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This Week in Games - Denials of (fan)Service

Ys VIII is hitting Switch this week. I'm tempted to double-dip since I like the thought of portable Ys VIII, but I'm waiting to see if there are any tech issues before I buy.

It's hard to know for sure about Omega Labyrinth, but the timing definitely doesn't sit right. It's not like the content was unknown, so it seems awfully late, especially when the decision also applies to territories where it was at least approved by the relevant ratings boards. It seems like a knee-jerk reaction on Sony's part.

Needless to say, the case was looking pretty bad for Bluehole. The whole thing reeked of the time CAPCOM tried to sue Data East over Fighter's History copying Street Fighter II's “look and feel.”

What's even the point of playing X5 if I can't fight Duff McWhalen?

...but it seems like their most recent attempt to bring out a boob game has fallen abreast of troubles that cannot be overcome.

"PUBG runs in Unreal Engine… and you're suing the company that makes Unreal Engine."
REALLY didn't think that one through, did ya?

Omega Labyrinth Z not getting sold in Australia is expected and that is fairly common for the UK.

Actually, the UK hasn't banned a game since Manhunt 2 under the BBFC, which is why this ban was such a surprise. I think this is the first ban since the UK switched completely over to the PEGI system.

Well, the Omega Labyrinth story is strange. The biggest part of it is if it indeed was Sony that stepped in. In which case that's a very big deal for everyone to be concerned about. Valve just had a similar scenario where they were forced to reevaluate and came down on the side of the consumer. I assume it was a well-meaning employee that made a mistake in their scenario. If Sony indeed implement new guidelines for Western releases, and those are not corrected by upper management in time (or is even endorsed by), then that's the biggest abandon ship message you could give to any anime/JRPG fan. As a result the PC will swallow the market segment further, which in Playstation's case probably is the most loyal costumer base.

DmonHiro wrote:

"PUBG runs in Unreal Engine… and you're suing the company that makes Unreal Engine." REALLY didn't think that one through, did ya?

Not only that, but Tencent has ownership stakes in both Epic and PUBG Corp. It was a mess of a situation all around

As for Ys VIII, I've already picked up the Switch version. My only platform choices were that or PC, and it sounds like the latter's technical issues are much worse (still). Hopefully the patches NIS has in the works will fix things a bit. And hopefully the next Ys game will be handled by XSEED/Marvelous.

THE GUNS N ROSES BOSS NAMES WON'T BE IN MEGAMAN X5 IN THE MEGAMAN X COLLECTION

Omega Labyrinth Z not getting sold in Australia is expected and that is fairly common for the UK. What is surprising is Sony stepping in at the last moment to completely cancel the western release of the game. What makes this really unfortunate is that Sony has effectively indicated that it will cancel ecchi games based on the possibility of negative press.