Today, the long silence on the game was broken by the Dutch newspaper de Volksrant. In an article titled, "A video game more expensive than the most e...
Today, the long silence on the game was broken by the Dutch newspaper de Volksrant. In an article titled, “A video game more expensive than the most expensive film,” the daily highlights the next-gen Killzone and its developer, Amsterdam-based and Sony-owned Guerilla Games. The piece’s name comes from the fact that the game is costing more to develop than the priciest film in Dutch history, director Paul Verhoeven’s World War II thriller Black Book (Zwartboek).
While Black Book cost more than 16 million euros (approximately $21 million), Guerilla won’t mention specific numbers for Killzone’s budget. “Our budget tops [the film],” said Killzone director Arjan Brussee. “We’re working on the biggest multimedia project in Dutch history.”
Killzone’s high cost is due to the labor-intensive development nature of graphically demanding next-generation games. “Work that used to take someone a week now takes him a month,” said Brussee. Currently, some 120 developers are working on Killzone–roughly three times the staff of the first Killzone. Interestingly, half of dev tem comes from outside the Netherlands, up from one third on the PlayStation 2 original.
Another factor driving up the game’s price tag is localization, as the new Killzone will be fully translated in 20 different languages. This effort will pay off in the long run, Brussee thinks. “You sell 30 to 40 percent more [units] with a translated version,” he said.
John Hight with Sony Computer Entertainment Santa Monica says that the maximum size of PS3 game downloads will be 10 times that of Xbox Live Arcade games.
Hight, who is director of external development, told Firing Squad, “We’ve arbitrarily set a limit of 500MB to keep download times reasonable. Since we’ve got plenty of HD space we can accommodate even bigger games and a lot of them.”
Microsoft currently has a 50MB limit on the size of its Xbox Live Arcade games. The policy is in place so gamers without a hard drive for the Xbox 360 can fit a download onto 64MB memory cards. Since the two versions of the PS3 include a 20GB or 60GB hard drive, the company has more freedom to increase the size of downloads.
This is an excerpt of an article where Two employees are facing criminal charges following the reported theft of four coveted PlayStation 3 game consoles last week from an Elk Grove
Two employees are facing criminal charges following the reported theft of four coveted PlayStation 3 game consoles last week from an Elk Grove business, police said Wednesday.
Tauryn Robert Hodge and Gerald Anthony Keys, both 19, were arrested Tuesday on charges of suspected embezzlement, burglary and conspiracy. Hodge is facing an additional charge of filing a false police report. Both were employees of the GameStop on Laguna Boulevard.
On Nov. 16, a day before the consoles were to go on sale, Elk Grove police received a report from Hodge that masked gunmen had robbed his store.
The machines retail for $499 to $599 but have been offered on eBay for hundreds more.
“It was Hodge who initially called the Elk Grove police,” Officer Christopher Trim said.
“There are things we are continuing to investigate,” Trim said. “There may or may not be additional parties involved. We still haven’t recovered the merchandise.”
Red Kawa File Server is a free file server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to view and copy files from your computer (where the server running) to your PlayStation 3 over your wired or wireless computer network.
