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by Published on April 3rd, 2009 22:01
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EA looks likely to be the first third party to ship games that support the Wii MotionPlus device with Grand Slam Tennis and Tiger Woods 10. The company may even beat Nintendo itself, unless Nintendo decides to announce a release date for Wii Sports Resort, and then ship it, before June. So, presumably, someone working on Grand Slam Tennis has had enough time with the attachment to know what's up.
Thomas Singleton, producer for Grand Slam, said that the device is actually a little too good at registering one-to-one motion. He told TechRadar that "At times it's overly responsive. It had so much fidelity that at times we have limited that fidelity to make it a compelling experience and giving you full total control." So EA reduced the amount of control you have in order to give you "full total control?" ...by Published on April 3rd, 2009 21:57
via Eurogamer
Sony has released a free update for PlayTV that introduces an SD upscaler among other new features.
Perhaps most exciting (relatively speaking) is the new ability to go directly to watching TV from the XMB, rather than having to click through menus.
Producer Mark Bunting announced the new features in a Three Speech video blog, adding that there are also new fast-forward and rewind speeds, and new volume controls.
The SD upscaler is "basically magic with maths", he said, providing "sharper pictures" and "improved contrast" to normal TV images.
"One day we want PlayTV to work in high definition," he added, "but we can only do that when free digital TV comes in HD, which at the moment only happens in France and Spain."
To get the update, PlayTV users who haven't done so before should scroll down to the "About" button in the Settings menu and click through to download. Those of you who have previously updated should have a Software Update button on the main menu carousel. ...by Published on April 3rd, 2009 21:49
via Eurogamer
Bethesda has replaced another faulty version of The Pitt on Xbox Live Marketplace, according to the developer's blog.
Those who had the Fallout 3 content and were experiencing crashes need to delete the existing content and re-download. Those unaffected need do nothing.
To delete The Pitt content, head to the Memory option within the System Settings part of the Xbox 360 dashboard Settings menu. Once there, scroll down and find Fallout 3, select, and then confirm deletion of The Pitt.
The Pitt was released last Tuesday but soon removed as the Xbox Live Marketplace file was corrupted. No sooner was this fixed than the latest bout of crash-related problems arose.
Nevertheless, The Pitt - which costs 800 MSP (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60) - is a worthwhile purchase (like myself) and offers considerably more value than Operation: Anchorage - the first of the Fallout 3 DLC. ...by Published on April 2nd, 2009 21:22
via Eurogamer
Bethesda, excited by the onset of spring, has halved the price all Oblivion Xbox 360 DLC. All except Horse Armor, that is, which now costs double.
The discount encompasses big and small expansions Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine, plus the long list of miscellaneous extras: The Fighter's Stronghold, Spell Tomes, The Vile Lair, Mehrunes' Razor, The Thieves Den, The Wizard's Tower and The Orrery.
You can browse and buy at the Xbox Live Marketplace for PC. Bethesda says prices will remain halved for the next week.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion provided Xbox 360 owners with their first essential Western RPG. And most retailers offer the game at a much-reduced price these days. ...by Published on April 2nd, 2009 20:58
via Computer and Video Games
It seems the brilliant PixelJunk Monsters has really started a trend for tower defence games on PSN, with the third game of that kind, Comet Crash, arriving on PSN today.
In Comet Crash, however, you're not restricted to defence because the ultimate aim is to launch your army swarm to conquer your enemies' base.
"In the Campaign, your goal is to take control of four different comets that alien forces have sent to wreak havoc on your home planet. To save your planet, you'll have to capture and secure each comet," details John Bates, president of developer Pelfast.
"The Campaign supports up to 3 players for offline co-op play and offers three difficulty levels: Beginner, Casual, and Ranked.
"Battle mode let's you play against your friends, supporting 2 to 4 players offline. Teams can be configured however you want. There are 12 different maps to choose from. Fight over resources, build up defenses, and attack each other with massive armies," he adds, via the PS Blog.
Check out the gameplay video here - looks pretty cool. Expect the full PSN update list later. ...by Published on April 2nd, 2009 20:45
via IGN
In an interview conducting during last week's Game Developer Conference by Eurogamer, Peter Molyneux hinted that future Fable games may not be RPGs.
"Whatever happens in the future of Fable, I don't want you to think you know exactly what features are going to be in there," Molyneux told Eurogamer. "Don't think about this as an RPG franchise --think about it as the world of Albion. There's a niche for Fable as there's humor in there and there's a Britishness and I think we'll keep that side of it. But whether it's more action or RPG or MMO or some new genre--that's what we have to do."
For Molyneux, it won't do to keep pumping out more of the same. "I think it's not good enough just to say, 'OK, we'll do another Fable.' Because in the end you're just driving yourself off the cliff. At some point, someone's going to turn round and say, 'You know, I'm a bit bored by all this.' We don't want that to happen."
And then Molyneux reverted to his recent habit of coyness, stating that if he were talking about Fable 3, "I would hope there would be three enormously big things about the Fable 3 that would surprise and shock you. Not that I am talking about Fable 3. Hypothetically speaking."
During the same interview, Molyneux teased his next game, which doesn't sound as if it is related to Fable. When asked if he would be able to show anything at E3, he said, "I would show you now if it was up to me." But it's not up to him. Lionhead is owned by Microsoft. According to Molyneux, he first needs to get a thumbs up from MS to continue developing the project and then needs something tangible to show people. However, showing it off internally, he claims to have received "probably the best reaction I've ever seen to anything I've done."
So what is the new game? Let Molyneux's cryptic description sink in. "When you look at it I think you'll say, 'Well, that's just insanely simple. Why has it taken so long?' But what makes it so hard --and this is teasing you horribly--is making it so simple, and yet to have all this unbelievable technology behind the thing."
While it's possible Lionhead's next project could be announced or shown at E3, it's unlikely. Over the past several E3's, Microsoft has focused its press conference on games coming out in the same year and have done very little to promote its future projects. ...by Published on April 2nd, 2009 20:40
via Eurogamer
Sony has made and launched an official YouTube channel for LittleBigPlanet.
Here be videos of user-created content and community shenanigans, as well as tutorials from developer Media Molecule, cultural collaborations, challenges and all sorts of hints and tips.
Sony also plans to run special weekly giveaways for the community. The first of these challenges players to pick a country or area of the world, base a level on it, film the level, write the theme tune, sing the theme tune, then submit the film. Grand prize is a pair of around the world tickets, 14 nights accommodation and GBP 1000 spending money.
Sony announced earlier that there are over 750,000 user-created levels for LittleBigPlanet now, and over 2 million players.
Visit the official LittleBigPlanet Youtube channel here ...by Published on April 1st, 2009 21:46
via Eurogamer
Developer Just Add Water has announced Project V, a first-party Sony game for PSN.
JAW, via Twitter, says a full reveal is scheduled for E3. Sony UK has declined to comment.
"It's first-party for Sony, so we can't talk about it too much, but it's a retro shooting game," chomped JAW boss Stewart Gilray to VG247. "It's for PS3 and PSP."
"We've been working on it for about a year now," he added. "We showed it to Sony last year and they snapped it up straight away.
E3 returns to its old format this year and runs a month earlier from 2nd - 4th June. The show will still be trade-only, for now, but 40,000 visitors are expected to trample through the LA Convention Centre, where publishers will spend fortunes advertising their wares.
Hideo Kojima has already singled out the event as the place he'll announce his next game. GDC keynote absentees Sony and Microsoft are also expected to reveal significant secrets. ...by Published on April 1st, 2009 21:37
Brian Crecente of Kotaku recieved a Nintendo DSi cake from old Nintendo today complete with a box, looks tasty too. There's a video of it for better views at the site with some screenshots coming later. ...by Published on April 1st, 2009 21:23
via Eurogamer
Bethesda has apologised for another show-stopping bug plaguing The Pitt DLC on Xbox Live, promising to let us know when the solution is found.
"Since The Pitt went back up on Xbox Live last Wednesday, we've received feedback that some folks were experiencing freezing issues while trying to access [the content]," writes Bethesda on its blog.
"We're working with Microsoft to get a version of The Pitt up that corrects the aforementioned freezing issue. Once the content is up and available, we'll let you know.
"We'd like to thank all our fans who generously and meticulously reported what they were seeing on our official forums, via email and on this blog. This data was immensely helpful in tracking down these issues," adds the post.
This latest hiccup follows the release of a corrupted version of The Pitt on Xbox Live Marketplace last Tuesday, which caused serious graphical glitches and was soon removed from the service.
The content was re-released two days later; enough time for the disgruntled Xbox 360 community to question the quality control procedures used.
Fallout 3 expands again this month with Broken Steel, which raises the level cap and makes the award-winning role-playing game playable past the conclusion of the main quest. ...- Search DCEmu
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