After leaving Capcom, roughly 2 weeks ago, the always so humble, Seth Killian, announced today, via the Plasytation blog, that he joined the Sony Santa Monica studio as Lead game designer. The Santa Monica studio is the home of hit titles such as God of war, as well as the upcoming Sony fighting game, PlayStation all stars. Below is a part of the Seth Killian write-up from the PS Blog:

“ I was excited to join Santa Monica Studio in particular because of the chance to work with some great individuals, but also because of the incredible range of projects they take on. If you head out of my office and turn right, you’ll run into the “God of War: Ascension” team. If you turn left, you’ll find the Giant Sparrow crew working on “The Unfinished Swan.” There are other amazing studios in the world, but nowhere else that I know where you can find that kind of diversity combined with such a deep commitment to greatness–which also happens to sum up what’s so exciting to me about Sony overall.

The external group works with Sony’s outside studios — teams like Queasy Games (Sound Shapes), Fun Bits Interactive (Escape Plan), thatgamecompany (Flower, Journey), and… SuperBot Entertainment, makers ofPlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale!  Read more...

After the Sf X Tekken DLC fiasco that angered fans wolrdwide, and after many complaints and even law suits that were addressed to Capcom, the Company’s Christian Svenson announced today, on Capcom Unity forums, that Capcom is re-evaluating its strategy on how to deliver post launch DLC. Below is his full write-up:

Svenson: “Hey guys,

We’ve been getting several questions, here and elsewhere about the future of on-disc DLC. 

We would like to assure you that we have been listening to your comments and as such have begun the process of re-evaluating how such additional game content is delivered in the future. As this process has only just commenced in the past month or so, there will be some titles, where development began some time ago and that are scheduled for release in the coming months, for which we are unable to make changes to the way some of their post release content is delivered.   Read more...

Speaking through his twitter account, Tekken producer, Katsuhiro Harada, let his followers know that Yoshinori Ono is out of the hospital and that the two talked on the phone, and while Ono says he is fine, Harada states that he did not sound fine. Below is the full twitter post:

Harada : ” Not hospital now. I talked with him. He says”I’m OK”. But He doesn’t seem to be “OK”,in my opinion ”

We will let you know if we find out any more details regardin Ono san’s condition.

A bit of a sad news here, the Japanese Capcom blog has revealed that Ono san has fallen sick. The following is a translation of the original statement:

“I would like to bring something else to everyone’s attention. Shortly after the Street Fighter X Tekken promotion in Asia Ono-san’s physical condition rapidly and heavily deteriorated and he had to be taken to the hospital.
Because of his hospital tenure he will not be performing work-related affairs for a while. Ono’s well-being is very important to us and we wish for his steady recovery.”

We hope Ono San will recovers fast, in the mean time you can send him a “get well” note on his twitter account.

source: eventhubs

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A bit of games-unrelated news. As you may know, hadoken.net was blacked out, on Wednesday 18th (along with many websites like wikipedia) to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills that the US congress was supposed to vote on. The bill was so outrageous that it drove website owners and internet users to protest in an unimaginable number. In fact, according to this website, this has been the largets protest in modern history. And due to these events, both SOPA and PIPA were officially dropped from congress today.

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