With companies still caring too much about review scores, and with recent studies showing that advertisements play a far larger role in purchases than any objective scores or grades, the timing was perfect for an example to drive home the “Reviews don’t matter quite as much as people think (most of the time)” debate. That [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 13, 2008
If you still feel guilty about buying Okami for the Wii, you may be able to make amends soon. According to an article at Videogaming247 that has since vanished without a trace, Platinum Studios (formerly known as SEEDS, and founded by Clover alumni) is now hard at work on not one nor two, but [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 1, 2008
I have to apologize to you all — I made a mistake. Last month, when Okami was re-released on the Wii, I urged you all to go out and get it without hesitation. This was before I knew, thanks to Kotaku, that Capcom had made a few other alterations besides the cover art. Apparently, at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Considering the incredible artistic creativity that went into its production, it was no small irony when Ōkami showed up on store shelves with plagiarism written on its cover — and after recommending the game to you so wholeheartedly, we felt like unwitting accomplices to the crime. But yesterday evening, in a exemplary display of public [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 15, 2008
In case you’ve forgotten, today is your second chance to get in on Okami, the game everyone said was a spectacular triumph but none of you freaking bought.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
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