Reconnect Recap - w/e 3rd of May
Reviewing the week that's been over on Reconnect
G’day team!
Welcome to another issue of the Reconnect Recap, your companion newsletter for Reconnect, the games writing discovery platform. If you missed it, on Thursday I published an article explaining the backstory of how Reconnect came to be, how I run the platform, and my thoughts for the future.
It’s been what I call a typical week for the industry these past seven days. Spiders Studio announced they would close up shop, we’ve got a new piece of gaming hardware to be excited over, and GTA 6 got delayed again. Rumour has it they are just waiting until Bethesda announces ES6 so they can take a shot at the only other game that could possibly steal their thunder.
This week we’re talking about walking on the ceiling, the respective strategies of Playstation and Xbox, a lost chicken little game, games in movies, and much much more.
Let’s dig in.
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Great Write Ups
Clean up! Aisle Earth: SuperJump Magazine checks out a new cleaning game, all about cosplaying as Wall-E and learning about how to look after Earth.
Walking on Walls: AI and Games explains how the developers of Alien Rogue Incursion handled pathing for an Alien who needed to be able to walk on walls but remain unpredictable.
Babel Fish: TimeExtension sits down for an interview with, Takuya “Tom” Shiraiwa, a man who was effectively Capcom’s only localisation employee during the companies formative years.
A helping hand: The latest guest post over at Crossplay guides parents through how to effectively use accessibility features to assist your young children in playing games.
Lost Chicken: In 2005 Avalanche Studios released a Chicken Little video game, however, Games that Weren’t has gotten their hands on footage of an unreleased Chicken Little game, from another studio.
Who are you?: 1UP Vault looks into what Playstation has turned into in recent years, are they at the top of their game by choice or accident?
07, CMDR: I’ll never skip an article about Elite, so imagine how ticked I was when Tony Coles penned a love note to the game that started the series.
Silver Screen: BabyGamer dives into the movies that are set in video game worlds and the impact they’ve had.
Cheats galore: Cat decries the loss of cheat codes in games and makes a compelling argument as to why they should return.
Righteous Gemstones: Whilst my first Pokemon game was Gold, my favourite was Ruby, and Mo agrees, claiming that, that generation was the peak of it’s era.
Toyoto’s Teachings: Game Studio Unlocked recounts how Toyota helped turn General Motors bad culture around and explains how modern game studios can learn from this.
New Green, Same Green: Deyton Dykes analyses the new Microsoft strategy and asks the question, is anything going to change?
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