Richard Mitchell
Reviews Editor - richard@joystiq.com
Richard serves as Reviews Editor and is ultimately responsible for overseeing Joystiq's critical content. He has contributed to Joystiq since 2006. Over the years he has founded Joystiq's first podcast, produced dozens of videos, covered major trade shows and penned numerous reviews.
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Square-Enix improves losses in Q1
Square-Enix's latest financial numbers (PDF) are a bit mixed. The publisher posted a loss for the first quarter of its fiscal 2014, but said loss is an improvement over the loss posted during the same period last year. Specifically, Square-Enix posted net sales of 24 billion yen ($245.3 million), ...
Betrayer coming from FEAR, No One Lives Forever devs
Blackpowder Games, composed of former Monolith developers who worked on No One Lives Forever and the original FEAR, has announced a new "eerie and atmospheric first-person action adventure game," Betrayer. The game takes place in 1604, where the player has arrived in the New World, hoping to ...
Rainbow Skies assaulting PS3 and Vita in 2014, Rainbow Moon to Vita this year
Good news for fans of grind-tastic dungeon crawler / strategy RPG hybrids: Rainbow Skies is headed to the PlayStation 3 and Vita in 2014. A sequel of sorts to last year's Rainbow Moon, Rainbow Skies promises "countless hours" of content and features new combination attacks and a monster taming ...
Report: Sega bidding on Atlus parent company
Sega is among about 20 companies bidding on Index, parent company of Atlus (Shin Megami Tensei, Persona), reports Bloomberg (translated by Siliconera). The bidding for Index has reportedly gone as high as 20 billion yen ($203.3 million), and the company could be sold by the end of the month. ...
From Penny Arcade to Cosmic Star Heroine: Zeboyd's trip to the spotlight
Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 was released this past June. It's a wonderful, funny RPG, one that belies the series' long, rocky development. The Rain-Slick series began as a collaboration between Hothead Games and Penny Arcade, but the relationship ended after the ...
Activision: Call of Duty pre-orders negatively impacted by console transition
The upcoming transition into a new generation of consoles is futzing with pre-order numbers for Call of Duty: Ghosts, according to CEO of Activision Publishing, Eric Hirshberg. During his company's earnings call yesterday, Hirshberg noted that pre-orders for Ghosts are "well below the ...
New Nintendo eShop releases: Pikmin 3, Cloudberry Kingdom, Kirby's Dream Land 2
It's a pretty full week on the Nintendo eShop, especially for the Wii U. The console picks up the stupidly difficult Cloudberry Kingdom, and Virtual Console adds Harvest Moon. Pikmin 3 also marches onto the Wii U eShop on August 4 (be sure to read our review!). Meanwhile, the 3DS grabs Kirby's ...
Mighty Quest for Epic Loot ditches 'pay to win' microtransactions
Ubisoft will soon undo a change made to its free-to-play dungeon crawler / dungeon builder, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. As with other free-to-play games, Mighty Quest allows players to purchase certain in-game items with premium currency which, in turn, is purchased with real money. In an ...
Vanille also returns in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
A few new details about Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy XIII were recently revealed at a Japanese press event, reports Gematsu. The game's fourth continent, the Wildlands, was uncovered. This will be a large, open-world area – large enough for players to ride around on the series' beloved ...
Tearaway tears away from release date, delayed until November
You might want to tear away a few tissues, because Media Molecule's next whimsical adventure, Tearaway, has been delayed. Originally slated to arrive in October, the game will now hit shelves on November 22. The delay has been announced by both the American and European PS Blog, so it appears to be ...
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Police Quest 'successor' Kickstarter canceled, moves to its own tiered funding platform
Posted on Aug 6th 2013 3:30PM