In Other News...March 10

[DoctorFinger]

- Runic Games is trying hard to bring their superlative loot crawling RPG Torchlight to consoles.

- The very fun DS puzzler Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is being ported to XBLA and PSN, with new graphics, 4 player competitive online play and 2 person co-op play. Look for it later this year.

- SyFy and Bigpoint Games are teaming up to create a browser-based Battlestar Galactica MMO. You can play as either a human or a Cylon.

- Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime says that Nintendo is "not there yet" when asked about a potential Wii successor.

- Google has launched their own Apps Marketplace, a clearinghouse for web-based applications which can - with your permission - integrate with existing Google products like Gmail, YouTube, Buzz, Docs and Wave.

- Are you ready for Leonardo DaVinci, action hero? Warner Bros has bought a pitch called "Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever" where one of the greatest men of all time is turned into a badass member of a secret society who hunts demons and lost civilizations.

[Spigot]

I pity people who will get caught in Clash Of Heroes' insanely addictive net. It's like Puzzle Quest cranked up to 11.

[Talanvor]

Runic! You best stop that right now, and add multiplayer on first if you want to sell games! You'd be sitting on a goddamn goldmine if you added in multi before you release on the consoles.

[bstiff]

bsg mmo? Im not sure how that would work out. Didn't they do a pvp dog fighting thing a while back? I predict thousands of model 6's running around in their underwear. Not that it'd necessarily be a bad thing...

[Satertek]

Originally Posted by Talanvor

Runic! You best stop that right now, and add multiplayer on first if you want to sell games! You'd be sitting on a goddamn goldmine if you added in multi before you release on the consoles.

No, I think they're onto something, I'd definitely buy it again on PSN

Co-op would be nice though.

[mightbe]

Originally Posted by Talanvor

Runic! You best stop that right now, and add multiplayer on first if you want to sell games! You'd be sitting on a goddamn goldmine if you added in multi before you release on the consoles.

This paves the way for cross platform multiplayer, obviously.

Now lets get it on Windows Mobile 7 too.

Bitchin'.

[CappinCanuck]

Originally Posted by Talanvor

Runic! You best stop that right now, and add multiplayer on first if you want to sell games! You'd be sitting on a goddamn goldmine if you added in multi before you release on the consoles.

Yep... I know they don't want to cut into their MMO plans for it, but it really isn't the same thing. There's a bigger market of people that won't play MMOs than those that will be playing a Torchlight MMO. Considering how straightforward it would be to add MP to Torchlight, it's probably worth the money you'd be getting.

[CappinCanuck]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

- Are you ready for Leonardo DaVinci, action hero? Warner Bros has bought a pitch called "Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever" where one of the greatest men of all time is turned into a badass member of a secret society who hunts demons and lost civilizations.

Oh... and... naturally. That's exactly what I pictured Da Vinci doing back in the Renaissance.

[Doctor Setebos]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

- Are you ready for Leonardo DaVinci, action hero? Warner Bros has bought a pitch called "Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever" where one of the greatest men of all time is turned into a badass member of a secret society who hunts demons and lost civilizations.

I don't suppose this is somehow tied to the upcoming Marvel comic?

[Xerxes]

"There's a lot of really cool things about the console world, too, that would work well with our game,"

Like a shit ton of money?

[Urizen]

The Leonardo game makes sense in an LXG kind of way.

[blair]

Originally Posted by Urizen

The Leonardo game makes sense in an LXG kind of way.

Exactly my thoughts. While the game may be an atrocity, the idea screams alternate history pen&paper rpg to me right now.

[menage]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

- Runic Games is trying hard to bring their superlative loot crawling RPG Torchlight to consoles.

- The very fun DS puzzler Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is being ported to XBLA and PSN, with new graphics, 4 player competitive online play and 2 person co-op play. Look for it later this year.

Holy shit, 2 things I wanted.

Only shame is that MM doesn't have a local versus, at least that's what I'm guessing. I would pay 5 bucks more for that. My GF would as well, she still plays the damn thing after 4 months.

[Mike Kelehan]

Originally Posted by menage

Holy shit, 2 things I wanted.

Only shame is that MM doesn't have a local versus, at least that's what I'm guessing. I would pay 5 bucks more for that. My GF would as well, she still plays the damn thing after 4 months.

IGN says it has local versus and co-op.

[Kelegacy]

Torchlight would hook a lot of XBLA and PSN people. It's a fun little game.

[DoctorFinger]

The DaVinci thing is a movie not a game (yet). Supposedly it's a reaction to the success of the recent Sherlock Holmes movie; period set action movies.

[Chris_D]

M&M would be great on iPod.

[Gorvi]

I would love a console version of Torchlight. Love it.

As for M&M: CoH it seems like a game I'd rather play on the DS, but we'll see.

[DoctorFinger]

Originally Posted by Doctor Setebos

I don't suppose this is somehow tied to the upcoming Marvel comic?

I believe in that one DaVinci fights Galactus. And I'm not kidding, I think that's part of the plot.

[National Kato]

Originally Posted by DoctorFinger

- Are you ready for Leonardo DaVinci, action hero? Warner Bros has bought a pitch called "Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever" where one of the greatest men of all time is turned into a badass member of a secret society who hunts demons and lost civilizations.

Are they trying to out-crazy EA and Dante's Inferno?