@Roman217: It's Gamespot's new microtransaction system for game publishers. They show them the current score and allow them the opportunity to buy loot boxes that might win them extra points.

@Xristophoros: I understand the difference between a developer and publisher, but I've always assumed that when a publisher has a good working relationship with certain developers they can offer them the chance to work on a project they might be a good fit for. Does it not work that way?

@kthulhu: That was part of my point. When they wanted a 3rd person Metroid, they gave it to a dev with a mismatched style. Then they give it to Bandai Namco, who at least has a working relationship with devs of 3rd person styles that would fit better... and tell them to make an FPS?

So they took Metroid from a developer who proved they could make good adventure games in first-person, and gave those guys 2D sidescrollers. Then they gave Metroid to a developer whose style is a terrible fit for the franchise because they wanted to make it a 3rd person action game.

Now, they give it to a company who has produced games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne (which might actually be a good format for a 3rd person 3D Metroid)... to make a first-person shooter out of it.

Sometimes I feel like all it would take for a new Metroid to be good would be for Nintendo to decide they don't want it to suck.

The new CEO's name sounds like he should be a WWE wrestler.

@CyberEarth: I know, I wish people were allowed to make games and movies about WW II Nazis. It sucks that nobody has ever done that before.

@millionsedge: Alucard was named by one of the old black and white Dracula movies decades before video games existed. I think the movie was just called "Son of Dracula". Dracula's son just goes around looking all vampirey and calling himself Count Alucard and everyone is too dumb to figure out he's Dracula's evil son for the majority of the film.

@jellygreen: The difference is that the Nazis were clearly evil even in the time period in which they existed (hence, World War II) and what Bushnell did was pretty much accepted at the time. If he raped the woman, or even if he fired her for not getting in the tub, your comparison might make sense. A macho douchebag attitude was pretty much expected of men at the time. Unless someone from the present could time travel and tell him about today's standards, I doubt he would have any way of knowing better.

Is EA's license worldwide? I would think that they'd want to license it seperately in Asian countries to a company who might actually make a game that would appeal to their market.