Filed under: Gaming News | Tags: Bashcraft, E3, E308, LBP, Little Big Planet, Media Molecule, Sony
I’ve just been browsing the interwebs looking for LBP and found this. Brain Ashcraft over at Kotaku posted a list of things he found out about the game at E3. I thought this was worthy content so I’d like to share it with you.
• The game will feature trophies.
• If two players of different levels play co-op together and one falls behind, that player will instantly die and respawn so the two players can keep up.
• There are over 60 tutorials that focus on creating.
• Because the Sony E3 press conference showed it was possible to embed text on objects, it will now be possible to do that in-game. (Media Molecule wants to make sure everything it’s now showing with LBP is actually possible for users to make.
• Originally, they planned to give players complete freedom of depth, but found that a richer experience could be gotten with only three layers of depth.
• If you use voice chat, Sack Boy will be lipsynched to your speech.
• The tags used to label level you create are pre-selected and were intially from LOL Cats. This has since been changed.
• Stephen Fry does voice over work for the create mode.
• It hasn’t been announced if you can import your own music into the game. Says Evans, “There’s no reason technically why not.”
Most of this is news to me. They got Stephen Fry, now that’s pretty cool. I can’t wait for trophies too!
According to Kotaku, the dry-run of Sony’s E3 presser was invaded by a ‘blogger’ yesterday. The guy from an unnamed website was apparently posting the announcements on the web 15 minutes after they’d been said. No one knows who this person was or if they’d had their E3 press stuff revoked but according to Jack Tretton:
“They found some guy on the third floor balcony laying down taking notes and calling it in to a service,”
This is a bit weird (and oportunistic) people and god knows what i’d have done to get a hold of that news but no it wasn’t me I was busy living my life and liveblogging the full conference from a GameSpot video stream right here in California Manchester.
Whoo David Hayter and Capcom news now! It’s finally been confirmed, the movie adaptation of Lost Planet is being made. Lost Planet fanboys (is there any?) jump for joy. Anyway the big scoop (sausage?) is that, as you may know, Solid Snake David Hayter has penned the screenplay and that he was at the conference yesterday. Hayter’s screenplay and the fact this isn’t a videogame movie directed by Uwe Boll are the only reasons I want to see this.
The conference was only about the movie which is a bit crappy, but at least Snake was there to save the day.
No release date yet but i’d expect it to be sometime in 2009
This is for those people who didn’t view the conference, missed the liveblog and can’t be arsed to read/don’t understand the transcription. I’m providing you, the readers, with the highlights of Sony’s 2008 E£ press conference.
Here goes:
- Some new Resistance 2 gameplay footage was shown along with a new trailer. Tim Price (from Insomniac) talks about the game
- Jack Tretton uses Little Big Planet’s Sackboy (In Boston Celtics gear) to navigate facts and figures about Sony’s systems.
- Tretton Announces PS3 ‘Greatest Hits’ line of games coming to America (I think they’re gonna be called ‘Platinum’ over in the UK & Europe). The 1st batch are: WarHawk, Resistance: Fall Of Man, Motorstorm, Uncharted, Need For Speed: Carbon, Call Of Duty 3, Fight Night Round 3, Assasins Creed, Rainbow Six Vegas, Oblivion and Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
- Tretton talks about PS2 and social games. Says the Singstore has had 1.9 million downloads.
- New ‘Lego Batman’ PS2 bundle announced – black PS2, Lego Batman Game, justice League DVD
- Tretton talks about PSN. Announces single sign in service. PSN has had 180 million downloads
- Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty ‘Announced’. Trailer plays. Announced that it’s gonna be $14.99
- ‘GT TV’ (Grand Turismo TV) talked about. Top Gear in HD Whoot!
- Jack talks about ‘Home’. Shows new trailer. Announces that Ubisoft, Lucas Arts, EA and Nike are all interested in Home and some are using the beta. Resistance, Uncharted game rooms within ‘Home’ are shown. They look cool.
- Video Store Stuff. Major studios content announced. SD & HD downloads/rentals. TV stuff too apparently. Transferable to PSP.
- Lempel takes the stage.
- Lempel talks about video store.
- Video Store announced for tonight. Very sweet!
- New Ratchet PSP bundle announced – Silver PSP, Ratchet PSP game, Download code for Echochrome, 1GB memory stick e.t.c.
- Resistance Retribution (Resistance PSP) announced. Trailer. Looks sweet. Released “Spring 09”
- Super Stardust Portable Teased in montage
- Life with PlayStation coming at the end of the month.
- PS3 MMO’s talked about.
- DC Universe MMO talked about. Trailer plays. Looks great a lot like that PC heroes MMO but better looking.
- 80GB PS3 to replace 40GB PS3 80GB reduced to $399.99
- Video plays of developers speaking about how good the PS3 is to work with
- Snippets of POP, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2
- God Of War 3 Teaser Trailer – slightly underwhelming
- InFamous getting talked about now. Really cool looking. Trailer plays – looks like one of the games of the show.
- MAG announced. 256 player online games and loads of other features.
There you have it folks, the complete guide to Sony’s E308 presser. Remember to check out all of the posts from this years event and the conference right here at XeNonX.
That isn’t an insult, it’s a game title. ‘Fat Princess’ will be coming to the PS Store later this year and although I have seen very little of it (surprisingly, sorry about that) it’s the concept that has intrigued me the most. The product description makes this game sound really, I don’t know, something.
Frantic and fun, Fat Princess pits two hordes of players against each other in comic medieval battle royale. Your goal is to rescue your beloved princess from the enemy dungeon. There’s a catch though: your adversary has been stuffing her with food to fatten her up and it’s going to take most of your army working together to carry her back across the battlefield.
32 player online carnage dragging, yep that’s right the ‘Fat Princess’, across the battlefield. The game’s got 10 maps and 5 character classes and actually sounds fun. You can check out some more screens over at Kotkau
Filed under: Gaming News | Tags: 24, Activision, Call Of Duty: World At War, COD 5, E3, Kiefer Sutherland, The Lost Boys, Treyarch
It was announced by Treyarch at Activision’s E3 presser last night that 24’s Kiefer Sutherland would be doing voice acting in the new Call Of Duty game. There’s no specifics right now but i’ll bet anyone he plays an American solider. It’d be great if he was the voice of the main character but it’s more likely he’ll be an A.I. controlled squad mate or something.
This would really suck if he was in it for like ten seconds then never seen again.
Filed under: Gaming News | Tags: E3, Eric Lempel, Movies, PS3, PSN Video Store, Sony, TV
Eric Lempel announced yesterday at E3 that Sony’s video download service would go live last night. Apparently it did but for me over here in the UK it didn’t and it dosen’t look like I can access the American one either. I can see the big advert on the PS Store for it but nothing happens.
Have Sony now taken to region locking? Damn you (for now) Lempel damn you!
Answers on a postcard please people (or maybe just in the comments section).
More Resistance news now and not only is the franchise a AAA title on the PS3 but it soon could be on the PSP. Announced at Sony’s presser yesterday was ‘Resistance: Retribution’, a 3rd person action game being devloped by Sony’s Bend studio, set in, what looked like, the R:FoM (but set in Europe, looks like Paris from the logo) universe complete with British voiceover girl and everything.
It seems Sony likes to adapt their franchises for PSP and they seem to turn out quite well. If this is as good as the GOW PSP game was then it’ll be great.
More Resistance, I can’t wait!
Ted Price of Insomniac was talkng about Resistance 2 yesterday at Sony’s conference and how ovbiously it was the best thing ever (i’m paraphrasing). Not only that but there was some new gameplay footage shown showing Hale fighting a giant Chimera thing called a Leviathan. The footage looked sweet and shows how far the PS3 has come since it’s launch and of course Resistance 1.
Along with gameplay footage Price introduced a never before seen trailer featuring a new level. Chicago. This looked good too and showed the differing environments in the game.
I can’t wait for this game. The original was my favorite launch title and still remains in my collection to this day. I really want to see some online stuff demoed soon. Oh yeah, the new trailer is up on the PlayStation store right now!
Filed under: Gaming News | Tags: Clank, E3, PS3, PSN, Ratchet, Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty, Sony
After weeks of knowing this game was coming it was finally confirmed today by Insomniac at Sony’s E3 press conference.
The game will continue where ‘Tools Of Destruction’ left off with you controlling Ratchet on a quest to help him find Clank. Although it seems you will play as Ratchet for the majority of the game Clank will also be playable at some point.
The game was compared to a “Hollywood blockbuster” as it includes all of the action and such but in a shorter game.
The game will be available on the PSN sometime soon for $14.99.
I personally can’t wait for this. After playing the last game i’m a huge Ratchet & Clank fan and this is a steal at £7.50!
Whoo XeNonX’s 1st Liveblog was not a failiure! I’d like to give thanks to all those who watched and to Ads for bailing me out of what would’ve been quite a boring hour and a half. It seemed to go down pretty well and was quite easy to set up so I’m thinking of doing it again for future events.
So for those who missed this riveting conversation about Sony’s presser you can see the transcription here.
I personally think it went quite well. I did try and get a few different people to participate but I think it was too short notice. I think it needs to be planned if there’s gonna be a next time (TGS Maybe?).
Great picture right?
Filed under: Blog News | Tags: E3, Liveblogging, PS3, PSP, Sony, Sony E3 Press Conference
Yep, like I said I will be liveblogging Sony’s E3 press conference and will be using CoverItLive to do so. The liveblog begins at 7:15pm in time for the conference to begin at 7.30. I will double check the times later and will post a link to the blog at around 6:30pm giving everyone enough time to get watching.
At the moment it’s just me who’ll be writing but i’ll try and get some other people to contribute.
God i hope they’ve got something good.
You can view the liveblog here
Filed under: Gaming News | Tags: Bethesda, E3, Fallout 3, Microsoft, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360?
Sony are really having a bad E3 so far. FFXIII is no longer exclusive and now this. It was announced at Microsoft’s press conference yesterday that Bethesda’s highly anticipated RPG ‘Fallout 3’ was to have ‘exclusive’ downloadable content for the Xbox 360 & PC.
The DLC is said to be “substantial” but I wouldn’t loose hope just yet as it’s still unconfirmed if this deal features all ‘Fallout 3’ DLC or just certain exclusive packs. I do hope that this is the case because I hate that DLC gets to be exclusive. 1st GTA IV now this, Microsoft are trying to sabotage the competition by throwing their money at everyone. Not good for the industry if you ask me. Like I said it’s unconfirmed if the 360’s DLC will be exclusive with the PS3 getting it’s own, but here’s hoping it is. The whole thing seems similar to the DLC stuff for GTA which has yet to be talked about by anyone. I just can’t see companies turning down the chance to print money.
“That Thing” is the podcast I announced a few weeks back. Yeah it’s still coming i’m just trying to confirm all the details with my co-host(s) and help get a plan sorted about how we’re gonna go about it.
The interview is currently on hold as I have nothing to confirm it can go ahead (but it will, maybe not the 1st one but that interview will go ahead).
I seem to have created an air of mystery and intrigue (or maybe not) about the whole thing but I’m just posting to say that yes we still want to do it and we want to get it done next week after E3 so there’ll be loads to talk about.
Thanks for your patience, I know you’re all dying to listen to this.
Whooo! E3 starts today and even though i’m not there i’ll be continually updating the blog with all the major happenings on the Sony side. I’ve just been checking out the time of Sony’s press conference and it’s on Tuesday at 11.30am PDT which by my calculation should be about 7.30pm GMT so i’ll be liveblogging the Sony press conference (which i’ll be watching via IGN).
I was hoping i’d have some other writers by now (i’ll try and rope Mysor in) that way XeNonX could have covered all of the conferences and made E3 the first time the blog would cover a majority of multi-console stuff. I guess there’s still time but I think it’ll be Sony only.
Today’s the day of the Microsoft conference. I guess I could do it but i’ll wait and see.
I’ll be putting up a full conference schedule later on today so you all know what’s happening when.
Let the games begin!
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