June 26
Playstation Phone in the making?It appears that a Playstation branded mobile phone is in production. According to Sony insiders the company is working on a Playstation Phone and will incorporate elements of the Playstation Portable.
“It is understood the phone could hit the shelves in time for Christmas 2009.”
No details, specs and looks have been revealed yet and i don’t think we’ll see something for quite sometime.
Hmmmm i wonder what it will look like.
Below is the list of final features in Playstation 3’s firmware 2.4 update that is due very soon. CVG have managed to get their hands on the final list of features.
“full 2D trophy support will be in the XMB update and there will be four types: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.”
The platinum trophy is only awarded to you when you’ve got the other trophies (bronze, silver and gold). There are no gamer points, instead its done by a levelling up system.
Below is a list of Xross Media Bar features you’ll be able to access in-game.
- Friend category
- View, send, receive messages
- Manage downloads
- Set the vibration feature of the controller
- Sign in to PlayStation Network
- Register friends
- Manage Bluetooth devices
- Terminate the game
- Music category
- Use the system BGM
- Work the system BGM operation panel
- Settings category
- Assign controllers
- View profiles
- Game category
- Set audio devices
- Use the voice changer
And there we have it. We’ve mentioned before that eventually you can probably access all aspects of the XMB through future firmware updates.
Moving on, you will be able to play your own music while in-game from the music category.
“It’s unclear whether this feature will be compatible with all games or just new titles created with more recent development tools.”
I guess we will have to wait until its released in a few weeks time.
Thats right, it has been officially announced well not exactly but an announcement will be made on the 30th of June 008. A video walkthrough will be available on Monday.
Thanks to this Neogaf post confirming it.
A video of Dead Space where you witness an elevator, you can see that you can explore the levels because you could choose whether to go to level 1,2 or 3 which is good. But what awaits you when you get off the elevator? Find out in the video!
Dead Space EA3 Cargo Lift gameplay
“Be careful getting off that elevator.”
Ok so your exploring somesort of greenhouse in space? Anyway the weapons look really fun to use and adds something to the gameplay. Check this video out for a greenhouse tour and good use of weapons.
“Your ex is back… and she wants custody.”
In Pocketgamer’s interview with SCEE’s, Vice President of Publishing and Developer Relationships Zeno Colaço, Sony has a long-term plan for the PSP, he says.
Despite the current lack of games claimed by developers and gamers on the PSP, it will be hard to fill up the space left by publishers if they refocus their interest on other segments of the game market.
Zeno Colaço has one idea to solve it.
We need to revitalise the developer community to get behind PSP. For example, it’s easy to make a DS-type game for a PSP game in terms of cost and speed of development and we will be looking to do encourage that as we continue to develop the PSP. I’m not just talking about the hardware but the services and the business models and the support, too.
This is an idea that might become apparent over the next two years as the network services are further developed.
Despite the current slow down in titels the PSP still has a good tie-ratio. With four games to each PSP with 35 million units sold worldwide.
Read more of the interview over at PocketGamer.co.uk
Here is a mega short video of the Iceland level in upcoming first person shooter, Resistance 2. Iceland is where the game starts off and carrys on from Resistance: Fall of Man.
Simple click here to see the video.
Resistance 2 Screenshots.
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A user has sent in five new screenshots of Call of Duty: World at War. Developed by Treyarch and published by Activision the game is set to be released sometime towards the end of the year. We will most likely hear a set release date at E3.
5 Call of Duty World at War screenshots
Call of Duty 5 World at War Screenshots.
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Most likely the last trailer for Battlefield: Bad Company due to the game being out within days world wide. Here is the launch trailer for the war game and if you havent tried the demo yet i highly suggest you do so because it might make you buy the game, its pretty good.
“Deep within the US Army exists an elite force… this is not them.”
Another Dead Space video in which you see some action and exploring. Looks really spooky!
“Try a slightly different approach.”
Not a lot to say here but here’s an image of the select character screen in Soul Calibur IV. This is the Playstation 3 version of the game, you can see all the characters in the game.
Playstation.Blog announced that 30 new echochrome levels will be released in the coming two weeks starting on Thursday. Only one of these usermade levels was from outside the US and Canada.
The levels will appear at random in freeform mode on the difficulty your playing. But in freeform mode you will first get the levels that have not been cleared first, so will you need to skip forward if your looking for those new levels once they get out.
Visit the flickr page to see all the 30 levels posted by Playstation.Blog which also include credit for the creators of these 30 great designs.
There is still no mention of a date for when echochrome will be released in Europe.
June 25
Infamous screenshots and infoThreeSpeech have managed to get some new screenshots and information about upcoming hero game, Infamous.
First of all here are the screenshots:
And now for some info on the game…
“In the aftermath of an urban disaster, an everyday guy finds himself with extraordinary powers. What he does with them is up to you. Welcome to inFamous; the sensational new title for PLAYSTATION®3.
24th June 2008 – If society collapsed tomorrow and you found yourself with unique powers that could either help people or hurt them, which would you do? That’s the question at the centre of inFamous, the forthcoming PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) title from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE). Developed by Sucker Punch Productions, this open-ended, free-roaming game puts you in the shoes of Dylan, an everyday guy and urban explorer, in the aftermath of a huge disaster that destroys his hometown of Empire City. As Dylan, you must first learn to use new found powers and then decide how you will use them.
After the explosion, Empire City falls into chaos and Dylan must use his new powers and climbing agility. Along the way he will unravel an evolving mystery, experience fame and/or infamy, and battle powerful, iconic villains. inFamous gives you the freedom to play how you want, whether that’s aggressively, tactically or stealthily – be warned, however, that the city’s people and environment will react to what you do. Events will unfold based on the role you take and your actions will create broader reactions in the citizens and landscape around you.
Developed by Sucker Punch Productions, the studio who gave PlayStation® the acclaimed “Sly Racoon” franchise, inFamous brings you a new type of superhero – an uncertain man with the weaknesses of a normal human being. What will you turn Dylan into? The choice is yours when inFamous for PS3 arrives in 2009 for PAL Markets.”
June 25
Killzone 2 Cell usageKillzoneunit.com have new information regarding Killzone 2, a PS3 exlusive first person shooter. They grabbed the information from the August issue of EGM that subscribers get early.
Apprently Killzone 2 will use four and a half of the six cores of the Playstation 3’s Cell processor. Technical Directer of Guerrilla Games, Michiel van der Leeuw says:
“Sony basically has an international forum for sharing character technology, animation tools and graphics shaders. ~ We’ve even taken a few tricks directly from the Resistance guys at Insomniac, and we’ve even been talking directly to the God of War guys in Santa Monica.”
If games look this good using 4 of the 6 cores i wonder what a game will look like using all the cores.
