Source: ps3blog.net
Cohort Studios has stated that they have been “contracted by SCE to add E-Commerce and Trophies” which probably means new levels along with the trophies.
Source: ps3blog.net
“What the heck is Jimmy talking about?” you’re probably asking. I’m asking that myself as well. There is a game coming to the PSN called Retro/Grade, and it’s a reverse side-scrolling shooter so to speak, and everything is played in reverse…
Yeah, I got lost too, but apparently, it’s more a rhythm game than a shooter. The game is being developed by 24 Caret Games, and this is their first title. According to Matt Gilgenbach, one of the company’s co-founders, this is the premise:
Retro/Grade stars ace fighter pilot Rick Rocket who has just saved the universe. Unfortunately, the massive destruction he left in his wake has caused a temporal anomaly that reversed the flow of time. You must assume control of Rick’s spacecraft and fight through the epic space battle… in reverse!
What’s even weirder, since it all plays in reverse, is the way you play it:
Rick must undo his actions exactly the reverse of the way he performed them in the first place. That means he has to get in the appropriate space lane from which his shot was fired and press the shoot button at the appropriate time. As well, he must avoid blocking the path of the enemy shots as they return to the enemy’s guns. If he blocks their path, it creates a paradox since he is stopping the shot before it was ever fired.
I don’t know about you, but this is one of the weirdest games I’ve heard of, and it’s nice seeing this kind of creativity in the world of over-populated run-of-the-mill genres we’ve become familiar with, and I’m hoping to see this game succeed, because we need this kind of ‘forward’ thinking to keep games from becoming stale. Not to mention, the game was also one of the finalists for the Independent Games Festival. You can check out their official site for a few more videos and information. Original news story from the Official Blog. No word on release date or anything yet, but they said you can follow them on Facebook for news and updates on there as well. What’s your opinion on this?
Source: ps3blog.net
If there are any indie / independent video game developers out there reading this blog, this may be your chance to make it big. Check out the video for some more info. The entry period is from 7.14.09 – 10.1.09. The winners will be announced on 1.15.10. If anyone from the blog enters let us know how it goes.
Prize Details | Official Rules
www.indiegamechallenge.com
Winners in various categories will share in a total of almost $300,000 in prize monies and scholarships, including $100,000 grand prize awards for both the winning professional and non-professional games.
Source: ps3blog.net
Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Watchmen (2 different Director’s Cuts), Coraline in 3D, 300: The Complete Experience,
Echelon Conspiracy.
Source: ps3blog.net
iPhone developers Johnny Two Shoes and Firemint were interviewed by Eurogamer and were asked if the PSP Go could compete with Apple iPhone’s App store, they were hesitant of its chances;
“If Sony’s App Store also let you sell games to people with a regular, existing PSP model, that would be a much more attractive prospect,” he says.
“There are nearly 50 million of those out there already. Even if you only sold to a fraction of one percent of those people, it’s a significant number of sales. And even if the PSPgo sells great from day one, it’s going to take a long time before it starts getting anywhere near those numbers.”
It seems the PSP Go could have a tough start against an established competitor (sound familiar?) but in time prove successful. I guess only time will tell…
Source: ps3blog.net
Well, last week was rather busy! We had a total of 33 submissions! It was very hard to keep up with the news, especially if you missed a few days. Might have missed out on some stories the may have piqued your interest…
Anyway, here’s what we had going on last week:
Little Big Ghostbusters.
Trev – July 12th
PS3 Slim spotted in the wild?
Tosh – July 13th
French Website Claims to Have Release Dates For the Rest of 2009
Eddie – July 13th
New King of Fighters XII Video
Tosh – July 13th
White Knight Chronicles Fact Sheet
Eddie – July 14th
Quarter 4 Sony Games and Our Poor Wallets
Eddie – July 14th
Sony Unveils New Development Strategy for PSP
Eddie – July 14th
Relentless Software Developing Murder Mystery Game Exclusive to PSN
JimmyMagnum – July 14th
Modern Warfare 2: Prestige Edition comes with working night vision goggles!
Tosh – July 14th
Is this sony’s new way to hype?
Thepreppymonk – July 14th
Fallout 3 DLC update.
Trev – July 14th
Tony Hawk:Ride 2?
Thepreppymonk – July 14th
PC Engine aka TurboGraphx 16 Coming to PSN
Eddie – July 15th
LittleBigPlanet 2 will play nice with old levels and LBP Demo Coming
Tosh – July 15th
Pulse Confirms PSN Summer Sale
Eddie – July 16th
BUZZ! and Fight Night Spaces arrive in PlayStation Home
Tosh – July 16th
Limited Edition Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines PSP Entertainment Pack
Jimmy Magnum – July 16th
Replayability and its fine uses.
Thepreppymonk – July 16th
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker treated as a PS3 game
Thepreppymonk – July 16th
New Content Coming ‘Home’ Today!
JimmyMagnum – July 16th
Kojima explains his unusual countdown site.
fleakitten – July 16th
June 2009 Hardware Sales
Darrin – July 16th
DC Comics and Wildstorm to Run God of War Mini-Series
JimmyMagnum – July 16th
The PSEye:Natal
Thepreppymonk – July 16th
First Mod Nation Racers Trailer
Eddie – July 17th
Gran Turismo PSP Gameplay.
Trev – July 17th
SCEE Confirms 3 Hour Press Conference for GamesCom
Eddie – July 17th
Wipeout Fury HD 23rd July – £7.99.
Trev – July 17th
More Killzone 2 Napalm and Cordite DLC Details
JimmyMagnum – July 17th
An Opinion on Sony’s Face Recognition, the Eye and Marketing
JimmyMagnum – July 18th
Upcoming Yakuza Game May Sport a Well Known Porn Star
Eddie – July 18th
Rage – ID Software’s New Multi-platform Title
Eddie – July 18th
Valkyria Chronicles 2 Announced
Thepreppymonk – July 18th
That’s 33 new articles this week! Last week, we had 18. We totally killed that record! Again, these don’t include store updates, last week’s Weekly Recap or QuickNews. As for other things, I give up! Once again, Eddie receives the much sought-after ‘Contributor of the Week’ title with 10 entries. Good job!
Emrah also get’s the ‘Comment of the Week’, only because he made me laugh so hard. It was a comment left in this article, and read:
First see-through nipple I’ve seen on ps3blog.
If you missed it, the picture used in the original posting was borderline inappropriate. You were able to see through the top she was wearing (though barely), revealing, well, the body part mentioned above. It was a good laugh though!
For past Weekly Recaps, you can view the archive here. You know, in case you missed it and/or you want to see what other stories you missed.
Source: ps3blog.net
Shocking, huh? The Sun put together some images of princesses celebrities fattened up for the upcoming release of Fat Princess. The results are… well you can see for yourself on The Sun’s website to see the full slideshow if you haven’t eaten cake yet. If you just did you might wanna leave it a while…
Fat Princess is due out next month on the Playstation Store.
[Pic Joystiq]
Source: ps3blog.net
First Gran Turismo now Little Big Planet in game action on the PSP.
Looks great although if you hated the “floaty” jumping then you might not be too excited. All the PSP first party games are starting to look great though.
Source: ps3blog.net
A new site has opened up, and it’s for that glorious PSP. Our day of reckoning has come. The GOTY sequel is coming and its going to thrash the world with its insane gameplay. Okay I may have overdone it there, but its predecessor deserves all the praise it gets. Even if it had underwhelming sales. Maybe that’s why it’s on the PSP, and not on the PS3. Are you one of the 6 people who bought the first one and excited for the sequel, or are you not?
Source: ps3blog.net
A multiplatform title release by ID is featured on the cover of Game Informers August edition magazine.
Bullet Point Info
-Open World FPS using Id’s new Tech 5 engine.
-Takes place 80 years after a devastating asteroid collides with earth and kills most of civilization.
-The player controls a character that was part of Project Eden, a program that buried hundreds of pods or “arks” containing 12 people in cryosleep that would aid in rebuilding society once they emerge from cryosleep. The players ark opens sooner than it was supposed to due to an earthquake.
-The asteroid caused mutations to some people so there will be mutants and stuff.
-You get a vehicle that you get to keep throughout the whole game (it appears that way anyways), that you can upgrade and personalize. “Unlike in other games where vehicles are disposable, in Rage, we want your vehicle to be an extension of you first-person avatar”.
-The hero will be a nameless silent protagonist.
-There appears to be quest like structure to the game, you get quests from people and complete them.
-No good/evil mechanic in the game.
-You can build stuff like weapons and sentry bots with an engineering mechanic, or you can purchase them.
-Regeneration health system so no med packs.
-There are races that you can compete in to get certificates used to purchase exclusive upgrades and parts. There will also be race leaderboards. You can do vehicle combat during the races as well and get bonuses for destroying opponents.
-There will be the ability to play stealthy if that’s what you prefer over guns blazing. The article describes a mission that involves guiding a remote control car with a bomb on it to infiltrate an enemy hideout.
-There is a show called Mutant Bash TV that you can participate in, it’s like a battle arena that is televised.
Developing info
PC: more anti-aliasing, higher resolution, faster graphical page in times for textures.
PS3: took a lot more time early on learning it to ensure that it is up to speed with other versions, essentially. Carmack says more “sweat equity had to be put into” it and “there’s a little bit more theoretical raw performance” that gave them “a little bit more headroom.”
X360: easier to get where they are now.
Game is being developed with controller first in mind (X360 pad on PC version demo’ed) because Carmack says, ” . . . the largest chunk of our market’s going to be on the consoles.”
Multiplayer planned, but unrevealed because they don’t want to promise something and have to cut or change it before release.
The Blu-ray issue
Since Rage is running on the powerhouse id Tech 5 engine, the developer is having a tough time squeezing everything onto strandard DVDs for the PC and 360 releases.
“We would love to set the thing up where it filled one Blu-ray disc versus three DVDs, which is about the right mix, but the game just… we can’t cut it into a third like that,” Carmack says. “We can cut it into two pieces. We’ve got two large wastelands on there. We just couldn’t make an arbitrary cut. But Doom 4 is being set up so that it’s almost certainly going to be cut up to three DVDs versus one Blu-ray. At least they’ve got the ability because of the way it’s structured.”
Replay Value
“[Rage] won’t be like Doom 3, where you killed the bad guy and that was it — turn the game off and you were done,” says creative director Tim Willits. After the main story is complete, players can continue to explore the world, earn all of the upgrades, go for achievements, and compete for the best times on the racing leaderboards.
