Latest issue of P3Zine has a 6 page preview/interview with emphasis on how the user-built maps work on the PS3. Also has Stranglehold, Warhawk, Fracture and Fallout 3.
The October issue of the American gaming magazine Game Informer has just landed in stores and all the review scores are already found on the internet. In this months' issue titles like Guitar Hero III, Metroid Prime 3, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, SKATE, Medal of Honor and tons of other games have all been reviewed.
Apparently, Sony is offering a pretty sweet deal overseas, in Sweden at the very least. Anyone who purchases a full-HD TV from Sony, will get either a free Playstation 3 unit or a 200EU rebate on the TV. On top of that, with every HD Ready TV purchased, buyers will receive a free Sony PSP.
Incognito will be deploying another server-side update and system restart during a maintenance window of 5am to 7am PDT. on Friday.
Yahoo's Matt Slagle writes :
While monitoring the stats situation over the weekend Sony were largely pleased with the results. The vast majority of you were having proper stats registered on the server. That said, as of Monday, Sony are now seeing some players NOT getting their stats again. A smaller portion for sure, but there's still a problem.
This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending September 7th, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart.
Despite the game being highly rated amongst gamers and gaming journalists alike and delivering the much needed satisfaction for PS3 owners, what is sure to go down just as importantly and significantly is it's online server problems that have once again crashed. The Warhawk forums have burst alight with angry threads and, amongst other things, strong complaints as for the second time since launch, the statistical records of some Warhawk players have been wiped out - atleast from the public profile of players - for now.
With the recent rash of demos popping up on the PlayStation Network, we were shocked to not see a small demo available for Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)'s Warhawk. Rather than speculate, GameDaily asked Sony whether the company might release the demo to gamers who are considering purchasing the product.
A former employee of Incognito Inc. sheds light on just how dire the situation was after many of its workers left to form a new gaming studio, Eat, Sleep, Play. Amazingly, only 6 remained behind to finish the game and keep Incognito alive.
Dylan Jobe announces that the Warhawk servers will be down from 4:15pm PDT until 6:15pm PDT, The aim being to fix the stats issue.
A UK reader has mailed Maxconsole in to let them know that the Official Playstation forums keep closing threads regarding Warhawk issues. Petitions are not allowed on the official site, and Icognito have left their fanbase in the lurch despite clarification that they are aware of problems some days ago. The respective reader has set up a petition in which he describes the game as being released to the public full of bugs and essentially those who purchased the game are acting as the second layer of beta testers which is unacceptable practice.
Sales across the board were quite interesting this week. Compared to last week, hardware sales were up significantly, and the three current generation consoles (Wii/PS3/360) saw pretty big shakeups in their top ten software for the week:
After recent announcements of Incognito staff member Dylan Jobe stating current known issues with Warhawk, their is now a time set to fix one of the major issues.
Warhawk developer updates the situation on the games current problems.
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Warhawk servers will be down today between 13:00 and 15:00 to recieve scheduled maintenance.
Some Playstation 3 users across forums boards including Gamespot are reportedly having issues joining Warhawk online games because all the ranked games are constantly full and so are mostly all of the unranked ones. This means that most gamers spend an average of 15 minutes before you can join a game.
Stay on the lookout for the room PSFanboy throughout Labor Day weekend. We're taking a break from all our worries with a good ol' game of Warhawk. See you online!