August 27th, 2007 BennyB
Praise is coming in across the board for the Sony exclusive Heavenly Sword with the latest coming from EGM. The scores are 8.0, 8.0, 9.o. Most of the negatives come from the fact that it’s single player only and the game is on the shorter side (think God of War). Sounds like potential game of the year material right here.
The other PS3 exclusive game reviewed in EGM was Warhawk which came in with a 8.5, 7.0, 8.5. The scores were obviously docked points for being online multiplayer only so if you take away the bias you are left with yet another PS3 exclusive coming in with 8s and 9s. Warhawk releases tomorrow on PSN and retail stores.
Looks like the PS3 domination begins this Fall.
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August 3rd, 2007 BennyB
The development kit for Home has been in the hands of the developers for a few weeks and will allow them to develop super awesome environments, trophies and games for the Home platform. Eventually. Currently the dev kit is at version 0.1 and contains basic tools for creating scenes. Right now it only supports models created in Maya, though that will no doubt be expanded to other 3D graphics packages, such as 3D Studio Max and Softimage XSI.
This information comes from a lecture given at the Develop Conference last week by James Cox from SCEE. He laid out the plans for upcoming versions of the development kit, saying that version 0.8 will allow 3D game creation for within Home spaces. Version 1.1 will be the first time the exporter for trophy achievements will be made available.
We’re a little worried at just how functional Home is going to be this Autumn, if the kit currently has such limited tools. Will all the upcoming titles for this year support trophies, minigames and Home spaces? That depends on how quickly the new versions are shipped out to developers. Sony is still determined to release the Home platform this year.
Source:Â PS3 FanboyÂ
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July 30th, 2007 BennyB
Check out this multiplayer “Worms like” game made by SCEE! Why isn’t this game on PSN again?
Play it now: http://zwok-game.com/en_GB/
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July 27th, 2007 BennyB
From Jaffe’s Blog
We have a 3 game console/handheld exclusive deal with Sony and hope to have our first original game out sometime in 2008. In the meantime, we’ll be putting out a port of TWISTED METAL: HEAD ON this Xmas season. The port- going from PSP to PS2- is pretty cool for a port because:
- It has the original HEAD ON title but it’s now running at 60fps and has resed up textures as well as some gameplay tweaks.
- It has 5-7 levels from the never released TWISTED METAL BLACK: PART II.
- It has a documentary on the history of the series.
As soon as I can reveal more about our new titles, I will share all. Maybe in the next 8-12 months, I would imagine, but who knows.
Again, we are working with Sony and that just feels great. We met with some other interested parties but at the end of the day, Sony is our home, our family, and we’re really thrilled and honored they wanted to work with us and continue the relationship we’ve spent almost 15 years cultivating. So in many ways, it’s like very little has changed, other than the pay cut ☺.
Source: David Jaffe’s Blog
Should be interesting to see what his new company comes up with.
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July 27th, 2007 BennyB
Tekken 5 DR online will be available on August 1 and as previously announced, 2800 yen to download (1000 yen for T5DR users to D/L expansion patch) .
Source: Dengeki Online
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