The Official UK Playstation website has recently been updated. With it, a new description of 'Heavenly Sword'.

All appears normal until reaching the meat of the description.

"Battle through lush environments with operatic grace and style taking your fight to the clouds, over water, through tree-tops and more."

This suggests that the fighting on water that was shown in the original concept trailer has made it into the final game. In addition to 'Crouching Tiger' style fighting in the tree tops...and in the clouds.

"Enemies employ complex squad-based fight choreography and can attack one-on-one, in groups of several dozen, or even in battalions of thousands, pushing real-time AI to levels unseen before."
The AI is described more fully here than before, with thousands of enemies and not hundreds being mentioned.

"Wide range of objects and weaponry including multi-skewering spears and devastatingly explosive bazookas."
The weaponry involves more than the three stances of the sword, it is confirmed here that there will be "wide-ranging weaponry", perhaps more than just the bazookas and spears.

"Featuring the acting talents of Andy Serkis, Steven Berkoff and more"
Another highly acclaimed actor is added to the cast. Steven Berkoff has appeared in 'Octopussy', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Star Trek' and voiced in 'Killzone' the videogame. He is also an acclaimed playwright, author and director.

The updated website also lists 'Heavenly Sword' as releasing in...May 2007.

(NB: Although this website is new, they may have been using old information. However, May 2007 has never been listed on any other official website.)
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In an article by Yahoo.com they attack the allegations of the critically acclaimed screen shot of Heavenly Sword released last week as being actual in-game footage. They are quoted saying:

Yahoo.com
"Well obviously this screen hasn't come from any proper gameplay sections, but hats off to Ninja Theory's CG artists, whoever they are for this is stunning work."

That is a bold allegation. Does yahoo know something that we dont?
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While attending the SPU training session on Thursday at GDC 2007, Playstation Universe was able to see an example of gameplay footage from Heavenly Sword. Due to the technical nature of the event, the video gaming press for the most part avoided the event. Boy, did they miss out.
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Wednesday 7 March 2007 Billed as bringing cinematic production to gaming, PS3's God of War-with-girls actionfest Heavenly Sword is a real stunner - and in this developer feature/gameplay vidburst, creator Ninja Theory hopes that it'll be "the first really big game for PlayStation 3". Point your eyes down now for in game action and interviews with the team, including Middle Earth's Andy Serkis. Y'know, Gollum. One immediately eye-opening moment is watching the game's flexible heroine, Nariko, ... » Read More

Website thelastboss.com has gotten their hands on a copy of a local EB Games release chart for PS3 Software. The list however ends in june. This was in an attempt to get a confirmation of the release date of Heavenly Sword.
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IGN has updated their chart of big releases for the PS3 in 2007.
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Heavenly Sword developer Ninja Theory is generally pleased with the PlayStation 3 but admits it can be "an interesting ride" to develop for.

"The PS3 hardware is a bit like a journey into the Marianas trench," said Mike Ball, co-founder of Ninja Theory, speaking to Eurogamer. "There's lots to explore and the deeper you get the more varied the life forms - sometimes horrific, sometimes beautiful."

He added: "Personally I really love the SPUs as they have exceeded our performance expectations and we've got a lot of them to play with."

The comments come after Wednesday night's announcement that the PS3 will launch across Europe on 23rd March at a GBP 425 price-point.
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Ok, so this is Playstation 3 Magazine. Not the official one, but still

Today's menu :

Slapping PS3, PS2 and PSP games.
Rumors about DMC4 and Bioshock
Heavenly Sword delayed til december 2007

And finally, a surprising ad' on the back cover.

Are those guys on crack ?
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In a recent interview with SCEA's Peter Dille, Killzone 2 is mentioned briefly as one of Sony's upcoming titles to release in the second half of 2007.

"I think we have a good first half of the year. Games like Lair that people are really excited about. MLB is coming out and is looking great and is the best-selling sports game from a first-party studio. Motorstorm. Heavenly Sword. And don't forget you have games like Killzone in the back half of the year. We're not really saying that there is one game that consumers have to wait for. I think that the content is there now and the content is coming. It's going to be a steady stream of really great PlayStation 3 content," stated Dille.
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The official US PlayStation 3 site has revealed the release date for one of the most anticipated games of the year.

Heavenly Sword will be exclusively available for PlayStation 3 on March 6th 2007.
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Sony's PS3 may not be selling like hotcakes as they were at launch because of a lack of first-party titles and franchises, says an analyst at IDC.

Billy Pidgeon's comments came just after NPD's games sales figures, which show healthy sales of both the PS3 and PS2, were released.

"The PlayStation brand doesn't appear to be helping the PS3. If NPD's numbers are correct, there are over 300K PS3s on retails shelves," said Pidgeon to GamesIndustry.biz.

"That is not good for a console launch of only a million, and it's not good for publishers with PS3 software."

He suggested that Sony's sales of the PS3 would be healthier if gamers could look forward to upcoming known franchises; although first-party PS3 games Heavenly sword and Motorsport are coming out soon, Pidgeon said, "They're new and less anticipated."

"Sony needs more must-have first party titles to sell consoles. Gamers know Halo 3 is coming on the Xbox 360, and they can expect Mario on the Wii, but there are no established first party franchises coming to the PS3 except Gran Turismo ¿ and that is delayed."
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A dutch PS3-website received the newest boxarts from Resistance, MotorStorm, Singstar, Genji and Heavenly Sword. Althoug some of them are almost exactly the same as the American boxarts, some of them are different or entirely new (like Singstar and Heavenly Sword)
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Following an apparent posting on Sony's official PS3 site earlier today, the interwebs erupted with news that jaw-dropping slash 'em-up Heavenly Sword - easily one of the most impressive games shown at the E3 expo in May 2006 - would hit stores on March 6. When we checked, though, the date had disappeared from the game's official page, replaced only with a vague "2007." According to Sony spokesman Alex Armour, the March release date is wrong and was posted by mistake. Plans for the game's ... » Read More

The we-can't-wait-to-buy-it Heavenly Sword has gotten dated. The title will drop March 6th in the US according to Sony Computer Entertainment of America's website. No word on Japan yet. This red-headed "Goddess of War" game got generally favorable reviews (impressions?) at last year's E3.
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A pamphlet included in the US retail PlayStation 3 hardware bundle has shed some light on the release dates for a few of the next-gen system's upcoming exclusives.

According to IGN, the pamphlet reveals that despite MotorStorm enjoying a December release in Japan, where the PS3 goes on sale today, it won't be released in the US until February.

Meanwhile, Factor 5's dragon-'em-up Lair (which smacks a bit of Dynasty Warriors in our early build) is down as March, along with Heavenly Sword from UK-based Ninja Theory.

The good news, we suppose, being that those games could all wind up as European launch titles - if they stick to the proposed dates. Ha.
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Heavenly Sword is so beautiful it'd make Bond ditch his girl. Click through to a gameplay video and you can be darn sure you'll be scratching your head for hours afterwards trying to work out if you just saw FMV or in-game footage. But Ninja Theory has been keeping the game so close to its chests for so long that we're fairly sketchy on just what's going on beneath the surface.
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According to a Heavenly Sword developer interview posted on IGN, Duncan Frostick (combat code Ninja), Nina Kristensen (chief development Ninja), SaiTong Man (combat design Ninja), and Guy Midgely, are all working hard to complete the title in time.
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A list printed today from Gamestop that lists all the games they have in their database and their release dates.
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What do Japanese game developers think about the next-gen consoles? Famitsu Mag took it upon themselves to ask 58 game developers (directors, programmers and designers) from 19 game companies about next-gen consoles and here are the results...

Which next-gen console will send cash registers ringing:
* Wii (60%)
* PS3 (37%)
* Xbox 360's (3%)

Which system they prefer for game development:
* Wii (63%)
* PS3 (32%)
* Xbox 360s (5%)

Which next-gen console they want for Christmas:
* Wii (49%)
* PS3 (42%)
* Xbox 360 (9%)

Most anticipated PS3's games:
* Metal Gear Solid 4 (12 votes)
* Final Fantasy XIII (10 votes)
* The Eye of Judgment (7 votes)
* Afrika (6 votes)
* Heavenly Sword (4 votes).
* Runners up: Bladestorm, Gran Turismo HD, Lair and Resistance: Fall of Man

Most anticipated Xbox360 games:
* Blue Dragon (18 votes)
* Lost Odyssey (14 votes)
* Culdecept Saga (8 votes)
* Dead Rising (4 votes)
* Gundam Operation Troy (4 votes).
* Runners up: Lost Planet, Gears of War, Riot Act and Idol Master
Most anticipated Wii games:
* The Legend of Zelda (26 votes)
* Super Mario Galaxy (8 votes)
* Wii Sports (5 votes)
* Animal Crossing (3 votes)
* Smash Brothers X (3 votes)
* Runners up: WarioWare, Fire Emblem, Sonic and the Secret Rings and Elebits

What they expect from PS3:
* Extremely high expectations (48%)
* High expectations (32%)
* Don't expect much (18%)

What they expect from Xbox 360:
* Not expecting much (45%)
* High expectations (40%)
* Extremely high expectations (13%)

What they expect from Wii:
* Extremely high...
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The Ninja Theory team offers insight into the development processes behind the upcoming PS3 fighter, Heavenly Sword.
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