It’s been a very interesting few weeks for Vigil Studios, creators of the Darksiders franchise. In the wake of THQ’s bankruptcy, Vigil and other THQ properties were auctioned off, but Darksiders has yet to find a home. Even when a number of Vigil employees were hired to form Crytek USA, there was no interest in their only established video game series.
If recent rumors are to be believed, a number of former Vigil employees jumped ship for Nintendo-owned developer Retro Studios in the months before THQ’s bankruptcy. With the Darksiders IP still up for grabs, and likely at a relatively low cost, it simply makes sense for them to take advantage of this opportunity
The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
That the core artists have all apparently moved to Retro means that the game would have maximum consistency on a visual level. The trick would be injecting it with what it needs to have that Nintendo-like quality, which I don't think would be a problem with Nintendo overseeing everything Retro does. I'd be curious to see how this turns out, though I admittedly don't think it's too likely.
If that's what they're planning with the Vigil Employees then no. If Nintendo becomes the publisher of the future Darksiders games, then i fear a lot of great ideas and designs from Zelda will carry over, and there's just gonna be controversy around Darksiders copying zelda or something. Face it: If Crytek isn't planning on continuing the franchise, it's dead already.
Someone needs to buy the IP FFS
Maybe with the help of these new devs Retro will reinvest in an project of there's announced way back for the GameCube that never saw the light of day... Raven Blade
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I think there definitely needs to be a Darksiders 3. Nintendo did save the Bayonetta franchise (at least we'll see how Bayonetta 2 sells...).
I think Vigil just needs a little direction with Darksiders 2 and tone back some of the puzzles. They have some excellent combat mechanics that need more attention - at least in my opinion.