Famitsu have released shots of Final Fantasy XIII overnight. They’re from the Japanese E3 trailer, but gosh they still look purdy.
Catch them after the jump. It’s out next year in the West for PS3 & 360, out this Winter in Japan for PS3.And the newest trailer, thats the 7 minute Jump Fiesta trailer from last December? Keep an eye out for it, its going up today hopefully.
We were meant to get this up earlier this week, but we blame the original upload of the video, it failed just before it finished, but here it is, the trailer and screens from E3 of God of War III. The game was confirmed for a March 2010 release after a demo at Sony’s press conference last week.
Catch the E3 screens and trailer after the jump.
So, we’d think that MGS: Rising will look good with the Metal Gear Solid 4 engine? Oh no doubt it’ll look great, but not on the MGS4 engine. The hewest KP report (pointed out by PS3-Center) has said that they are using a new engine for the game, so it can run fine on the Xbox 360 and PC versions as well as the PS3 version.
After one game too, 4 years of developing with that engine done the tube, along with money? We’d like to think not, we hope Kojima will bring it back for whatever big PS3 project he is doing next (we’d tell you what we want it to be, but you probably know as we’ve been wanting it forever now) as he aint directly involved with Rising, only being a Producer on the title.
Metal Gear Solid 4 celebrated it’s 1 year birthday yesterday, catch our thoughts of it here.
Remember , the so-called Twitterer who claimed to be a Sony PR and spread about massive stuff for Sony’s E3 press conference? He’s been outed as a fake of course now, and ever so subtly as well by another Twitter user who is a proper SCEA PR: Social Media Manager of SCEA and head honco for the US PS Blog, .
For the record, the only real PlayStation PR person identifying himself as such on Twitter is… me. Think of this as “Jeff’s Place”
And when we went to check for his Twitter, it wasnt found. So, consider this your warning if you try to impersonate Sony PR.
BioWare’s announced that it’ll be showing Mass Effect 2 at GamesCOM, the replacement for Game Convention, in Cologne this August alongside Dragon Age: Origins. As well as GC, ME2 will also be at ComicCon this coming summer.
BioWare will be showing DAO also at CG as well as PAX, Gen-Con and Fan Expo in Canada. Get more info through here.
It’s out early next year for Xbox 360. Dragon Age: Origins is out this October for PS3 and 360.
Jack Tretton doesn’t like leaks, especially if it’s coming from his arm of Sony Computer Enterainment. If you leak something, you’d be prepared for a mouthful. The SCEA president spoke out to CNBC after announcements leaked out from their E3 press conference a week and a half ago, such as the PSP Go! and a concept trailer of The Last Guardian, known at the time as trICO, the former of which came merely 3 days before their press conference.
People don’t respect confidentiality in this industry. It’s tough enough to keep a secret within your own company, much less when you speak to third parties.
Tretton also spoke out on a iminent price cut, but he insists partners like GameStop and Activision wont pressure the company to make a price cut anytime soon.
I can’t remember a day that people who have no stake in the profitability of our company have not called for a price cut. I think everybody but us would love to see it given away for free.
Although…
We’ll do everything we can do to make our pricing relevant. But remember cheapest isn’t always the most successful. It’s what you get for your dollar.
Ubisoft’s confirmed to Eurogamer that Assassins Creed 2 will be out in the UK on November 20th, 3 days after the American release on November 17th. There will also be a massive special edition coming for the game from Play.com according to Eurogamer, which will see contents like the soundtrack for the game, a 64 page booklet featuring interviews and concept art, plus a figure of main character, Ezio and 3 bonus in game-quests.
The November 17th date was announced at E3 last week. The game came second in our game of show during our Best of E3 awards, behind Splinter Cell: Conviction.
Jade Raymond will be involved, like last time, as Executive Producer, alongside Patrice Desilets who will be Creative Director of the game, working alonside Raymond. Get the E3 screens here.
The senior Vice President of EA Games Europe, Patrick Sóderland has confirmed to VideoGamer.com that Mirror’s Edge 2 is coming and being worked on by a small team at DICE.
Soderland, who also heads up DICE, said that a small team in the studio is working on the game, but would give a timeline as to when the game will be released.
You will see another Mirror’s Edge for sure. It’s just a matter of when that time is and what we do with it. We have a small team on it and I’m excited about what we do.
The first Mirror’s Edge came out less then a year ago, and while it did have a lack of varity as well as being difficult in places where it shouldn’t have been, the game was still very good as pointed out in our review for the game.
Harmonix and MTV Games have formally announced that Green Day will be coming to Rock Band through several exclusive track packs. The first will consist of 3 songs taken from their newest album, 21st Century Breakdown. The songs are as following:
It was earlier in the week hinted at by Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong. The track pack will release on July 7th on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store. Full press release is after the jump. Read more »
The numbers from NPD for May are in and they make for grim reading. Hardware numbers are down since last month with the Nintendo DS being the only hardware maintaining strong numbers at 633k units sold. Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 made slow numbers unlike before, but still beat the PLAYSTATION 3 thanks to the 360 selling 175k compared to the PS3’s 131k.
The Wii sold 289k units, the PS2 sold less then the PS3 but only marginally with 117k, but it did beat the PSP which had 100k sold. Meanwhile in the software front, UFC Undisputed was the surprise winner on this path, which sold a combined 1 million between the PS3 & 360. inFamous did very well for it’s first month, selling 175k and only on sale for about 6 days in May.
But grim news was given: on a year on year basis, sales went down to $682 million from $1,12 billion.
Full charts after the jump.
