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Everyone and their mum already know just how badly the team behind theUnity game engine has misread the proverbial room. Following the initial bout of critique directed at Unity, as well asa round of death threats, the company has tried to mitigate the ongoing PR disaster in a variety of ways, but indie devs aren’t having any of it. Tom Francis, in particular, the person responsible forGunpoint,Heat Signature, and the upcomingTactical Breach Wizards, has also decided to chime in on the problem....

‘Exorbitant special equity awards’ Electronics Arts shareholders congregate in a month’s time to vote on the publisher’s future. One item on the docket is the continued pay structure for EA’s executives. There’s a group who really hopes shareholders put an end to the status quo. CtW Investment Group hasfiled a report with the SECthat encourages voters to vote against EA’s Say-on-Pay proposal. The reasoning mainly hinges on the exorbitant bonuses that EA ends up lavishing upon its execs....

Reunited and it feels so gooood [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you may be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Now, let me start by saying, despite a horrendous launch, I still really enjoyed what I got to play ofSimCity, and am looking forward to digging into the game eventually....

Take it on the road Are you aRock Bandfan living in the Seattle area with nothing to do for the next few days? Do you mind standing around bored stiff for hours on end while gaffers, grips, and roadies endlessly disassemble and reassemble sets? If your life happens to fall in that tiny sliver of a Venn diagram, then you may be interested in appearing as an extra in a live-action Rock Band 4 trailer being shot between May 21-23!...

Akiba’s Beat for PS4 and Vita XSEED Games has registered a domain forAkiba’s Beat, a recently-announced action role-playin game from Acquire, the Tokyo-based studio behind theTenchu,Way of the Samurai, andAkiba’s Tripseries. Much likeAkiba’s Trip, this one takes place in a realistic reproduction of Akihabara, Tokyo’s “Electric Town” and otaku sanctuary — except it has dungeons that feel strangely familiar to thisPersona 3fan. Akiba’s Beatis currently planned for an autumn release in Japan for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita....

I hardly need any additional excouragement when it comes to preorderingMadWorld, as it’s been on my radar as one of my most anticipated Wii titles for some time now. However, theSega Europe blogjust updated with some really cool preorder bonuses that ought to motivate you to get your butt out there and reserve your copy. If you choose to preorder the game throughHMV, you can get the official soundtrack for free, which features 20 tracks and I think will be pretty rad....

Monster Hunter Wildshas become not only the most successful launch in franchise history, but the most successful in Capcom history as well, rocketing past 10 million copies sold in its first month. MH Wildssurpassed its predecessor,Monster Hunter: World, which sold eight million copies in its first month post-launch, with the main difference being that the latest title launched day one on PC as well as console. In a newletter fromMH Wildsdirector Yuya Tokuda, he explains that the launch is just the beginning, further hyping up post-launch content and updates beyond this week’s Title Update 1 that will bring classic monster Mizutsune to the game, along with much more....

Netflix signs on some notable talent for the underwater story TheBioShockfilm adaptation has found its director and scriptwriter. Netflixconfirmstoday thatI Am Legenddirector Francis Lawrence will be theBioShockdirector, with a script written by Michael Green. Lawrence has a pretty solid list of action-thrillers on his resume, includingI Am LegendandThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Meanwhile, Green has penned scripts forLogan,Blade Runner 2049, andAmerican Gods. BioShock — our live-action feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise — will be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) from a script written by Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049, American Gods)....

Expect new DLC later this month, too The first instalment ofJust Cause 3‘s Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass DLC – Sky Fortress – is almost complete. “Whilst one side of the studio is working on patches, fixes and optimisations for the game, which will continue to roll out over the coming weeks, the other side is busily bringing this additional content to life,” an Avalanche rep wrote on theJust Cause 3Steampage....

Super Enderman Maker PEGI, also known as the Pan European Game Information (the video games rating board for mostPAL territories), may have leaked aMinecraftport for the Wii U viaits official website, apparently set for release tomorrow, November 12. The game will be rated ‘7’ for ‘spiders’ and ‘lighting fist’ — or, as PEGI puts it, ‘Fear’ and ‘Violence.’ SinceMinecraft: Story Mode‘s Wii U port runs on the originalMinecraftengine,folks speculatedback in September that we would be eventually seeing a version of the wildly popular building game on Nintendo’s latest console....

Layoffsare a bummer, butPlants vs. Zombiescreator George Fan isn’t going to let them bring him down, even if asequel might be happening without him. This past weekend, Fan entered the 48-hour-long game creating competition calledLudum Dareto bring us a Windows freeware game calledOctogeddon. In this game youare octogeddon, a mutant octopus set on world destruction. You’ll be able to mutate your eight legs into weapons to become a creature that makes kraken look like a minnow....

You get desktop and mobile wallpapers Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Campis actually here, no fooling. It came out recently, and Nintendo has a few goodies to go along with its release (on top of a reversible coverin some regions outside of the US).One of them is a wallpaper suite, which includes a landscape format (1920×1080) and portrait formats (1080×1920, 1200 x 1920, 1242 x 2688, 1536 x 2048). It’s yours for 50 Platinum Points....

I’m not going to wait this time around! So in case you missed it, the exclusive 7-star raid Pokemoncan be used for breeding. For roughly a week it never really dawned on meto attempt to bring Charizard along on a picnic, but eventually I thought “why not give it a go?” I ended up giving out Charmanders to all my friends, and the same can be done with Cinderace. Here’s some stats and info....