Sun, Jul 10, 2011 | 17:40 BST
Saturday Shorts: GTAV, APB, Dead Island, Pachter on PSN Pass
There’s some excellent short stuff below for you.
- Think you know all there is to know about Seinfeld? Get the quiz on iDevices. It’s been out a while yet, but still, the screens are new.
- Analyst Michael Pachter believes PSN Pass was “not timed particularly well,” and is “curious” as to whether it will make any money off it, but he expects “not.”
- If you kill 100 players in APB this weekend, you’ll get a pistol.
- Blizzard is to offer compensation for PVP players experiencing season 10 transition woes.
- A Space Invaders movie is getting closer to reality.
- Dungeon Siege III has been patched on Steam.
- GamePron has posted a screen dump for titles such as: Binary Domain, Luxor 2, Rugby World Cup 2011 and more.
- If you pre-order Dead Island through Amazon, you’ll get an artbook. Here’s two new screens as well.
- Another day, another GTA V rumor. OXM predicts it’s set for a summer reveal.
- Bounty Bay Online is getting a Raging Seas expansion.
- Sumthing Else Music has announced Play For Japan: The Album is now available in stores. All proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross.
- The Frontier Colonies Map Pack for Section 8: Prejudice hits PC on July 27.
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Tags: amazon, apb, Binary Domain, Bounty Bay Online, dead island, Dungeon Siege III, Frontier Colonies Map Pack, grand theft auto v, GTA V, Luxor 2, Play For Japan, Rugby World Cup 2011, Section 8: Prejudice, Seinfeld Master Quiz Challenge, space invaders, Space Invaders Movie, TimeGate, world of warcraft, wow
9 comments
#1
Moonwalker1982
09/07/11, 10:56 pm
Enough with the GTA V rumours. REVEAL IT. So then i can finally go NUTS, haha. I hope all these rumours don’t turn out to be nonsense, i’m trying my best not to get too excited, let’s just wait.
#2
xino
09/07/11, 11:50 pm
the garbage PSN Pass.
I only it’s only for Sony’s exclusives
#3
Johnny Cullen
10/07/11, 12:05 am
I hope the GTA V rumours can stop when its announced. That way, we can start posting GTA VI rumours the day V launches.
#4
Razor
10/07/11, 12:06 am
Sony are obviously going to make some money off PSN Pass, it’s pretty impossible not to.
But this is not going to become a large revenue stream for them. Although knowing Sony, they’re probably anticipating it to become just that.
#5
Clupula
10/07/11, 8:45 am
I don’t understand why people have such a problem with online passes. You buy the game new, it isn’t a problem anymore, so why not just buy the game new? The only way I could understand people freaking out would be if they charged you to play online in a game you bought new.
Of course, since Patcher has said it won’t be successful for them, I’m going to take that to mean Sony WILL make a huge profit off it.
#6
KrazyKraut
10/07/11, 10:37 am
a DIGITAL ARTBOOK for pre-order….thats sucks…
#7
Suikoden Fan
10/07/11, 11:47 am
while i’m not 100% fond os sony’s pass system its a fuck load better than microsoft and charging for online out right, i buy a game new or used i cant play it online on 360 unless i pay a extra charge, fuck off microsoft.
with sony if i get the game new i can play the game as needed, if i get it used and they dont get any of the revenue from that purchase then fairplay.
sony’s system is better than microsoft as you get all the games features when you buy new unlike on the 360 were your penalised regardless.
I prefer the pc approach though, free online regardless of where you got the game.
#8
Christopher Jack
10/07/11, 1:28 pm
@7, I agree with you, there’s no way I’d ever pay the RRP for XBL-Gold, only reason I have it now is because I love Halo: Reach & it was only $2 for 2 months, all I had to do was turn off auto renewal before they locked me into paying monthly at full RRP. Some may say that Gold is worth it but I disagree with their respected opinion.
“I prefer the pc approach though, free online regardless of where you got the game.” Not true, if you ‘obtained’ a used PC game, you may not be able to play online if the cd key is restricted to a singular account or limited number of PCs, it’s been happening on PC well before the explosion of online (console) gaming. Difference being is that most retailers don’t/can’t accept PC games for trade ins.
#9
Suikoden Fan
10/07/11, 4:01 pm
@8 thats game speccific though not a set precendent for alls games like sony’s pass will be