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by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:57
via Computer and Video Games
Bungie brainstormed 150 mission ideas for Halo Reach, before wittling them down to around 20 or so, creative director, Marcus Lehto has revealed.
Speaking to CVG, the Bungie man said that some of the missions in Reach the studio's been waiting "ten years" to pull off.
Lehto explained that although there are a set number of objectives in the studio's final Halo, players can approach them in an abundance of ways.
"That's one of the things we paid special attention to when we began," he said. "We didn't just start off with the story and then try to mash missions into it; we came up with like a hundred and fifty mission ideas that we threw up on a wall.
"And we sat down and critiqued them all and we were like: 'we just have to do some of these; we've been waiting ten years!' So we whittled that down to maybe 20 or so, then we boiled those down to the missions that finally made it into the game."
Bungie is of course set to launch its final instalment in the Halo series on September 14. The developer released a brand new Halo Reach trailer earlier this month - check it out and try not to be excited. ...
"That's part of the fun! Halo's a sandbox shooter, so you're right - you can tackle it in a hundred different ways and it'll play out differently every time," he said.
"And if you get bored of that, you can turn on skulls, modifiers, different difficulties... play it co-op on the same box. Matchmaking over Live. There are a lot of neat things to do with campaign."by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:53
via Eurogamer
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said he has high hopes the next instalment in the Fable series will be the biggest, best and most lucrative yet.
So how does Molyneux intend to boost sales this time around? Why, by making the game more accessible to a wider audience, of course.
"We want more than five million people playing Fable III on the Xbox 360, full stop," he told MCV. Around three million copies of the original Fable were sold, while the figure for the sequel was 3.5 million.
Fable III is out on 29th October. ...
"Part of that plan is less clutter in the game, less aggravating little inventions that Peter Molyneux once thought was a good idea," said Peter Molyneux.
"More clarity, better story, better cast, better balance. Of course, we have to do all this still with fresh ideas and a new feel to the game."by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:52
via IGN
John Carmack took the stage at his annual QuakeCon keynote address to show off a little pet project of his. And what would that be? Rage running on the iPhone. What he showed is simply a tech demo that he created. It runs on an iPhone 4 -- and it looks fantastic.
The demo revealed a first-person view, with the player exploring an indoor environment typical of what you'd expect in Rage. The textures look great, though naturally the polygon count and animations have been reduced. Still, "Rage is going to be 100s of MBs," as a download according to Carmack. And he claims the tech is scalable, so that "it runs great on a regular 2G iPhone."
Now, what was shown wasn't actually a game, and it didn't appear to have a very interactive environment. "This is just my tech demo. We're in the process of bringing it into the game framework."
Carmack wants this to be a glamorous game that people show their friends as way of proving their iPhone or iPad is the best, and the plan is to make it affordable enough for everyone to do that. "We're going to do it as a smaller, cheaper title."
"This will be the first Rage title to come out, it should be out this year," said Carmack. Another Rage game for iPhone/iPad is said to be coming out around the time that the console and PC version of Rage launches in 2011. ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:47
via Gamepron
Everybody knows that there’s a certain risk one takes when playing addictive, engrossing games when you’re meant to be doing something else. The prevalence of awesome games on the iPhone hasn’t helped that risk – as a Philippines police officer has learned.
Five inmates recently escaped from a police precinct in Cagayan de Oro City, snatching up the officer’s keys where he’d left them while playing a quick few levels of Plants vs. Zombies. Apparently, the convicts had no trouble getting the keys and gaining their freedom – although four of the five were recaptured shortly after.
It is not known whether the police officer suffered any sort of disciplinary action – but I’m guessing he’ll be getting his next gaming fix some time when he’s not on the clock. ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:45
via Computer and Video Games
We could see gaming and communicating beautifully merged in the form of a PlayStation phone as early as October, according to reports.
According to Engadget sources, Sony Ericcson is working on a phone using Google's Android platform for release this year.
A trademark for a Sony device labelled 'PlayView' - which sounds very phoney/gamey indeed - was unearthed by CVG in June and now there are more mumblings about a Sony cross between a Captivate phone and a PSPGo.
The exciting bit is that the phone will apparently include side-slider gaming controls instead of a QWERTY keyboard.
"The D-pad is here, but instead of the small joystick, the device will have what was described as a 'long touch pad' for analog controls, along with standard PSP buttons and shoulder buttons," according to Engadget.
Also attributed to the phone is a large display, between 3.7 and 4.1 inches with WVGA or better resolution, a 5 megapixel camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU is "likely".
The phone is mostly black with some silver highlights, and the gamepad area is white / silver in color, claims the source.
The device will apparently be running Gingerbread (Android 3.0) and there will be a new section of the Android Market specifically for games.
Way back in May the words of Sony Australia boss Michael Ephraim suggested that the PSP2 will actually be a smart phone when he said, "The handheld space is very crowded, not just in the games category but also with smart phones and so on."
We've left SCEE a message. ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:41
via Joystiq
Industry analysts have already weighed in with their thoughts on Kinect's $150 price point -- now we're hearing from one of them on how well he thinks the gizmo will sell. The answer: really well, actually.
Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital has crunched numbers and deduced that Microsoft is manufacturing the motion sensor at a rate of two million per month, and believes that four million will be sold by 2011. That figure doesn't purely represent stand-alone sales, however. "The mix of Xbox 360 shipments for the holidays will be more heavily weighted toward the Kinect bundle," Sebastian believes, which is why he's upped his sales forecast from three million units in calendar Q4.
Interestingly, the analyst points out that sales of PlayStation Move, which launches roughly six weeks earlier on September 19 and "without as much 'buzz' as Kinect," could offer a better picture of how Microsoft's motion control offering will perform after it makes its bow on November 4. ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 23:39
via MCV
The High Court ruling that confirmed DS R4 piracy cards are illegal will get developers excited about
the DS again.
Last month, a UK specialist IP court helped solidify the case against the cards, encouraging some rogue retailers to confess to being guilty of IP theft.
The platform holder hopes this will deliver renewed confidence in the handheld amongst developers and publishers that scaled down work on the platform as piracy became widespread.
Piracy has been a significant problem on DS over recent years. Back in February, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder blamed weak sales of GTA: Chinatown Wars on the R4.
“To get this judgement from a UK specialist IP civil court is an important step in the right direction,” Nintendo’s European anti-piracy counsel Neil Boyd told MCV.
“It is important to Nintendo – but also for the developers. Hopefully it will give them the encouragement and confidence to continue to develop the best games for Nintendo platforms.”
Boyd also said the ruling will help protect the upcoming 3DS when it launches.
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“Only time will tell if the 3DS will be hacked,” he added. “But in terms of security, and preventing people getting around those security measures, I think this case gives us a good, solid legal foundation. What comes ahead of us is pure speculation, but it gives us a good basis for future security threats.”by Published on August 12th, 2010 15:02
It was hinted at for months, in rumor reports and in appearances on retailer websites. But now, it's official and final: for the release of the Wii remake of GoldenEye 007, Activision will release a limited edition hardware bundle that includes the game and a special edition gold-colored Classic Controller Pro.
The GoldenEye 007 Classic Edition will run you $69.99 to get the game and the Golden Gun-inspired Classic Controller Pro. The game, by itself, is currently listed on retailer sites at $49.99. Both game and bundle will be available November.
Of course, Classic Controller support is merely an option: the final game will have all sorts of different control options, including Wii Zapper support and standard Wii Remote/Nunchuk.
Image via comments ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 02:05
Hi All,
Exult is a famous game engine to play all Ultima 7 RPG series from the early 1990's !
For more details please see http://exult.sourceforge.net/.
Here is a port of this smashing game engine to pandora !
Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.
You will need to copy manually orignal Ultimate VII files (see the README.pandora for details)
Everything is on my blog :
here
Enjoy,
Zx. ...by Published on August 12th, 2010 01:10
CAMBRIDGE, MA - The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of firm clients SplitFish AG, SplitFish Gameware, Inc., and Nabon Corp., granting a preliminary injunction against Bannco Corp. that prohibits Bannco from selling video game controllers that incorporate or use software code copied from SplitFish’s “FragFX” video game controllers. Judge T.S. Ellis ruled that Nabon Corp. was the original owner of the software code at issue and that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their copyright infringement claim. Judge Ellis further ruled that Plaintiffs had made a sufficient showing that failure to enjoin Bannco’s conduct would result in irreparable harm to the Plaintiffs, that the balance of equities favored Plaintiffs and that an injunction would be in the public interest. The case is unusual in that the software in question was developed in China and Judge Ellis applied Chinese law in order to establish that Nabon was the copyright owner. The case also represents one of the first instances where a court in the Eastern District of Virginia has applied the more rigorous standard requiring plaintiffs seeking injunctive relief in copyright infringement actions to make a clear showing of irreparable harm. Under prior law, irreparable harm was presumed upon the plaintiff’s showing that it was reasonably likely to succeed on the merits of its case.
If you go to Bannco's website, all hardware related products and software has been removed from the site. The only thing left is search feature and the forum. However, inside the forum, it directs you to a french website to download software files for FRAGnStein and Scorch 360.
You can read our review on Bannco's Scorch for Xbox 360 here.
Source: Finnegan ...
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