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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Coming To PS3 And 360 This Year, First Trailer Incoming
Square-Enix, at a Japanese event, has just announced Final Fantasy XIII-2, a game the company says will be released this year for PS3 and Xbox 360. The director of FFXIII, Motomu Toriyama, will direct this one also, with Yoshinori Kitase retaining his producer role. Read more here.
IGN Reviews Mass Effect 2 PS3, Scores 9.5/10
IGN has reviewed Mass Effect on PS3 and gave it an overall score of 9.5/10. It praises Mass Effect 2’s graphics, saying “Mass Effect 2 was a beautiful game the first time around, and it still looks great. Perhaps even better now that it’s running on Mass Effect 3’s engine.” Overall it heaped high praise […]
New PS3 Custom Firmware Bricking 60 GB Consoles
Custom firmware v3.55 has killed quite a few launch PS3s as people rushed to “back up” their games without waiting to see if the thing actually works. Even when it was discovered that the firmware is utterly broken, people were still bricking their consoles because they weren’t reading whole forum threads. Read more here.
New Info On Skyrim ‘Creation’ Engine
The magazine Game Informer has revealed more info about the new engine that is being used for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; first off, it’s being called the Creation engine. First off, the Creation engine will allow detailed, long draw distances, which will be important Skyrim’s mountainous landscape. According to creative director Todd Howard, “The […]
Homefront Developers Enter ‘Crunch’, Employees Working Seven Day Weeks
Providing a frank insight in to the pressures of game development, a beleaguered employee from Kaos Studios has spoken out about the studio’s intense efforts to get Homefront finished on time. He reveals that employees had been working a ten hour daily schedule for six months and are now embarking on “7 day a week […]
Homefront Gets 15 BBFC Rating
The BBFC has given Homefront a 15 age rating whereas we expect most shooters to be rated 18. The BBFC has also confirmed that the game has just 27 minutes and seven seconds of cut-scenes in total – suggesting most action will take place in-game. In addition, the title will house 19 minutes and 19 […]
LA Noire’s Facial Animation Tech Won’t Work With Every Game
Team Bondi’s upcoming detective title LA Noire will employ an excellent facial animation system that allows every last facial manipulation to be tracked. The end result is quite remarkable, but according to Rockstar, it won’t be used in every game moving forward. “We would love to see it implemented as widely as possible, whether it […]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Is 25 Hours Long
Deus Ex: Human Revolution will take you roughly 25 hours to complete, developer Eidos Montreal has said. According to the latest issue of PC Gamer UK – the 2011 sequel is now finally playable from start to finish, and it’s meant to take more than an entire day to do so. “So far with them […]
Mass Effect 2 PS3 Requires Large Install
Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 will have a 4.5-5.3 GB install which can take anywhere around 30 minutes to do so. Read more here.
Sony To Permanently Ban Jailbreak Users From PSN?
Here is a phone call that someone has made to Sony Australia. Now clearly the caller asks multiple times whether his system will be banned, and the response is a definite yes. Also he asked about whether he should Update to Firmware 3.60 and once again the response is yes. Not only that but they […]
BioWare: Mass Effect 2 PS3 Much More Than A Simple Port
BioWare community coordinator Chris Priestly has written a post on the PlayStation Blog outlining why the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 is much more than a simple port of the Xbox 360 and PC editions. There he explained why PS3 gamers’ patience is set to be rewarded, “PlayStation fans have been asking for Mass […]
Gran Turismo 5 ‘Remote Races’ Out Early February
Polyphony Digital boss and Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed GT5’s ‘Remote Races’ will be launching early next month. It lets PC or mobile users control B-Spec races in GT5 by issuing a limited set of commands. It’s also known as ‘Gran Turismo Anywhere’. Read more here.
Dead Space 2 Launch Trailer Surfaced
Check out the last and final launch trailer for Dead Space 2 which is about to release within a few days. Dead Space 2 releases this January 25 2011 (USA) and January 28 2011 (EU) for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC Courtesy of IGN
Bulletstorm Demo Coming January 25 On XBL And PSN
Bulletstorm Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Bulletstorm will be hitting Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network on January 25. In the demo players will vault into the gritty boots of hero Grayson Hunt and get a glimpse at the game’s Echo mode, a score-based experience featuring the game’s campaign environments. Further, […]
