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| It's been silent here since E3, so here's a little filler for the time being. Firstly, disappointments. I'm really sad for the lack of new Zelda game from Nintendo. Even though Miyamoto said in Q/A later that "The Team" have sat down and thought about how to bring Zelda back and really make it a new game instead of recycling the old stuff again, there is nothing concrete at the moment. I'm just happy if they bring the double hookshot from Twilight Princess back.  Also pretty sad that Ubisoft didn't show anything from Beyond Good & Evil 2 either. I mean, before the show they said that there wouldn't be any mention of it, but I was holding out hope for some huge secret thing. But nothing at all. It's even more sad that we haven't heard anything official in almost a year already, ever since that first teaser was shown at Ubidays. The apparent Jade gameplay video that leaked to the internets still hasn't been confirmed or denied by Ubi, so who knows what that is excactly. The awesome things from E3. Just Cause 2. The developer gameplay thing that popped into the web around E3 makes the game look and play like pure awesomeness. And it looks over the top ridiculous and fun as hell, what else can you really hope for. Splinter Cell Conviction, looks like it will be pretty awesome. There is something about how, well, pretty much everything works in the gameplay that makes me want to play that game right now. Brutal Legend, this just looks so awesome in every way that I can't even begin to put it to words. So I won't even try. Just read up on it everywhere and look at the trailers. Honorable mentions go to Mass Effect 2, Borderlands, Assassin's Creed 2 (Jesper Kyd is making the music again), Saboteur, Dragon Age: Origins, Alan Wake and Final Fantasy XIII. They all look interesting (especially Borderlands and Alan Wake) but at this point I just have to see more on them. And that's the things that are on my mind after E3 2009. Back again 2010! Maybe we'll see some BGE2 then!  |
Posted at 8:40am Jun 16th 2009 by Kilu
| Aside from the pretty awesome Microsoft's Press Conference yesterday, both Electronic Arts and Ubisoft had theirs as well. Nothing much to talk about in those however, most of what they showed, we have already seen in one form or another. In no particular order mind you, the thing was yesterday, how am I supposed to remember the order. EA showed trailers for the BioWare triple Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG. Triple impact! They still look like they will be awesome, not much new footage though. Mass Effect 2 showed a brief glimpse of some familiar faces from the first game that I don't think we saw in any of the earlier trailers. The Saboteur is coming along nicely, and they showed a little gameplay along with the trailer we have already seen. Could be good I guess, hard to say at this point. Crysis 2 trailer, maximum strength, maximum availability at PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. Brutal Legend still looks awesome and will be the well deserved huge success for Tim Schafer. They showed more gameplay and another goof video from Jack Black. Also revealed that Ozzy Osbourne will do some voice work for the game. That's right, the Prince of Darkness himself. Need for Speed Shift was also shown, but I really couldn't care less about that. APB (All Points Bulletin), some kind of a new MMORPG thing with cops and robbers. Oh yeah, and Peter Moore popped on the stage at some point with EA Sports stuff, Fight Night Round 4, some Mixed Martial Arts game, some Madden things, and some basketball things. I forget, clearly I'm not too interested in these things. Fight Night has still pretty impressive sweat. Sweat, yeah! They probably showed something else as well, but I forget what. Maybe it wasn't important. Then at Ubisoft, well, Ubisoft conference was pretty lame. The highlight and the end of the event was Assassin's Creed II trailer, and that's that. Red Steel 2 was played on stage, seems to be working quite nicely with the Motion Plus. Other things that Ubi had was some soccer game for kids called Academy of Champions, Pele was on stage to present it. They also showed Splinter Cell: Conviction, but seeing it earlier on Microsoft's event kind of took the punch out of this one. A Turtles brawl game, makes no sense to me mind you. Why would Turtles fight against April, for example. Just no. James Cameron came on stage and talked for ages about his movie Avatar (not the anime), which Ubisoft is making the game for, and how they do it in sync and whatnot. Nothing was actually shown, just a lot of talk. Showed a trailer of R.U.S.E, seems like it might be an interesting game for strategy people. A new Rabbids game, collectathon by the looks of things. Lots of time wasted on "Tween Games", I can't believe that's what they are calling them. Stuff for girls yay. And lastly they also showed a fitness game called Your Shape, which works with a camera. Their own camera, mind you, and it's coming for the Wii. So not very interesting thing from either of the two. Today, in about 50 minutes, Nintendo will have their event, and Sony's event is about 2 hours and 50 minutes away. I expect that Nintendo will pull out some new peripheral and a game that goes with it for the mass market, printing more money as they go. But on the other hand, they can't ignore the normal gamer audience anymore, they absolutely have to show a Zelda game for the Wii. It's that time of the console's life that it needs it. Afterall, Twilight Princess wasn't a Wii game really, it was a Cube game that they also made for the Wii with some additional controls. So, looking forward for a new Zelda at Nintendo today! |
Posted at 11:17am Jun 02nd 2009 by Kilu
 So the Microsoft's press conference is over, and here's a brief summary of what they showed and what you can expect to hear and see more about in the next few days as the actual E3 starts and the floor opens. I'm just going to list these things, anything else would be crazy.Beatles Rockband, Ringo and Paul on stage. Tony Hawk Ride with the new skateboard controller. Modern Warfare 2 played on stage, looks cold. Final Fantasy XIII (13), in English and played on Xbox 360, aiming for Spring 2010. Shows a never before seen Odin summon. At this point the presenter dude came back and boasted how the next bunch of games will be exclusive for 360. I think he actually means exclusive in console market, rather than entirely exclusive, because PC doesn't count. Shadow Complex XBLA game played on stage, bugs out a the end turning a big boss creature invisible. Got to love live demos. Joy Ride trailer, apparently free XBLA game that uses Avatars. Crackdown 2 trailer. Left 4 Dead 2 trailer, game lands in November, probably 2009. Also coming to PC. Splinter Cell Conviction played on stage, looks nice enough. 3 red dots instead of traditional 3 green dots. Forza Motorsport 3, nice cars, lots of car skinning available. Halo 3: ODST played on stage. I still think Recon was better subtitle, but they probably wanted to properly separate it from... Halo: Reach. A brief glimpse of that is shown. Falls 2010. Alan Wake, also coming Spring 2010. Introduced by Sam Lake (Sami Järvi) and played by some other dude. Looks like light is also a weapon, kind of like this one very obscure game called Obscure. Metal Gear Solid: Rising coming to 360, starring Raiden. No more info than that. Hideo Kojima on stage, looking happy as always. It wasn't specifically mentioned in this section, but might be 360 exclusive since all the games were supposed to be that after FF13. But who knows. And that's the games. Other things they showed were some interesting (I guess) social networking options that are coming to Xbox Live, such as Twitter, last.fm and Facebook. So now you'll be able to tell all your Twitter and Facebook buddies when you unlock new achievements! WOO?!?! Uh yeah. Also, taking screenshots of games and posting them to Facebook. That's pretty neat actually, if I heard that right. Also, Some Netflix stuff I know nothing about. Zune Video, brings FullHD 1080p streams. A lot more countries added to video services. And last but not least, the new controller. They call it Project Natal and the tagline is "You are the controller." That's right. They are trying this thing with some new camera and motion detection tech. Also has facial and voice recognition. It's interesting and looks impressive for sure, but I'm not quite sure I want to play my games like that though. Some dissing at the Wii's "waggle" controls. The trailer for this controller looks very family oriented, clearly taking on Nintendo here. Some interesting tech demonstrations on how the movement recognition works, doesn't look half bad for an unfinished project. And that, as they say, is that. |
Posted at 4:15pm Jun 01st 2009 by Kilu
 Many people have speculated that the release of the next Final Fantasy installment would be delayed later then the planned 2010 date, however Square Enix may have cleared many doubts with the presentation of three huge 124-foot tall billboards in downtown Los Angeles, in preparation for next week's E3. Clearly written above the character Snow's head is the words "Coming 2010".A quote from the SquareEnix Members forums, "With E3 right around the corner, it's pedal-to-the-metal mode for us here at Square Enix, which means very late nights (or early mornings, depending on how you see it) and more fast food than you can imagine. There are some big things planned for you, so we're all excited about this year's E3." We too are excited to see what surprises await us next week from SquareEnix, as well as other major players getting ready for the E3 presentations. |
Posted at 6:35am May 26th 2009 by Locke
 Always check your walls for hidden insect armies! GameStop employees learned that lesson the hard way recently, as ABC7 reports, the shop in New York had some unwelcomed residents in the walls of their store, and something angered them enough to cause quite a scene.The employees were trapped inside their store for several hours. A sign in the window read, "temporarily closed, due to bee infestation." Quote: When I got here, there was already like a thousand bees in there...then they came out...there were more...they were like -- in a pack, said bee watcher Jay Lorenzo. Continue reading » |
Posted at 6:17am May 26th 2009 by Locke
| Yeah, so, Kotaku has uncovered a video that looks like it could be BGE2 footage. So far there has been no confirmation or denial from Ubisoft if this thing is actually real or only a really well done hoax. I'm leaning towards real footage, but not from regular gameplay. The movement seems just a bit too fluid to be actual freeform gameplay, so I'm guessing quick time events, and if that's the case a small part of me just died inside. Obviously the button prompts have been removed from this clip, but this is my guess. It's clearly being done with an engine that's base is the Assassin's Creed engine, that has since evolved into Prince of Persia and further. There is a notable lack of 2 legged mammals in the video though, instead of walking pigs, sharks, goats or cows it seems to be all human populated city or something. So, you know, I don't know. There is a cow in there, but it's on 4 legs. |
Posted at 8:26am May 09th 2009 by Kilu
 You may have heard that Ubisoft released the PC retail version of Prince of Persia without any hard-ass DRM. They said that it was a test, but haven't released their conclusions of the test to the public. The general consensus around the communities seems to be that the test went well for us PC gamers, since Ubisoft hasn't made a huge news headline out of it where they show the numbers that justify DRM use.So, now it seems that other developers are following the good example set by the French giant, since the second news for today is that Dragon Age: Origins is not going to use SecuROM, instead opting for a basic disc check authentication. 1UP reports that this bit of news came directly from the community manager for BioWare. While people probably don't like disc checks either, it certainly is a step up from the online authentications and install limits we have come to expect from SecuROM laden games. Quote: We're happy to announce that the boxed/retail PC version of Dragon Age: Origins will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication. In other words, the retail PC version of the game won't require you to go online to authenticate the game for offline play. We have chosen not to use SecuROM in any version of Dragon Age that is distributed by Electronic Arts or BioWare. If you haven't heard, EA's other big name game, Sims 3 is apparently going to be SecuROM free as well. All this bundled with the earlier mentioned Ubisoft experiment, it seems like publishers are finally starting to realize that it really doesn't help with piracy at all, and only hurts the real customers. This probably sounds too good to be true, right? Well, have faith brothers and sisters of the gaming world, it's a new era of PC gaming! Maybe. Hopefully.  |
Posted at 8:48pm May 05th 2009 by Kilu
 If you haven't heard, Square Enix is developing this small game called Final Fantasy XIII. Some weeks ago the Japanese demo of said game was spotted out in the wild and soon after tons of media of the demo surfaced, including a screenshot of the demo's end screen, which effectively put the game's Japanese release at Winter 2009, some guessing that it would land in December.Considering Square Enix's track record with localization for the North American market and the subsequent release in the PAL regions, odds were that NTSC guys would get their game sometime summer 2010, and PAL would get theirs for Christmas 2010. And these estimates didn't even factor in the time it would take them to get it in releasing order for Xbox 360. Well, now some good news has surfaced from an interview by VideoGamer.com with Yoshinori Kitase, the producer of the game, who they spoke to in London. Quote: Obviously we would like to release it over here as soon as possible. Traditionally the Final Fantasy numbered series, it takes about half a year between the release in Japan and the release in North America, and another half a year before it's released in Europe. But we would like to minimise this, this time. For example we have already started recording English voices, and also the text localisation has been in progress, too. Normally we complete the Japanese version first, then move on to the US and EU versions, but this time there are some tasks that are happening simultaneously. So this time we're hoping to release sooner than a year later than the Japanese release. In the same interview (but a different news story), Kitase also revealed that some of the engine work is also being done simultaneously. Quote: When it comes to the basic engine it's likely we are going to keep them on the go simultaneously. But the finishing touches, the details, the PS3 version will be completed first, then we will move on to 360. And there you have it. If the localization time is shortened and the development of the 360 version will not have to wait for the PS3 version to be finished (like was reported back when FF13 was first announced for 360), the game just might be released in both US and Europe sooner than people are prepared for. Oh, and if you didn't know, there has been some new stuff in the official Japanese FF13 site as well, mainly some wallpapers (click the thumb to see a part of one of those) and some info about battle system I guess. Not like I read Japanese. |
Posted at 8:11pm May 05th 2009 by Kilu
 It's About Time too!The RPGamers.net's own little music collection project has been on hiatus for a while now, much like the rest of the site has been. Sound Test 9 was released August 2006, and that's probably longer than anyone thought it had been, but the time just passes so fast these days I guess. We made the first forum announcement about the starting of the Sound Test 10 on 27th of February, 2008, which is when some of us started picking our tracks. We never set a schedule for it, knowing that we probably couldn't stick to one anyway. As I recall, we a got a fair amount of submissions reasonably fast, but as active members were but a handful, we came up short. As with everything else, we needed more people. And so it took us quite a while to get a CD's worth of music ready. But even after that it wasn't smooth sailing. BAMAToNE, who was managing STX, got busy, and doing the finalizing of the files and tracklist took longer than expected. When he finally was able to do that, just a few days ago, he forwarded the final tracklist to silverDistortioN for the artwork. And even then our STX birthing troubles were not behind us. When silverDistortioN was making the covers, his Photoshop crashed and he lost the original cover. Which was apparently superior to the final (still awesome) cover. So now it's finally out. If you know how to use BitTorrent, you can get it from The Torrent Tracker. If you don't know how to, fear not. Locke has now posted the album on our media server for direct download as well! |
Posted at 10:18pm May 03rd 2009 by Kilu
| And it's totally legal too. Have you ever wanted to get your filthy paws on the Dawn of War II music, but didn't have the skill to rip them from the game, or was just too lazy to do anything about it? Now your wait is over, because Relic is giving you the soundtrack for free. Yeah, that's right, free. You don't even have to own the game to download it. Just head on over to Steam's Dawn of War II page, scroll down, and download the bitch. No, you don't need Steam, your regular browser will do just fine. The soundtrack is composed by Doyle W. Donehoo, who I have never heard of until now, and I haven't played the game and have no clue what kind of music to expect, but I'm going to get it either way. I mean, it's free. So why not. More info about the soundtrack, liner notes, if you will, can be found from the first link on this post. For your convenience, I also pasted the tracklist down there, after the break. Continue reading » |
Posted at 8:34pm Apr 29th 2009 by Kilu
