Monthly Archives: August 2009

Interview by Patrick Garratt.

SCEE president Andrew House took time out of his busy schedule at GamesCom to have a chat with VG247 regarding all things PS3 price-cut, PSPgo, how important it is for developers to comprehend the PS3 hardware, and the future of digital downloads.

Not only did House mention that Sony would  love to drop the price of PS3 to the $199 price point of the PS2 peak should it be fiscally possible, he also touched a bit on yesterday’s strange omission of a date for Gran Truismo 5, and how those who preorder the initial offering of PSPgo will get GT PSP for free.

There are loads of goodies in the interview, you should read on past the break.

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bitComposer have been confirmed as the publisher to S.TA.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat worldwide.

It comes as developer GSC Game World told VG247 yesterday that an announcement concerning a publisher for the title would be coming very soon.

Press release is after the break. It’s due for a fall release on the PC.

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Originally set to go head-to-head with Halo: ODST on September 22, Dark Void was recently delayed into the game-munching, er, void that is “Q1 2010.” Now, though, it’s got a release date: January.

North Americans can expect the high-flying shooter on January 12, while Europeans will have to wait a few days until January 15.

Shacknews has a new trailer to celebrate the release date’s announcement. We’re not saying you need to check it out, but we think you get the idea.

Activision’s released the first shots of the Wii port of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare being handled by Treyarch.

Looking at the shots, they dont look as bad as we thought they would be.

More over at Kotaku. It releases day and date with Modern Warfare 2 on November 10.

Update: While he is serious about being in Fable III, Wossy’s just re-tweeted that he aint playing as an accountant.

“I am going to be in it but I do not play an accountant. That was jokes.”

A very bad one at that.

Thanks, ultrabrillant and Roybott.

Original Story: Comedian and TV host Jonathan Ross has confirmed on his Twitter that he will be playing an accountant in Fable III.

“Fable III officialy announced so I can now reveal I play Barry, a junior accountant needed in one of the quests.”

It was him who jumped the gun on the whole shabang, remember?

The game was announced this morning for Christmas 2010.

FinalFantasy-XIII.net have up a brand new scan from V-Jump which they have already translated.

It mostly features on the blonde haired girl with glasses from the DKS3137 and E3 trailers, who’s now been named as Jill Nabato.

She is commander of the Holy Army and is one of the major antagonists in the game.

Obviously.

The scan also shows the first screens of Lightning’s summon, Odin, transforming into a horse.

It’s official: Square have gone off their rockers.

Spring 2010 in the West for PS3 and 360, with a Japanese release this winter for PS3.

Kitase and the FFXIII dev team are in town for GC. And so are we.

Do the math.

The official site of OPM Benelux has up several new screens of the fourth and final playable character of Heavy Rain, Scott Shelby. Get the screens through the link.

Scott’s a 45 year old detective, is obsessed with trying to find the origami killer with his case given the blessing by the victims of the killer and suffers from asthma which is a hindrance to him yesterday.

Yesterday, the third character, Ethan was a promnant figure in the GC trailer for the game. Catch it here.

Game’s out next year for PS3.

So, Sony have announced price-cuts for the PS3, effective as of today, and the PS3 Slim. So what have Microsoft up their sleeves?

Well, a price-cut announcement of their own to the Elite, the discontinuation of the 60Gb and the price-hike of the Arcade. Or rather, there was meant to be an announcement.

According to MCV, a national electronics retailer was told by Microsoft that they were considering pulling the announcement until high stock levels of the Arcade and Elite clear from the channel.

Microsoft do have a new 360 SKU planned, but its unknown if it is just the Elite price-drop or more.

Thanks, Roybott.

It’s not even been 24 hours since SCEE’s conference ended where the PS3 Slim was announced, but already rumours are already circulating that Sony have a second 250Gb version of the console planned.

The console went through the FCC under a psydeum known as “Sand Dollar Enterprise Inc.” to make sure the SCEA report was kept a secret.

Very clever if we do say so ourselves.

When it was announced last night, only a 120Gb SKU was announced, retailing for £249/$299/€299.

Thanks Engadget and Roybott.

GameVideos have put live the first ever gameplay video of Final Fantasy XIV Online.

It looks really well done if we’re being honest.

Catch it after the jump. It’s out next year for PC and PS3.

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Oh Peter, you sly dog.

Don’t ever change.

So, Fable III was announced at the MS conference this morning in Cologne. What else was there? Umm, that was it basically, it was all about Fable III.

Although Fable II is coming to Marketplace on September 29. Overall, we’re just happy Fable III is coming at last.

Catch our round-up of what happened with Peter this morning below by hitting the links. The most important ones are in bold.

You’ll never know how much we love you, Peter.

• Microsoft press conference liveblog
• Churchill nabs an extra Lionhead update
• Fable III revealed [Update]
• The first pictures of Fable III
• Fable III is all about starting a revolution
• Fable II Episodic announced
• Fable III teaser shown
• Fable III dated for 2010 [Update]
• Lionhead still “working” on Milo and Kate
• Fable III teaser trailer now live

Platinum’s Bayonetta is four fifths complete, producer Yusuke Hashimoto told VG247 at GamesCom today, with Sega adding that it’s not concerned about the title being pushed back into next year.

“In terms of development, we’re actually aboiut 80 percent there,” said Hashimoto, speaking after a demo.

“We’ve only made the really basic parts, what makes the game really, really good, what makes the game really, really fun.

“We’re at the stage to actually polish the game, to balance it out nicely; to make it really nice and tidy.”

Sega said the decision to move the mental actioner into 2010 was simply down to crowding and cash.

“No, we’re not disappointed,” said brand manager Antione Malont.

“It was purely a business decision. We’ve got a lot of games coming from Sega already coming this year.

“Bayonetta is really, really important to us, and we want it to work very well, that’s why we decided to postpone untiul very early next year.”

For the record, Bayonetta looks absolutely incredible. You will buy it. It’s common sense.

Fable III was announced in case you didn’t notice. There was a teaser trailer shown at the MS presser at GamesCom this morning as well.

Lucky for you then that the trailer has now gone live!

It’s after the jump, thanks to Kotaku.

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Kotaku has up new GamesCom screens of Heavy Rain.

They pretty much show new guy, Ethan. He’s the one who, you know, lost his wife.

Go check them out through the link.

Catch the trailer for it here.

Thought that with Fable III in development, you’d see no more of Milo?

Wrong.

Peter Molyneux just confirmed in the MS presser in Cologne that Lionhead are still “working hard” on Milo & Kate.

Your dreams of being a virtual paedo are still alive.

See what happened in the conference here.

Peter Molyneux has dated Fable III at MS’s presser this morning

2010 is when you can expect it, but don’t have your hopes for early 2010.

“Don’t expect it too early in 2010″

See what happened here. The game was announced this morning.

Update: Microsoft’s just released the PR for the game. In it, they mention the game is aimed for a “holiday 2010″ release.

Painstakingly obvious. PR is here.

Fable III’s been revealed.

We know because we were there when it happened.

Peter Molyneux was on stage, talking mostly about its gameplay features and how sales in the UK for Fable II were probably down to the expression system.

However, before all that, he showed off a quick teaser of the game.

The first pics from the trailer are at the livetext.

As well as Fable III, Peter Molyneux announced during the MS conference in Cologne this morning that Fable II will be released on Xbox Live Marketplace, split into five chapters.

The first chapter will be free.

“This is great from a developer’s point of view. You could buy the next episode, or buy the whole thing – keeping them in-game,” said Molyneux

Knothole Island and See the Future are fully compatable. It goes live on September 29th.

More here in the livetext.

Peter Molyneux was on stage this morning, talking about Fable III, at MS’s GC presser where he’s revealed a bit of the game’s detail.

You start as the son or daughter of your hero from Fable II, where a tyrant is running Albion. According to Molyneux, one of the key aspects for the game is revolution.

“We want you to be ruler, but we’re not going to give it to you straight away.”

Half of the game sees you go through is known as the “Journey to Rule. Assmingly, the first half is where you try and drum up support, getting people to believe in “change.”

“Here’s the thing that’s really interesting – are you going to keep those promises, when you rule? Are you going to be able to?”

And here’s the kicker folks. You can be tyrant too once you take charge.

Livetext here.

Fable III’s been announced. No surprise.

But what does it look like?

Well, take a look for yourself, they look perdy.