Author: Game Infliction

Metroid Prime Engineer “Let Down” By Exclusion Of Original Credits In Remaster

“Everyone’s name should be included”.

Nintendo surprised pretty much everyone earlier this week when it shadow-dropped Metroid Prime Remastered after years of ongoing rumours.

While most people are satisfied, it seems not everyone out there is happy. Former Retro studios engineer Zoid Kirsch, who recently mentioned how he wasn’t very impressed with the quality of the doors in the remaster, has now voiced his frustration about the game’s credits – noting how it does not include the full original credits.

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Psychonauts 2’s Making-Of Documentary Is Now Available to Everyone for Free

Double Fine PsychOdyssey, the 32-part, 20+ hour documentary that chronicles the development of Psychonauts 2, is now available for free for everyone on YouTube.

Double Fine PsychOdyssey was created by 2 Player Productions and Double Fine and follows a similar and equally as wonderful documentary that was released for Double Fine’s Broken Age. It’s an extensive, very rare look behind the curtain of game development and you can check it out now by clicking here.

“Ten years after the release of their flagship video game Psychonauts, Double Fine Productions returns to its most celebrated franchise with Psychonauts 2,” The official description reads. “Now facing the pressure to produce a worthy sequel, the studio must confront overly ambitious designs, poor morale, technical challenges and financial woes, all during a turbulent span of time for the world.

“Double Fine PsychOdyssey is the direct continuation of the acclaimed series Double Fine Adventure, and offers even deeper insight into the passion, humor, and heartbreak of video game development.”

The team at Double Fine also noted that Double Fine PsychOdyssey took six years to make and was created from thousands of hours of footage.

In our review of Psychonauts 2, which was released in August 2021, we said, “It may bring a bit of that mid-2000s action-platformer clunkiness along with it, but Psychonauts 2 is still just about everything I could have hoped for from a sequel to one of my favorite games.”

For more, check out 37 things we learned from another great documentary about the making of 2018’s God of War, all the details on Double Fine founder Tim Schafer’s induction into the AIAS Hall of Fame, and our chat with Schafer on Psychonauts 2’s success, the future of the company, and more.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Hi-Fi Rush Has an Easter Egg That Very Well May Be Teasing The Evil Within 3

An Easter Egg on a screen near the end of Hi-Fi Rush very well may be teasing The Evil Within 3.

As reported by GamesRadar, this screen in question is visible for less than a second during a cinematic that plays before Track 11: The Needle Drop and takes place in an elevator. You can see the screen in the image below or in action courtesy of YouTuber Shirrako, and can see, on the bottom, it says, “Sequel to popular survival horror game franchise announced.”

Now, this could just be a fun nod to The Evil Within and not the tease of an announcement, as there are other Easter Eggs to the franchise in Hi-Fi Rush, including robots who look just like Sebastian Castellanos and Joseph Oda. That being said, it is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of moment and could be a fun thing for fans to find and start theorizing about.

Uncharted 3 did something similar when it included a newspaper that teased The Last of Us. That particular Easter Egg was actually not meant to make it to the final game, so it will be interesting to see what the true story is behind this one.

Tango Gameworks released The Evil Within 2 in 2017 and, in our review, we said, “Although a disjointed plot and weak protagonist make it slow to get started, being pursued through an intriguingly bizarre world by plentiful and disturbing monsters kept my palms sweaty and my heart in my throat thanks to a strict adherence to the most important survival horror rule: you should always be on the back foot.”

It could well be time for a new entry in The Evil Within franchise and it would keep the momentum going for Tango Gameworks after it took the world by storm with the shadow drop of Hi-Fi Rush.

For more, check out our Hi-Fi Rush review and our interview with the game’s director (who actually directed The Evil Within 2!).

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Poll: Which Character Would You Like To See Return Next In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe?

The roster expands.

The February Nintendo Direct Showcase gave us our first look at Wave 4 of the upcoming Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, which will not only bring the all-new Yoshi’s Island course our way but will also add Birdo to the roster of playable characters.

This Wave will be the first of its kind to being a new character into the mix and we’d be lying if we said that we weren’t excited to see it. Yeah, drivers might not make all the difference to a race, but we do love trying out all those little guys nonetheless.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 11th)

Primed and ready.

Phew – this was a pretty busy week, huh?

To kick off the week, we took you through some of the highlights from Nintendo’s latest financial report for Q3 of fiscal year 2023. This included the rather stupendous new sales milestone for the Switch, with the console now exceeding Game Boy and PlayStation 4 total sales. We also learned that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet had reached twenty million in sales, Splatoon 3 ten million, and Bayonetta 3 one million.

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Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch OLED Rumour Resurfaces Online

A common link.

Remember that rumoured Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED model that leaked at the end of last year? Well, there’s seemingly been a small but significant discovery.

Twitter account Nintendeal has noticed the symbols featured on the ‘leaked images’ of the rumoured Switch match up with the iconography featured on the Collector’s Edition of the game, which was announced earlier this week during a Nintendo Direct presentation.

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Witcher 3 Next-Gen Accidentally Included Some NSFW Community Mods

Warning: This article contains some NSFW references.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that certain NSFW community mods were accidentally added to The Witcher 3’s next-gen update and that it is working to remove them from the game.

As reported by Kotaku, Reddit users and other players began noticing that certain characters, including the “crones from Crookback Bog and the bruxas (the only women NPCs that regularly do full-frontal without any obscuring shots or panties) have landing strip-styled pubic hair and visible labia.”

Also noted by Kotaku, the original version of The Witcher 3 had the same nudity, but the women had “no visible genitals, just a sort of smoothed over, Barbie doll area.”

CD Projekt Red commented on the matter and stated this was a byproduct of bringing in a ton of community-sourced mods not created by the studio into The Witcher 3 and was “unintended.”

“The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features several community-sourced mods not created by CD PROJEKT RED, on top of numerous enhancements created and implemented by the studio internally,” CD Projekt Red said. “Merging everything together was a complex process and the textures in question are an unintended result present in the release version. This is something we are working to address.”

The team followed up and said the mods in question will be removed in the future as “these textures were not meant to be present in the release version of the game.”

For more on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update, check out why we believe its changes signal good things for the series’ future, the biggest changes in the update, and our full PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S vs PS4 performance review.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.