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Filed under: News
An interview on Casualgaming.biz shows that the executive producer of Ubisoft’s Games For Everyone anger, Pauline Jacquey, sees good potential for the PS3 to become a “family console”. By the end of the PS2’s lifecycle, it has moved from being a hardcore gaming console into a more informal gaming-friendly device; the popularity of games like Singstar leads Jacquey to believe the PS3 will eventually pull off the same feat. She warns that, however, “the shape of the market is not the same when PS2 became mass market.” Jacquey further states that she doesn’t see the same potential in the Xbox 360, but this will be ultimately determined by the software lineup of each respective console. Rumors of new peripherals like a motion sensing controller and board shows that developers sees the same possibiities, so we feel Jacquey’s prediction is right on the money.
[Via Maxconsole]
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Filed under: News, Interviews
Rebellion CTO Chris Kingsley sat down with GamesIndustry.biz in an interview and he had quite a few positive things to say about the PSP. However, he claims that publishing games on the PSP “wasn’t a deliberate choice, it just happened. We were very clever on it as a platform and it took off for us.” Earlier during the the week, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley echoed similar sentiments.
The CTO went on further to say that Sony’s handheld has a good few years left in it, thanks to its versatility, but admits that publishers are not as clever as they once were about software on the PSP. Why? It isn’t piracy, according to Kingsley, but rather developers want “to work on the flashy, high-end stuff.” He cites the PS2 as a “less glamorous platform” that has remained economically viable for publishers because the software matches the right platform — Kingsley feels the reason why the PSP has been “kicking the arse of pretty much every other system out there” in Japan is precisely because it has the right games. His illation on the PSP is that Sony has “done a great job,” with “tens of millions of PSPs.. worldwide.” but that its “incredible” success has been overshadowed by the DS.
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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
Y’know, this seems familiar. Hmm …
yes it does. While we already knew the solid release date of
Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (June 25),
Ticket to Ride has been something of an unknown quantity, with not much information about the game having ever been relased to the press. However,
the last time xbox.com pages appeared for unreleased XBLA games, they released exactly one week later. And with
HTF:
FA definitely hitting next week, we think we can say with some certainty that the electronic adaptation of the classic board game about building railroads will be hitting next week too. To tide you over until then, marvel at the screenshots below.
[Source, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm]
[Source, Ticket to Ride]
[Thanks Jonah]
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Filed under: Another Week in …
Never, ever, ever, ever rule out the power of Kawashima. We’re going to have that tattooed across our foreheads, because despite us slyly noting Brain Training’s slow decline in the Euro charts these last few weeks, the blighter has bounced back mightily — bugger.
Next week could be interesting, mind. Were we gambling types, we’d put good money on Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What to Eat? (which two of the Fanboy team have already purchased) and My Weight Loss Coach doing pretty well, what with their angle on training and self-improvement (and Europe’s baffling collective urge to improve itself). And what of New International Track & Field? Well, as much as we’d like it to do well, we can’t see it leaving much of a dent. I mean, a track and field game starring famous characters and mascots from the franchises of a major gaming company? El-oh-el! It’ll never work.
Charts after the break!
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action
Pandemic just released the first trailer for their Star Wars: Battlefront-esque take on Tolkien’s beloved fantasy world, Lord of the Rings: Conquest, and despite a few framerate issues, we’re as pleased as Miruvor-flavored punch. Though past titles have tried to capture the grand scale of Middle Earth’s climactic battles through various methods of interactivity, we’ve never really felt the exhilaration associated with cutting through swathes of Orcborn adversaries with our trusty Andúril. The familiar Battlefront gameplay formula looks to be just what the doctor ordered — though PETA might have a few unkind words to say about the Proboscidean homocide apparently featured in the title.
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Filed under: Videos and Screenshots
Please don’t mind the Games for Windows and Xbox 360 logo at the end of this video. Rest assured, Call of Duty: World at War will be making its way to the PS3. For one rea$on or another, the debut trailer for World at War was featured exclusively on the Xbox Live Marketplace. It looks like Treyarch is using a similar (if not the same) engine used by Infinity Ward for Call of Duty 4. However, will Treyarch be able to agree the success of one of the best games of last year?
[Via Joystiq]
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Filed under: News, Xbox Live
Hey fanboys, did you know that we’re smack dab in the middle of a SpongeBob SquarePants Live Weekend? We were oblivious to that fact until about twenty minutes ago when a pink jellyfish knocked on our door and told us the news. No joke either, jellyfish really do talk if you’re willing to listen. So, with it being a SpongeBob Live Weekend, we’re encouraged to download a the free episode “Blackened Sponge / Mermaid Man vs. SpongeBob” off the XBVM, purchase other episodes, try the trial of SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam!, purchase new spongy gamer pictures / themes and give the retail SpongeBob games a whirl. For those who can’t stand SpongeBob, his laugh or the mind control he has on tweens, then feel free to vent in the comments division. Personally, we don’t mind him. Our dishes have never been so clean.
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Filed under: Rumors
Too be honest, we almost feel a bit dirty posting this rumor. The game that for all intents and purposes, is COD5, is currently still being teased, and there’s already rumors about the next game? Indeed there is, thus the faintly dirty feeling. Apparently an Infinity Ward team member spoke to someone from TalkPlaystation.com and told them that the company is at work on a new sci-fi title that may or may not see reveal at E3.
With Call of Duty: World at War returning to the familiar territory of WWII, and the series’ current hit staking the claim of Modern Warfare it would seem to make sense that Infinity Ward would want to jump things into the future. If this ends up being accurate (heck, they could be working on a non-COD sci-fi game too) let’s hope Infinity Ward can do better than some other popular franchises that have used a futuristic setting. We can’t help but get flashbacks of the ill-fated Battlefield: 2142 …
[Via Joystiq]
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Filed under: News, Fan stuff
While Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns comes with a spiffy reversible boxart feature, that’s not the only award male Atlus fans can expect this July. There will actually be another mini-poster included with the game — a much more risqué poster, at that. Here’s the catch: in order to get one with your copy of Izuna 2, you have to order it from Amazon.com (which means the promotion is only available for folks in the U.S.). Atlus tells us that there are only a “limited” number of these special edition copies available, so take that as you will.
Atlus is also holding a voting contest to see which one of two posters (shown in full after the break) will be included with the software. When we last checked, the two options were almost neck and neck, with the first one taking a delicate direct.
If your lecherous curious eyes want to see the uncropped posters featuring Izuna and Shino’s scantily clad figures, just click past the break.
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Filed under: News
Well it’s been a strange project
from day one, and while we were hoping that
MK VS DCU wouldn’t be market-tested and exploited to death, it looks like that simply won’t be helped. A recent issue of the UK-based magazine X360 seems
to confirm that the Flash, Robin (
really?), Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Black Canary, Hawkman & Powergirl will all make appearances in the game. Also, the article does
allude a possible two game deal, as well as DLC for the first game, hinting that they’d like you to buy even more content for this nuttiness.
Additionally, and perhaps not so surprisingly in retrospect, there was the news that the game will have a tie-in comic to go along with it. Apparently the storyline for it has been completed and contains some sort of gigantic, life changing twist. Comic fans we may be, but color us underwhelmed.
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