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All Things Midway Going To The Highest Bidder

Bankrupt game publisher Midway has today "established the timeline" for selling of its assets, studios and intellectual property to the highest bidder, meaning that Mortal Kombat and Joust could be yours... for the right price.

Elven65472d ago

So what happens to Midway now? Meaning if someone buys the entire company will it be Midway or just the assets?

qface645472d ago

midway will be gone the name will just be old news just like acclaim and some of the other dead ones from the past

but seriously though do they even have anything worth buying?

DeadlyFire5472d ago

It will turn into vapor. There is a chance it can come back though. Just depends on what happens. Whoever bought the company last year for $100,000 bucks made an awesome deal for themselves though as they sell it all and are getting well over $33 Million or more. Auction price isn't final yet.

Acclaim still exists. In fact they signed a new deal in March to make two games a year for SyFy games. I don't know if its just publishing or making them or whatever, but either way its a plus for Acclaim.

dylantalon5472d ago

i wish that sony would buy the mortal kombat series and have it exclusive .

ps. the talon stands for talented

farhsa20085472d ago

as long as MK survives i dont care

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Nearly Half Of Gamers Play Video Games To "Express Themselves," Study Finds

Many players find it easier to express themselves while playing games. Yet, over half of the surveyed gamers still play to relieve stress.

H93h ago

I wonder what place made this study, and it's Fandom, no wonder half of the people said that, I find it hilarious that Fandom of all places did manage to pull more than 50% for the argument of playing games for self expression

phoenixwing10m ago

Honestly i don't believe this statistic. All we need is an executive to believe it and they'll focus more on how to "express" ourselves over good gameplay and further ruin gaming.

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Why Is No One Making AAA Horror Games Anymore?

Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"

Jin_Sakai2d ago

Because the gaming industry is obsessed with live service games.

Cacabunga1d 20h ago

Even FPS are rare nowadays

Rynxie1d 18h ago

Because he touches himself at night to characters like lady Dimitrescu.

Crows901d 15h ago

You're the one still thinking about her

Rynxie1d 15h ago

@crow

Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.

MaximusPrime_2d ago

Good for me, I have no interests in horror games

-Foxtrot1d 22h ago

Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc

I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.

jeromeface1d 19h ago

remakes is another good reason

thesoftware7301d 19h ago

Calisto Protocol was also fun with fantastic presentation.

FinalFantasyFanatic1d 11h ago

I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.

Venoxn4g1d 9h ago

Crow Country needs some more love.. and more exposure

Redemption-641d 20h ago

Because outside of a fee games, most don't sell that well

Crows901d 15h ago

So in other words...AAA publishers don't have creativity or passion for games.

CrimsonWing691d 20h ago

Didn’t we have Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake last year?

thorstein1d 20h ago (Edited 1d 20h ago )

Among others

And isn't Dying Light 2 a horror game?

Scissorman1d 20h ago

And Alan Wake 2 and Alone in the Dark.

on_line_forever1d 3h ago

I like Alone in the dark but it's not AAA game

richardmmorales1d 11h ago

We also had The Quarry and The Dark Pictures The Devil In Me.

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N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

gold_drake3d ago

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

purple1013d ago

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

itBourne2d ago

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

gold_drake2d ago

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

Redgrave2d ago

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

UltimateOwnage2d ago

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

franwex2d ago

I mean. They may borrow them…

Profchaos2d ago

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

Inverno2d ago

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

Profchaos2d ago

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

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