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As we previously posted, Interworks and HKS are teaming up to co-develop a racing controller.


Button layouts have been moved around. The D-pad is now replaced with a thumb steering wheel used for left and right steering and the d-pad moved is now located where the right analog stick used to be. The typical controller buttons have been replaced with mini version of brake and gas pedals.

This will be released sometime this year for approximately $50.

Neat and unique controller. I want to know if it really helps improve your racing skills and how comfortable it will feel in the hands. ...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told Reuters that the company is comfortable with the Wii's performance, despite its recent sales decline.

"I do not think that there is an immediate need to replace the Wii console. But of course, at some point in the future, the need will arise," he said. "We currently do not have an answer as to what point in the future that need will come."

He remained bullish about the competition, despite both Sony and Microsoft revealing launch dates for their own motion controllers. "The fact is that when you look at the absolute number for units sold, it is clear that the pace is dramatically better than either of our competitors," he said. "The absolute level of sales has been widening in our favor."

In reference to Sony's retail boost in the wake of the PlayStation 3 slim, he added "It is easy to talk about growth when you are working off of a very low base."

While this would seem to rule out a Wii 2 or HD any time soon, Iwata has separately been talking about the company's interest in 3D for the living room.

But he appeared to dismiss suggestion of an add-on for the Wii: "If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad," he told newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun, "so we'd probably do it with the next system. We're thinking that the timing should be once the 3D television adoption rates crosses the 30% mark. We're looking at the adoption trends."

He was broadly in favour of the technology, however: "It allows us to realize images that are close to what you see in your daily life," he told newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun. In the future, 3D will become the mainstream of gaming."

Nintendo has of course experimented with 3D both in the past - with the infamous Virtual Boy - and will do in the future, in the shape of the hotly-anticipated 3DS handheld.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...i-but-plans-3d ...

David Jaffe, creator of the new PS3 Twisted Metal game, has promised fans that a glitch seen in the on-stage E3 demo this week will not be in the final version of the game.

Audience members were left a little concerned by footage of buildings 'disappering' as Jaffe played the game at Sony's E3 conference earlier this week.

The game was lavishly revealed ahead of the final curtain of Sony's conference - with JAffe himself being driven on-stage in a Twisted MEtal-style van.

Jaffe wrote on Twitter yesterday: "Building destruction disapearing is not last gen tech in our demo FYI...just a bug. We will fix asap, promise!"

We'll have our hands-on impressions of Twisted Metal up on the site very soon.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...VG-General-RSS ...

For years the talk of 3D in our home has been little more than a sc-fi dream, but all of a sudden the 'revolution' of the third dimension is upon us.

As 3D takes a firm grip of the movie industry, it seems inevitable that the gaming world - which is becoming closer and closer to its older cousin - should follow suit and no-one is pushing progression more than Sony.

But while the Japanese tech giants are keen to show the gaming world that 3D is the future, the questions remains; are we ready to make the jump from two dimensions to three?

As ever the gaming public remains largely sceptical, especially considering there are many who have only made the HD jump in the last three years or so.


The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of gamers may not be ready to make another massively expensive upgrade no matter how much lust they harbour for 3D.

We took a look on CVG's forums to gauge the general feeling. Reegeee summed it up nicely: "I've gotta say they're banking on the public taking it up in the same way they did HD and lowering the price of 3D sets, but I can't see it happening."

But initial scepticism doesn't have to kill new tech before it's even had time to settle in. You only have to look back to when Nintendo announced the Wii; many predicted it to be the nail in the coffin for Ninty and we all know what happened there.

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But the whole cost issue is valid, especially considering the world is still reeling from a global recession. 3D will surely only be for those with money to burn at least to begin with - and we've not been to a money burning party for years.

And there are many gamers who are more than happy with their HD TVs and see them as far more necessary for the enjoyment of this gen's gaming experience than a piece of technology that- arguably - looks a lot like a gimmick.

Eventually the price of the 3D experience will of course go down and in two years time people may feel ready to make the switch. By that time we will be in a much better position to judge whether 3D gaming really is a gimmick or a must-have bit of kit that really adds to the experience.

Sony is going to push 3D regardless and from what we've seen at E3 with the likes of Killzone 3 they're off to a good start.

Do the benefits outweigh the costs? Perhaps not right now, but let's remember, Sony pushed Blu-Ray and it became the dominant format. They have ties to related industries and enough clout worldwide to set the agenda.

In the meantime, companies like Sony and Nintendo have to put products on the market that will make people listen to their hearts more than their heads. They have to convince consumer they actually need 3D.

Mmmmgrolsch puts it into perspective: "I think it will be a great added experience to games. I really hope it takes off, but I ain't buying a 3D TV yet."

"I doubt I will buy one this gen, I'm going to wait for prices to come to a sensible practice like £500 to £1000 tops".

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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House has told Eurogamer that cross-game chat is not part of PlayStation Plus at the moment.

According to one Sony website, cross-game chat - the ability to talk to friends via headset whatever you're up to, similar to Xbox Live's Party system - was set to be part of the subscription-based PlayStation Plus service, but yesterday a Sony spokesperson told Eurogamer it had not been announced.

House said much the same in our interview with him at E3. "I think that's a separate, side-issue from PlayStation Plus right now," he told us. "I don't think we've talked about that for that reason."

We pushed him about it, but he added: "That's not really something we're talking about at this show."

When we told him that it was the main thing people on the PlayStation Blog and Twitter wanted to know about, he countered: "And we'll be able to tell them." But not right now? "No."

PlayStation Plus launches worldwide on 29th June and Sony believes an annual subscription offers £200 of value for £39.99, while a 90-day sub costs £11.99.

According to House, we can expect "Free game downloads, one PSN title, two Minis and one PSone classic every month; free premium avatars; dynamic themes; full-game trials, which was one of the things consumers told us they wanted most..." And meanwhile all the other stuff you can do already remains free.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ho...t-a-side-issue ...

Sheesh... will you folks ever learn? There will never, ever be a Wii replacement. It's the console that keeps on giving, and also the one that'll never perish. It's the end-all answer to the world's gaming needs, and even though greater than 50 percent of the US has an HDTV, Nintendo won't ever have to support that unwanted "1080i" format. All sarcasm, angst and bitterness aside, Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata recently affirmed that there's no Wii successor on the near-term roadmap. Specifically, he stated that he "doesn't think that there is an immediate need to replace the Wii console; but of course, at some point in the future, the need will arise." To cap things off, he added: "We currently do not have an answer as to what point in the future that need will come." As much as we'd love to point out just how far behind the game Nintendo is in terms of graphics, we can't argue with the sales figures, and until the collective consumer wallet deems true HD support a necessity, we suppose the Wii can just keep on keepin' on. Much to our chagrin.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/17/n...place-the-wii/ ...

Apple has traditionally been -- how shall we put it -- cagey with revealing memory and CPU specifics of its mobile devices, but MacRumors is today reporting its discovery that the fourth-gen iPhone's RAM apportionment will be a very healthy 512MB. We've heard similar rumblings from reliable sources of our own. What it means is that iPhone 4 users can look forward to not only the same processor (though potentially at a lower speed) as their iPad compatriots, but also double the memory allowance. Of course, this will hardly be the first handset to offer half a gig for the OS to dance inside, but at least Apple's keeping up with the times. Wouldn't wanna disappoint all those pre-orderers now, would we?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/17/i...-3gs-and-ipad/ ...

Cliff Bleszinski has revealed his regret in hyping Gears of War 2 with the infamous words "bigger, better and more badass" - arguing that the phrase "ultimately backfired in my face".

Epic's design director insists his team is now focused on making the "most polished Gears game we've ever produced" while "trying not to be as catchy with it this time".

Speaking to Eurogamer at E3 on what he described as his "love-hate" relationship with the press, Bleszinski admitted that games PR had "gotten completely out of hand, where you have to have a Twitter to tease in a teaser trailer to tease in the launch trailer to tease in the announcement press release."

But he added it was "sad" but "necessary" to "announce things multiple times to make things stick", with so many distractions competing for consumers' attention.

On the media, he reiterated his recent attack on sections of the games press, relayed via Twitter, criticising a culture "where certain websites like to grab any sort of quote that they can and put it up in a very, very large font and let the flame war ensue in the comments."

Acknowledging that games marketing and PR performed a similar function, he clarified: "I'm just pushing back against the complete misquotes and the fabrications."

Refraining from sloganeering this time, he said Gears 3 "is going to be the best looking, most fun, most feature rich - and, most importantly - most polished Gears game we've ever produced. With Gears 2 we raised the bar but everyone caught up and we're like, okay, we've got to hit back twice as hard."

Despite releasing to widespread acclaim and success, Bleszinski said he thought the team "got a little bit drunk on the whole idea of set-pieces" in Gears 2, promising a more balanced offering that enhances replayability.

"[Set-pieces are] wonderful, they have their own place - buildings collapsing, monsters bursting out," he said. "And we will absolutely have plenty of that. But one thing that got a little lost in the shuffle in Gears 2 is the idea of nice combat bowls.

"I hope it's a love letter to what everybody loved about the first game while taking the spirit of the story and the cinematic moments of the second and putting it together with a really crazy feature set."

Gears of War 3 is the final part in a trilogy of games. But, given the series' incredible success, a further franchise title from the studio seems likely. "If Gears of War 3 comes out and does extremely well we would most certainly consider another game," he said. "But what that would be would remain to be seen.

"Is it DLC? Its own thing? What happens with the next generation of consoles? It's hard to predict even a couple of years into the future right now."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/cl...red-in-my-face ...

Japanese publishing powerhouse Square Enix has officially confirmed two new titles for the Nintendo 3DS – Kingdom Hearts 3D and Chocobo Racing 3D.
Information on both titles is thin on the ground. Kingdom Hearts will follow in the series’ RPG traditions and will star characters seen in previous iterations.
Based on a recurring creature in the Final Fantasy series, Chocobo Racing will also follow the kart-racing formula laid out in earlier games from the series.
The price and release date for both remains TBD for the time being.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39650/E3-2...ounces-3DS-duo ...