On November 2, PlayStation Portable game God of War: Ghost of Sparta hit stores. But its developer, Ready at Dawn, is already questioning the rationale for creating PSP games. Don’t blame the hardware, blame piracy.
While God of War on PSP was a good enough game, the real achievement was in how developers Ready At Dawn managed to translate the console experience onto a handheld. But did you know they almost didn’t bother?
Ready At Dawn gives its experience and expertise back to the development community with the Ready At Dawn Engine, a comprehensive game development platform that contains everything a company needs to make AAA console titles.
Did you know that there’s an extremely well-hidden cameo in God of War: Chains of Olympus? It’s the much deadlier, more ancient Companion Cube, the omega of all cubeforms, capable of kicking serious ass.
God of War: Chains of Olympus and Patapon are among the ten new PlayStation Portable titles joining Sony’s Greatest Hits lineup next month.
If you’re one of the hundreds of video game developers finding yourself newly unemployed, you can always get a job at God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn studios!
Are Ready at Dawn reconsidering their flight from Playstation Portable development?
Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn was dead serious when it said it was moving on from PSP development. Proof is in the form of the boxing up and shipping out of dozens of PSP development kits and the continued teasing of what’s in store after the Japanese release of the PSP version of God of War. With three solid games under its belt, we’re appropriately psyched about where the dev is going next.
What starts out as a pretty slow, actually not so funny take on God of War Chains of Olympus, turns to typical gold after Yahtzee seems to find his stride and knocks it out of the park again and again… as usual.
This black box arrived from Sony by courier today. The company adores pretty press packs. Adores them to death, the afterlife and the afterlife-death. And whatever comes after those.
The symbol is nice and furry, while the container itself is heavy. Given the logo, one would assume its contents are related to God of War in some way. A fair and reasonable conclusion, yes, but is it correct? Hit the jump to find out what this little package holds. It’s worth it, trust me.