Monthly Archives: May 2010

Square has announced that Front Mission Evolved will hit the US on September 14 on PS3, Xbox 360, and in 3D on PC.

It was originally slated for spring.

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Update: It’s official. Bach and Allard are to leave the company.

Original: Kotaku‘s reporting that Robbie Bach, president of entertainment and devices of Microsoft, as well as one of the fathers of Xbox, will leave Microsoft this fall.

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Looks like Rockstar North’s hiring for a Physics Programmer position with PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii development experience. No biggie, right?

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Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price has posted a video on the developer’s website, detailing a little more about the just-announced deal with EA Partners over a new IP.

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Insomniac has taken to Twitter to reassure fans that it still plans to support its PS3 franchises, in light of its mulitplatform deal with EA.

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Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price has told VG247 that the studio was in talks with many other publishers over its upcoming third-party deal before settling with EA Partners.

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Sony’s told VG247 it will continue to buiild its “strong partnership” with Insomniac Games following today’s announcement it has gone multiplatform with a deal with EA Partners.

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It’s not every day someone says, “Insomniac’s Ted Price is on the line”. But then it’s not every day a studio with Insomniac’s sheer weight – the outfit has sold over 35 million games for PlayStation hardware – decides to move away from a superglue relationship with Sony to develop a multi-format title with EA.

“Insomniac is making a 360 game” are words few people ever thought would be true. But true they are, and EA Partners GM David DeMartini is thrilled. Price’s 16 year-old studio is one of the most successful in the world, with benchmark properties such as Ratchet & Clank and Resistance a backbone of Sony’s first-party offering since time immemorial. The developer has only ever released PlayStation products.

Price and DeMartini outlined their shock deal to us on the phone last night, with Price saying he can’t wait to get “Xbox 360 fans excited about” his new, EA-published Insomniac “universe”, and explaining why a brand so massively “PlayStation” felt the need to bat for the other side.

[Interview by Patrick Garratt]

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EA Partners has signed Insomniac Games for the developer’s first multi-platform title ever. That’s right: Insomniac’s creating a 360 game.

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Microsoft has added some war games to its Games on Demand service, in the form of the original Modern Warfare, Battlestations: Midway, and Battlefield 2.

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Update: Sony has replied to our request for confirmation of the May 2011 date for Killzone 3 with “no comment”.

Original: CVG‘s reporting that Sony’s already pinned down an internal release date of May 2011 for Killzone 3.

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Rumor has it that Sony’s set to reveal a premium for PSN called PSN+ during its E3 media blast.

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Update: MTV has responded to our inquiry over the keyboard icon, stating that at this time it doesn’t “have anything to announce”, but instead we should “stay tuned for news about Rock Band 3 at E3″. Awesome. Keyboards. FTW. Probably.

Original: Harmonix has released a demo over on XBL for Green Day: Rock Band on Xbox Live. Good news, that.

On top of that though, at the end of the demo is a tease for Rock Band 3 – which just so happens to show a keyboard icon.

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Ubisoft Toronto is working on a new Splinter Cell project, boss Jade Raymond has revealed.

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Thought that with the recent reveals of LittleBigPlanet 2 and Killzone 3 that Sony would be left with nothing for its E3 presser in a couple of weeks? Think again, Sherlock.

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Guerilla Games head Hermen Hulst has told VG247 that he “needs” Killzone 3 to beyond the PS3 tech benchmarks set by first-party games since the release of Killzone 2 last February – including Uncharted 2 and God of War III.

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Guerilla Games boss Hermen Hulst has said to VG247 that 3D in Killzone 3 will be “a fantastic way to immerse yourself” in the world of Helghan.

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Guerilla Games’ managing director Hermen Hulst has told VG247 that the studio is “going way overboard” for Killzone 3, using “100 percent” of PS3′s processing capabilities.

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If there’s one property that defines gaming fanboyism for this generation, it’s Killzone.

The announcement of Killzone 3 this week drags us back five years. A target render of Killzone 2 was shown at E3 in 2005 as a showcase for the capabilities of the incoming PS3, sparking what will go down in history as one of gaming’s great first-party controversies.

In the aftermath, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton claimed the footage was gameplay before SCEE’s Phil Harrison set the record straight, but the opening shots had been irrecoverably fired in a war still raging.

Hermen Hulst, managing director of Killzone developer Guerilla Games, still stands in the centre of the storm.

It was with great pleasure that we met Hermen in Amsterdam earlier this month, talking to him after seeing the closed premiere of what will surely be a defining videogame for this hardware generation, and one of the most visible first-person shooters in the world when it releases next year.

What follows is a must-read and a world first. Hit the link.

[Interview by Patrick Garratt]

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Here’s your 24-hour notice: DOOM 2 is releasing on Xbox Live Marketplace tomorow.

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