Despite strong sales and positive reception , it seems a Kid Icarus: Uprising sequel just isn’t in the cards right now. Masahiro Sakurai, the game’s director, has said that it’s possible we could see another Kid Icarus game in the next 25 years, but not from his studio, Project Sora.

Now that we know what games are held within the EVO 2012 cornucopia of contusions, it’s time for the fighters of the world to start training . The last qualifying tournament is in June, so we should have plenty of time to dust off ol’ Nasty-Asty when SoulCalibur 5 launches at the end of the month. Truth be told, we’re still a little perplexed by the omission of any BlazBlue games from the line-up

Heavy Rain asks us “How far would you go to save someone you love?” Few games bother with this sort of question because the answer is intensely personal. Most games would rather task you with saving the world than with rocking a baby to sleep or patching up a failed relationship. This intransigence on the part of developers to create idiosyncratic stories that resonate with the individual is holding the medium back.

Chair creative director Donald Mustard was nice enough to sit for a few moments with us to talk Infinity Blade 2 so, naturally, we took advantage of his generosity to grill him about the long-discussed (and apparently ” largely designed “) Shadow Complex 2. We asked if the runaway success of Infinity Blade is what’s kept the follow-up to the side-scrolling action-adventure off of Chair’s radar. “No, I think that’s a complete misnomer,” Mustard said

There’s no more confusion about whether or not the PS Vita will run PSOne Classics and other “Game Archives” games (that’s the umbrella term used in Japan for Sony’s retro games — PSOne and PC Engine/Turbografx-16, along with, presumably, PS2) at launch. Unfortunately, the answer to that lingering question is a firm, and bewildering, no . The Japanese Vita FAQ, which initially noted that the Vita will play all downloadable PSP games except for Archives releases, cemented that in an answer to the direct question of whether or not the device will support old downoaded games

Sure, you already knew that the Amazing version of Spider-Man would be getting his own game , but have you seen the New York Comic Con trailer yet? Unless you were in the room with us, the answer is probably no, but we’ve got it here for you right now! Watch The Amazing Spider-Man’s first gameplay trailer right here originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

In a recent IGN interview, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine discussed how he made that demo for BioShock Infinite so very, very good . Of course, we all know the answer to that is “witchcraft” — however, Levine also talked about the game’s Move functionality, a feature first announced at E3 . He explains it will be entirely optional to the experience, saying, “my hope is that we’ll succeed in the experiment and people will like it