Various industry sources are reporting that Disney Interactive has started to lay off personnel from Junction Point, the developer who produced Epic Mickey, led by Warren Spector.
Most of the information is being leaked via tweets from developers sending shout outs to their friends who have apparently been laid off.
Despite Walt Disney's mixed history with video games, these games embody the magic of Disney the best.
When you think of Disney and video games, the first image that comes to your head could be a variety of things. Perhaps it's Kingdom Hearts, which remains one of the best Square Enix games due in little part to Disney’s influence.
Otherwise, it could be a classic game, since Disney has been mostly absent from the gaming world lately, save for some mobile ventures. Whether it be a nostalgic adventure with classic characters or a movie tie-in that makes an impression, let’s dust off Disney’s videogame legacy and find those quality standouts.
listen .. Donald Duck in Maui Mallard
and World of illusion are the best disney games.
With the news of Aladdin and Lion King re-releasing, we got to think about nine other games we'd love to see get the same treatment.
Why are you making an article that amounts to the Disney Afternoon Collection? More classic Disney games should be handled like Mickey Castle of Illusion or Ducktales
Quackshot and Gargoyles
They need to bring back the Gargoyles cartoon or do something with that amazing IP
The Lion King and Aladdin treatment? No, that id not a trestment. That is a lazy cashgrab. They should have remade those two like DuckTales was remade.
A great myth did the rounds in the gaming industry in the early 2000s: gamers were told nobody wanted 3D platformers anymore.
It was easier for companies to force this narrative on gamers than admit the inconvenient truth: that they simply weren’t up to the job of making entertaining 3D platformers. And they couldn’t be bothered trying.
There's always demand for a major genre during any given time frame. Late 90s into the mid 2000s, 3D platformers were pretty big. Crash, Jak & Daxter, Spyro, Mario, Donkey Kong, Banjo Kazooie, just about every licensed movie game to be made ever, and so many more lesser known titles embraced the trend. In the end though, it isn't so much that interest waned in that genre, but it increased drastically last gen in the FPS genre in particular. We got shooters, shooters, and more shooters that dominated annual release discussion and dominated the online communities, both first and third person cover. The Western RPG began to flourish as well, and the Japanese RPG gained attention as game design continued to transform in a newly discovered realm of HD development leading to the critically acclaimed Souls series.
The gaming landscape transformed, and straight, no frills platforming titles started to seem less enticing. They stopped being made because the demand wasn't really there. At this point though, gaming is experiencing a bit of renaissance. What was old is new again. Sony is reviving classic titles by the handful, and everyone is loving it. 3D platformers are coming back to prominence, and gamers couldn't be happier. Gaming may be hitting one of the best balances it has had in a long while now.
Yeah I think starting with The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne and the insane start of this year for games, it's like we're in a new golden age of gaming.
"How Fake News Condemned the 3D Platformer" - Wait...CNN caused the death of 3D platformers...
Nope...All mainstream media is propaganda. You there, must be a sheeple if you trust CNN...
article is as stupid as it gets
in order for you to understand why something isn't being made you have to actually understand economics, you could not trick a community of people into believing something is not successful or not wanted , it is simply based on the numbers and in order for there to actually be strong sales of 3D Platformers there actually has to be a real demand.
In fact if such a demand actually existed you would actually see the Platformers that I've released selling absolutely unrealistic sales numbers because of the high demand ie titles like Ratchet and Clank should be seeing ridiculous millions of units being sold because they are basically one of the few Platformers that would release to a market begging for the concept.
This is what happens when you have an open market that is in demand of a concept they are not getting.
When LittleBigPlanet in Minecraft released those games went on to sell millions of units simply because the concept of creating content that other gamers are able to share and play was in demand, this is why you saw other titles like Terraria and even Mario maker made was because there was a demand.
THE DEMAND COMES BEFORE THE GAME, THE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE THE GAME IS MADE.
So what this idiotic article is basically saying is that Millions upon millions of people want something that they're actively not buying? 😂😂😂 28514;😂
You cannot manipulate a market through news like that bud, if the community wants something they're going to buy it and the numbers will show the demand.
All genres in all mediums have their highs and lows.
wow,i thought epic mickey sold near 2 million copies.
lol...ouch.
I remember E3 when they were bragging about that game. LOL...
Is this the curse of "it was released for the Wii"?I know that most of the reviews of the games, reviewers ripped on the controls.
This is the problem with games that's not from Nintendo. Games like Mad World,No More Heroes does not get enough attention and its a real shame.
I do feel sorry for 'em.. but it's a very good business decision on Disney's part.
It's because of those devs that Epic Mickey sucked so much horse dick.. so.. but Hey, At least Disney waited until after Christmas to sack 'em.
It's time to employ some new fresh developers who actually have some talent & good ideas for new IPs & titles that might actually sell.
Derp should have made it for the Ps3 thats where the money is at.