successfully, I've done what I set out to do here and now I'm looking forward to the next chapter in my life and career," he told Polygon. Read more
Why is Luigi green? "...because of memory limitations, the second character had to be identical to the first character in appearance," says Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. "And so we looked at that and said, 'Well even if we have the same character, we could potentially change the color of the character.' But again we… Read more
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Here's the newest trailer for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which comes out for 3DS on June 9. It's... relaxing.
A while back, we talked briefly about the ambitious Grimlands, a post-apocalyptic free to play MMORPG-shooter in the vein of Fallout. Well, it has found its way to Kickstarter. The Poland-based team is asking for a whopping $650,000 to finalize the game. Read more
Kadokawa Games, the Japanese publisher behind the upcoming Killer is Dead, has trademarked "Demon Gaze" in the US. You may recall that Demon Gaze is the name of a rather good dungeon crawler for the PS Vita. [via Siliconera] Read more
Grantland writes an interesting analysis of the old Super Mario Bros. movie. "Super Mario Bros. created a much more insidious template, one that's never been as prevalent as it is now: the simultaneous money-grub brand exploitation and fan-base slap in the face."
"It will always be Lucasfilm Games(tm) to me, never LucasArts." Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert writes a eulogy to the studio he helped build.
OXM reports that, in response to a redditor's complaint to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority about the visible differences between the playable and trailer-demonstrated versions of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega Europe has agreed to put disclaimers stating that the game shown is the demo version next to their… Read more
Torchlight II's modding tools have finally been released after a long, long wait. There's a few extras, too—full Steam Workshop integration, a wiki for the editor, and some new content and bug fixes.
ACE Team's fairly insane first-person brawler Zeno Clash II is releasing on Steam on April 30.
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Our buddies over at Gizmodo say French astronomers have found a real-life version of Tatooine. Read more
Larian Studios has turned to Kickstarter to secure some extra funding for their new Divinity title, Original Sin. [via PCGamer] Read more
Meagan Marie, a former games journalist who now works at a game studio, is no longer going to keep quiet about all the sexist crap she has to put up with. She expresses her courage in a great blog post that may be full of examples of awful past experiences but is also brimming with hope for a more enlightened future.
A certain man named Cary Walkin has programmed an RPG. It's called Arena.Xlsm. And it's a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. If you own Excel, you might wanna give it a try. [via BoingBoing]
In an interview, DICE has confirmed to VideoGamer that Battlefield 4 is not coming to the Wii U.
Here's Legend of Grimrock 2's very first official screenshot. A nice change from the dark tunnels of the first game.
Songstress Donna Burke, who has an array of game and anime themes on her resume, is holding a concert in Tokyo on April 13. More info here.
BioShock Infinite's script is 20k words longer than a novel, and other fun facts via this Irrational Games infographic.