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I know I’m late on posting this… But better late than never. By the way, this uses Zoho’s new interactive chart so you can mouse over and click to see data details. Unfortunately, the x-axis …

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The star of LittleBigPlanet is the level creator and the community aspects surrounding that. But ignoring that for a moment, how good is the core platforming gameplay?
Pros

Playground Feel: …

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Pros

Technology + Graphics: R1 looked good, but I was slightly underwhelmed by the R2 beta: it was definitely better, but I wasn’t blown away. After playing the single-player campaign: wow! …

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Sony is planning to create a new optical disc format for music based on Blu-Ray technology that is compatible with traditional CD players but provides expanded quality and features on Blu-Spec …

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Games are usually designed around a fundamental challenge of completing objectives, whether it’s defeating enemies, building an empire, or escaping from danger. Great games engross the player …

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Have you been watching Media Create’s top 30 software sales charts in Japan? From a platform/publisher perspective, it’s consistently populated by mostly DS games and slightly fewer PS2, …

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Sony’s Fiscal Q2 2008 = Calendar Q3 2008. Here is the game division overview:

(official report here)
Noteworthy points:

Sony, as a company overall, is still making a profit. Overall net income …

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This title is looking better and better…

Killzone2 - helghan - PlayStation 3Uploaded by sonyplaystation3
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This is somewhat surprising. By looking at the USA NPD numbers, multiplatform software generally sells roughly twice as well on the 360 as it does on the PS3.
However, when looking at financial …

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Reuters reports:
Sony Corp […] slashed its annual operating profit forecast by 57 percent to far below market estimates in its second downward revision this year, blaming a firmer yen and slower …

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Cons

Game Balance Issue #1: Impossible to fail. As long as one player is alive, all other players will be on an auto respawn timer. As long as one player hangs back and avoids the action, the …

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Complete hardware sales data here.
NPD Software Releases for USA

360
STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED LUCASARTS
Sep-08
610K

WII
WII FIT W/ BALANCE BOARD NINTENDO OF AMERICA
May-08
518K

360 …

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So far, the real stand-out of this, is the co-op mode.
Most co-op shooters are tons of fun with a group of friends on a LAN, but fall apart when you are playing with strangers on the Internet. …

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SOCOM Confrontation has just been officially released. I’ve never played a SOCOM title before, but here’s what I know.

It’s a military shooter with multiplayer focus. It has a more realistic …

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Where are they?
I can count three new PS3 exclusives from Sony, two of which are smaller downloadable games:

Demon’s Souls
Dress
Derby Time Online

And three new PS3 exclusive announcements …

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Demon Souls
Sounds like they have some ambitious design ideas. The trailer looks like an OK but fairly generic fantasy hack n slash title. The game title also sounds generic. Obviously, it’s …

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The Gametrailers show Bonus Round ran a panel discussion on which would be the best shooters of this holiday season. The show began with the intent of being a mini-debate between Xbox’s Gears …

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From gamer.tm:

Speaking to GAMER.tm recently, Black Box producer Jason DeLong confirmed that the PS3 version of Skate 2 would be the lead version of the game, after the PS3 version of Skate …

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Kotaku’s not so subtle jab at Valve’s Gabe Newell: Chocolate PS3
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Several recent games have been using decision trees and branching story lines. The branching story lines were some of the most entertaining parts of the game, but they are usually a small add-on …