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# Deposit your Pokemon in the cloud, a Wii U doppleganger, and November 22nd
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cheat-sheet-95/
- Published: 2013-09-05T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:09:39.000Z
- Description: Get on your horse and ride.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

After sheperding SimCity’s ambitious launch this past spring, creative director [Ocean Quigley and two others are leaving Maxis to start their own company, Jellygrade.](http://www.gamestm.co.uk/discuss/interview-ocean-quigley/?ref=killscreen.com) Their first game will be “about the dawn of life on earth.” Leaving ambition behind, then, we see…

Speaking of dawns of a new age, Microsoft finally announced the [launch date for their new console the Xbox One](http://news.xbox.com/2013/09/xbox-one-launch?ref=killscreen.com): November 22.

But if you’re jonesing to play the next *Halo* in bed, cross your fingers the CrossPlane gets funded. [It’s essentially a Wii U controller for everything but the Wii U.](http://www.usgamer.net/articles/cross-plane-its-like-a-wii-u-gamepad-for-everything?ref=killscreen.com)

Or maybe [Microsoft will use their newly-acquired Nokia technology](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/microsoft-to-buy-nokia-s-devices-business-for-5-44-billion-euros.html?ref=killscreen.com) to make a proper handheld themselves?

> Full-motion video has that distancing effect where you sit back, fold your arms and watch the scene play out. The more a game resembles film, the more photorealistic and live action it looks, the harder it is for us to accept the idea that we can actually influence or control it.

*Prince of Persia* creator Jordan Mechner, [interviewed by our anonymous friends at EDGE](http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-making-of-the-last-express/?ref=killscreen.com), on why his underappreciated 1997 follow-up *The Last Express* used rotoscoped animation when video was all the rage.

The drums are starting to beat for *Pokemon X* and *Y*, coming out worldwide this October. New 3DSXL systems, Gen 1 starters, and a Pokemon Bank that holds up to 3000 creatures online so you can trade with your future grandchildren?Who knew The Cloud was a giant Pokeball this whole time.

*Come back soon.*