Archive for October, 2006
Written by admin on 20 October 2006
They aimed for 1080p, but it didn’t work out.
The number of PlayStation 3 releases supporting 1080p HDTV resolutions
will undoubtably increase as the hardware matures, but for launch
games, limited development time is an issue. Insomniac Games publicly
stated they were aiming to include the option for 1080p in Resistance:
Fall of Man, but as Sony’s Gamer’s Day kicks off in San Francisco,
company president Ted Price confirms isn’t not happening in his IGN
blog.
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Written by admin on 19 October 2006
The brawler genre will have its PSP representative
Rockstar’s game, The Warriors, based on the 1979 Paramount Pictures
classic film, will also be developed for the PSP system. Previously,
fans of the genre had to purchase themselves a PlayStation 2 or an Xbox
in order to play this Rockstar title.
The two Rockstar
subsidiaries, Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar Toronto, developing the game,
plan to have it out and into the hands of PSP players everywhere this
holiday season.
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Written by admin on 19 October 2006
Epic Games’ sci-fi shooter meets same sales-limiting fate as Dead Rising; country’s ratings board refuses classification.
Back in July, German zombie-haters were stymied in their quest to slay
the undead when the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK) refused
to give the game a rating due to its excessive violence. While this
didn’t officially ban the game, it effectively limited the scope of its
release and made it available only as a hard-to-get under-the-counter
sale.
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Written by admin on 19 October 2006
Online service for Microsoft’s consoles reaches new milestone; population expected to grow to 6 million by mid-2007.
Next month won’t just ring in the one-year anniversary of Microsoft’s
Xbox 360, it will also be the four-year anniversary of Xbox Live. To
tout the online gaming service, Microsoft announced the latest stats
and figures and they reveal a new milestone.
Xbox Live has surpassed 4 million members worldwide, just shy of its
sixth iteration, which launches "this fall." The service, which
Microsoft describes as "the first and only unified online games and
entertainment network," is available in 24 countries and the company
expects it to surpass 6 million members by the summer of 2007.
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