Monthly Archives: October 2009

Speaking with VG247, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter took the PSPgo to task, explaining that – without a price drop – it probably won’t be anything more than a teensy blip on gamers’ radars.

“The Go is just priced too high for the perceived value. It may play music and movies, but most think iPod Nano ($149) or Touch ($199) for that, and it is very expensive for a portable gaming device. I don’t see it boosting overall sales, and without a price cut, 3000 sales are likely to be down year-over-year,” he said.

“I think Go will sell 400,000 in the US, 400,000 in Europe and 200,000 in Japan through March. Most of those units will be incrementan ‘replacement’ sales as people trade up, and they may dampen PSP-3000 demand by half that much. The 3000 is selling at last year’s price in a worse economy, with new competition from a sub-$200 Wii. I think overall PSP sales will be pretty similar to last year’s, maybe down a small amount.”

Hear that, Sony? Pachter watches everything you do for a living. He might have a point.

Xbox Live director of programning Larry Hyrb aka Major Nelson has posted on his blog that Microsoft has “no plans” to introduce a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360.

It comes as earlier this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer seemed to have confirmed that an add-on for the 360 would be forthcoming. However, Hyrb says Ballmer was actually referring to accessories for the PC.

“During an interview yesterday, Steve Ballmer was asked about Blu-Ray and the Xbox 360. I wanted to clear something up. Steve was referring to Blu-Ray accessories for the PC. As we have said in the past, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360.”

Consider the matter closed.

In case you didn’t know, Forza Motorsport 3 is released in the UK tomorrow, with the US release on Tuesday.

So to celebrate, Microsoft’s released the launch trailer for the game. Go watch it over at Gamersyde.

Go buy it. It’s brillant.

According to MTV Multiplayer (via Joystiq), the video you’ll see after the jump is the three minute introduction to Left 4 Dead 2.

Obviously, CG, zombies, chainsaws and guns are the keywords that describe the video.

It looks real, but we’ll label it as a rumour as a pre-caution. The intro is after the jump.

The game is out on November 17 in the US, November 20 in the UK for the Xbox 360 and PC.

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Here we go!

Acti’s just sent out a press alert, announcing that their Q3 financial results will be released on Thursday, November 5 at 4:30pm EST, thats 10:30pm GMT.

That’s two weeks tonight.

What can you expect? Obviously, people talking about money and shit. But then again, this IS Activision and Kotick country. And of course, Modern Warfare 2.

We can hardly wait.

You may have heard of the first review coming from IGN earlier in the week, but now all sites can publish their reviews on Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time.

And considering the scores, it’s top notch. Full list is below.

• D’Toid – 9/10
• Kotaku – N/A
• GameTrailers – 8.9/10
• Eurogamer – 7/10
• Videogamer – 8/10
• Nowgamer – 8.2/10
• CVG – 8.0/10
• Eurogamer.nl – 8/10
• JeuxVideo – 17/20
• Everyeye – 8.5/10
• Eurogamer.es – 8/10
• Edge – 7/10

There are many more reviews out there, so if you want to see a link here, add it in the comments below.

ACiT is out on Tuesday in the States. Insomniac confirmed last night that the game will release in PAL regions in two weeks on November 6.

IGN has live new shots of Dante’s Inferno for the PSP: ten to be exact.

Go get them through the link.

The game is out next year, alongside it’s big brothers on the PS3 and 360.

IncGamers has live 24 new shots of Star Trek Online.

It’s going to be the most antcipated MMO for next year. And from these new shots, you can see why.

It’s going to be out in Q1 2010, hopefully.

Ubisoft’s already drummed out in it’s head the setting for Assassin’s Creed III, according to CEO of Ubi’s Montreal studio Yannis Mallat. They still aren’t going to say anything though, not even a hint.

“Oh yeah,” said Yallat, when he was asked if the developer knew which parts of history the next game will see.

“We know how to keep our secrets. Think about it, Assassin’s Creed as a brand is definitely oriented towards reliving pivotal moments in history. So along that path we may revisit some interesting moments.”

And an ending for Desmond?

“Who talked about an ending,” admitted Yallat.

We haven’t even had Assassin’s Creed II yet, and here we are talking about ACIII. ACII is out on November 20 FYI, in case you didn’t know.

Thanks, CVG.

Ignition Entertainment has picked up Arc Rise Fantasia from Marvelous and XSEED, according to Joystiq.

The game, an turn based RPG for the Wii, is the second to be picked up by Ignition from XSEED after Muramasa: The Demon Blade was also picked up by the publisher from XSEED.

The game is out in the West next summer.

In the booklet for the PS3 port of the game, Tales of Vesperia developers Namco-Bandai has said thank you to the Xbox 360 owners who bought the original version for being beta trialists in the game.

These are just some of the nuggets from the booklet.

“Xbox 360 players often complained ‘why aren’t these parts voiced?’, so when making the PS3 version we first set about improving the voicing … As a result, the entire main scenario became fully voiced.”

“We’d be delighted if those who played the Xbox 360 version would play the PS3 version too. Of course the same goes for those playing for the first time.”

“We made a lot of changes we think Xbox 360 players would be sure to appreciate.”

“There are a lot of elements from the Xbox 360 version which were improved, so please give it a try.”

“Based on the feedback so kindly provided by Xbox 360 players, we added a lot of additional elements.”

From Sankuku Complex.

Ubisoft’s announced that it’s unique RTS game R.U.S.E. will use multitouch from Windows 7.

It’ll provide according to Ubi “immersive and new experiences”.

“As a strategy game relying on a clean and intuitive interface built around the zoom, R.U.S.E. was the perfect candidate for Ubisoft to demonstrate how multitouch improves and streamlines the way games are played,” says Ubi’s John Parkes.

The RTS is out next year for the PS3, 360 and PC.

From CVG.

Well, well. Naughty, naughty.

Someone managed to film what appears to be a live demo of Milo and Kate with Project Natal from the Peter Molyneux BAFTA lecture that took place last night.

It shows someone showing drawings up to Milo… and him accepting them and showing them!

Watch the video after the jump.

It was confirmed at the same lecture that Fable III will also support the motion tech.

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Speaking in this week’s Famitsu, Final Fantasy Versus XIII director Tetsuya Nomura has said that the earliest we’re going to see his game is at E3 next June.

“We’ll gradually unveil it starting next year, at E3 if we’re quick enough,” said Nomura.

He also talked about the development video shown at the Tokyo Game Show on the game.

“That wasn’t development stuff, but a technical demo reel of sorts. We hurriedly put together a video because we wanted people be assured that Versus is also still under development.”

He also confirmed that the gameplay for the game will be similar of that to Kingdom Hearts.

“It will fall close to that category, but we’re aiming for a fusion of new features with the classic FF style. We see level design as the most important part of development here, but it’ll be a while before we can show any of that.”

It’ll release when… well, just before the end of the world. After Final Fantasy XIII anyways, exclusive to PlayStation 3.

Thanks, 1UP.

Ubi’s released the fifth developer diary for Assassin’s Creed II.

Catch it after the break, courtesy of The Lost Gamer.

The game is out on November 20 for PS3 and 360.

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If you see a big shiny red Ferrari with Forza Motorsport 3 stickers on it, take a picture of it.

To celebrate the release of the game tomorrow, Microsoft is giving away prizes to anyone who takes a snap of the car, when it goes about London tomorrow. Once you’ve taken your picture, upload it to Facebook or Twitter (#forza supercar is the tag)

Prizes range from copies of the game to Xbox 360 Elites.

What model the Ferrari is isn’t unknown, but with big Forza 3 stickers, you’ll get a massive hint.

If you don’t win though, you can buy it tomorrow. We advise you do anyways, it’s awesome. In fact, we’re playing it right now.

We can do everything here. Multi-tasking is one of them.

Thanks, EG.

Want to talk to the good old doctors at BioWare that are Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuck? Tomorrow, you can.

The EU PS Blog is holding a live Q&A sesh with the docs on all things Dragon Age: Origins.

The live Q&A will be taking place here at 7pm BST, so make sure you get your questions prepared in advance and do whatever you can to be here tomorrow. You can set an email reminder for youself in the window below. On Friday, try to keep your questions as relevant to Dragon Age as possible – you might want to ask about upcoming DLC or their Warden’s Quest event.

Or you know, sneak in Mass Effect for the PS3. It will be raised, innit.

Anyways, check it out. We’ll be here if anything big from the chat happens.

Rockstar’s released a brand new video of Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

In it, it shows base jumping in the game. Looks awesome.

Find it after the jump. Game is out next Thursday, with Xbox Live or in retail with Episodes from Liberty City.

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Gamersyde has for you six new screens and a brand new trailer for the game.

You can check them out through the link.

The game is out at the end of January for the PS3, 360 and PSP.

Capcom has told Kotaku that if they were to port Super Street Fighter IV to Arcades, it would be an easy transition, like new artwork and new software.

For now though, they haven’t decided if such a thing is to happen.

When it was announced a bit and a half back, it was confirmed as a disc release only for the PS3 and 360.

It’s out next March.