Earlier this week, Eat Sleep Play’s David Jaffe announced that he will be departing from the company after the release of the upcoming Twisted Metal. Speaking with Joystiq at DICE, Jaffe states that he will stay with the company post-launch, until the end of March, in order to fix any bugs and make any necessary tweaks.

“I will be with Eat Sleep Play until we finish what’s called the ‘maintenance contract’ we have and have been working on with Sony,” Jaffe said. “That will allow us, post-launch, to stay and address issues that there’s no way we can know of. Cleaning things up in terms of balance, bugs, tuning, tweaks.”

In terms of new projects, Jaffe is looking into both console and browser-based games, and even a “guerrilla-style” survival horror game.

“There’s a survival-horror genre in there, a real low-budget survival horror, kinda guerilla film making style. Not in terms of the look, but in terms of that kind of financing and that kind of production.”

Regarding Twisted Metal, Jaffe states there are currently no plans for DLC or a sequel.

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Valve has dropped its mid-week madness deal and its of decidedly epic proportion. The latest three entries in Bethesda‘s Elder Scrolls series are on deep-discount until 4pm PST on Thursday.

Bought individually, you can score:

• Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Game of The Year Edition for $9.99
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Game of The Year Edition for $9.99
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for $39.99

Additionally you can also grab a bundle with all three titles for $49.99.

This sale coincides nicely with the just-released Skyrim Creation Kit as well as the hi-res texture pack, which dropped yesterday. Hit up Steam for more details.

Here is the why:

“This transition is based on Sony’s goal to enhance its unique digital entertainment offering. As a series of these activities Sony started last September, PlayStation Network will be aligned with “Sony Entertainment Network.” This helps us get closer to our goal of establishing a global comprehensive network platform of services across games, movies, music and more, all accessible from one convenient account.”

All fun and good, but wasn’t Sony in a pickle with their Privacy Policy? And now they are advancing this new stage of their Privacy Policy? Is it me, or do I smell something burning?

Anyways, this name change at least gives us a view of what Sony wants for the future. One account, one goal, one target for Anonymous… Ho wait, did I say that last thing out loud?

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Nintendo of Europe has announced they have formed a party with free-hotspot.com to spread their spotpass carnage to the pockets of European 3DS owners with free access to over 5,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots. McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC, and Subway, as well as the in the Ibis and Etap Hotel chains were included in the list.

The partners will support 3DS owners with even more locations for users to receive spotpass content and updates, as well as send them through functions such as the popular new letterbox app. And of course, you can get free w-fi from them too.

With a Subway just a short walk on campus from my classroom, I’m personally happy to hear this, getting new ghost data for games like Mario Kart 7 and ? blocks for Super Mario 3D Land have had me getting more used to carry my 3DS around for more than just streetpass. But what do you European axeheads think of the new partnership? Do you enjoy the streetpass/spotpass functions, or are you possibly just stirring to it?

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