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Naughty Dog interested in Uncharted 2 GOTY edition

Patrick Steen — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:32:01 +0000

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves won so many awards that Naughty Dog has struggled to find the room to store them. With so many games getting Game of the Year editions, isn’t it about time that the definitive game of 2009 was given the same gift? In our exclusive interview, Naughty Dog reveals that they’re definitely interested in [...]

PS3 outsold 360 by 4 million in past 12 months

Patrick Steen — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:53 +0000

So with the announcement of Sony’s latest financial results came an update on the console sales race. As reported in a previous story, the gap between the PS3 and Xbox 360 is now only 3.6 million units. But how did the PS3 achieve it? We’d thought we’d update our comparison to Microsoft’s financial year. Last week [...]

Insomniac to announce new game at PAX?

Patrick Steen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:28:36 +0000

Insomniac is now a multiplatform developer, but that’s not to say they aren’t working on exclusive PS3 titles. We’ve all been waiting for the next Resistance game – and September’s PAX may be the time we see it. Or it could be the studio’s first Xbox 360 game… Late last week Insomniac Games tweeted that they [...]

Uncharted 3 ‘reveal’ is a fake

Patrick Steen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:33:46 +0000

The arrival of Uncharted 3 on Facebook had excited some. A new logo pimped the Uncharted 2 fan page, but Naughty Dog has come out to say that it’s not official. Quite predictably the ‘Uncharted 3 coming soon…’ logo is fan made, as tweeted to me by Naughty Dog: “It’s just fan-created, not an official Naughty Dog/SCEA [...]

PS3 has outsold 360’s 2010 with 3 months to spare

Patrick Steen — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:43:07 +0000

With Microsoft releasing its end of fiscal 2010 results, we can see how Sony’s PlayStation 3 has done in relation to the Xbox 360. Surprisingly, despite strong sales in the US, the 360 has already been beaten by the PS3 with three months to spare. We’ve already seen Sony’s end of year results. Their fiscal-year ended in [...]

Microsoft Exec: PlayStation Move is Sony’s HD-DVD

Patrick Steen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:15:03 +0000

D’oh – this just a lovely bit of bad PR. According to Microsoft’s Xbox exec for the Netherlands, Sony’s motion control efforts are about as sincere as Microsoft’s little foray into HD-DVD. Sony doesn’t care about PlayStation Move according to the Microsoft exec (oh, and ex-Sony PlayStation manager by the way). Microsoft’s Paul Naber told Dutch [...]

Kojima working on adventure game with Suda 51

Patrick Steen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:52:24 +0000

Recent revelations by Japanese developer Chiyomaru Shikura, CEO of publisher 5pb, suggest that Hideo Kojima is working on an adventure game. Could we be seeing a new Snatcher or Policenauts in the near future? Shikura tweeted in May that he had met with Kojima and Grasshopper Manufacturer CEO Suda 51 (Killer 7/No More Heroes). Their meeting [...]

NPD June: PS3 hardware sales up 85%

Patrick Steen — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:25:27 +0000

The Xbox 360 is this month’s big winner in the US, with NPD results showing an impressive 88% year-on-year increase for the console. Naturally, it was all due to Microsoft’s new slim/short model, spurring sales on its home turf. But the PlayStation 3 also did well, selling over 300,000 units – representing an 85% increase in [...]

Quantic Dream working on “two very different projects”

Patrick Steen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:06:40 +0000

From previous reports it was thought that Quantic Dream had dropped most of their previous work to get PlayStation Move motion controls into Heavy Rain. The team had planned a number of new downloadable chapters for the game, but instead Moved their work to motion control. Well it turns out that the team has been [...]

Mega Man creator to announce new game

Patrick Steen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:54:59 +0000

At the end of this month Capcom will be announcing a new game. A new game from the father of Mega Man – Keiji Inafune. Inafune will be bringing himself to Comic-Con 2010 to make a new game announcement on Thursday 22 July. And no this isn’t the ‘big announcement’ Capcom Europe teased - that appears to [...]