Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) today announced that PlayStation®Move motion controller for PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system, launches worldwide this fall, offering a motion-based, high-definition gaming experience unlike anything on the market. Concurrently with its launch, SCE will also release PlayStation®Move sub-controller to be used along with the motion controller for intuitive navigation of in-game characters and ...
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Doug Lombardi from Valve has announced that Portal 2 is on its way at the end of the 2010. What's even more interesting is that he has confirmed that the PC and 360 platforms will get the game but has not spoken of the PS3. It is well known that Valve has issues with developing games for the Sony platform and co founder Gabe Newell is not the biggest PS3 fan it's been reported. Speculation online has been also rife about whether that means...
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Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand has announced that after five days of gruelling   training, New Zealand’s first-ever representative at the GT Academy has come home. 19 year old Wellington student, Tony Autridge, has been eliminated along with nine others from the GT Academy in Silverstone, UK. Despite his early elimination, Tony describes his time at the GT Academy as a once in a lifetime opportunity that he will never for...
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Everybody loves a good "Whodunnit?" and Heavy Rain is a classic example of the genre, the question is: who is the Origami Killer? That will be answered in the next few tense, dramatic and twisty hours when you play Heavy Rain, the game created by Quantic Dreams - the same designers as the similarly styled Fahrenheit game. Essentially Heavy Rain is a rather fancy point and click game like the Broken Sword series on the PSX but with much mor...
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Activision Blizzard was sued by the executives who created the Call of Duty video game franchise over claims the company used "false" insubordination charges to fire them and avoid paying royalties. Jason West and Vince Zampella, who co-founded Activision's Infinity Ward studio, sued the company in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday, claiming breach of contract and wrongful termination. They seek at least US$36 million (NZ$52 million) and co...
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In a recent interview Valve's  Chet Falisze, a writer for the designers of Half life, The Orange Box and Left-4-dead series, is quoted to have remarked: "We thought that the Orange Box didn't put our best foot forward with the PS3 community. We don't want to do something like that again on the PS3. We want to give PS3 owners the best possible experience. "Some of that will come from us learning and getting better. Before we can go ...
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"Children have you ever met the bogeyman before...?" goes the loading song to one level of BioShock 2 and its delightfully sums up the premise behind BioShock 2. You play as a Big Daddy, the foreboding silent monoliths of the original and with that master stroke the game is turned on its head. If you claim to be a gamer and have not played BioShock then my question would be "Why not!!?" BioShock is a well deserved and well acclaimed Game o...
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Video games are quickly approaching Hollywood movies in terms of budget size, and often surpass then altogether. In the early 90s, video game budgets were around $100,000 — when Doom was released in 1993 it had cost $200,000 and was touted as one of the most expensive games at the time. Today, that barely covers one month worth of production. Here are the top 10 most expensive video game budgets ever: 10. Killzone 2: $45 million One of the...
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When you design a game around a classic piece of fourteenth century literature that is considered by many scholars to be one of the finest examples of medieval Christian allegory examining how the world then saw the effect of sin on the soul I think it is important that accuracy and proper deference to Dante’s epic visionary work be given prominence… Or we can just kill things! The real Dante’s Inferno is part of a poem called The...
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Following on from Major Nelson's twitter post is this from his website // I am in San Francisco today where we are hosting our X10 media event. This invite only event gives our media friends the chance to hear some news, get updates on some of the upcoming games and (more importantly) get hands on time with some of the titles. Here, in no specific order, are 10 things you need to know coming out of X10 today: The Halo...
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