Nintendo is hardly the worst company when it comes to localizing their games, but considering how many great titles they have, any single game that an audience doesn’t get is a real blow. Leaving a game unlocalized wasn’t very common in the early days when there was less text in games. Mostly we missed out on games likeFamicom Detective ClubandFire Emblem, both titles that eventually received translations and re-releases. Mainly, the number of unlocalized titles bloated out in the early 3D era, then retracted again once we hit HD and the world became better connected through the internet....

Carter’s Quest [Read on for a description of everyResident Evilgame ever released in the US, and my completion of them all in 2012.] Why Resident Evil? This year, Capcom is pushing out three entirely newResident Evilgames — it’s also the 15th Anniversary ofResident Evil: Director’s Cut, which is the firstREgame I fully completed. So why am I playing the series in the first place? Honestly,Resident Evil 1was one of the first times, outside ofMetal Gear SolidandTenchu, where I was completely immersed in the game and its world....

Today I am celebrating my mother, as it is the day ordained by Hallmark to do such things, but I thought I’d take a moment to come by anddepress everyone. 3D Realms has saidits final goodbye. A post on their Web site has the above photo with the words, “Thanks for being fans and for all your support.” Short and sweet, and a little disappointing. Luckily, they later updated the photo with the names of everyone in the photo, so the post looks a bit more robust....

WhenDisneyland Adventureswasannouncedat this year’s E3, I think I screamed in excitement. A Kinect game that lets me walk through a perfectly recreated version of Disneyland? YES PLEASE! Unfortunately, myactual experience with the gameat the very same E3 left me a little disappointed. After playing, I walked away a little sad, as I am the biggest Disney fan on the planet and wanted more than anything for a brand new Disneyland game to be great!...

Packs in games and game-making software TheHumble Weekly Salecontinues to deliver interesting collections at a “pay what you want” price point and this week is no exception. This week’s promotion has a particularly interesting addition, game creation toolset Multimedia Fusion 2, along with half a dozen indie games includingManos: The Hands of Fateand the recently greenlitPitiri 1977. Paying above $6 will also score youKnytt Underground, Really Big Sky, andNightSky. As ever, you can choose how the money you pay is divvied up between the developers, charities and Humble themselves....

Call of Duty is my favorite indie game Call of Duty-maker Activision is going indie.The New York Times reportsgaming monstrosityActivision Blizzard “has a reached an $8.2 billion deal to separate from Vivendi and become an independent company.” The French conglomerate Vivendi controls Activision Blizzard. The latter has brokered a deal wherein Activsion Blizzard and a group of investors would buy back Vivendi’s owned shares in the company. Activision Blizzard will be buying “about 429 million of its shares and certain tax attributes from Vivendi for roughly $5....

Damn it feels good to hear real gangstas Grand Theft Auto Vstrives for realism in its excess crime fantasy. Truth in art, and all that. One of the game’s writers and producers “Lazlow” Jones, known for co-writing and sometimes voicing the series’ radio stations sinceGrand Theft Auto III, talked toChicago radio station WGNabout achieving authenticity and using actual gang members over voice actors whenever possible. We get these guys in to record the gang characters because we don’t want a goofy L....

The ESRB and CTIA got together to create a ratings system for mobile games, but the two biggest in the business do not plan to participate. We told youearlier this weekthat providers like AT&T, Microsoft, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, U.S. Cellular and Verizon Wireless are on board with this new mobile videogame rating system, which will use the same letter system used now used on retail games. Too bad Apple and Google are staying out of it completely....

Armored Core 6has a ton of intense mech action in store for us, so PC players will want to make sure their system meets the requirements. Since this is a current-generation game, you may need to upgrade your setup to play From Software’s next grand title. For example, the game requires 12GB of RAM for its minimum requirements. Most games before used 8GB minimum, so it may be time to inspect theArmored Core 6PC requirements for yourself....

Upwards to even 80 hours Assassin’s Creed IVit truly an open world experience. There’s so much to do, a ton of things to explore, and it’s all happening in a near seamless sandbox. I had to know just how long it would take a player to 100% the game, and as I feared, I don’t have nowhere near the time to please my OCD nature with this one. I asked Ashraf Ismail, director onAssassin’s Creed IV,how long it would take and he told me that “one guy in the office actually did it two weeks ago for the first time....

Making a mess in a good way Larian Studios is launching a new major patch forBaldur’s Gate 3today, and it’s a doozy. Patch 6 adds the first new region for Early Access, a new playable class with two unique subclasses, and a graphical overhaul that includes some more blood, sweat, and dirt. I got a chance to play a bit of the new patch ahead of today’s reveal during thePanel From Hell, and it was fairly intense to dive into....

For those loving the beta Getting a kick out ofBattleborn‘s beta? It’s running until April 18 and for the hardcore fans, you can now get the usual20% discount on the game’sSteam key through good ol’ Green Man Gaming. Since the beta commenced yesterday, it has slowly crept up GMG’s sales chart (in fact, the Digital Deluxe is outselling Standard Edition). As a Gearbox title, it should be no surprise thatBattlebornwill havetons of Season Pass content, all of which gets bundled into the Digital Deluxe....

New California branch will handle anime fighter Last week, we reported on anewly-opened North American branchof Japanese video game developer Arc System Works. The company have since announced that the first game to launch through this new division will be next year’s crossover fighterBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. As such, all U.S. promotion, sales, shipping and marketing of the chaotic-looking punch-up will be handled by the new branch, situated in Torrance, California....