Video Games

[MasterXtreme]

E3 is just a few days away!!!

[Silverwing]

That didn't last long. 

Disney is going to shut down the Disney Infinity servers in March 2017. 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/07/29/disney-infinity-servers-shutting-down-in-march-2017

[Death Blossom]

Eh?

[Miggs]

RIP. Wow, that did NOT last long.

[Death Blossom]

What was it to begin with haha. I've never heard of it XD

[Silverwing]

It is one of those games like Skylanders that I never played.  You buy some toy, it has a code, you can play the character in some sandbox game on a computer or console.  That was about it. 

[Miggs]

Pretty much, yeah. Although I heard it was pretty good, actually. If not good, then all right, or so. But yea, it's one of those gimmicky toy games.

[Death Blossom]

Huh. Interesting.

[MasterXtreme]

I've heard it was pretty good.  It was sandbox and you could do "whatever you wanted" which still begs the question... what can you do and not do? 

[Rainberry]

Anyone play "Battle Gem Ponies?"

It is like Pokemon with ponies and still under development but had a demo. 

[Death Blossom]

>inb4 Hasbro shuts it down

[RainySunshine]

I'm worried about that, and hope not.  They didn't use the name MLP anywhere. 

[Death Blossom]

But ponies. And using the same designs.

It's why the Fallout animation team that I'm on had to scrap all of their models because they were too similar to the puppets MLP uses. And had to make completely new ones from scratch. They took well over a year and half to make, and then even longer to rig them up and stuff and create their walk cycles. T'was hard times.

Then there's Button's Adventures that got taken down because it also, was too similar to the how's style.

It should be well known by now, Hasbro's team mate that flags these projects is a bitch. It isn't Hasbro themselves, but one of their distributors or something that pulls all these flags.

[MasterXtreme]

Yeah, that is at risk of going bye bye.  Best they don't advertise it. 

[Silverwing]

I just found this interesting, but looking at July's top selling games you had Grand Theft Auto V, Overwatch, and Minecraft.

GTA V continues to dominate, almost 3 years after its release. Sales of GTA V track almost exactly with new console purchases. In other words, when someone buys a PS4 or Xbox One, they almost always buy GTA V to go with it.