According to various sources across the internet, to counter the loss of Monster Hunter 3 on PS3, Capcom are gearing up to make an announcement sometime this week, with some positive news for PlayStation fans on the cards. It all started on the Capcom forums – with a bunch of angry posters complaining about the Monster Hunter 3 cancellation. This was when Christian Svensson, Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Development replied with the following…
“Let’s see how they feel at the end of next week about us.”
Will it be a new exclusive (some people point to a newly trademarked name, “Dead Void”), could it be a currently multiplatform Capcom game going exclusive (Resident Evil 5, Devil May Cry 4) to PS3, or perhaps it’s something else altogether?!
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The British Academy Video Games Awards nominees have been announced and PS2 and PS3 games feature quite heavily. The actual event will be held on Tuesday 23rd October so we look forward to seeing how the games will do. It seems that gaming is fast becoming accepted as an equivalent of the film industry, which is great, and following the cinematic aspects/Hollywood actor-led motion capture of the likes of Heavenly Sword, the industry as a whole is receiving its due attention.
To view the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 nominated games, click through…
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Games journalist Steve Boxer met Sony chiefs regarding the influence of Web 2.0 on the gaming world at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. Over to Steve for what they said…
The Edinburgh Interactive Festival, which took place on August 13 and 14, is an unusual affair, best described, perhaps as a “boutique” games show. It’s always attended by a small but select band and, as it takes place while the Edinburgh Festival is on, the general vibe is relaxed and holiday-ish – rather than the usual manic nature of games shows in which everyone is trying to sell something. This year, a dream team of SCE people behind Sony’s merging of games and social networking – Jamie Macdonald, VP of Worldwide Studios, Paulina Bozek, Executive Producer of SingStar and Peter Edward, Director of the PlayStation Home Platform Group – gave a joint talk entitled Beyond Social Gaming.
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To brighten the start of the week, here’s some pictures from the extremely innocent boom years of computer arcades. Yes, young ‘uns, in days gone by arcades looked like this. Guys took girls, dads took their boys, men went with work colleagues - and all to play classic games such as Victory, Battlezone, Zaxxon and Space Invaders.
Some arcades were dressed as space ships; some had some very strange high score prizes in place - ‘get the high score and win a free single/album’? Looking at these pictures, you get the feeling that arcade games in the late 70s to early 80s were seen as something for all ages to enjoy.
With the advent of online remote gaming and the possibility that someone in deepest London is playing Motorstorm or Warhawk online with a fellow gamer in Orlando, it seems strange to look at these pictures and imagine a different time when the local arcade was the main place high scores happened.
Thanks to www.timouttunnel.com for the pictures.
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Steve Boxer reports direct from Leipzig for Three Speech.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe President David Reeves took the helm for a meaty, barnstorming press conference at the Games Convention in Leipzig which, among the traditional sales analysis of Sony’s PlayStation family in Europe (and an impressive, if mercifully brief, excursion into the German language), yielded some interesting information about precisely which first-party PlayStation 3 games will hit the shops in time for this Christmas.
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