Morning DLC: Video Games News And Rumors 8/17/13
By Nick Tylwalk
"“Guild Wars 2” debuted last August and shot off the block like Usain Bolt, bringing the game an enormous (and apparently sustained) stock of subscribers. DFC Intelligence, an international market research firm focused on cross-platform video game metrics, just joined hands with “Guild Wars 2” developer ArenaNet to announce that the game is now the fastest-selling MMO in history — and that’s just counting European and North American sales.ArenaNet isn’t saying how many copies it’s sold to date, perhaps saving that for a flurry of one-year anniversary press releases (the one-year mark is technically August 28), but bases that “all-time fastest selling” claim on sales that topped three million during the game’s first nine months, so through May 2013 (counting from September 2012)."
"Jennifer Hepler was working on sequel Dragon Age: Inquisition but is quitting BioWare this week to go freelance, in large part thanks to threats she and others of the team received in the wake of Dragon Age II’s release.The game was unpopular with many hardcore fans and although Hepler was able to ignore most of the threats and abuse on the BioWare forums and Twitter she also received emailed death threats and threats against her children, as well as abusive phone calls.Hepler revealed the threats in a wider article on the subject of fan abuse on website Polygon. The story is also reminiscent of an incident last month, when fans threatened to murder a Call Of Duty developer because of minute changes to some of Black Ops II’s weapons."
"Capcom presently has no plans to bring “Street Fighter” to Wii U.Capcom executive producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question via Twitter, apologizing before confirming “we don’t have plan[s]” for a “Street Fighter” game on Wii U “at this moment”.Capcom announced “Ultra Street Fighter 4” at the EVO event in July, a major new update for “Super Street Fighter 4” that will introduce five new characters, six new stages and new modes and features."