The Playstation Blog reports that a new Firmware is due to hit your machines soon. The notice reports that this is to bring stability to some PS3 titles. One has to wonder if maybe all the reported problems with GTA IV may not have been fixed by their patch? If this fixes any remaining issues, […]
Now that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has finally been completed, Kojima is looking forward to creating new videogame series as well as continuing existing ones, such as Zone of the Enders.
The fast-paced mecha fighting series for the PlayStation 2 launched in Spring 2001, and was met with average reception at best. It is widely considered to be one of the PS2’s most underrated games, and has gained its own cult-fanbase across the world.
In an interview with PSM UK, Kojima stated that he “would like to say that Zone of the Enders is quite near the priority list… [after MGS4] it might be good to change to outer space or robots or things like that for a change”
More Age of Conan news, anyone? Eidos has announced that a whopping one million players have signed up for the MMORPG’s beta test.
According to the developer, Funcom, this is the highest number for any MMO beta test in the Western world. At least that we know of anyway. But how many of those million players will become paying customers, I wonder?
Age of Conan is one of the most anticipated MMORPG releases in modern time, and is currently scheduled for a May 23rd launch.
Norwegian developer Funcom has launched a new website featuring a feat calculator for its MMORPG Age of Conan. It is a valuable tool players can use “to explore the various options available for thei character’s builds, without having to worry about in-game costs to retrain their feats.”
The site states that you will be able to use it for viewing all the feats of every single class available, and even interact with them in the exact same way you would in-game, but with a few extrea features.
Not satisfied? Well then you can also easily link your feat builds to friends, so that they can check out what you have in mind, similar to World of Warcraft.
According to an Activision conference call, the upcoming James Bond game, Quantum of Solace, will be running on the critically acclaimed Call of Duty 4 engine by Infinity Ward.
in the conference call, Activision CEO Mike Griffith said: “We look forward to launching Bond: Quantum of Solace in Q3 concurrent with movie. This game uses the Call of Duty 4 engine and technology to bring Bond games to a new level.”
The COD4 engine is a beast, so this should come as good news for most of us.
Contrary to previous reports, the next installment in the Call of Duty series may not be set in World War II after all. Ativision CEO Mike Griffith has revealed that Call of Duty 5 will take the incredibly popular series to a “new military theatre”.
He stated that they plan to bring the intensity of the more recent COD4: Modern Warfare into a new military theatre, to engage their significantly larger user base which “nearly doubled last year as new users came into the franchise.”
Whether this means it will take place in a futuristic setting or not, we don’t know. But it’s good news for those of us who are tired of all the gritty gray WWII-inspired games.
Criterion Games today announced that their critically acclaimed and award-winning Burnout Paradise is being re-adjusted for a PC release.
This will be the very first Burnout title ever released for the PC platform, and it will include expanded multiplayer gameplay, new enhanced online features and introduces community driven content.
Criterion promises that the PC version will mix the elements and experiences from the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, while adding new and interesting twists of PC gameplay.
Roy Taylor, who works at NVIDIA, recently told Eurogamer about the ever apparent problem with the PC game market and how he believes that people pirating the game are sucking the very life out of the industry itself. But he’s not going on one of those rants most industry figureheads do. He is truly disappointed with the said pirates because he realizes how passionate most PC gamers really are.
“One of the things that I find frustrating is that PC gamers tend to be very passionate, and they love the people that make great PC games. If you ask any PC gamer what they think of John Carmack, they’ll say he’s a hero. What do they think of Tim Sweeney? He’s a hero. Ken Levine is a hero. And yet many of them, sadly, will go and steal from them. I just don’t get that, I really don’t.”
Here’s an interesting trailer for Ubisoft’s next big first person shooter, Far Cry 2. It more or less describes what the player will experience and how Ubisoft Montreal attempts to make this game attractive to all types of first person shooter players as well as creating a realistic and versatile environment to play in. They also go on to say that they actually travelled to Africa and camped out in the wilderness in order to experience the country in order to get a very personal experience with the locale. Now that what I would call a dedicated developer, folks.
Overclocked: A History Of Violence is a mature-rated adventure game that was released on the PC last month. Lighthouse Interactive has released a demo for Overclocked today.
Today the demo is to be released for Overclocked: A History of Violence by leading computer software Publishers Lighthouse Interactive and dtp Entertainment. Created by award-winning developer House of Tales Entertainment, players will delve into the world of Overclocked to explore the deranged minds of three of the five patients admitted to the Staten Island Forensic Hospital. This highly anticipated Adventure game on PC DVD-ROM is available in stores now.
For those of you currently using Steam to play some great commercial games, you may be interested in knowing that you can start developing games using the same framework for distribution. Steamworks was just announced and is available to you for Free. Check out a snippet of the front page below.
It’s nothing major, but here are three new screenshots of Kung Fu Panda - the videogame based on the Dreamworks animation film with the same name.
In Kung Fu Panda, player will embark on an epic action-packed adventure, in which they master the art of Kung Fu fighting styles. The game features 13 legendary levels from the movie, and players must work hard to become the Dragon Warrior and defeat the ultimate villain.
Square Enix has announced that the Final Fantasy XI 2008 Edition will be released in all European territories this year on May 23rd.
It includes the original FFXI game, along with all four expansions, Rise of the Zilart, Chains of Promathia, Treasures of Aht Urghan, and Wings of the Goddess.
Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine receives a fresh and greatly appreciated cash injection, as the MMO creator has been given another $USD 40 million through fund-raising.
This means the company has managed to raise an impressive $USD 88 million in venture captial, which will apparently be used on new projects, as well as further development on LOTRO.
Believe it or not, the idea that eventually turned into the ever successful Steam platform was shopped around to the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo before Valve decided to develop it themselves.
“We went around to everybody and asked ‘Are you guys doing anything like this?’ And everyone was like ‘That’s a million miles in the future…We can’t help you.’”
Steam now serves as a digital distribution platform selling over 300 titles and hosts a gaming community with over 14 million accounts.
I still don’t think this shocking revelation has dawned upon Microsoft yet since they are still unsuccessfully trying to redefine PC gaming with Games For Windows.
EA today announced that it will release a demo of the hugely anticipated (as well as long-awaited) title Spore this summer.
Players will be able to test the Spore Creature Creator, designing their very own life form using 25% of the body parts included in the full game, and afterwards upload it to YouTube using an integrated feature.
“We are thrilled to finally be putting the creative tools of Spore into the hands of players around the world,” said creator Will Wright.
“The amazing creations players design this summer will help populate the game universe we all enter when Spore ships this September, so in a sense, the Spore Creature Creator is the birth of Spore.”
The latest UK software charts are in, and I don’t think it will surprise anyone that Wii Fit is firmly seated on leading throne.
Following closely behind is Mario Kart Wii, which is enjoying spectacular sales numbers, along with the ever-popular Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and Gran Turismo 5: Prologue.
Today Ubisoft has announced a brand new Prince of Persia game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC which is stated for release this holiday season. And not only that, Ubisoft is proclaiming that this game will “rejuvenate the action-adventure genre” with a “new breed of gameplay”. Ubisoft Montreal will be developing the new Prince of Persia game. This is the same studio that created the mega-hit Assassin’s Creed and the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy for the last generation systems. The DS will get it’s own rendition of the game with exclusive content.
Futuremark has announced that 3DMark Vantage has gone gold, and that it will officially launch on Monday, 28th of April 2008. Downloads will be made available at 13:00 GMT.
If you’re unaware of that exactly this is, 3DMark is a computer benchmark by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards.
Hit the jump to check out the minimum and recommended system requirements.
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