A Door Closed, a Windows Open

XNA discontinued, Amazon Coins and more!

Vital Statistics

The last game in the series... maybe.

Date: February 11, 2013

Written and Performed by: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Boom!: Kate Stark

Editing: Kathleen De Vere

Music: Bradley Rains

Produced by: Graham Stark, Paul Saunders

Today

We get dangerously close to actual journalism. This is CheckPoint.

Stories

• Amazon is launching its own virtual currency, Amazon Coins.

• A brand new Castlevania game is coming out next month for the 3DS.

• Techmo Koei is re-re-releasing Ninja Gaiden 3.

• Sniper Elite V2 is being released for the Wii-U with Wii-U gamepad features.

• The Witcher 3, The Wild Hunt is maybe the last game in the Witcher series. Probably not.

• Microsoft is killing off its XNA toolset, the low-end development platform used primarily for developers to create XBox Live indie games.

Coming Up

Hollywood is working on a new Hitman movie starring Paul Walker. It must be nice for him to finally have a reason to leave the house between filming all those Fast and Furious movies.

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