Thursday 3 August 2006
Phil Harrison, Executive Vice President of SCEE, has been speaking about PS3 and how things have been progressing as we approach the November launch and he believes that "it's all going well".
Talking to the Guardian he stated that Sony is "in full swing, from a developer point of view, and over 10,000 development kits have been shipped. Developers now have final hardware in their hands, though there will be some upgrades to the operating system - there's nothing unusual
Thursday 3 August 2006
The panel for the 2006 Golden Joystick Awards has announced the shortlists for the 16 prize categories that gamers will be able to vote for in the months leading up to the November awards show.
The 2006 Golden Joystick Awards are for games released between 1 August 2005 and the 31 July 2006, a period which saw some amazing handheld games released, which is reflected in the shortlists with games such as Mario Kart DS and GTA Liberty City Stories featuring heavily.
To get
Thursday 3 August 2006
EA has released some new shots of its tasty looking cooperative shooter, Army of Two, and has also provided some story info that gives some idea as to why, exactly, the game's destructive duo are an army of two.
Army of Two comprises of soldiers Tyson and Elliot - both ex army rangers that have since gone freelance and set up their own private military corporation. Their cosy little coalition is contracted by the US government to help it maintain its presence around the
We can afford Wii games
Nintendo has told GamesIndustry.biz that game pricing will be "broadly in line" with the current generation. While ignoring that lines are sharp - and not broad - this basically implies that Wii games will be $50, just like GameCube games, while leaving Nintendo room to charge you $60 for the next Zelda if it wants
Publisher Electronic Arts busted out with some new screens of their double-up shooter Army of Two, due out for both Xbox 360 and PS3 sometime during 2007. You may recall our fine coverage of this title during E3, where we got a sneak peak at this buddy-mercenary bullet
Tuesday 1 August 2006
The Electronic Entertainment Exposition is dead. As we reported yesterday, organiser the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has cancelled the E3 trade show as we know it, and today has made an official announcement on the fate of the world's biggest videogame exhibition, effectively downsizing the event into a low-key, more industry-focused meeting.
Here's what you need to know: "To better address the needs of today's videogame industry, the Electronic Entertainment
Tuesday 1 August 2006
PlayStation 3 will have its own version of Xbox 360's Achievements which will be called Entitlements, according to current industry rumours.
The reports, which originate from a podcast by US games mag EGM, have been termed "purely speculation" today by a Sony spokesman. But it wouldn't come as a complete surprise to see PS3 include an Achievements-style ranking system, especially given that the PlayStation creators do seem to be cherry picking ideas from Microsoft's Xbox
Yesterday, our sister site Next Generation broke an exclusive news story that the Entertainment Software Association was effectively canceling the mega-format of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as E3.
The cancellation was due to a number of major publishers pulling out of the deafening annual Los Angeles spectacle. Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Electronic Arts all called it quits after the May 2006 event. The simultaneous mass exodus of the
Monday 31 July 2006
The largest, loudest, sensory overload show on the planet, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), has been cancelled in its present form for the foreseeable future, according to an exclusive report on our sister site, Next-Gen.biz.
Industry top brass revealed to Next-Gen that many of the show's biggest players were deserting after deciding the costs involved in exhibiting at E3 simply weren't worth it and that it would be more beneficial to spend money on their own events
If you've been following the limbless hero Rayman's new game at all, you've no doubt seen a few too many movies showcasing the pint-sized, maniacal "rabbids." They've ambushed Rayman's colorful world and are forcing him to act like an idiot - it's your job to entertain and distract them with excellent performances so you can break
