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CryTek’s newest extremely high-tech engine is the CryEngine 3, which will be put to use in the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Crysis 2. While the first footage of the console versions looks remarkably …
A source close to Destructoid ssuggests that Sony is working on an App store for the PSP Go, to be revealed at Gamescom in Cologne, this August. The source said that Sony might be unveiling a section …
Speaking with Japanese mag Famitsu (via PSPHyper), the gaming icon Hideo Kojima said that MGS: Peace Walker will pretty much be his MGS5 — something that will likely be excellent news to every Metal Gear Fan in the …
Examiner reports that Metal Gear Solid: Rising won’t be using the same engine as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Instead, Kojima Productions is building a multiplatform one from scratch to support the …
When Halo: Recon was fisrt announced, and before it become Halo 3:ODST, both Brian Jerrard and Joe Staten at Bungie separately stated that the game wasn’t going to be a full retail experience. So it wouldn’t carry the full retail experience price. Staten said, “We do not view this as a $60 title,” while Jerrard remarked, “I think this is going to be a good value and a lot of content but we’re not viewing this as sort of a full game release in the sense of Halo 3.” When pressed further about pricing, Jerrard said that it was too soon to tell, but that they were thinking of something “value-oriented.”
Kotaku is reporting that Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed 2 is getting a rather extensive limited edition. The bundle — which has been dubbed “the black edition” — will include not only the game, but also a “holographic signature,” 64-page leather-style book filled with concept art, game soundtrack, Ezio figurine, three in-game bonus quests, and some interviews.
Bitmob recently reported that Microsoft’s Project Natal had difficulty picking up game consultant N’Gai Croal’s movements, an IGN forum user then suggested that the issue was related to Croal’s skin color, citing a journal article about “near-infrared spectroscopy,” which the forum user claims Natal uses. In any case, the IGN poster actually admitted to being sensationalist a few posts down, but by then the whole Internet was up in arms about Natal apparent drawback.
A rumoured new bundle sent in by a Joystiq reader, and said to be made available on June 14 – includes both MLB09: The Show and a Blu-Ray copy of Quantum of Solace, the new bundle is said to retail for $399, and was sent in by a Walmart employee.
Microsoft’s has finally released the first details on Crackdown 2, confirming the game has a single-player experience of some form. The sequel, announced last week in Microsoft’s press conference at E3, is to have four-player co-op and competitive multiplayer for up to 16 people.
On a recent episode of Bonus Round, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter states, “$249 is too much. Period.” He goes on to say that while the handheld is priced to compete with Apple’s $229 8GB iPod Touch, it doesn’t deliver the iTunes App Store or downloadable music from iTunes.
