April 18, 2012 | Broken Joysticks

Miyamoto Confirms Super Mario Land 4 In Development

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

When gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto speaks the entire gaming landscape pauses for a second and listens. With rumors circulating that Super Mario 4 would be announced this year, more than 20 years after the release of Super Mario 3 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, people took notice.

Speaking to Korean website BetaNews the man himself confirmed that the game was under development. Unfortunately outside of those details he offered little else.

“We have Mario team in company, so we are making Super Mario 4. But only I can say is, we just announced that game. More details will be revealed later.”

Perhaps an E3 2012 reveal? Word has been that this will be the big “coming out” party for Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U.

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Ubisoft Sued For Copyright Infringement

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matthew Regier

American science fiction writer John L. Beiswenger, is suing Ubisoft on allegations that their franchise Assassin’s Creed and Beiswenger’s novel Link share a few too many similarities. The suit includes everything related to the Assassin’s Creed franchise. From the games, strategy guides, as well as the comic book series.

Beiswenger’s novel, which was published in 2003 contained a premise that ancestral memories could be “accessed, recalled, relived, and re-experiemented” in a new scientific process. The lawsuit lists quite a number of similarities. Everything from its narrative themes to the specific use of individual words.

Halo 4’s Multiplayer Includes Co-Op & Custom Loadouts

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Halo 4 would be launching on November 6th Microsoft have announced some brand new details surrounding the games multiplayer mode. These majority of these details come from a GameInformer ViDoc released to promote the latest edition of the magazine. Other supposed details surrounding the multiplayer also leaked out last week.

The multiplayer suite of Halo 4 could offer a radically different experience from previous Halo games depending on how far reaching 343 Industries’ changes are.Read More

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Darksiders II Delayed Until August

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Matthew Regier

It won’t be until August now when we see Vigil Game’s highly anticipated sequel, Darksiders II. The game will be facing a two month delay from its initial release date at the end of June, so we will be seeing the title hit shelves sometime in August. Executive vice president of THQ, Danny Bilson is stressing that the delay is only to add polish to the title.

After a rather shaky year in 2011 many would think that this delay means bad news, but is actually quite the opposite. Ever since Saints Row 3 has officially shipped over four million copies, the company has been able to adjust their losses for the Q4 sales expectations, they are able to squeeze in the extra development time for what is being said to be a much larger game than its predecessor.

007 Legends Celebrates 50 Years of Shaken Martinis

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

After the successful port of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded to the Xbox 360 and PS3 this past fall Activision has announced 007 Legends for release this fall. The publisher is touting Legends as a celebration of the past 50 years of the Bond franchise.

Legends will span six different films concluding with the evens from the latest film, SKYFALL, which is also due out this fall. Activision did not provide specific details surrounding which films will be included in 007 Legends. Hopefully they choose their choices wisely – we’ve already seen games based upon Goldeneye and From Russia With Love from Activision and The World is Not Enough from Electronic Arts during the early parts of the ’00s.Read More

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