Factor 5's PS3-exclusive action title Lair is being offered for $15.90 on GoGamer, slashing nearly $25 off the game's retail price.
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Developer Factor 5 is facing tough choices due to our bad economy, according to a blog post from Sam Baker, an animator for the company. Baker explains that after a two-week foray to work with California-based animation studio The Orphanage, he came back to Factor 5 and found that none of his fellow employees had been paid in the past month. His team continued on their current project, but then had their health care benefits taken as a cost-saving measure.
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The Hong Kong PlayStation Store receives a brand new Lair demo. The weight of the demo is around 1919MB and fully English.
Great news for those who couldn't get to grips with Lair's motion controls: the patch for analog flight controls is now live, and also brings crosshairs as a menu option. The patch is 147MB, and is up now for European Lair owners.
A new free add-on pack for PS3's dragon shooter Lair is set to be released on April 17th via the Playstation Store. The pack updates the game to support the new Dualshock 3's rumble feature, dual analog stick flight control as opposed to the generally panned motion control, updated Remote Play for playing Lair on your PSP, and most interestingly, two new dragons, Wind and Poison. Players not interested in downloading the whole ...
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A free update for Lair will come on Apr 17th in Japan.
Gamedaily.Biz reports that RipTide Music announced today that it will represent the soundtrack for the game Lair. The score was composed by John Debney, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on The Passion of the Christ. Lair's soundtrack and other aesthetic elements of the game were well received by critics last year, even though the overall gameplay and control scheme were not.
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Although Factor 5's 3D action flying game Lair has been available for months, players who could never come to grip with the Sixaxis controls may have a more traditional solution waiting in the wing. Recently, F5 president Julian Eggebrecht chatted with IGN about Lair's mixed reception at the marketplace and hinted at a future enhancement to the game.
Kotaku's Brian Crecente writes:
What makes a good video game? Strong visuals are important. Good controls are essential. A well-crafted concept helps too. These days, most games can boast at least two-thirds of that criteria.
Missing from the NPD November sales charts is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which only managed 117,000 sales. To be fair, Uncharted did have a better first-month than Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (74,500 units), Warhawk (58,600 units) and Lair (46,500 units), but still fell behind Heavenly Sword's debut sales (139,000 units) in September.
Amazon will be offering a video game deal of some kind for the next 10 days starting today. The offer is a Playstation 3, Blu-Ray remote, and the collectors edition of Stranglehold, for $399. Noteworthy is Lair only being $34.99 today as well.
The sudden delay that saw Lair's UK release pushed back even further behind the US release was due to there being no age rating on the game discs, Sony has told CVG.
Playstation 3 exclusive title Lair has been stores in America since the end of August, but the European version of Lair has still not been released yet. The game has been delayed multiple times, with no exact reason why. Rumor has it the European version would get an updated control scheme, where players could choose between the SIXAXIS-controls or the newly added analog controls.