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Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn’t it? Does to Sony. More »
MotorStorm’s Target Render ‘Pissed Us Off A Lot’ Say Devs
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Evolution Studios lead designer Nigel Kershaw and creative director Paul Hollywood, responsible for the recent MotorStorm: Pacific Rift for the PlayStation 3, tell 1UP that the “infamous” E3 2005 trailer for the first MotorStorm “kind of pissed us off a lot.” Why? Well, for one thing, it wasn’t created by them and set the team up for “expectations about the rendering prowess that we were going to expose.” More »
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Review: A Festival of Mayhem
3:00AM Owen Good | Last year’s MotorStorm gave PlayStation 3 owners a novel concept, a game that added context and surroundings much more compelling than you usually get in pick-up-and-play racers. Half the fun was the exquisitely hallucinated reason for it all, that there could actually be a beyond-extreme rally “festival” held in Utah’s Monument Valley, sort of like Sturgis meets Burning Man with loads more violent collisions and fatal wrecks. And, one assumes, crazy monkey sex in everyone’s tents at night. More »
MotorStorm 2 Getting Weekly DLC, Eventually
8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Owners of Motorstorm: Pacific Rift will have good reason to fire up their copies of the PlayStation 3 racer well after launch date, as Evolution Studios says it’s planning on releasing “something new to play with every week” much of it expected to be absolutely free. Since the title doesn’t ship to Evolution’s home turf until November, don’t expect anything this Thursday, though. More »Fresh Motorstorm Pacific Rift Screens
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MotorStorm 2: It’s Official
8:20AM Michael McWhertor | Sony Computer Entertainment and Evolution Studios have made official what we’ve known for a few weeks now—MotorStorm 2 is coming, bringing monster trucks and four player split-screen action with it. The PlayStation 3 racer is indeed moving from arid Monument Valley to a lush Pacific island, an island apparently known for its remote location and 16 “diverse multi-route tracks”. Instead of mud, rocks, dust and the occasional cliff, MotorStorm 2 will feature natural hazards like “tangled undergrowth, swift flowing rivers, choking volcanic clouds and searing lava pools.” Sounds just fantastic. The official release on the matter talks up an Autumn release, arriving with a “host of game modes and rewards”. Now about those vehicle loading times… More »
Motorstorm 2 Details Peel Out, Full Reveal Expected This Wednesday
9:55AM Michael McWhertor | The latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine reveals a handful of previously unknown details about Evolution Studios’ sequel to Motorstorm, including the addition of monster trucks(!) to the vehicle line-up and an all new location. Motorstorm 2, which is expected to be revealed officially this coming Wednesday, is reported to feature races on a tropical island, bringing with it water hazards and, we assume, fruity cocktails. We’re waiting patiently for our issue of OPM to arrive with the smattering of details, but if the countdown clock on ThreeSpeech is accurate, we’ll probably see the goods within the next 48 hours or so. Motorstorm 2 to have monster trucks, plus more water [PS3Forums via N4G] More »
