“We’re still reporting on Second Life, but only as part of our usual tech and media coverage,” a Reuters spokeswoman confirmed to The Register (via Game Politics). After only two years of activity, one of the world’s leading news services decided to end its virtual branch in the world of Second Life, and it may have taken a month-and-a-half for anyone to notice. The last entry on their site is dated September 30.
N-Europe’s Nathan Whincup writes: “Sticking to what appears to be a now solid schedule for DS demos on the Nintendo Channel in Europe, a demo of Dragon Ball: Origins is now up for grabs and just waiting to be downloaded to directly to your DS for your pre-release perusal.
Origins goes back to the roots of the Dragon Ball franchise in a colourful 3D action RPG, and has garnered a lot of positive feedback since its Western debut at Leipzig back in August. The demo acts as a small introduction to battles and controls (as the game is entirely controlled via the touch screen), whilst the full game promises around 30 hours of action-packed content.
The German organization of game classification, USK, has assigned a rating to Persona 4 on PlayStation 2.
Its European publisher will be Square-Enix and that the game will be in English. The release date should be near the beginning of 2009.
Just a few days after Black Friday is Cyber Monday, a day where online retailers try to one up each other with great deals for consumers. amazon.com just notified us of a great deal that PS3 owners will sure appreciate: LBP for only $40.
Quantities will be limited, so you’ll want to know that this sale starts at midnight Pacific Time on 12/1.
Since launch, residents of Little Big Planet will no doubt of noticed a few oddities in the game. Like, for example – why their Play, Create and Share scores remain at zero. Where are the scores for all that hard work and play!?
News that the “Play, Create, Share” scoring system will be reactivated soon enough, since it was de-activated for a long while, leaving folks wondering why.
Sony has already followed up the launch of the original PSP with two more iterations of the handheld device; the most recent is the PSP-3000 – or PSP Brite – and now, everyone is wondering when the PSP-4000 will come around. Well, forget that; how’s about the PSP 2?
The latest news comes from a recent EETimes article that talks about a joint venture with Imagination Technologies Group to manufacture a certain chip set for a unit called the “PSP 2.” The chip set in question is similar to the POWERVR SGX graphics processor, and you can find the SGX chip sets in everything from palmtops to mobile PCs.
Game: Fallout 3 From: Bethesda For: X360 (review), PS3, PC Price: £49.99 Rating: 18 Out: NowOut: Now
FALLOUT 3 is the third installment in the highly acclaimed series from Bethesda.
It is set in the year 2277 and portrays a post-apocalyptic future that sees the human race draw dangerously close to extinction as the world struggles to survive the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust.
Fallout’s innovative techniques allow the exploration of a desolate Washington DC through the eyes of a gamer-defined character.
Ever Since Sonic Adventure 2 on the Sega Dreamcast the hedgehog has suffered some pretty piss poor releases. Sonic fans have been hurting for a long time now with titles like “Sonic Riders” and more recently “Sonic The Hedgehog”. What little good will gamers had left for the blue blur is quickly evaporating thanks to Sonic Unleashed, an otherwise decent Sonic game ruined by brawling levels that turn Sonic into a werehog combatant. So why exactly do the development team keep screwing things up exactly? Turns out it’s an entirely conscious decision.
In the latest IGN Three Red Lights podcast at the 19:40 mark David Clayman recalls a time when he talked to a member of the Sonic Unleashed team about this very issue…
Unfortunately, our fellow Norwegian gamers won’t be able to buy Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City and Wii Speak in a cheaper bundle.
With just under a week to go until Nintendo unleash the Wii version of Animal Crossing in Europe, the last thing you’ll want to hear is that you’ll have to pay more if you want to get the highly-touted voice chat peripheral, Wii Speak, alongside it.
Ayman ‘Allen’ Adham is an American businessman, who along with Michael Morhaime and Frank Pearce, was one of three co-founders of Silicon & Synapse, which changed its name to Blizzard Entertainment. He led the creation of The Lost Vikings, RPM Racing, Rock N’ Roll Racing, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, among others.
