Hey! Don’t make Sony Worldwide Studio boss Shuhei Yoshida sad, three parties. Your lack of support for the PSP is totally bumming the dude out. Just listen to Yoshida:
So, upcoming Quantum of Solace runs on the modded Call of Duty 4 engine — and hey, not bad. The addition of cover seems most welcomed. Just remember you are Bond. You are Bond.
And it’s a flash game. A UK-based dev is behind Polar Palin, which has players take on the role of a polar bear who’s out to blow up oil rigs and campaign military tanks. Says the game’s site:
The developers of upcoming MMO The Agency, Sony Online Entertainment, are releasing the game on two platforms. PC and PS3. So it’s natural to hope that they’re looking at cross-platform play between users of either system, yes? Correct. Natural and fortunate, because that’s exactly what they’re doing. Replying to a question asking about play between PS3 and PC users, SOE’s Matt Wilson replied “we’re actually doing that at the office. Technology-wise, it’s really not that complicated”. Good news! Temper that good news, however, with a pinch of pragmatism; just because they can do it, doesn’t mean they will. There’s all sorts of things to consider, from the ease of hacking/cheating on PC to differences in control schemes to the inevitable “that’s not fair” whining that comes when one group of players is using a control system they think isn’t as good as another.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the brand spankin’ new FIFA 09 demo has just hit the PSN. It’s available right now. What’s more, EA and SCEE trumpet the new season of the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC), the fifth year of world’s only official FIFA global football competition. Game drops in October, full details about this year’s FIWC after the jump.
Discounted consoles are just part 1 of Microsoft’s push to get more Japanese gamers buying into the Xbox 360 dream. Part 2 is this Bomberman Live bundle, which we must say, is quite the bargain. For ￥6090 (USD$56), Japanese gamers get a copy of Bomberman Live, 12 months Xbox Live subscription, a 360 headset and 200 Microsoft points. Yes, a whopping 200, proving that for all their other enticements, what may finally get Japanese gamers on board are a couple of gamerpics.
You’d think that someone who made a horror title like Siren: Blood Curse would like to be scared. Wrong. Blood Curse designer Keiichiro Toyama does not like to be frightened. According to Toyama:
So the organisers of the Leipzig Games Convention want to set up a show in North America. Popular vote says it’s in the US, our vote was for sunny, sunny Mexico. Looks like we might both be wrong. Speaking with Gamekyo, the GC organisers have said they’re leaning towards Canada as the destination for the show. Yes, Canada! This is far from confirmed, mind you, but the proximity of most major Canadian cities to the US and the country’s big development scene certainly can’t hurt its chances.
A little background: Panasonic released “Joba” in 2005, a horseback riding machine. The machine mimics, well, horseback riding and provides riders with an ab workout. Aimed at seniors and those not keen on doing actual exercise, the key feature of Joba is that you really don’t have to do more than simply sit on it to get a workout. (Though, arm movements are encouraged.) What’s more, unlike, say, a treadmill, Joba does not take up much space in cramped Japanese dwellings. Panasonic has launched this product outside Japan to varying degrees of success.
WipeOut HD should be coming out later this year. It’s meant to, anyways, but with this game, you can never be too sure. Anyway, when it does (hopefully) come out later this year, we now know how much it’ll cost: £11.99. Which works out to be USD$21, AUD$26, ￥2,260 and, for our South African readers, 172 Rand. You’ll need to adjust for local store variations when it hits, though, so expect the US price to be a little lower and the Australian to maybe be a little higher.
