Archive for May, 2007
Unreal Tournament 3 New Image Scans
These are some new magazine scans of the upcoming Sony PS3 game Unreal Tournament 3
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Silent Hill 5 To Coming To The Sony PS3 This Year?
Both Xbox 360 and PS3 will be seeing Silent Hill 5 by the end of 2007. This According to the rumor section of the Electronic Gaming Magazine.
The other tidbit from Electronic Gaming Magazine states that development of the Xbox 360 and PS3 title will be spearheaded in by Konami in the United States instead of in Japan.
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PS3 New Video
This is a new video of the Sony PS3 game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
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GERMAN FIRM HELIOS turns PS3 into print server
Helios ( German Firm) said it is offering a free download of its own modified Yellow Dog Linux distribution to use on Sony PlayStation 3 as a test-drive server.The HELIOS simplified Yellow Dog Linux distribution comes provides a Linux server Operating System complete with DHCP network settings, support for Java 1 . 5 and AppleTalk enhanced kernel.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 will not be a PS3 exclusive
This is an excerpt from an Article by Destrucoid that reveals that Metal Gear Solid 4 will not be a PS3 exclusive
I have been waiting for many months to finally say this, and today is the day. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will not be a PS3 exclusive after all. It has been confirmed that it will make its way to the Xbox 360 in 2008.
There is no true date set for the release at this point, but November of 2008 has been mentioned. This is not set in stone as Konami is working with Microsoft to bring the date forward as much as possible. MGS4 for the 360 will also come with exclusive content and gameplay that will not be in the PS3 version of the game. Some of this content is VR missions, as well as “Snake Tales” or “Snake in the Valley” (depending on where you live), which will let you go on objective based missions, some of which are very lengthy. These are the first two bonuses to emerge so far, but be ready to expect even more.
Konami is also in talks with Nintendo to bring a Metal Gear Solid game to the Wii. MGS4 would obviously have to be slimmed down if the chose to port the title to Nintendo’s console. We already know that Snake will be a playable character in Super Smash Bros., so this (along with the 360 news) doesn’t come as much of a surprise.
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Quake Wars for PS3 New Images
These are some new images of the Playstation 3 game Quake Wars
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80GB Playstation 3 System out in June
A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe spokesperson has confirmed the existence of the 80GB Playstation 3 system – stating that there are presently no plans to release the super-sized machine outside of Korea. In fact, we’re told the 80GB model will be the only kind of PS3 sold in the country.
“The chassis of the 80GB Korean PlayStation 3 is identical to the chassis of the European version. The only exception is the larger hard drive,” read a recent official filing on the new model stateside.
With the 20GB model PS3 being dropped in North America, and the lower-end system failing to see the light of day in PAL regions at all, how long before this 80GB console does reach new regions? And, perhaps more pertinently, will the 60GB system be reduced in price when it is? More on all this soon.
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PAIN Coming to the Sony PS3 *Video*
“The concept of PAIN was derived from an extensive teen market research report. The findings of the report indicated that comedy, random chaos, creativity, community and competition were the central figures driving entertainment choices for the teen audience.”Pain Game features include:
- Single player modes: Spank the Monkey, Mime Toss
- Multiplayer modes: HORSE and online competition
- Dynamic and fully destructible environments
- While playing the HDD records the action, allowing the player to view a replay instantly from various camera angles and adjust replay speed (slow motion and fast forward)
- Head-to-head and cooperative gameplay
Eye of Judgement for PS3 Developer Walkthrough Videos
These are some new videos of the Sony PS3 game Eye of Judgement
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Sony Blames Lack of Software for Poor PS3 Sales
Following the NPD results for the April reporting period, which showed that just 82,000 PS3s were sold in the U.S. for the month, Sony Computer Entertainment America reacted to its recent performance. The company blamed its poor PS3 sales on a relative lack of compelling software, but the good news (as revealed at Sony’s recent Gamers Day) is that plenty of titles are on the way this year, including 15 exclusive games.
“PS3 did see a dip in sales in April that we attribute mostly to a lack of new software in the market,” Dave Karraker, SCEA’s Sr. Director, Corporate Communications, said in a prepared statement sent to GameDaily BIZ. “For the remainder of this fiscal year, we expect a flood of new games for PS3 totalling more than 100 titles across all genres, including Heavenly Sword, Lair, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, LittleBigPlanet and many more. We feel strongly that this robust library will help drive hardware sales in the upcoming months.”
In total, during the month of April SCEA generated $271 million in sales, Karraker said. He noted that this was “buoyed in part by the addition of the PS3 platform… as well as the strong performance of the PSP at retail, which saw more than a 25% increase on an average weekly basis from March to April, selling 183K units.”