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Revealed at the Playstation Day in London recently was the news that there will be episodic content headed for the PS3 similar to what has happened on PC before. Siren: Blood Curse will be released for the PSN as a series of short games that will develop a story as each new one comes out. The revolves around a quiet fishing village in Japan called Hanuda where a television crew is investigating a spate of disappearances by locals dubbed "the vanishing village." You will have to delve into...
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Head of Sony, Kaz Hirai, unleashed this little gem on the world today, "I am very confident that after the 10-year lifecycle we will have the install base that we are looking for and that is obviously to be in the leadership position.” He honestly believes that Sony will pick up the slack and retrieve their number 1 position in the console market?? Now this isn't Sony bashing but does anyone else think this is remotely possible? If Nintendo and Microsoft were to stop making hardware then...
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Bible of all that is gaming in Japan, Famitsu, has revealed that there will be a brand new RPG headed for the PS3 called Cross Edge. The game will be developed by, count 'em, 5 different companies ranging from Capcom, Nippon Ichi Software, Idea Factory, Gust and Namco Bandai, heavy hitters indeed. The game will have both a heroine and hero, Mikoto Aiba and Yuto Kannagi, respectively. The game will also feature cameos from Morigan, Felicia, and Dimitri from the Darkstalkers series, Etna and the...
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Quick and important lesson for everyone out there thinking about building their stock portfolio for when they retire...buy shares in Nintendo!! Former Nintendo President and Chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, is laughing all the way to retirement after having his net worth triple and his value rise by over $3 billion! All this can be attributed of course to the dizzying success of the both the DS and Wii doing ridiculous business everywhere in the world. In fact Hiroshi-san is sitting at the number one...
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Preliminary reports are starting flood in regarding the sales fisgures for GTA IV in its first week. In the UK alone, the release of the games caused sales of the Xbox 360 to jump by 125% - mind blowing. Take Two Interactive have revealed that the game has gone on to garner approimately 6 million units sold worldwide and equating to $500 million in the first week alone. Say what? That's just the first week, the first day you ask? The first day drew sales of 3.60 million units with a dollar value...
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For your enjoyment, the Killzone 2 trailer for the PS3 console. This footage is from the recent Playstation day in London. Doesn't show too much but it shows enough to get excited, some of the models in the game look incredible lifelike with extremely smooth textures. Definitely might be worth keeping an eye out for this one.
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It's that time again when everyone's talking about fiscal year this and fiscal year that, how much money we've made and how much we're going to make. Activision announced today that this year has been huge for them, no doubt riding on the wave of success that is Call of Duty 4. They've revealed that they can expect to have an even bigger year with the news that Call of Duty 5 has been announced coming across to all consoles. And yes, it will be coming out this year, fiscal year...
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The first ever footage of Gear of War 2 in motion is almost here, in fact...as I type this, there's only under 22 hours to go. When it's in the wild, we'll have it here!
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One time Nintendo programmer, Colin Reed has changed allegiances to go work for Microsoft it was revealed today. Colin has held his position at the Big N for 11 years, which during his tenure he worked on Metroid Prime Hunters (DS) and Pikmin (GC) as lead programmer. He will be working on Forza Motorsport for Microsoft no doubt for a high undisclosed sum.
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The other day we showed a brand new trailer for PS3 title, Mirror's Edge. Today we can reveal that the game will be powered by none other than the mighty Unreal Engine 3 from Epic. Normally as it has been in the past, EA Dice games incorporate their own internal engine referred to as Frosbite but a spokesperson revealed today, "With Mirror’s Edge we deliberately set out to create something that was different from Battlefield. Frostbite is a very powerful engine but this project started a...
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Sources today suggest that another 360 exclusive title, Vampire Rain, is coming to the dark side to join the PS3's ranks of games. Some people have gone as far to say that Vampire Rain is the best game bar none on 360 eclipsing even the mighty Halo 3 so for it to come to Sony's behemoth seems to be quite the coup! How much longer before Master Chief PS3's start being sold then? This could prove to be quite costly for Microsoft and their shareholders. P.S. Read with a grain of sarcasm...
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If you want to hit the streets looking like you own the streets then you'd be hard pressed to go past the following DS units pimped out as only the Japanese can do it. How much bling can you handle before you go blind, yo?
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Runaway success for the PS3, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, is the latest game to have the movie option attached to it it seems. It appears that "a well-placed source" seems to have access to information that would suggest the game has been optioned for a movie by Atlus Entertainment who have also produced blockbusters such as Three Kings and Fallen. This Atlus is not to be confused with Atlus of Trauma Centre fame though. We'll let you if anything develops.