Today Electronic Arts announced that it plans to acquire 19.9% of Ubi Soft. The deal is done, pending the government approval. This comes on the heels of Electronic Arts' announcement of acquiring the exclusive rights to the NFL license. Assuring Madden's place at the top spot for the next five years. On the business side of things that's a tactically brilliant move. On the creative side of things this comes off as cowardly and evil and unfair. This kills competition in the genre of football games entirely. It's over for five years. A monopoly in my opinion. A very bad thing. This company does not need more power...
As for Otogi 2, I'm through level ten or eleven. Still loving it. Still impressed. Still feeling happily obligated to earn 100% and A ranks. They've added Havoc Levels. Each one is essentially an optional challenge. Destroy one-hundred arches before the time runs out. Defend the Tree of Life from the invading demon horde. Fly through the arches without touching the water within the time limit. Destroy enough grass in the level by using enemies to damage the level itself. Half the time you'll earn some reward for your effort. Other times you'll just get EXP to level your characters, which is always a plus. This is a nice little bonus to an already great game. It's nice to see companies going that little extra mile.
Sly 2: Band of Thieves arrived today. I got it from Sony for free for sending in the demo disc that contained Viewtiful Joe 2 which had a nice habit of formatting your memory card. Sony allowed you to pick a game as compensation, I chose Sly 2. What this actually is getting to is they wanted to mark the casing to show it was from this for some reason I'm not entirely sure of. Maybe so you couldn't trade it in for cash or something. They drilled a hole clean through the PS2 logo in the top right of the casing. Through the front, the manual, the back. Clean through. To this I say... WTF? The game works fine though. I'm none too pleased about the casing and manual, free game or not.
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