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Adrift is oxygen-deprived, due out for Oculus, PS4, Xbox One
Adrift is a new space-based game from Three One Zero, and it's coming to Oculus Rift, PS4, Xbox One and Steam in summer 2015, the developer announced tonight at The Game Awards. The first trailer for the game aired during the ceremony, showing a first-person astronaut with a strangely elongated helmet silhouette floating through a damaged space station, attempting to reach a bottle of oxygen before the astronaut's tank ran empty. It was slow and tense, and fairly beautiful. The game's description on its site reads, "ADR1FT is an immersive First Person Experience (FPX) that tells the story of an astronaut in peril. Floating silently amongst the wreckage of a destroyed space station with no memory and a severely damaged EVA suit, the only survivor struggles to determine the cause of the catastrophic event that took the lives of everyone on board. The player fights to stay alive by exploring the wreckage for precious resources, and overcomes the challenges of an unforgiving environment to repair the damaged emergency escape vehicle and safely return home." 505 Games is publishing Adrift.
Remember Me creative director: 'It was misunderstood'
Remember Me launched in June 2013 to mostly mediocre reviews. Our own critique called its animations "stilted and poorly portrayed," and found the overall experience disappointing. That following January, French developer DONTNOD entered "judicial reorganization," meaning the studio wasn't keeping up with its debts. "First of all, we're extremely proud of Remember Me," Creative Director Jean Maxime Moris told Joystiq at Gamescom. "I think it was not perfect by any means, but to some level it was misunderstood. It was our first game. We got totally buried under the hype for a very big game that came out directly after. These are not excuses because it was not perfect, it had flaws. But people are still writing about it today. Every once in a while we see a piece popping up and people actually showing the game some love."
505 Games publishing Adrift, Three One Zero's trip to space gone wrong
Developer Three One Zero's first-person hardship simulator in space, Adrift, sounds less than forgiving. Unlike its protagonist however, Three One Zero will have company in the form of publisher 505 Games when Adrift launches into orbit in mid-2015, both on PC and to-be-determined consoles. With no memory, a damaged suit and the surrounding clutter of a space station's remains, Adrift's protagonist doesn't have a ton of leisure time. In their push to fix an escape vehicle and return to Earth, players will guide their astronaut's gathering of resources and their search for clues to what caused the former shelter's demise. Players will also lead their character through the act of not dying in space. Adrift will be Three One Zero's first title, a studio formed last September by Omar Aziz and Adam Orth. Previously a creative director at Microsoft's video game division, Orth's comments regarding always-online consoles sparked a strong backlash last year, leading to Microsoft apologizing for the "inappropriate comments." Reports of Orth's departure from Microsoft followed several days later. [Image: 505 Games]
Remember Me dev Dontnod enters 'judicial reorganization' following financial struggles
Remember Me developer Dontnod Entertainment is in financial mire, but CEO Oskar Guilbert claims the company isn't on the brink of bankruptcy. Speaking to GI.biz, Guilbert dismissed reports coming out of France today that the Parisian company is in fatal trouble after it entered "judicial reorganization" this week. "We started new projects and those new projects need some investment and we decided to resize the company in order to match these new needs. That's why we needed judicial reorganization," Guilbert asserted to GI.Biz today. "I cannot say that we have no financial difficulties, we have some, but I think that now they are behind us, not in front of us." Judicial reorganization or redressement judiciaire is a similar process to receivership, where the French courts appoint an administrator to oversee a company's restructuring when it has troubles paying its debts. The process can be drawn out over many months, but it's often a precursor to liquidation. Guilbert says Dontnod is in "close negotiations with one big partner," presumably to take over, and in "very close negotiations for our next project with one of the top publishers." Despite being published by Capcom, Remember Me was a game that struggled to live up to its name, both critically and seemingly at retail; Capcom failed to even note the game in its financial brief for the quarter following its release last summer. In March 2013, Dontnod received 200,000 euros from France's National Center of Cinematography, apparently for a separate project denoted as "What if?" – here's hoping that isn't an ominous name too.
Remember Me launch trailer arrives in style
This trailer for Remember Me flashes its action-packed, stylish side to commemorate the game's recent launch. Be sure to read our review of the game to find out about its other sides.
PSN Tuesday: Remember Me on PS3, Limbo on Vita, Deus Ex free for Plus
This week PSN gets Remember Me for $60 as a full PS3 download (and here's our review). Also on the docket is Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, which hits PSN for $20. Vita gets Limbo for $15, Toro's Friend Network for free, Quell Memento for $5 and Paint Park Plus for free. Class of Heroes 2 hits the PSP this week, and it's now in the Vita store for $25. PlayStation Plus members can grab the PS3 game Deus Ex: Human Revolution for free, alongside a 10 percent discount on Grid 2 ($54), and 40 percent off Portal 2 ($9.60) and its Move-enabled DLC, In Motion ($4.80). Let's Fish: Hooked On is half off on Vita for Plus members this week, for $10. Sony has some secret content in store for June, according to PlayStation Digital Platforms Community Manager Paul Sullivan, and it just so happens there's a large gaming convention right in the middle of this month. Keep your eyes peeled.
Metareview: Remember Me
A memorable aspect of Remember Me is its soundtrack, available now on iTunes or accessible through Spotify. As for the game, our review tried its best not to repress the whole thing. Edge (80/100): "Schlocky and silly in places, but potent and reflective in others, Nilin's tale has bags of heart to play off against its flamboyant bosses and existential quandaries, all grounded by a charismatic female star." Game Informer (78/100): "The environmental climbing sequences offer some simple fun, but the linear paths diminish any sense of exploration this otherwise would have achieved. Combat is filled with fresh ideas, but that creativity inhibits your capability in combat. Hopefully Dontnod doesn't forget any of the lessons it learned this time around, because a sequel could be truly memorable." GameSpot (70/100): "Remember Me is not the game its world and premise hint that it could have been; rather, it's simply a good third-person action game: entertaining, slickly produced, and flavorful enough to keep you engaged to the end of its six-hour run time." IGN (59/100): "Ultimately, it failed to challenge or excite me as a game, as all of its best ideas are confined to its overarching fiction rather than its gameplay." NowGamer (50/100): "This feels like an awkward first step rather than a finished product. As it stands, Remember Me is a series of mediocre gameplay ideas stapled to a pretty, hollow shell."
Remember Me review: You are what you do
Remember Me evokes a strange nostalgia for itself. It's better to recall it with fondness than with accuracy, because the highlights are so much more endearing than the truth. What makes this especially awkward is the game's central sermon: beware of discarding reality in favor of phony memories. There's a lot to take in before you start fabricating flashbacks. Remember Me's protagonist, Nilin, first takes a disquieting, drowsy walk through the bowels of a sterile prison, which keeps its occupants under thumb by inflicting amnesia. She escapes, returning to eloquence and to a futuristic Paris in which the affluent's memories are softened, shared and monopolized by a sprawling corporation. As a former "memory hunter" – the game's sci-fi lexicon only gets clumsier from there – Nilin gets back in the brain-hacking business alongside Edge, an enigmatic leader looking to shake the status quo. What you do and what the game is about align briefly whenever Nilin is within arm's reach of a few important characters. Instead of punching experience points out of them, as she does with almost everyone else, she remixes their memories to instill an insidious change in their outlook and personality.%Gallery-178785%
Live-action Remember Me trailer has some cake
This live-action trailer for Remember Me sets the tone for the game's beginning chapters with thoughts from the founder of the Memorize corporation. Remember Me will launch this coming Tuesday on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Just jargon through Remember Me
Join Joystiq in the streets of Neo-Paris and the intricate pathways of the mind in this Remember Me video preview. Dontnod's memory-focused action game features strategic battle jeans, "remembrane buoys" and even more dubiously named plot devices, if you can believe it. Remember Me launches for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 on June 4. [Video production: Miguel Concepcion] %Gallery-178785%
Remember Me hacks our memories, inserts this trailer
Defying our understanding of neurology, memory can be found in the heart and soul of Remember Me. Manipulating memories drives the action in Dontnod's cyberpunk game, as creative director Jean-Max Morris reminds us in this six-minute synopsis.
Remember Me PC requirements remind you to prep for playtime
Remember Me appears to have something against kids and/or opening presents, but it's not entirely opposed to handing out treats. Sweet, sweet PC-requirement treats.Remember Me minimum specs include 2GB of RAM, 9GB of free hard drive space, and at least an Nvidia GeForce 8800GTS or an ATI Radeon HD 3850 video card, running DirectX 9 or greater. For high performance, save 4GB of RAM and play with a GeForce GTX 560 video card or better. Check out the full PC requirements below.Don't forget, Remember Me launches on June 4 in North America for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Remember Me combat trailer has at least one memorable character
This Remember Me trailer taught us something about our own memories. It turns out you can introduce tons of characters, and show them all engaging in thrilling hand-to-hand combat, but we won't be able to recall any of it if there's someone named "Kid X-Mas" distracting us.
Publishers rejected Remember Me because of female lead
Dontnod Entertainment's Remember Me – set in Neo-Paris 2084, the game stars Nilin, a memory hunter – got a lot of dismissals from publishers thanks to its female lead. For some publishers, successful games and male leads are synonymous, so when creative director Jean-Max Morris and his crew were shopping for publishers, this spurred the cold shoulder."We had some that said, 'Well, we don't want to publish it because that's not going to succeed. You can't have a female character in games. It has to be a male character, simple as that,'" Morris told The Penny Arcade Report. Capcom, of course, didn't seem to mind.Morris said the decision to have a female lead was "something that just felt right from the beginning" of development. "It's one of those things that we never looked at from a pure, cold marketing perspective because that would have endangered the consistency of the whole game." That's not to say Morris didn't receive the advice to switch Nilin from a girl to a guy, but changing Nilin would've been relatively impossible for the stage Remember Me was at. Still, hypothetically that change would've brought its own set of problems.One anecdote Morris talked about is a scene where we see Nilin kiss a man and Morris was told that scene wouldn't work if she was switched to a guy, even though technically it would be far from the first depiction of same-sex romance in video games. "We had people tell us, 'You can't make a dude like the player kiss another dude in the game, that's going to feel awkward.'" For Morris, that response is puzzling. "I'm like, 'If you think like that, there's no way the medium's going to mature,'" he said. "There's a level of immersion that you need to be at, but it's not like your sexual orientation is being questioned by playing a game. I don't know, that's extremely weird to me."Remember Me launches on June 4 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Remember Me recollects June 4 launch date
Remember Me, the futuristic action-adventure from developer Dontnod, will launch on June 4 and 7 in North America and Europe, respectively, publisher Capcom has confirmed.The game will find a nice snug spot during the summer with PS3, Xbox 360 and PC before the next console generation begins this fall. Depending on how the game does, Capcom and Dontnod already have plans to extend Remember Me's world into the next gen.
Remember Me trailer goes behind the music
This behind-the-scenes video of Capcom's Remember Me discusses how the soundtrack fits into the game's "Neo Paris" setting. Remember Me is coming to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in May.
Remember Me trailer introduces Kid Xmas (not that one)
Remember Me is inching toward its May launch window, but not before Capcom introduces us to one of its extremely angry bosses: Kid Xmas. Your present is a beat down.
Remember Me wants your fake advertisements, real memories
Capcom is soliciting player memories for Remember Me, its action game about a "memory hunter" searching for her own digitized past in Neo-Paris. Through November 29, players can submit images of "their most cherished memories," with an explanation of their importance, to flash on the screen during a "Memory Overload" sequence. Just think, your prom could be a video game attack.If you don't want your past memories in there, make some fake future ones for the other fan contest, "Adverts in 2084." Try to imagine a billboard for one of five fictional companies to adorn Neo-Paris, and your design could end up in the game.
Remember Me and your own custom combos
In this video walkthrough with Remember Me creative director Jean-Maxime Moris we're given a glimpse at the combo lab, the customizable combo system at the heart of hand-to-hand combat. By employing strikes from one of four categories, each combo can be unique and made to regenerate health, cue finishing moves, reduce ability cooldown times and even stack abilities. Apparently Remember Me will have "around 50,000" different combos you can create, each affecting Nilin and her enemies in numerous ways. %Gallery-166275%
Try to ignore the dialogue in this exciting Remember Me clip
We really dig the art style and gameplay of Remember Me, but good lord what is with that dialogue? Keep an ear out for "Stay frosty" around the seven minute mark. Or actually, don't. Maybe ignore all the dialogue and just focus on the snazzy combat and platforming. You'll thank us.
