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Tonight on the Indie Game Show…

Elevate Entertainment!

Developers of small mobile platform games, having released them on platforms such as Android and Kindle Fire among others. Elevate are joining us tonight to talk about a game that will be releasing within a few days: Lumena – described as a ‘no-nonsense rhythm game’, as well as to take your questions from the IRC!

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Yesterday Washington filed what is believed to be the first ever consumer lawsuit being brought against a company that has involved crowdfunding – specifically a case involving the Kickstarter campaign for a game which has failed to materialise in any donator rewards for the people who crowdfunded the project.

The lawsuit is being brought against Altius Management who, the suit alleges, has not made good on promises made to donators when getting them to fund the project in question: a set of limited edition playing cards called ‘Asylum Playing Cards’. The target of $15,000 was set and subsquently beaten when the Kickstarter came to a close in October 2012, the finishing total being $25,146 which is over $10,000 more than was asked for. The money is said to have been collected by Altius but over a year and a half later no backers have seen rewards and the last update to the campaign’s page having been made in mid-July. Some of the backers live in Washington though which has allowed the state to bring the lawsuit in question.

Although in a press release Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson stated that Washington will not stand for crowdfunder theft, he also reminded people that they needed “to be aware that crowdfunding is not without risk”.

Kickstarter have supported the action being taken, stating that they are ‘frustrated’ when projects like this where the campaign’s host seems to take the money and run happen; but also they hope that this won’t influence backers and people who want to run campaigns on their site as they have played a part in the funding of many games, books and all sorts of media in the past and hope to continue this.

CCP, the developers of long-running MMO EVE Online have announced the existence of a new game they are developing that will be based in the same lore as the space-faring mega game as well as include some integration with it. The game which is being called Project Legion is being described as being a combination between an FPS game and an MMO. This might sound familiar to long-time fans of CCP, as they have released a game that was previously supposed to be this: DUST 514.

CCP have said that they are planning to use lessons they learned from DUST to make Project Legion more successful. One big change straight away is moving Legion onto the PC with its parent game as opposed to DUST which was a PS3 game, which instantly makes it easier for players to connect their EVE accounts to the ones in Legion. Another is that while DUST was more of a typical lobby-based FPS game in which players entered battles and then exited when they were over, Legion will include other elements such as travelling across the landscape of a planet, scavenging, resource collection and the potential to come across other players which could result in a small scuffle. Integration with EVE is going to be more detailed and prominent too, moving away from just being able to call down strikes from space during battle to actually being able to trade resources between the games.

The studio is planning to continue supporting DUST for a few more years but are turning their efforts more towards the development of this new game in hopes that they can make this game everything they hoped the older game could have been. Some early versions of the game have been shown off to journalists right now and so far it has been said to look like DUST does but graphically better.

If CCP live up to their expectations, Project Legion should appeal greatly to that community that they’ve built up around EVE. Whether it has appeal outside that market remains to be seen.

Nintendo are always a wild card when it comes to making appearances at E3. Most years, the company does not make a physical presence, instead releasing a special “Nintendo Direct” video detailing their plans for the year, which is broadcast during their segment of the show. This, they say, is a cost-cutting measure; as why come to the show to show off anything if you have nothing physical to talk about and a pre-recorded segment can do the exact same job? Therefore, usually when the company makes a physical appearance, chances are they have something big coming out for which only a physical demonstration can do proper justice.

A rumour earlier this month suggested that once again, Nintendo would forego a physical presence this year and rely on a Nintendo Direct instead. But earlier this week, a new rumour called that into question, when various sources each made similar claims that Nintendo was working on a new Hardware project and was considering a physical E3 appearance to show it off.

Though the company revealed in its most recent financial briefing that they were currently working on new Hardware, Chief excutive Satoru Iwata clarified this would be for a new ‘Quality of Life’ platform, seemingly implying they were not working on a new console or handheld successor to the existing Wii U or 3DS. He additionally stated Nintendo would reveal the system before the end of the current financial year – which opens a window between now and March 2015. However, little of this device is known.

While many gaming journalists originally ignored the new E3 Hardware Reveal rumour, some flipped on this position when the widely respected media outlet VideoGamer claimed it had heard from a third-party source that the speculation was true. VideoGamer linked the rumour to previous speculation about Nintendo planning a new hardware line, “Nintendo Fusion” – which we ourselves reported on several months ago – stating that similar technical specifications were once again quoted.

However, it now appears the original rumour was correct; as despite the above evidence suggesting Nintendo COULD have hardware to show off this year and the repeated rumours of E3 reveal plans, representatives from Nintendo contacted various members of the gaming press to state that there were no plans to make any such reveal in E3 – stating that they neither planned to reveal any new Hardware, nor any re-iteration of any existing platform. Nintendo have confirmed there is to be no physical presence at E3 at all, with the platform holder again hold a special Nintendo Direct on Tuesday, June 10 to share “further detail on the gaming experiences on the way for Nintendo platforms in 2014 and beyond”.

While we may now know Nintendo is not planning to be at E3 and will do a Nintendo Direct for it once again, the rumours remain interesting. Is Nintendo’s own admission of a planned hardware reveal next year actually a gaming device, or something health-related but nothing to do with gaming? Do the leaked Tech Specs mean anything at all, or are they a figment of someone’s imagination? Stay tuned to Sanitarium.FM and hear the latest as it’s discovered!

People seem divided on the new Wolfenstein game. Some fans are looking forward to the return to the return to the roots of the franchise in a story-driven game, while others are left unimpressed by the way the game looks and has played in demos so far. One thing about the game that is sure to not divide opinion though is the amount of memory needed to install the game on a computer though: 50GB.

The specs that Wolfenstein: The New Order will need from each platform it’s being released for have been made public but while most of the specs seem pretty normal for such a game the huge amount of memory has caught the most attention for good reason. Large installs are becoming more common, with games like Titanfall also taking up many gigs simply through having uncompressed audio files. 50GB does seem like an awful lot though, which leads you to wonder what it could possibly need all that space for…

System Requirements for the PC:

• 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8

• Intel Core i7 or equivalent AMD

• 4 GB System RAM

• 50 GB free HDD space

• GeForce 460, ATI Radeon HD 6850

• High Speed Internet Connection

• Steam account and activation required