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Having heard from "sources", CVG are reporting that the next franchise to be given the Lego game treatment will be...well, whaddya know, Harry Potter.
This developer diary says it's for The Witcher: Rise of the Wolf. Never heard of it? Neither have we. The diary, however, says it's the console adaptation of previously PC-only The Witcher.
Game designer Jakob Stilinsky says that the console version (for PS3 and 360) will be a little slicker. It'll feature extensive use of motion-capture for the character animations, have better lighting and environmental effects, improved enemy AI and full achievement and trophy support.
Seeing as this game is yet to be officially announced (this obviously being a leaked promo), we've tagged this as rumour until Atari make things a little more official. Just in case there's one person in the world who thought it'd be funny to fake a leaked developer diary for the console port of a Polish PC role-playing game.
Ripten dug out of a Spanish PlayStation blog that little tidbit above -- that Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief and Ryu are inbound for LittleBigPlanet. Rumour has it they're gonna be available for download individually or as a package deal. No date or pricing info yet, but SCEE has asked two other sites to take down the image (might we be the third?) so it sounds pretty legit to me.
In the interest of getting some news to you in a slow cycle, let's start Sunday with a chatter roundup. Here are three things that enough people are blabbing about in the video game blogosphere that I'm reasonably comfortable passing them along. These are other people's rumours, and other people's sources -- I've tried to put a sniff test on 'em. By itself I don't think one makes much of a post, but three are good to chew over with your Coco pops this a.m. Enjoy.
While the websites of game retailers are not typically the most reliable place for rumours, we have just that: a rumour from a game retailer website. GameStop is taking pre-orders for upcoming GTAIV DLC, Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost and Damned. The thing is, GameStop points out that the packaging does not include a disc and that it's "downloadable content only." What's more, the retailer adds that the customers "must have an Xbox Live account" and "a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360" to play it. If true, maybe people will buy this as a present, which kinda makes sense. Seems like a lot of hassle for DLC — that's DownLoable Content and not DiscLess Content! Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost & Damned [GameStop via Gamer.tm]
The 360's latest - and safest - chipset is codenamed "Jasper". And has been on our radar for a while now. Well, if posters on xbox-scene are to be believed, Jasper 360s have finally gone on sale.
Stupid question. Of course they are. Companies never stop working on hardware. But today, PSP2 news may have gotten a little more specific, thanks to a report from industry tech website EETimes.
The follow up to Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed may be a much more modern affair, if Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is correct. Pachter told us yesterday that the game will be set "hundreds of years in the future."
Less than a month after the official closure of the Homeworld 1 servers, Relic have let slip a few little hints (ok, big hints) about possible future installments.
Update: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford tells us that the Sega published Aliens project is still on, that the independent developer has been undergoing "some transformative changes" resulting in "some talent changes." His full statement is after the original report.
