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Read Full StoryThe 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, happy gaming to GTA IV fans!
The Playstation Blog hinted that the first batch of user created levels were coming soon. How soon? Today! The levels will only be available until May 21st, so if you want to get your chance to see what fellow players managed to make and pass muster through the selection criteria then act fast and download often!
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”
We can only hope.
Nacmo Bandai has published a list of their upcoming games slated for release in Japan 2008. While the listing is written entirely in Japanese, one of the titles on it is most definitely Tales of Vesperia, revealing that the game is now to the PS3 as well.
Tales of Vesperia is the newest and tenth main entry into the Tales of series. It was announced on December 22nd, 2007 and Jump Festa. It will be produced by Yoshito Higuchi.
No release dates have been confirmed for any of the versions.
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Well, sort of. You may remember around the first of April, Konami released a video of Altair from Assassin’s Creed walking around one of the street battles in Metal Gear Solid 4. It has been confirmed that Snake actually has an alternative Altair costume that can be enabled in MGS4.
Source - PS3 Fanboy
Five developers have stepped up to the plate to bring Japan what could potentially be one of the best cross over games to date, Cross Edge. We reported earlier with some scans but now some details are available for the rest of us not able to read Japanese. Similar to the Kingdom Hearts franchise, this game will feature worlds based on Disgaea and Dark Stalkers to name a pair. This game is currently slated only for a Japanese PS3 release but with the popularity of games like Kingdom Hearts, we may not be far from hearing a US release schedule.
Pure director Jason Avent has stated that the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game will look exactly the same on both consoles.
Speaking to Eurogamer this week, he said that there is absolutely nothing to be worried about in regards to the visuals, and that the PS3 version was already up to standard early in January this year.
“It’s the same; exactly the same, I’d say around January time we had all the functionality in the PS3 version that we had in the 360.”
“Now we’ve got them both running and 30 frames per second is our target. It does dip down, but we’ve got months to optimise it. We do side-by-side comparisons just like you guys do.”
Via Eurogamer
If you’re worried that the Metal Gear Solid movie will never see daylight, we have some moderately good news for you. According to Kotaku, a contract for the movie is still being worked out. And while Kojima-san will not direct it, he will take on the producing role.
Hollywood has great respect for Mr. Kojima. They want to meet with him. Kojima will be acting as a producer, but we don’t know how involved he’ll be as a producer. Often Hollywood adaptations have the original game creator involved at the beginning, but somewhere along the line they fall out of view. This is why it’s very important for us to carefully pick the studio for this project.
In regard as to who might be be directing this film, Paul Thomas Anderson has apparently shown interest to some degree.
Is Hideo Kojima disappointed with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots? Well we were lead to believe that a while back, when Edge Magazine published an interview with the MGS creator. How however, Kojima states that he was merely misquoted.
“On the internet, there’s stuff saying ‘Hideo Kojima isn’t satisfied with the PS3’. I’d like to talk about that today. I just got back from Paris and did 15 interviews and everyone asked me about it, did I say that. The meaning of what I said has totally been changed, made totally different. Today, I’d like to talk about that,” he said.
Kojima comments that when he is doing an interview, he speaks in Japanese, and cannot control how the writers and translators interpret that into English.
“What I say is then translated in English, and the writer then changes that into their own words and writes that. So, right there, the meaning of what I say changes a lot.”
According to NeoGAF member SolidSnakex, Guitar Hero 4 will include a set of drums, a bass guitar, full microphone support, and will additionally allow you to create and share your own songs.
The game is currenly being developed for the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PS2. However sharing songs on the Wii and PS2 will be significantly less robust than in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.
The post in question boasts a new guitar peripheral that introduces a “new input mechanic” which apparently involves “see-through notes” and aims to impact the way you play GH in the future.
Via EuroGamer
While having experienced a significant 77% drop in sales, Grand Theft Auto IV still refused to give up on its top spot in the UK All Formats Charts this week.
This pushed the hugely popular and critically acclaimed Rockstar title over the one million mark in the UK, and apparently widened the gap between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions, in Microsoft’s favour.
Gran Turismo 5: Prologue is still doing nicely as well, claiming the eight spot, closely followed by Mario Kart Wii and Brain Training.
Konami has confirmed two “innovative initiatives” for the upcoming June 12th launch of the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PS3.
Prior to the game’s release, Konami has no unveiled a new pre-order campaign, which will be allied with key retail partners throughout Europe. Consumers who decided to pre-order a copy of MGS4, can receive an exclusive DVD entitled Meta Gear Saga Vol.2.
This seven-part documentary details the origins of previous MGS games, and the evolution of Hideo Kojima’s epic series. This “gripping documentary” apparently offers a valuable insight into the series and the history of Snake.
PlayStation Home’s creative Director has now officially confirmed that the highly anticipated online service will enter open beta in November this year.
“Home is currently in a closed beta phase, and we have between 8,000 and 10,000 users in this closed beta phase. Around July we’re going to be expanding on the closed beta phase and allowing more people to gradually come in, and then in November this year we’ll be going to the open beta.”
He added that the extension to the closed beta allows them to have more conversations with their community, and that a lot of changes have been done as a result of feedback.
Via EuroGamer
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.
Sony Computer Entertainment President Kazuo Hirai blames the PS3’s launch difficulties on a lack of understanding in the industry.
On the PlayStation Day (which took place recently), Hirai admitted that the PlayStation 3’s first year was difficult, and now he says the problem was mostly due to a general lack of understanding from Sony’s third party partners.
“I think there was some confusion as to what PS3 was initially – some of the third parties didn’t understand and they wanted to scale back a little and see how things went before they really put in their resources,” he stated.
Even so, Hirai also noted that companies eventually managed to put their act together, once Sony was able to establish the PS3 as a videogame console at the Tokyo Games Show.
In a recent intervew, the producer of the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed claims the game is the greatest Star Wars title ever created.
Speaking at an Activision & LucasArts event in London last week, the producer (Cameron Suey) said the game, in his opinion, features the greatest storyline of any previous Star Wars title.
“I’m a humble guy so I try not to use a lot of hyperbole, but it’s certainly the greatest Star Wars story that we’ve ever told in a videogame. I absolutely love the gameplay. This is the first game I’ve worked on, in about four years in the industry, in which I still love the game even a year-and-a-half after I’ve been playing it a little bit every day.”
He goes on to say that usually when you work so close to a game, you end up getting sick and fed up of it, and eventually you never want to see it again once it has been completed. However this was not the case with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
VideoGamer.com asked Suey if the game was the greatest Star Wars title ever made, re replied: “You know what, I’ll say it, it’s for me, and greatest applies to value judgement and opinion, it’s definitely the greatest Star Wars game. I’m of course biased!”
Quick media update. Famitsu has the first screen shots and character artwork of Cross Edge up today. I couldn’t confirm this, but from what I’ve read, looks as if you can customize the looks of your characters. Two of the screen shots show the same character with a different outfit.
Hit the jump for the rest.
The Playstation Blog has announced this weeks updates for the store. The highlights include the PixelJunkies Monster Encore Add On and a new Haze Demo.
PixelJunk Monsters Encore ($5.99)
PixelJunk Monsters Encore is an expansion pack to the popular and addictive tower defense game, PixelJunk Monsters. Encore includes 15 levels on a new map, “Toki Island”, as well as the ability for players to track their score across both maps. Just as in the original game, Encore continues the simple real-time strategy concept of building, researching and base defending that made PixelJunk Monsters an instant classic.
File size: 67 MBHAZE Demo
Play the beginning of the Haze campaign in single-player or in cooperative mode (up to 4 players).
ESRB Rated M
File size: 1.43 GB
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