Markus Lai

Editor-in Chief at Broken Fuse VG Blog. Former chef turned Civil Engineer/Thermal Imaging tech. Can be found outdoors canoeing/biking, doing photography or playing video games in his free time. Follow him on twitter at twitter.com/verius

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Star Wars Rogue One Teaser Trailer

I’m so hyped for this to come out this December!

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Pokemon Creative Director Does At Age 42

kanto startersThe Creative Design Director at Pokemon Company international, Eric Medalle, has passed away yesterday afternoon after an accident. Medalle was taking his daughter for a drive in a nearby park when a Douglas Fir was pushed over by high winds onto their SUV. His daughter only suffered minor injuries as a bystander pulled her out of the car.

Medalle was responsible for designing nearly every TCG logo so far and for the Dream Radar and XY logos. In addition to working as an artist for GEN IV and V mainline games, he has had a hand in some spinoffs like Pokemon Ranger and Pokemon Conquest.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Medalle’s family.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.brokenfuse.com/2016/03/16/pokemon-creative-director-does-at-age-42/

Sony responds to Mocrosoft’s invite for crossplay

PS4Earlier this week, Microsoft announced plans to allow Xbox gamers to play against PC and PS4 players. Sony has responded that they are open to the idea. Though the response doesn’t directly answer whether Sony will work with Microsoft devs to enable the support between their respective consoles. Continue reading

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Fifth Indiana Jones Film On It’s Way

indiana-jones-5-reboot-movieSteven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are back again for the fifth installment of Indiana Jones. The film is slated for July 19, 2019. Harrison Ford will be reprising his role as Indiana Jones and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshal are back to produce. Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.brokenfuse.com/2016/03/15/indiana-jones-back-for-fifth-film/

Twilight Princess HD Unboxing

If you don’t already know, Twilight Princess HD has just been released today in North America and it’s worth the wait. I have a few unboxing pics and a video as well. Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.brokenfuse.com/2016/03/04/twilight-princess-hd-unboxing/

Gorgeous Pokemon Theme Song Cover

kanto starters

Beatrice Martin, a Francophone Canadian artist released a beautifully done Pokemon Theme Song cover in honour of Pokemon’s 20th anniversary this year. Hope you’ll enjoy it!

 

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Pokemon Sun and Moon officially announced

The news of the new Pokemon games comes from a new Pokemon-centric Nintendo Direct that happened today, ahead of the series’ 20th anniversary on February 27. Not much is known about the game besides a new legendary had been revealed and the game will be available Holiday 2016. Nintendo also announced that the 3DS Virtual Console re-releases of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow will use the Pokemon Bank app to transfer monsters between games virtually. Those games will be available on February 27.

Permanent link to this article: https://www.brokenfuse.com/2016/02/26/pokemon-sun-and-moon-officially-announced/

IBM Sponsors “Sword Art Online: The Beginning” VR Development

IBM Japan has taken on a project of making the VRMMO world of Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online light novels into reality, hopefully sans the whole brain frying deaths thing. A site has been launched for applications for 208 lucky souls to alpha test  SAO. Applicants will be selected by lottery to try out the experience in Tokyo on March 18 and 20.

Participants will be scanned in 3D to interact with the virtual space using IBM’s Cloud Services and SoftLayer technologies. Kirito (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka), Asuna (Haruka Tomatsu) and Yui (Kanae Ito) will be lending their voices for this project.

(Source: Crunchyroll)

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Episode 56

pokkenIt’s been a while since we’ve podcasted so I apologize if we’re a bit rusty.

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Star Wars VIII set for December 15, 2017

694px-Star_Wars_LogoToday Lucasfilm and Disney announced that Star Wars VIII will be released on December 15, 2017 instead of Summer 2017 as previously slated. It is written and directed by Rian Johnson and is in pre-production. Principal Photography will commence in London next month. Either way, I’m stoked for the next movie!

(Source: Star Wars)

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