Saturday 23 September 2005 PS3 mud-and-metal racer MotorStorm had a rough ride at its E3 showing, not least from us, but happily the Tokyo Game Show version feels a lot closer to that original, thrilling target footage. The visuals are slowly but surely catching up with the notorious E3 2005 movie, with great lighting and some truly obsessive right-down-to-the-sprockets modelling on the various vehicles. More importantly, though, the physics feel as heavy as they should, and you really get the ... » Read More

When the PlayStation 3 goes on sale in Japan November 11, six games will definitely be available: Genji: Days of the Blade, Mah-Jong Fight Club Online, Mobile Suit Gundam: Target In Sight, Resistance: Fall of Man, Sega Golf Club featuring the Miyazato Family, and--wait for it--Ridge Racer 7. Sony also confirmed Armored Core 4 would arrive sometime in November.

In December, Sony has locked down a trio of games: F1 Championship (aka Formula One 06), Gran Turismo HD, and MotorStorm. Three more carry a general "winter 2006" release date in Japan: Need for Speed Carbon, Enchant Arm, and the railroad sim Railfan. Another pair will ship during "2006": Sonic the Hedgehog and Fatal Inertia, though the later is only "projected" to make that vague release window.

According to Sony, 2007 will see at least 12 more PS3 titles come to market across the Pacific. Virtua Fighter 5, Virtua Tennis 3, Heavenly Sword, Lair, Monster Kingdom: Unknown Realms, The Eye of Judgment, and Wangan Midnight will all arrive in the "spring," while Everybody's Golf 5 and Warhawk will land in the "summer." Other games confirmed for the year are Afrika (working title), Coded Arms: Assault, and the much-awaited Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Sony listed a sextet of several high-profile titles with the most nebulous release date of all, "TBD." Those included Shirokishi, fl0w (working title), Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War, Devil May Cry 4, and Final Fantasy XIII.
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Tuesday 12 September 2006 These spectacular new images of dirt-racing PlayStation 3 game MotorStorm would appear to prove that the game has upped its excitement levels recently, and gives us the first glimpse of the game's off-road modified superbikes. We've heard reliable whispers that the MotorStorm team has remarkably improved on the dull and blandly repetitive experience that we played at E3 earlier this year, and that the game is now a high-speed, dirt-spitting ride. And as there're more ... » Read More

Here's a list of 19 of 27 confirmed playable PS3 titles. The publisher for each game is listed in parentheses.
Railfan (Ongakukan)

Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)

Fatal Inertia (Koei)

Blade Storm (Koei)

Mahjong Taikai IV (Koei)

Coded Arms Assault (Konami Digital Entertainment)

Genji (SCEJ)

Formula One World Championship (SCEJ)

Heavenly Sword (SCEJ)

Lair (SCEJ)

MotorStorm (SCEJ)

Resistance Fall of Man (SCEJ)

The Eye of Judgment (SCEJ)

Warhawk (SCEJ)

Gran Turismo Series (SCEJ)

Minna no Golf 5 (aka Hot Shots Golf, SCEJ)

Ridge Racer (Bandai Namco Games)

Gundam Target in Sight (Bandai Namco Games)

Armored Core 4 (From Software)

All but the first game were previously announced. Given its publisher (and title), the first game is likely a train simulation game of some form.

The remaining 8 titles are currently a mystery, so we encourage wild speculation.

Sony will also have a theater in its booth which will show video footage of a total of 35 titles. We presume there will be some overlap with the playable titles and the video-only titles, but Sony wasn't clear about the matter.
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The Motorstorm site is now up but not Live yet.
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Why not take a look at this new Motorstorm press release from the SCEE.

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Sony's Pete Smith convinces us that MotorStorm will be one of PS3's biggest early hitters. Latest media included.
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Friday 11 August 2006 Gamers will have forgotten all about the lack of rumble in console pads by next year, reckons Matt Southern, producer of PlayStation 3 racer MotorStorm. "By 2007 we'll say 'no rumble? What of it?'" Southern told Official PlayStation 2 Magazine. He believes "the many positives of PS3 far outweigh the lack of rumble". Sony took the decision to remove the rumble feature, which was included with previous PlayStation controllers, as it said the vibration would interfere with ... » Read More

We're all desperate to see more of PS3's gaming credentials in action, especially after a pretty disappointing showing at May's E3 expo, so this new gameplay footage of none-more-muddy dirt racer MotorStorm is more than welcome. It's even exciting enough to make us forget - nearly - our rather dull experience the last time we saw the game. Click the Movies tab now to watch it. You can see from the footage how your race opponents will line up - in a motorized menagerie of dirt bikes, buggies, ... » Read More

Taking off-road racing into the next generation is Sony's own MotorStorm, which is widely expected to be available around the Nov. 17 launch of the PlayStation 3 - and we've got all the latest screenshots. It's all about intense, over-the-top racing action, offering gamers the chance to get behind the wheel of 35 different vehicles spread across seven classes, then hurtling through the dust and dirt of Monument Valley, taking on both the terrain and several aggressive, computer-controlled ... » Read More

It's designed to provide you with "all the latest information and images of the console which promises to usher in a brave new world of home entertainment."

Along with pics and hardware specifications, you can find info about games such as Genji 2, Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Formula One 06 and MotorStorm - plus our personal favourite, next-gen SingStar.
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Friday 12 May 2006 When we gripped the PS3 pad to play MotorStorm it was - we realise now - with impossibly high expectations. Last year at Sony's E3 press conference we saw a game that seemed to promise intense, high velocity and high danger off-road racing, but the demo we played mere minutes ago was a tame, unexciting circuit racer. It's like Burnout never happened. While a variety of motors were certainly present, there was absolutely no sign of anything quite as dramatic or exciting as a ... » Read More

• MotorStorm E3 2006 footage (WMV, 15.8MB) - right-click to download Friday 12 May 2006 Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, MotorStorm is at this year's E3 - and we have the footage to prove it. Download the three-minute movie above and you'll be able to feast your eyes on the first ever in-game footage of the PS3 desert racer. The big question, of course, is whether the game's visuals can come anywhere close to matching the near-photorealistic teaser trailer that was shown at ... » Read More

Sony big-wig Phil Harrison's keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday was focused mainly on Sony's hardware and online initiative, but all that stuff is meaningless without games to back it up. Fortunately, several developers took the stage during the keynote to finally give us a glimpse of what the PS3 really looks like in motion - and for the record, it looks ... » Read More