News/Announcements
Playstation Home coming Fall 2008 for Asia
Sony has announced that Playstation Home, the free online 3D myspace/facebook will be released in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan fall of 2008.
This is official too, read the press release below.
Metal Gear Solid 5 confirmed?
Ryan Payton was the Assistant Producer for Metal Gear Solid 4 and has left Kojima Productions. Upon leaving, Ryan has let slip that Metal Gear Solid 5 is on it’s way. In a recent interview with Kotaku, he was asked if there is anything he wishe’s he could of done while at Kojima Productions but [...]
PS3 Development Easier Than Famicon?
The people at 1UP scored an interview with ex-Team Ninja employee Tomonobu Itagaki. He goes on to talk about Japanese game development declining, and the duel he had with Hideki Kamiya. What’s interesting, is he knows that developing on the PlayStation 3 is easier than it was on the Famicon.
“One more thing I would add is [...]
Warhawk Update v1.50 is now available
Well, it has been for about 6 hours now. The new update added a host of new additions including Custom In-Game Music, XMB Trophies, Training Tutorials among several new features to the game. The file size weighs in at 66MB so it’s not too big to download.
Warhawk Operation: Fallen Star alone will cost you $7.99. [...]
Metal Gear Online servers have updated
The Metal Gear Online servers have updated and this is what Konami has reported on the situation:
[08-26-2008 02:00]
Maintenance completed on the 26/08/2008
The following changes were made during the maintenance:
1)Players will gain 5 reward points when they have finished a round in the automatching lobbies “SNAKE:EX”, “LIQUID:EX” and “SOLIDUS:EX”.
*The lobbies “SNAKE:EX”, “LIQUID:EX” and “SOLIDUS:EX” are only [...]
Sony’s PAX titles revealed
The Penny Arcade Expo starts in a couple of days and Sony is ready to bring it on. Jeff Rubenstein, Sony’s Social Media Manager has made a post on the Playstation.Blog and speaks about the upcoming event PAX and states what games Sony will be showcasing.
If you are attending PAX go to the Sony booth [...]
No Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 in Japan
It’s official, the 13th Final Fantasy will not be available for the Xbox 360 in Japan.
Dengeki PlayStation has an article on Final Fantasy XIII where FFXIII director and writer Motomu Toriyama and FFXIII Versus director Tetsuya Nomura talk about their games being on the Xbox 360 in Japan. This is the comment Toriyama left when [...]
SCEE reveal two new PS3 bundles
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe reveals two new Playstation 3 bundles.
First up is the 449 Euros 80GB PS3 with two DualShock 3 controllers and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue.
Next up is the cheaper 399 Euros 80GB Ps3 with one DualShock 3 controller and a Blu-Ray movie called Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis.
Whatever that movie is.
Source.
Hideo Kojima: Stop asking me about MGS4 on Xbox 360
Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has told Eurogamer that he looks forward to a day when people stop asking him about Metal Gear Solid 4 being ported over to the Xbox 360.
Kojima said:
“I’ve been doing a lot of interviews and stage shows, and half the questions are like ‘Will MGS4 be coming out on 360 [...]
No platform specific characters in Street Fighter IV
The producer of upcoming fighting game Street Fighter IV has said that it’s fair for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions to have the same characters in the game. Yoshinori Ono spoke with VideoGamer.com and basically said that he doesn’t believe in platform exclusive characters and didn’t think it would be fair.
“Well this [...]
Red Baron Arcade, a new PSN game
Red Baron is an arcade game created by Atari and was released in 1980. You take the role of a World War I ace in a biplane fighting on for the allies. Originally a PC download, is coming to Playstation Network in September.
You’ll be playing through 36 single player missions, or you you battle online [...]
Street Fighter IV producer talks release rumor
The producer of Street Fighter IV Yoshinori Ono has spoken about the recent rumors stating that SFIV will be released around the same time as the movie.
Ono in an interview told VideoGamer.com that Capcom’s R&D team has no idea about the suggested timing and stated that the publisher still doesn’t know when the console version [...]
Publisher Exclusives Thing of the Past?
In an interview at gamesindustry.biz with David Reeves, he believes that exclusives with publishers are a ”thing of the past,” but exclusive with developers is something that “may work.”
“But for developers, and you could take someone like Quantic Dream for example - a great game, it takes a lot of time to develop, they need [...]
Another GRID patch is on the way
Another GRID patch is on the way after the 1.2 patch fixed quite a few things. Here are the details of the next GRID patch.
The chat window, to be reworked to make it less disturbing for the parties online and networked
The flight assistance, which can be enabled or disabled during the creation of parties
All events [...]
David Reeves on Europe: “It’s good to be last”
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves has revealed that getting things last (Europe get most things last like games and hardware) is an advantage.
“People say, ‘Well, why do we always get things last? Why can’t we say things?’ Well, I’ve said this many times before: sometimes it’s an advantage to be last in Europe, [...]
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