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The first magazine preview of PES 2008 ad FIFA 08 is available in the free PlayStation 3 magazine, P3Zine issue 4. It also includes Haze, warhawk GTA IV and Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
Hey, remember back when Haze was a timed exclusive for the Playstation 3? Remember that other time when Ubisoft revealed its release schedule for Holiday 07 and Haze 360 was dated only a week after the PS3 version? Well, it looks like Ubisoft is now trying to rewrite history.
A spokesperson for Ubisoft has confirmed this morning that yesterday's release schedule was incorrect. Haze is still to be confirmed for PC and Xbox 360, apparently, so the 30th November date now slips into the realms of TBA. The exclusive PS3 date remains the same.
Ubisoft has gone into a frenzy of organisation and stamped release dates on all of its key upcoming titles...
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"There are some shooters that will bring in a war veteran to check and see whether their game is enough like that time all their friends got killed, so they can sell it as entertainment. Which is pretty f***ing bizarre!" Yescombe told Eurogamer during one of his Haze presentations at UbiDays last month.
Gameplayer argues the commercial merits of PS3 exclusivity for Haze and how such a ploy could blow up in Ubisoft's face.
Premiered at last years' E3, Free Radical's Haze caused quite a bit of buzz at the event. Coming from a developer with a rich FPS pedigree, with such games as GoldenEye, TimeSplitters and Second Sight on their resume, and originally billed as a squad-based first-person shooter, everything about Haze went silent after last year's big show. That is until just a few weeks ago, when Ubisoft held its perennial pre-E3 event, dubbed UbiDays.
Sony ps3 fans request haze to be Exclusive. Now, the reasons for his request for exclusivity seem a bit weak. They believe that it has to be an exclusive if it is to become a Halo 3 killer. Additional reasons that he points to are Blu-Ray, which holds 50GB of data, and the PS3's processing power. They are afraid that it might be dumbed down due to the 10GB constraints of the Xbox 360 and PC.
Console now "lead platform" for Ubisoft's next-gen sci-fi shooter--but still not exclusive; game to counter Halo 3 this fall, new screens inside.
Haze was originally announced for all three systems in 2006 but the lack of any other system being mentioned for over a year, and the fact that the TimeSplitters team has a massive PlayStation heritage, seemed to point the finger of exclusivity at Sony and PS3.
It's been confirmed by Ubisoft that its upcoming first-person shooter from Free Radical, Haze, will lead on the PlayStation 3, although the publisher has refused to reveal whether or not an exclusive deal has been agreed.