This week the Anivision hosts are joined by Mitsugi and Chiaki from the AAA Podcast to discuss the downfall of THQ and play a game of Name That Anime!
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Guests: Mitsugi & Chiaki (AAA Podcast)
News Discussion
- THQ Dissolved, many of their franchises/studios bought up (IGN) — steev
- SEGA has acquired Relic.
- Company of Heroes
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
- Koch Media (owner of Dead Island publisher Deep Silver) purchased:
- Saints Row developer Volition
- The Metro franchise
- Crytek purchased the rights to the Homefront franchise.
- Take-Two purchased:
- Darksiders’ studio Vigil
- Turtle Rock Studios’ project codenamed Evolve
- Ubisoft has purchased:
- The rights to publish South Park: The Stick of Truth
- THQ Montreal
- Developer of Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Desilets’ project codenamed 1666
- SEGA has acquired Relic.
Quick Hits
- Wii U news (Wii U sales data – http://www.vgchartz.com/)
- HD remake of Wind Waker announced
- New Mario 3D & Mario Kart games will be shown at E3
- New Yoshi game being made by same team that did Kirby’s Epic Yarn
- Virtual Console coming to Wii U with special pricing for owners of previous VC titles
- Load times to get faster with Spring & Summer updates
- Ni no Kuni: Wratch of the White Witch recently launched in the USA.
- Dead Space 3 comes out on PS3 and 360 on Fedruary 5th
- Resident Evil: Revelations coming to PS3/360/PC/Wii U on May 21st
- One Piece Pirate Warriors 2 coming to U.S. on PSN in summer
- Genshiken: Second Season sequel manga gets an anime
- Milky Holmes gets a 3rd season for the Summer ‘13 season
- J.J. Abrams set to direct Star Wars episode VII
Discussion
- Name That Anime game
- Rules
- Player will choose category and then year from Jrow’s choices
- Jrow will read 2 review points and # of names credited in character cast
- Player will say how many names they can name anime in
- Note: character names will be read in reverse order of casting
- Next person in line can say 1 of 2 things:
- “I can name it in <less> names
- Challenge previous player to “Name That Anime”
- Jrow reads character names, waits for challenged player to give answer
- If challenged player answers correctly, they score 1 point
- If not, an opportunity to steal will be given to challenging player
- If challenging player cannot guess, then next players in line will be given opportunity to guess
- Rules
Music
- Intro: “JoJo ~Sono Chi no Sadame~” by Hiroaki Tominaga (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures)
- Insert: “Swordland” by Kajiura Yuki (Sword Art Online)
- Ending: “Laterality” by Nagi Yanagi (Jormungand Perfect Order)
- BGM: Sword Art Online Soundtrack