July 20, 2008
Ian Lamont writes “This year’s E3 is over, and there’s already talk that this could be the last one. Even before the conference started, a slew of studios announced they wouldn’t be taking part, citing high costs and other ‘business reasons.’ At the conference itself, ‘there were no huge game announcements, and Microsoft didn’t even bother having Bungie show up to talk about the next Halo release, claiming that the company wanted to “shorten the presentation.”‘ Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said he ‘hated’ E3’s new format, adding ‘either we need to go back to the old E3, or we’ll have to have our own private events.’ Crave also noted there are no solid plans for next year’s show. On the other hand, people have predicted E3’s demise in previous years, and they turned out to be wrong.”.
July 20, 2008
AFP - Videogames are getting smarter with virtual enemies improvising during battles, storylines shifting based on moral choices and in-game characters sending players text messages for help.
July 20, 2008
A Maxconsole reader has let us know that he has posted up information on how to actually PURCHASE movies from the USA PSN movie store if you are a European resident. The first part he revealed yesterday shown us just how to access the US PSN video store from Europe, full details of this discovery are available at vgwatchdog.
July 20, 2008
According to internet reports, the PS3\’s in-game XMB isn\’t working for all games. Enchanted Arms is one such game and the Japanese version of Valkyria Chronicles is another such game. More at Neocrisis.com.
July 20, 2008
Here is some new LittleBigPlanet gameplay footage courtesy of IGN, howevere there is no supporting audio for the video…