Monthly Archives: August 2009

This’ll make some people happy.

Kotaku’s Brian Crecente just put live a YouTube video of him walking about the GC show floor. Now, fast forward to 1:30 in the video. What do you see? You’ll see a shitload of Gran Turismo 5 demo pods there for journos to play the game this week in Cologne.

This adds more wood to the fire that not only the game will appear at Sony’s press conference in a little over 3 hours from now, but the game will actually release this year. Catch the video after the jump.

It comes as GameZine pointed out an article by Japanese magazine Express, where the mag confirmed the game will be playable at GC and also at the Tokyo Game Show.

More through the link.

Find out more details on the Sony presser here.

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We bet you’re crying under a pillow right now because you’re not at GamesCom, aren’t you? Well, we are, so nerr nerr.

But to make it up to you, videogameszone.de has put live over 74 pictures straight from the show floor in Cologne.

Is your favourite publisher there? Check out the photos.

The EA press conference liveblog is to start at GamesCom this afternoon oat 4.30pm German time. That’s 3.30pm if you’re in the UK.

We’re so excited we may actually throw up. Hit the link for all the updates.

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Nelson’s confirmed that Saints Row and Rockstar Games Table Tennis are now available on GoD.

Saints Row is available now for 3000 MS points, while Rockstar Table Tennis is added to the Japanese marketplace for 2000 MS points.

If you want Saints Row queued on your 360, click here. If you’re Japanese and want Table Tennis, click here.

Thanks, Roybott.

Mark Rein’s spent the last few days at Realtime World’s offices in Dundee, Scotland, playing what-Dave-Jones-did-next MMO, APB.

Want to know what it’s like? The Epic VP gave us an exclusive overview of what to expect at GDC Europe today. Hit the link.

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MCV are reporting that SingStar: The Beatles will be announced later today at EA’s GC press conference in Cologne.

It’ll be distributed by EA and published by MTV Games with SCEE and Studio London assumingly behind development of the game as it is their IP. Simply put, its a port of The Beatles: Rock Band, but without the instruments.

Sources also say that the game will be on shelves within days of Beatles: Rock Band’s release on September 9.

We’ll be here to watch if such a thing does happen and bring it to you as it happens. Or we’ll die trying to anyways.

Thanks, rrod360lol

Looks as though this isn’t so much of a secret any more. KMART just listed PS3 Slim for pre-sell at $299, to launch on August 24.

It’s got a 120Gb HD, according to the retailer. Here’s the blurb:

PS3, SLIM High-Definition Blu-ray player for the best movie experience. Free PLAYSTATION Network membership. 120GB HDD for downloading games, music, videos, and photos. Includes DUAL SHOCK 3 controller. HDMI output for 1080p resolution.

The Sony GamesCom press conference is expected to confirm details of the new SKU tonight at 7.00pm German time.

We’re just winding up for it now. Get more details here.

Thanks, Psychotext.

ASDA’s confirmed that it’s dropped the price of the 80GB Playstation 3 in the UK down to £249.

The supermarket chain is offering the 80GB along with Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on Blu-ray and Terminator Salvation: The Game as well as a choice of either Ghostbusters or inFamous.

A ASDA rep told GI that the offer would run until stock ran out.

Yip, the price-cut is getting more likely by the hour. Only four hours and thirty-four minutes left to go before the ‘tons start to drop.

CCP have announced their newest project at GDC Europe in Cologne, known as Dust 514.

It’s a hybrid of an FPS and MMO with RTS elements coming to the consoles, although no platforms were announced. The developer also confirmed it will tie into the EVE Online universe.

“Our success with EVE Online has afforded us the highest caliber global design and production talent in gaming. With a team of the best minds in the industry, we conceived an ambitious new take on virtual world development with DUST 514,” said CEO of CCP, Hilmar Petursson.

Their Shanghai studio will be developing it.

No date yet. More details will be announced at it’s fan event in Iceland in October.

Get the PR, after the jump. First screens are over at Eurogamer.

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The remake for the first game is not even out the door yet for the PSP and they seem to have skipped 2, yet Atlus are porting Persona 3 for the PSP from the PS2 – that’s according to the latest issue of Famitsu.

There’s not much there in the way of info except that the port will have a new female playable character.

No date yet.

Scans over at the Examiner.

CSC Gameworld has told VG247 a publisher for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will be announced very soon, with release details for the game coming just after GamesCom.

“We are still targeting autumn this year for the release. More exact timing should be available after Gamescon,” said a rep from the developer.

“We also are about to announce the publisher.”

Deep Silver was the lot who published the last S.T.A.L.K.E.R. expansion, Clear Sky, last year. Pripyat was announced back in April.

Lionhead’s released the sixth and final teaser from it’s website to an impending announcement.

Today, you have Joan of Arc to keep you company.

“I am not afraid… I was born to do this”.

So, not counting this, we’ve had Che Guevara, Abe Lincoln, Emma Goldman, Aristotle and Maximilien Robespierre.

But what is Peter Molyneux announcing tomorrow? Fable III? A history lesson with Milo? We’ll find out with the MS presser tomorrow morning.

It seems that game Suda-51 has been working on for a while is now known as Kurayami.

It appears to be an action adventure game and exclusive to the PS3, according to GameSpy, who has the first details of it on it’s product page:

“The eccentric Suda 51 harnesses the power of PS3 for a bizarre action/adventure inspired the work of existentialist writer Franz Kafka. In an unusual town full of odd locals, your stranded characters must explore the town and its castle to find a way out, using only his carried torch to light his way and to fend off the unexpected and unexplainable horrors that await.

Advanced new lighting and graphic techniques are used to impress upon you the feeling of fear and loneliness (the title “Kurayami” means “Darkness” in Japanese) as you venture through to the end of your quest.”

And thats all she wrote. First concept art over at Gamekyo.

Update: Even better, KMart have the Slim on pre-sale for $299 and on sale from August 24th, next Monday. More here.

Original Story: Only 8 hours and 34 minutes left until that presser, innit?

American retail chain KMart has revealed what finally seems to be what we’ve already known for months: a PS3 price-cut and the PS3 Slim.

“The rumors are reality. New low price & a new exciting Playstation 3,” is what it says on the retailer’s website.

If it wasn’t official before, it is now – Sony are bad at keeping things a secret.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Acti’s released the debut trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilised – that’s the DS version of Modern Warfare in case you forgot.

Looking at it, we have to say who on earth would buy this? Then we remember the casuals and die hard COD fans.

Video’s after the jump.

It’s out day and date with Modern Warfare 2, Novemeber 10th.

From IGN.

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Eidos have announced that you can buy Championship Manager 2010 from whatever price you like, from as little as 1p when it releases on September 10.

The scheme is mostly similar to what Radiohead did when they gave away their album, In Rainbows, back in October 2007: allowing people to pick their own price for the album.

However, unlike the Thom Yorke army, there is a minimum fee for delivering the game and the price you decide to give the game. This is the first time something like this has happened in the games industry.

More info here.

Thanks, Suikoden Fan.

If you were planning to get a copy of the re-released Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, you may wanna stop there.

MGS.be has bought their own copy of it, and the news isn’t too good if you’re a MGS die-hard fan: the re-release doesn’t contain “The Document of MGS2″.

In case you don’t know, it was part of the original two disc edition of Substance when it was released in March 2003 – it had internal videos of the game: trailers, the original plan for the game, behind the scenes etc and more.

Substance was announced earlier in the month to have a re-release in the UK alongside other Kojima games like Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner as well as more from Konami.

SCEA’s sent out the first batch of beta invites to it massive online shooter MAG.

The download comes in at just under a whopping 2.5Gb and is only available during specific hours. However, as MAG is on display in Cologne this week, Sony are looking for folks to try and take on fellow journos who will play the game at GamesCom this week.

Who knows, you may run into us.

The game is due for release on January 26 in the US. No date yet in EU, but that should be rectified tonight with the SCEE press conference.

From Kotaku.

Crytek’s been showing a demo of CryEngine 3 for the Playstation 3 at GamesCom in Cologne, and doesn’t it look good.

Just think Radiohead, this is what you’ll be looking at when you play Crysis 2 next year.

Catch a off-screen demonstration of it over at GameVideos.

This is it. We’re coming at you from a Cologne hotel room. We’re pumped. You’re pumped. Germany’s so pumped it can barely walk. EA’s GamesCom press conference takes place this afternoon at the Palladium, whatever that is, followed by the massively anticipated Sony presser.

We’ll be bringing you text and high quality images from both events. Here are full details of what to expect and when.

EA press conference – 4:30pm-5.30pm CET (3.30pm BST, 10.30am EST, 7.30am PST)

EA’s press briefing will take place at the Palladium, Schanzenstraße 36, Gebäude 197, 51063 Cologne. A live video stream will be available here.

Sony press conference – 6.30pm CET (5.30pm BST, 12.30pm EST, 9.30am PST)

The biggie. SCEE’s conference will take place at E-werk, 40 Schanzenstraße, 51063 Mülheim from 18.30-20.30pm local time. The conference itself is expected to last one hour from 7.00pm.

Do not miss a thing. We have staff on the ground in Germany and off-site in the US and Europe making sure that if it happens, it’ll be here. We will die trying. All of us.

See you then!