Evening Console Reading - console
(hx) 01:39 AM CEST - Jul,26 2005
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REVIEWS...
PREVIEWS
- 187 Ride or Die (PS2) -
It's time to race with UbiSoft's upcoming combat car game.
- Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction (PS2) - The good people
over at Kuju Entertainment are currently developing a first-person shooter for
the PS2 entitled
Conspiracy: Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Day of Reckoning 2: The Legends (GC) -
Day
of Reckoning 2, developed by Japanese Yuke's, features enhanced versions
of the full-blown Exhibition and Story modes surrounded by an impressive
roster of WWE superstars and Legends.
- Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (PS2/Xbox) -
The PS2 version, which is being developed by NovaLogic themselves, has a
special feature aimed at the single-player mode that the Xbox version doesn't
have. Release date: July 26th, 2005.
- Gun (GC) -
Gun is
obviously a western-based shooter that will take on the first and
third-person perspectives. It is meant to be a very gory and gruesome take,
capturing the crazy nature of the American Wild West in the late 19th century.
- Infected (PSP) - The cool thing is that
Infected
lets you create your own version of Officer Stevens courtesy of an easy to use
character editor with around 2 million possible variations.
- King Kong (GC) - In this game, you
will
take control of both a man by the name of Jack Driscoll and the mighty
gorilla himself King Kong!
- Madden NFL 06 (PS2) - The first thing EA Sports mentioned about
Madden NFL 06 was the new passing system. The developers at Tiburon found
a use to the awareness rating for quarterbacks. The higher the rating, the
more depth of field vision your quarterback will have.
- Nintendogs (NDS) - So, it all comes back to the Tamagotchi I
mentioned earlier.
You
take care of your dog from time to time, a few times a day, or more if you
feel like it, but it's not what you'll be spending most of your time playing,
especially if you are a hardcore gamer that wants challenge.
- Scurge: Hive (GC) -
Orbital Media is attempting to create a classic 2-D action game that will
appeal to both old and new gamers alike.
- Star Wars Battlefront II (PS2) -
Graphically,
Battlefront II is shaping up nicely, featuring all the futuristic wonder
that makes the Star Wars crowd go googly-eyed.
- The Sims 2 (Xbox) -
The Sims 2 on consoles looks to be the first version of the series that
can stand strong and proud alongside the PC edition, and that's good news
indeed.
MEDIA...
MISCELANOUS...
- Microsoft confirms worldwide Q4 Xbox 360 launch - Today at the Xbox
Summit 2005 in Japan, Microsoft corporate vice president of worldwide retail
sales and marketing Peter Moore reconfirmed that the
Xbox 360 will be launching as scheduled in Japan, Europe, and North America
at the end of the year.
- Iwata & Miyamoto Talk Revolution - When asked about the talk of
Nintendo "giving up" trying to be the technological leader and focusing only
on innovation,
Iwata had this to tell EGM: "I don't think the Revolution's [graphics]
will be inferior in any fashion to Xbox 360 or PS3. Even if you look at Zelda
on GameCube, I don't think that looks inferior to what the competition is
touting as 'next generation' visuals. But we think there are more important
things for now than making the system work with a high-definition television.
The majority of people won't be playing our system with an HDTV, [but] with
the Revolution, 480p resolution will be standard. We are not making light of
graphics and technology -- we are trying to make the best-balanced machine
that will appeal to the most people."
- 100 Xbox 360 Titles Before Year End?! - This time, Microsoft said
38 publishers, including Square Enix Co. Ltd., Electronic Arts Inc., and Namco
Ltd., are developing 45 game titles.
More than 100 other titles are being worked on.
- Ridge Racer 6 (Xbox 360) Announced - Namco today announced
Ridge Racer 6 for the Xbox 360, which will take full advantage of the new
platform's capabilities with in-depth multiplayer functionality, unprecedented
vehicle control and immersive sound and visual effects to provide the most
adrenaline-rich arcade driving experience yet.
- The Gathering Creators Working On Next-Gen Console Game -
A new Seattle based game development studios called
Torpex Games is
seeking new team members to join their company to work on a new
next-generation console game "involving great big guns" (although it's not
clear if there will be big guns in the game or if that was just a metaphor).
- Splinter Cell 4 Info - French game website
Jeux-France
has posted the first details on the upcoming Splinter Cell 4 game: The history
will occur in 2007. The scenario remains unknown but it is known that the Sam
agent will be present in Madrid, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, New York and Berlin.
The game should be available in in March 2006 on GC, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360. The
bit of gossip goes on to mention that Sony passed on a version of Splinter
Cell 4 for its ominous PS3 console in favor of whatever Ubi plans to do with
Splinter Cell 5. (thanks
EvilAvatar)
- Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike Goes Gold (Xbox) - Ubisoft
announced today that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike, exclusively for
Microsoft's Xbox video game system, has gone gold and
will ship to retail August 2.
- PSP PPF Patch Collection 5 - The following are
PPF Patches for the BOOT.BIN file in the corresponding PSP UMD images.
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