Thursday, August 14, 2008
EA Wants To Be The Biggest Sports Brand
11:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Nike? Ha! Adidas? Whatever! EA’s Peter Moore is rarin’ to turn his company into a sporting brand that eclipses all. Says Moore: EA has had an extremely successful sports brand for years, but we’re evolving with new experiences targeting new consumers in our space… There’s a hunger that fuels our teams to challenge to be the leading sports brand in the world… We need to knock down the barriers to those who find the learning curve of our games too steep, and find new areas in sports – and health and wellness — that our brand can truly make a difference. Well, there ya go, Peter Moore lays out his plans for EA to conquer. EA sets sights on becoming leading sports brand [MCVUK] More »
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Sam Houser Talks Rockstar Hate
10:40PM Brian Ashcraft | Rockstar Games gets lots of hate. And that’s a shame, because Rockstar makes good games, which make lots of money. So we guess that balances it, so whatever. Here’s company co-founder/president Sam Houser on that: Most of the people who hate us are people it is truly an honour to be hated by — reactionary creeps with strange agendas — and the Daily Mail. Most people who know about modern pop culture know about GTA and like or dislike it on its own merits… I think we [Sam and his brother and co-founder Dan] are both depressed at how boring we really are and how unexciting even the worse fabrications and exaggerations are when you read about them. None of it seems very rock and roll, so we find it a little sad, when there are probably better stories that could be written about both us and the industry/medium. No sharks, groupies or pounds of coke or anything fun at all. We read like angry dorks, which might be true, but is certainly not very exciting. So all you haters, just think of Rockstar as angry dorks. That, and take deep breaths. Grand Theft Auteur – Part 1 [Develop Mag via CVG] More »
Savage Moon Is A New Game For The PS3
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | And that’s all we know! Because all we know is that a rating for the game has turned up on the website of the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (ie the USK, ie Germany’s classification board), it’s got a 12 rating, it’s only for the PS3, and it is, apparently, a military strategy game. Seeing as we’ve never heard of this before, odds are good that it’s a PSN title. Odds are equally good that we’ll be seeing it at some stage during Sony’s lone ranger press conference at Leipzig next week. Savage Moon [USK, thanks everyone who sent this in!] More »
If Mark Wahlberg Knew Max Payne Was A Video Game…
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | We already knew that Mark Wahlberg won’t play Max Payne because of his “addictive personality”. Well, what did he think of the Max Payne script when he first read it? They knew I wouldn’t even had read it if I knew it was based on a video game. But I read the script, and I thought this is a great script and a great character. And then, after seeing the game, I thought, ‘Wow, this is the most elaborate story I’ve ever seen from a video game.’ Really, there’s a lot going it, it’s a very intricate story. And, you know, the writers didn’t have to take my liberties… My assistant, who’s a complete gamer freak… I let him play the game non-stop… That was nice of Marky Mark — you know, letting his gamer freak assistant to play! Wahlberg says that he does enjoy Wii Tennis with his daughter. While playing it, he also mentions how he hurt his thumb. That’s too bad. Spike Interivew [Game Trailers via CVG] More »Crysis Wars Trailer: Explosions
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Crysis Warhead is coming with a little bundled extra: Crysis Wars, a new take on Crysis’ multiplayer aspects. This trailer, made from in-game footage, shows that it’s looking both nice and fast, but if they don’t fix it so the Koreans don’t take 1,736 bullets to kill, it’ll all be for naught. More »
Blizzard Apologises For BlizzCon Ticket Trifles (Makes More Available)
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | BlizzCon tickets went fast, completely selling out. And while Fahey didn’t have the best of lucky unluckily trying to secure tickets. Blizzard CEO Mark Morhaime released a statement on the WoW Forums: More »
Here’s Your LittleBigPlanet Box Art
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | I’ve got a bit of a rule when it comes to posting box art, since 90% of the time it’s utterly unremarkable. If it’s going up, it either needs to be for a big, big game, or it needs to be truly excellent cover art. It’s lovely when – like in LittleBigPlanet’s case – the two come together. Click through for a bigger version. Exclusive: LittleBigPlanet UK packshot [Three Speech] More »
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Patapon and Oblivion Get Budget Priced In Japan
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Sony Computer Entertainment announced two new entries in its “the Best” series: Patapon for PSP the Best and Oblivion for PLAYSTATION 3 the Best. Patapon is out September 25th for ¥2,8000 ($US 26) and Oblivion is out September 4th for ¥3,800 ($US 35). Wonder if you can get them cheaper used… More »
PSP Gets A Ten-Year Plan As Well
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Know this, industry followers: Sony aren’t kidding around when they say the PS3 will have a ten-year shelf life. They mean it. It’s hard-wired company policy, that comes straight from the top. What’s not so widely known, however, is that it’s a policy that is being applied to all PlayStation products. Which, yeah, includes the PS2 (which is nearly there), but also the PSP. Sony’s Scott Steinberg: We do not have a planned obsolescence strategy [for the PSP]. Whether it’s Skype or some other peripherals, it’s not just a dumb terminal that lies secluded and isn’t enhanced with all the recent technologies and opportunities. Did he…did he just call the DS a “dumb terminal”? SCEA’s Steinberg On ‘Future-Proofing’ A Ten-Year PS3 [Gamasutra] More »
